Track Listing

1. Perfect
2. Lucky You
3. Open Goals
4. Change
5. Why Why Why
6. Marvellous
7. Feeling Lazy
8. My Best Day
9. Punch And Judy
10. Telling Tales

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64174 in Music
• Released on: 1998-08-24
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Really, one can only conclude that Ian Broudie, chief Lightening Seed, is absolutely, frothingly, cross-to-the-other-side-of-the-street insane. Why else would he be able to conjure up endless songs from a elysian world where the sky is filled with candyfloss clouds, sugar-mountains and sticky-bun eyes? The cover of Jollification tells you everything you need to know about the man's head: a hyper-real blue sky filled with huge, juicy, multi-coloured strawberries. And named after Ken Dodd's word for merriment. How can one man be so happy? But then, if we had bright, bushy-tailed classic pop songs like "Change", "Marvellous", "Perfect" and "Lucky You" dropping into our heads at the rate of 12 a year, and were picking up the royalty-cheques from them being used on millions of adverts, then maybe we, too, would inhabit a world where we lived in constant danger of a large day-glo strawberry landing on our head as we climbed a sugar-mountain, and we died in a lovely big syllabub. --Caitlin Moran

Customer Reviews

BROUDIE'S SUNNY, STRUMMY MASTERPIECE - SWEET MUSICAL TOOTH REQUIRED
Ian Broudie is the multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter who helped create the massive selling football anthem 'Three Lions'. That Broudie will chiefly be remembered for this is a shame - his band The Lightening Seeds released some of the best loved singles of the mid 90's and, whilst the albums could be patchy affairs, Jollification is a near classic.
It's bright and shiny pop/rock full of huge hooks, harmonies, bouncing basslines and a clever mix of the traditional and modern - drum machines and dance beats mix with accoustic guitar and Beatley melodies. Not being the greatest singer in the world Broudie was shrewd enough to know that the songs had to sell themselves, so he collaborated with the likes of Alison Moyet, Terry Hall and Ian McNabb.
The album also produced three big hit singles - 'Lucky You', 'Marvellous' and 'Change' - catchy, beautifully crafted pop songs that perfectly captured the feel of summer 1995. The McNabb assisted 'Feeling Lazy' is perhaps the most Beatles influened track here but the highlight is the soaring 'My Best Day' which sees Alison Moyet belting out a truly wonderful vocal.
Yes it is all very mainstream and poppy and there are a couple of throwaway fillers, but Jollification is such a well put together record that you can forgive a few musical missteps. If you're tastes include The Feeling you will adore this record.

Pop at it's very best.
This album personifies the perfect summers you had as a child when the sun was shininf. It sums up everything good about life. The great thing about this album is, the consistancy in quality. There isn't a weak track on this CD and "Marvellous", "perfect", "Punch and Judy, "Change", in fact ALL that tracks just make you want to sing out loud. Songs like "Marvellous" are great because you can rock out to them, or dance to them. Not many tracks have that versatility. This is a must buy for all music fans. This is possibly the greatest album of the 90s, apart from "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?"

Its an album that will make you grin stupidly
Its a shame that the Lightning Seeds will be best remembered for Three Lions, because this is quite simply one of the finest forty minutes of pop ever produced. Its melodic, its catchy, it'll make you want to sing in public places and it will remind you to buy a Renault. The big four tracks that made it onto the greatest hits (perfect, lucky you, change and marvellous) are exceptional, but not significantly better than the rest of it, 'feeling lazy' and 'open goals' are particularly notable.
It may just be nostalgia for my lost youth - I was probably about twelve when i first heard it - but its hard to imagine life without Ian Broudie's thin little voice singing those perfect, happiness inducing notes. Buy it and make some fond memories of your own