LEMONHEADS: Classic or Dud?

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I don't believe they've been addressed formally here in a C/D capacity.

Liked some of his/their stuff back in the early 90's, notably their quasi-hardcore sorta stuff ("Hate Your Friends"), the LOVEY album and their odd covers ("Luka," "Mrs.Robinson"). Evan Dando -- though a bit of a dippy pretty boy -- certainly exuded promise at certain points. Then he just sorta shrivelled up! What happened?

In any event, I just read a pair of books about the Manson murders (Vince Bugliosi's "Helter Skelter" and Tommy Udo's entirely suspect-but-still-entertaining "Charles Manson: Music Mayhem Murder" and Udo points out that Dando was quasi-obsessed with ol' Charlie....cribbing various lyrical passages from Charlie's songs, alluding to various bits of Manson lore/ephemera and namechecking him and other Manson Family members & victims in interviews. Dusted off my copy of LOVEY, and I'll be damned...it's all there.

That shouldn't factor into your decision, but just thought I'd throw it out there.

And lastly.....who's this Ray character that it's such a shame about?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 October 2002 16:41 (10 years ago) Permalink

i saw them on jenny jones a long time ago. it might have just been evan dando but i think it was all of them. i thought that was pretty cool. jenny jones! that makes them classic, i guess.

― dk, Thursday, 3 October 2002 16:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

I'll tell you what happened: heroin. By the time he got out of rehab, his chance had passed. It's a shame.

I do Ray, it's a very very good album. Other than that, I don't think I've heard anything from them.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 3 October 2002 18:32 (10 years ago) Permalink

Come On Feel The Lemonheads is good too. And I've witnessed people being very enthusiastic about Ray's predecessor, Lovey.

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 3 October 2002 21:33 (10 years ago) Permalink

Lovey is a pretty good record, the "Different Drum" single (and it's rather excellent b-side "Paint") is great too. At the time (here we go again...) I adored Ray and it still stands up as a good record. Come On Feel suffers badly when sat right beside Ray but does have some strong songs. The last Lemonheads album was largely rubbish, as is the solo Evan Dildo stuff.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:12 (10 years ago) Permalink

Lovey is the work by which all the others should be measured. (All other Lemonheads albums, anyway)

― paul cox (paul cox), Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:19 (10 years ago) Permalink

the first 3 (hate your friends, creator and lick) were some of my favourite teenage records. I still rate lovey and the different drum 12" too. after that I've not been so enthralled. though ray is a good pop record.
the first time I saw them in 91 they were incredible. lovey tour. perfect set.

― simon 803 (simon 803), Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:24 (10 years ago) Permalink

Fuck, I had "Come on Feel..." and "It's a Shame..." both on cassette, and I've lost them both. I think I'll buy them on cd very soon.

Classic, for sure. Light-hearted grungey power-pop excellence all the way. Should I bother investing in any of their other stuff while I'm at it?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:35 (10 years ago) Permalink

What are the other ex Lemonheads up to these days? Ben Diely, Corg, Jesse, etc.

"Hate Your Friends", "Creator", and "Lick" are amazing.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:03 (10 years ago) Permalink

"A Circle Of One" is the end of American indie rock's heyday.

― Chris Ott, Friday, 4 October 2002 02:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

I actually think the solo material i've heard him do live recently is some of the best he's done, even if Ben Lee wrote most of it.

― james devon, Friday, 4 October 2002 10:37 (10 years ago) Permalink

Classic.My wife-to-be and I fell in love listening to Ray...aawwww.

― dek1, Friday, 4 October 2002 12:19 (10 years ago) Permalink

Lick is also one of my fave late 80's American guitar records. "Sad Girl" is vicious and "Ever" is classic pop hardcore. Lovey is the forgotton one -- must dig it out next time I'm home.

