Seen the Light

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"Seen the Light"
Seen the Light Supergrass.jpg
Single by Supergrass
from the album Life on Other Planets
B-side "The Loner"
Released27 January 2003 (2003-01-27) [1]
Studio Toe Rag (Hackney, London)
Genre Rock
Length2:27
Label Parlophone
Songwriter(s) Supergrass
Producer(s) Tony Hoffer
Supergrass singles chronology
"Grace"
(2002)		"Seen the Light"
(2003)		"Rush Hour Soul"
(2003)

"Seen the Light" is a song by English rock band Supergrass. It was the third single from their fourth album Life on Other Planets . It was the first Supergrass release on DVD and reached number 22 on the UK Singles Chart when it was released in January 2003. [2] [3] The B-Side "The Loner" is a cover version of a Neil Young song.

Contents

Music video

The video begins with the statement "All the world await this human drama, of man's faith in God", which then leads straight to the start of the song itself. It is mainly black-and-white footage (however, there is a brief period of colour film around the middle eight) of music concert goers, people experiencing religious revelations and preacher men. The video ends with a wild audience applauding 1950s teen idol Fabian Forte, and finally a preacher proclaiming; "When you get to heaven, it'll all be out, and over."

"We're not actually in it," Goffey explains. "It's all really old footage of religious preachers mixed in with old footage of rock and roll audiences, and what's interesting is they react in the same way. They both go into these convulsions and pull their hair out and stuff. It's quite mad. [4] "

Track listings

CD(CDR6592)

  1. "Seen the Light" (2:27)
  2. "The Loner" (3:26)
  3. "I Told the Truth" (2:20)

Limited-edition grey 7-inch(R6592)

  1. "Seen the Light" (2:27)
  2. "The Loner" (3:26)

DVD(DVDR6592)

  1. "Seen the Light" (video) (2:45)
  2. "Brecon Beacons" (live audio)
  3. "Rush Hour Soul" (live audio)
  4. "Never Done Nothing Like That Before" (live video)
  5. Picture gallery

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References

  1. ↑ "New Releases – For Week Starting 27 January 2003: Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 25 January 2003. p. 33. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  2. ↑ Supergrass biography : beginnings, career, success Archived 24 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ The Strange Ones Supergrass Site
  4. ↑ The Strange Ones Supergrass Site
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