Tilt (The Lightning Seeds album) focusing on subjects such as the Liverpool dockers' strike, self-loathing pop stars and general disillusionment. Preceded in release a week by the single "Life's Too Short", "Tilt" was released by Epic Records in November 1999. A unique billboard campaign was developed to promote the album. The album was a commercial failure, only reaching number 46 on the UK Albums Chart. Its two singles also fared badly in the UK Singles Chart. Broudie was later unsatisfied with the album, and took the band on hiatus in 2000. After the Lightning Seeds had been a solo project for Ian Broudie, the project
Rock Band letting others, such as Activision, handle the creation of the game controllers. Sales of downloadable songs have been in favor of hard rock bands; Mötley Crües single "Saints of Los Angeles", debuting as a "Rock Band" track at the same time as the release of the album of the same name, saw 48,000 "Rock Band" downloads and 14,000 iTunes downloads during its first week of release. The popularity of some tracks have also led to groups considering releasing more material for the game. Rushs alternate version of "Working Man" released only for "Rock Band" was met with so much praise