― David Gunnip, Friday, 4 October 2002 15:39 (10 years ago) Permalink

I do Ray

*falls out of chair giggling like a little schoolgirl*

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 4 October 2002 21:16 (10 years ago) Permalink

Shut up, Reischenfeld.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 5 October 2002 00:06 (10 years ago) Permalink

I took Physics I in high school & not knowing anyone in the class, me & three other people who didn't know anyone ended up by default in the same lab group. So we had me to do the report writing, the geeky boy to do the math, the lazy but friendly girl who didn't show up to class much, and to run the experiments we had Ray.
Ray used to be the biggest bully in the class back in elementary school & once managed to wear his regular clothes (not uniforms like the rest of us), as I heard it, for about half a year b/c he didn't like his, and one day he chucked them all down a storm drain.
After graduating high school he started his own business, customizing & souping up flashy cars & installing massive soundsystems in them.
Anyway we were in physics class together right around 92/93 and since he tended to mess up the experiments pretty often that became our lab group theme song... it's a shame about Ray. physics = phun!

― daria gray (daria gray), Saturday, 5 October 2002 04:14 (10 years ago) Permalink

Getting on from that curiously entertaining anecdote......the Lemonheads are surely one of the most underappreciated bands of the last twenty years. Shame About Ray, Come On Feel and the first bit of Car Button Cloth are all simply celestial pop. If they'd been recorded in the 60s they'd've been tagged genius.

― baboon, Saturday, 5 October 2002 09:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

Kilian, do you live in the UK? HMV are selling "It's A Shame..." in their sale for £4.99.

― bert, Sunday, 6 October 2002 15:28 (10 years ago) Permalink

The Lemonheads will only become classic after Evan Dando dies tragically and Volkswagen uses a Lemonheads song in one of their commercials.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Sunday, 6 October 2002 21:37 (10 years ago) Permalink

I think they should use "The Turnpike Down"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 6 October 2002 22:32 (10 years ago) Permalink

Car Button Cloth is underrated.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 6 October 2002 22:35 (10 years ago) Permalink

I was horrified when a work colleague thought Car Button Cloth was Hootie and the Blowfish. Tsk, some people. Can't expect too much from someone who listens to Tenacious D though.

― james devon, Monday, 7 October 2002 00:09 (10 years ago) Permalink

I had "Creator" back in the day, and it stunk.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 7 October 2002 00:35 (10 years ago) Permalink

classic if only for all the stupid fuss over "Big Gay Heart".

― Aaron A., Monday, 7 October 2002 02:16 (10 years ago) Permalink

car buttton cloth is a gem alright

― Kiwi, Monday, 7 October 2002 08:13 (10 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

And lastly.....who's this Ray character that it's such a shame about?

No doubt this has been mentioned elsewhere on ILM (although I couldn't find it). The following is from an article in the Melbourne Times (May 12, 2004) on the Tote's 21st birthday celebrations:

For Richie Ramone, the celebration would be even more special ... if the Ask For Ray sign, which hung in the bar for more than a decade, could come home.

"The sign goes back as far as the days when Evan Dando lived here," Ramone says. "It was a big joke among the locals. Everyone was Ray.. The Lemonheads even did a song about it - It's a Shame About Ray."

― wombatX (wombatX), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 23:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

Classic btw.

Lovey has always been by far my least favourite album, too many dodgy rock tracks (The Door, Lil Seed, Ballarat.) Stove is a good song but sounds a lot better slowed down and acoustic, Half the Time is among Dando's best work and really stands out a mile on this album. A lot of people cite this as an 'inbetween' album and I think that's maybe why I dislike it.

Ray is classic, classic, classic. I also think Creator and Lick are really strong. Car Button Cloth was an initial disapointment but for me has held up surprisingly well.

― wombatX (wombatX), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 23:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

They certainly had there moments, even on car Button Cloth - "If I could talk I'd tell you" was ace. Most of the best stuff is covers or at least co-writes.

A few months ago I caught Dando playing with Tim Rogers and had the unfortunate luck to see Evan up close at the bar. He looked extremely fucking haggard. They must take a lot of care with the photos these days.

The drugs don't seem to have affected his voice any though.

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 23:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

I was really looking forward to Baby I'm Bored, but it never clicked for me, despite about half of it being great. I think his Melbourne show last August really put me off and I haven't returned to the album since.

― wombatX (wombatX), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 23:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

Even though he can carry it pretty well on his own he is way better with band in tow.

