SONG OF THE DAY |Ear worms and classic first pop singles | Beauty from The Lightning Seeds ‘PURE'

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"Pure" is a song by British music group the Lightning Seeds from their debut album, Cloudcuckooland.  Released in June 1989, the song peaked at No. 16 in the UK.  The following year it entered the US Billboard Hot 100's top 40, peaking at #31 on March 26, and was the first hit for the band on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, climbing to #8 in May 1990.

The first Lightning Seeds single release, "Pure" is significant in that it was also the first song Ian Broudie had "completely written and sung, ever".  After recording it, he only wanted 200 copies of the single pressed.  But after some radio play over the subsequent months the song began to gain traction and went for a second pressing.