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
The Flies (English band) of the year. Although the Flies' material was not particularly unique to the English psychedelic scene, the band has continued to gain attention for their version of "(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone"'s appearance on the 1980 compilation album "Chocolate Soup for Diabetics, Volume 1", which is one of the earliest collections of rare English psychedelic music. Other works the song is featured includes "The British Psychedelic Trip: 1966 - 1969", "The Electric Crayon Set", and "Rubble, Volume 3". In 2002, Won-Sin Records released "The Complete Collection: 1965 - 1968", an album compiling released material, alternate versions, demos, and tracks from