The series of shows with Rogers wasnt a good idea as he suffered by comparison.

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 23:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

i love daria

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 26 September 2004 06:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

The Lemonheads were pretty good.
They were one of my favorite bands when I was like 12.
I really like Ray, Lick and Car Button Cloth (I'm still convinced If I Could Talk I'd Tell You is a damn near perfect pop song). Lovey and Come on Feel certainly had their moments.
Ray is a damn near perfect pop record, plus it introduced me to Frank Mills, one of my all-time favorite songs, and in turn the Hair soundtrack, which rules.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 26 September 2004 15:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

they have just reformed

― johnny z (johnny z), Sunday, 26 September 2004 17:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

Reformed in what sense?
It's been Dando and whoever he can round up since like 1990 or so.
I thought he decided to start releasing records under his own name (like Baby I'm Bored) because "Lemonheads" really hasn't meant anything for a good long while.
I'm only excited if Ben Deilly is back in the band, (and if Juliana Hatfield is on bass and backing vocals, that would be huge bonus points).

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 26 September 2004 17:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

dunno, word on the street

― johnny z (johnny z), Sunday, 26 September 2004 18:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm hoping for Dando/Deilly/Hatfield/Ryan lineup. That seems unlikely but would be fuckin rad.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 26 September 2004 18:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

Can't expect too much from someone who listens to Tenacious D though.

Oh man, who is "james devon"? I'm gonna hunt him down and feed him to the sasquatches that I DJ outdoor raves for.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 26 September 2004 18:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm only excited if Ben Deilly is back in the band, (and if Juliana Hatfield is on bass and backing vocals, that would be huge bonus points).

Missed your chance, his solo tour of the States last year had Juliana in those very capacities! (plus Murph from Dino Jr on drums. and possibly someone on second guitar, but I'm just guessing because he used a guitarist on the following Oz jaunt)

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 27 September 2004 01:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

Said Oz jaunt was ruined for me by Nic Dalton pulling out due to ill-health and bizarrely replaced by Missy Higgins sitting on a milk-crate. Hasn't harmed her career though.

― wombatX (wombatX), Monday, 27 September 2004 01:43 (8 years ago) Permalink

that was only the one gig though - sorry for you and anyone else who had to endure either Melbourne show, but Davey Lane brought in his own bassist for the rest of the tour, and the first Sydney show at least was FANTASTIC (and completed the re-run of '90s Lemon bassists by getting Billy Gibson out of the audience to sing Big Gay Heart).

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 27 September 2004 02:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, just bad luck I guess.. I've certainly seen enough good Evan gigs to give him another chance. But personally I'm more looking forward to the Smudge reunion gigs next month.

― wombatX (wombatX), Monday, 27 September 2004 02:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

yeah, I've missed both the last two (they've played the Annandale in December in 2003 and 2003) so look forward to finally catching them. People said the 2002 show was the best they've ever played evar, and Alison's definitely drumming better than she ever did.

Tom and Andy Calvert played solo sets supporting Sam Shinazzi a few weeks ago, and got up to all play together at the end. On Missing You, Andy went into the crowd to try and offer Al the tambourine he was drumming on, to general amusement.

next month = this weekend for you, no?

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

no, next weekend. stand down soldier!

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

i will forever look askance at mr. dando for not replying to dan treacy's letters.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

inasmuch as lemonheads = evan dando + one ace collaborator, whether it be ben deily or tom morgan or nic dalton or whoever it happens to be at the moment, they're classic in a singer/songwriters-masquerading-as-sad-weird-catchy-buzzy-guitar-pop kinda way.

whenever it's just dando alone, or dando and a band of two lessers, it's never as good.

"into your arms," which none of the above had a hand in writing but which the dando-plus-various-aussies lineup made their own, is just plain pure pop classic.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

but since it appears i'm not quite giving evan credit for anything, i should add that "rockin' stroll," which is all his, is also pure pop classic.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

wow. i just downloaded all the songs i remember by them and i can't believe how good they are. he really has a great voice. i love bands that do a lot of covers, though i was dissapointed by dando's version og "ballad of el goodo"

― Magic City (ano ano), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

He co-wrote "If I could talk.." with Eugene Kelly, right?

