Song · The Lightning Seeds
“Flaming Sword” by The Lightning Seeds
Released 1990
“Flaming Sword” by The Lightning Seeds appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1990. Its best result is #91 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1990. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #230 alternative song of 1990.
"Flaming Sword" is a hand-me-down Ian Broudie gave himself. He wrote it with Paul Simpson for Care, their new wave band, whose debut single it was in 1983, and later cut it again with the Lightning Seeds. That version first slipped out in 1990 on the American promo single for "Sweet Dreams", a Cloudcuckooland track, and the band dusted it off again in 1992 as an extra on "Sense", the title single of their album Sense.
The song came full circle on 27 November 2019, when Simpson joined Broudie and the Lightning Seeds onstage at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall to play it, part of the celebrations for the 25th anniversary and reissue of Jollification.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 91 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1990 | 105 |
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