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Nominated in both 1996 and '97 for the BRIT Award as Best British Group, Ian Broudie's Lightning Seeds arrived in a big way last year with their hit album Dizzy Heights (featuring 'Sugar Coated Iceberg') and the nation's favourite football anthem 'Three Lions', featuring David Baddiel and Frank Skinner.The only track on the entire album to enter the chart in 1997 itself (though several others hung around from late 1996) is also the first not to have peaked at 7, though it remains their highest-charting original song other than the various versions of 'Three Lions' over the years, even if it's not a song that seems much remembered nowadays. Co-written by Stephen Jones of Babybird, it's an even more unashamedly pop confection than 'Marblehead Johnson' but again a rather bitter confection, as the title suggests when you think about it. And it has, if anything, an even sillier video.
I was very fond of the band - to the extent that they were a band - back then and I still think they're a somewhat under-appreciated musical force, possibly because Ian Broudie never claimed to have any sort of attitude and pop music wasn't considered as respectable as it now is among the sort of people who pronounce on what sort of music should be respected. This song was a particular favourite then, although the slightly cheap sound of it hasn't dated all that well. It remains a song I enjoy listening to and I even pull out the album once in a while, more than can be said for some stuff I was into then.
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