Great moment was during Evan's acoustic gig at the Corner in 2002, Tom Morgan and cohorts came on for the encore and ran through a few electric versions of early 'Heads stuff.

Yep, 7th, 8th and 9th for the Smudge gigs. May not make it to the one at the Espy though.

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― wombatX (wombatX), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

he does have a purty voice

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

(x-post)

yup, that's an evan/eugene song and indeed it's a great one.

wombat, please tell smudge (and, while you're at it, sneeze) to come to the u.s. for crissakes. i've been trying to tell them myself but they don't listen.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

Skipping 13 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

at one point they were looking for as many people as possible to write up their memories of The Mystery Of Duncs for the reissue liner notes - I get the impression he may have vanished into the ether.

yes, going to both gigs, attempting to balance flogging CDs with bouncing up and down and grinning. presumably!

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 11 October 2004 23:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

It's a shame you weren't on the door last Friday, you may have been able to sort out the name mix-up. Not that I begrudge paying $10 in the slightest, I was just nerdishly excited about having my name 'on the door'.

― wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

"He's a wombat, yeah, and there's a big X on his t-shirt, right? Where's the confusion?"

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:24 (8 years ago) Permalink

How were the Sydney gigs kit?
Sadly it looks like they won't be playing any more gigs at the Rob Roy:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/15/1097784048775.html

― wombatX (wombatX), Sunday, 17 October 2004 23:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

The Katoomba gig was a bit of a shambles. The number of punters was matched by the number of band-members and associates, and while Sekiden played well and had decent sound, Smudge had a terrible mix and even worse problems onstage, stopping for several minutes between most songs to try and sort out foldback'n'feedback. Every time someone got up for extra guitar, things would also fall apart. But Nic had learnt Outdoor Type (AS COVERED IN CLASSIC STYLEE BY YE LEMONHEADS, ON-TOPIC FANS) the day before, and played very well on it.

[Also got to hear some mixes from the in-progress Nic Dalton solo album (THAT'S NIC DALTON, FORMER BASSIST FOR THE LEMONHEADS, CLASSIC OR DUD?) in the carpark, and that could be pretty classic itself. No amplification, banjo & mandolin & string section on every song, all songs about heartbreak.]

Sydney rocked total balls, though. Modern Giant have written some new pop songs following the radio success (Triple J AND Radio National) of Keep On Movin', Sekiden played a blinder (and shifted almost three times as much merch as Smudge - though there they have the advantage of their entire career coming after Smudge's last release), and Smudge were blowing away the previous night's performance by soundcheck.

All the hits (INCLUDING POPULAR LEMONHEADS TUNES LIKE "DOWN ABOUT IT", DON'T YOU HATE IT WHEN AUSTRALIANS TAKE OVER A THREAD?), Scary Cassettes and Don't Wanna Be did get aired, halfway through Tom just gave up and started asking for requests. Leticia Nischang got up for guitar on I Was Born To Change The World. Nic had been on and off on Friday, but tonight came on about an hour in and just stayed onstage. He'd only learnt five songs, but I'm pretty sure he played a lot more than that. The set-closer was a cover of Whole Lotta Rosie with Alison singing (!), and the encore was Divan plus She Cracked by the Modern Lovers, with Mirko from Sekiden on extra vocals and handclaps.

Plus it was packed! And yes, shame about the Rob Roy - great venue, and so excellent that they had the accomodation for touring bands upstairs...

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 18 October 2004 00:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

Sounds like the Sydney gig was the pick of the tour.

I like the sound of this ex-Lemonheads bass player Nic Dalton's solo album - the mandolin and banjo on the last Sneeze album rocked my world.

― wombatX (wombatX), Monday, 18 October 2004 01:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

The opening track will be a version of There's Nobody Coming Over (previously recorded for a The Kombi Nation 7"), and Nic's singing on it is about five times better than any vocal performance he's ever put on record before. The whole thing, from what I've heard, has something of a slight country-Elvis vibe.

