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Lemonheads | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 25, 1993)
• Original Release Date: 1988
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Taang Records
• ASIN: B000000EQD
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,248 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great album, May 15, 2004

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Reza "Biscuitsforsmut" (Lancaster, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creator (Audio CD)

This is a great album. This is back in the days when Lemonheads were a bit more Husker Du than R.E.M. It's catchy hardcore punk with a fair dose of melody thrown in. The soft songs are good too. Your Home is where your happy has to be my personal favourite here. This is one overlooked 80's album, good stuff

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars *This* is the Lemonheads, July 7, 2001

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eric b rad "eric_b_rad" (Burlington, VT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creator (Audio CD)

Throughout rock history, there are a lot of examples of frontmen retaining a band's name after all other original members have departed or been dismissed, and this is probably the worst. The Deily/Strohm/Peretz/Dando Lemonheads were an awesome band. Creator is probably the best recorded representation of that lineup, but live they were just an untouchable punk rock force. Dando's insistence on dragging the name through the mud with the dreck that he foisted on the public after 1989 was inexcusable.

That being said, you should all pick this up and bow down at the altar of one of rock's best tunesmiths... Ben Deily.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Lemonheads' Strongest Work?, September 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Creator (Audio CD)

I completely disagree with the other reviewers. I've always felt that the Lemonheads died when Ben Deily left, and this album showcases some of his strongest songs ("7 Powers" on Lick notwithstanding). Evan Dando has always seemed too contrived, too eager to offend, to be anything more than a novelty. Deily, on the other hand, had the goods: he could write songs as heavy and image-laden as "Burying Ground" (which seems to draw heavily upon Black Sabbath, not to mention W.B. Yeats) as well as nostalgic acoustic numbers like "Postcard," which, to me, ranks right up there with "Unsatisfied." Granted, everyone and their brother will tell you "Hate Your Friends" is a better record, and maybe it is. All I know is Deily's songwriting really progressed (musically at least) from "Friends" to "Creator." While still able to churn out amazingly literate lyrics, Deily successfully moved past the standard three-chord punk songs he sang on "Friends." Witness "Live Without" and "Falling" if you don't believe me. And that, friends, should be enough to warrant a closer look.