*all other songs are new, though some co-written with 1ucy 1eh/v\ann have been recorded, but not released, by her

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 18 October 2004 02:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

(THAT'S NIC DALTON, FORMER BASSIST FOR THE LEMONHEADS, CLASSIC OR DUD?)

classic classic classic classic. but then again, my band records for his label. but he is by far the sweetest guy i've ever met who's played for smudge, godstar, sneeze, the lemonheads and the hummingbirds. evan is a sweet guy, too, but he was never in the hummingbirds (i don't think!), so nic wins.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:34 (8 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Two nights in NYC. I feel like a kid again.

― Je4nn3 butterscotch streelamps light my path ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

What are the other ex Lemonheads up to these days? Ben Diely, Corg, Jesse, etc.
Jesse is directing a new Zach Braff movie, and
After nearly a year of creative duties on the Microsoft account (at San Francisco's McCann Worldgroup)--and "almost apocalyptic levels of whining"--Ben Deily has accepted the post of Associate Creative Director at an undisclosed but allegedly "wicked cool" advertising agency in the scenic idyll of Portland, Maine.
The last I heard (prob. easily googleable) Dando, Bill Stevenson, and Karl Alvarez were recording a new Lemonheads album for Vagrant.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Sunday, 11 June 2006 15:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

CHRIST, i hated the lemonheads. hate hate HATE. hearing "ray" or that FUCKING "mrs robinson" cover reminds me of everything i loathed about being 16.

and that dreadful twee kids-drawing album cover ... AAAARGH! THE BILE! DESTROY!

dud, then.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 11 June 2006 18:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yep. They're at Vagrant now. Pitchfork says that the Dando-self-funded-(ooh) album is due out in the fall.

― shanecavanaugh (shanecavanaugh), Monday, 12 June 2006 00:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

I didn't feel too strongly either way about this band, but I really loved "The Great Big No".

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Monday, 12 June 2006 06:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

I don't know how such a band can inspire such hatred. I mean, that Mrs Robinson cover wasn't great, as the band admit themselves, but Shame About Ray, Come On Feel and various other bits and bobs are absolutely lovely.

― Stew (stew s), Monday, 12 June 2006 09:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

Ben Deily has a band now called Varsity Drag, iirc. You can hear their stuff on MySpace. I give it the thumbs up.

Incidentally, Lemonheads = total classic, particularly up to and including LOVEY. I still like the stuff after that, but not as much.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Huh, the Varsity Drag stuff ain't too bad. Well I think it's more about familiarity, but I'm still digging it.

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'm new, but the C/D thing weirds me out. As much as I like the Lemonheads, they're obviously not a "classic" band -- not even in the private Rolodex of my acne-ridden heart. They're a asterisk at best. Like the Hard-Ons. Does that automatically consign them to dudhood?

Uh-uh. The first few albums are about as good as pop-punk can hope to get, and they've got a healthy double fistful of worthy tracks spread across their career in rock.

Neither.

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

There. Just had to get that outta my system. I see it as a "coming of age" thing...

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

The Hard-Ons entered world-standard classic status last week with two paragraphs of the interview with Blackie in Unbelievably Bad #3.

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

They're back!

http://myspace.com/thelemonheads

(No Backbone, the new single. With J Mascis on guitar and two Descendents on drums and bass.)

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 28 August 2006 10:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

Not even worth wasting a dud on. Who does Dando share a dealer with that he's getting another chance?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 28 August 2006 11:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

there's no way that an eleven-year-old cover is going to be the comeback single

is there?

― k!t (kit brash), Monday, 28 August 2006 11:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

Who does Dando share a dealer with that he's getting another chance?

So many bands love him, I bet he is the dealer.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 28 August 2006 11:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

i now have no backbone burned 24 times in a row on one cd. that's all it is. that song. over and over again.

how do i shot rep 1 function

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 05:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

'Hannah & Gabi' made me want to become a pedal steel player. So I did. The lines on it are so lovely.

― Huey in Melbourne (Huey in Melbourne), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 05:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

Kit OTM, No Backbone isn't the new single, it's just a track off the new album. Sorry for the confusion.

"28th August 2006
The forthcoming Lemonheads single Become The Enemy got its first UK radio play today, on BBC 6 Music."

( http://www.evandando.co.uk )

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 05:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

I hope the new stuff really does sound like The Buzzcocks. That would be fun.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 05:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

i like evan just fine but of all the dudes whose moment has passed, he's one of them.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 06:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

"i know a place where i can go...."

OBLIVION

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 06:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

That was a cover, too.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 06:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

My favourite Lemonheads track is Mallo Cup, I think.

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 06:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

"I forget to forget/I ain't remembered yet"
Love that one.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 06:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

my favourite is when reviews talk about how he's a great songwriter who never lost his touch, and then cite a cover as evidence. bless.

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

listening to 'it's a shame...' just now

damn 'rudderless' kicks copious amounts of ass. catchy, well crafted, and somehow moving all at the same time. makes me want to get my guitar out and write some similarly styled tunes.

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 8 February 2007 08:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

did we ever discuss the new s/t album? any good?

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

It's a Shame About Ray came on in the record store I was shopping in a few days ago, and I swear, the album feels as fresh and exciting now as it did a decade+ ago when I first heard it.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 9 February 2007 12:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Its A Shame About Ray" is a classic tune. I definitely enjoy that one whenever it comes on. Don't own any of the records though.

― Sir Echo (Sir Echo), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

it's a little too candy ish

it's like OK it's pretty but duh, why wouldn't it be

i used to like it but not really my cup o tea.

― Surmounter (rra123), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

What amazes me is that in EVERY SONG EVER Dando does the same thing he does in "Rudderless" -- singing the first half down in his husky laid-back register, then swinging up into a higher one when things need that final push toward the end (he even kinda does this with his guitar overdubs sometimes!) -- and yet in every case it totally works! Especially in "Rudderless," really.

The new one is not the greatest thing, but it's got a few pretty terrific songs on it, and if you happen to be fond of Dando, there's just something pleasant and charming about hearing him back at it.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

It's been SO LONG since I've heard "Ray." But I could still probably sing you the entire album. I won't, but I could.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'll get you started: "She takes me on a ______."

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

rocking stroll

the new album from last year is half good. Kind of like the entire catalog.

― don weiner (don weiner), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

Dud

― Phil Knight (PhilK), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

if you won't wave guess I won't know as by I roll I hope you'll throw a smile at me

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

I liked the songs on the first two Taang albums by the OTHER GUY. He was crazy, not sure his name or what happened to him and can't be bothered to google around about it. Those records seemed kind of cool back to me back then, like a poor man's HÃ¼sker or potentially that. I haven't really listened to most of their stuff since. I hate that kind of production and can't listen to it (and no one is paying me to).

NOT classic.

― Saxby D. Elder (Saxby D. Elder), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

Ben Deily was the other guy:
http://www.bendeily.com/

I brought him up over here a few months back:
The Lemonheads new album The Lemonheads

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

http://gulfport.craigslist.org/cto/1921015857.html

― del griffith, Friday, 27 August 2010 16:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

With the announcement of a new, grittier, Lemonheads album on the horizon, Fire Records will be reissuing the band's first three albums Hate Your Friends (1987), Creator (1988) and Lick (1989), which showcase the band's early punk rock roots.
Fans are rejoicing over the news that Evan Dando will be reuniting with original co-songwriter Ben Deily for the new album, which will doubtless see a return to a rawer, more noisy sound and sees Ryan Adams on production duties. Dando and Deily were co-conspirators for the first three Lemonheads albums, which saw them in full punk rock mode and sounding like an entirely different band from the subsequent commercially successful major label releases. The three albums chart the course of the band from noise punk pranksters, to international pop stars as they evolved from Deily's Lemonheads to Dando's Lemonheads.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 September 2012 14:27 (8 months ago) Permalink

weird time to do this when he's also touring as a duo w/ Juliana

― ┐(´ー｀)┌ (sic), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

Curious about the result of all that.

― Evan, Thursday, 20 September 2012 22:49 (8 months ago) Permalink

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