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The Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends Audio CD

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The Lemonheads Band: The Lemonheads
Title: Hate Your Friends
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Release Date: 1992-06-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Glad I Don't Know 2: I Like To 3: Rabbit 4: Don't Wanna 5: 3-9-4 6: Nothing True 7: Second Chance 8: Sneakyville 9: Amazing Grace 10: Belt 11: Hate Your Friends 12: Don't Tell Yourself 13: Uhhh 14: Fed Up 15: Rat Velvet 16: Fucked Up 17: Ever 18: Sad Girl 19: Buried Alive 20: Gotta Stop

If you love Husker Du this is for you...
Robinson" or "It's a Shame about Ray", this may not be for you. If your only knowledge of the Lemonheads is "Mrs. In my opinion, onbe of the best bands of the 80's was Husker Du, and no one had the same minimal intensity and raw power EXCEPT for the first couple of Lemheads albums. Hate Your Friends draws a line between Husker Du and early Replacements, but has its own character. I was recently listening to this on my way to a friends funeral, and their version of "Amazing Grace" came on. It blew me away, and I understood what it meant to "Hate your Friends": all the mixed emotion and intensity of a friendship. Forget that Evan Dando was/is a heartthob, messed up individual. This album and Creator are must-haves for any fan of real punk, indy rock.


Great Punk Album
It is nothing but pure Punk Rock as opposed to their later music. First of all this is not your typical Lemonheads album. This is by far my favorite Lemonheads album and falls in my top 10 of all time great Punk albums.

If you are the kind of person who is afraid of anything that strays far away from the commercialized crap that you can hear on your local "alternative" station and think that anybody who likes some good old fashioned Punk rock is immature and has bad taste in music, you best go pick up one of Evan Dando's (I can't bear to associate the band's later music as the same band who created this masterpiece) later albums. If, on the other hand, you don't mind getting a little adrenaline going with one of the best Punk records of all time, by all means pick this bad boy up.


It's fine...But if you love this, you have issues
Folks who LOOOOVE this album, then call later LEMONHEADS "wimpy" "60's sounding" and "changed by major labels" are obviously still in high school, or just immature and don't really like MUSIC. . They like a SCENE. Namely punk. If it ain't fast and sloppy, then it ain't good to these folks.

This record is passable garage pop. It's fine, really. But any actual fan of music and songwriting will say this band didn't really get cooking until their 3rd record, LICK, and didn't hit a homerun until IT'S A SHAME ABOUT RAY.

And yeah, I'm actually just as big a punk fan as the folks who love this album, but that also gives me the knowledge that there's a LOT better than this in the genre.

Get this if you're a fan of the LEMONHEADS and want everything they did. Or get this if you only like one style of music; punk.

Otherwise, don't start here if you're just testing the band out. They were like 18, for chrissakes. How good could it be?.


A masterpiece!
Almost every single song (and there are 20 of them) is amazing and sticks in your head. I don't care what the other compilation album claims to be-- This CD is the best of the Lemonheads! The first few songs are from the excellent but out-of-print "Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners" album. Probably not for the fans of latter-day Lemonheads. Although there are a couple of slow-tempo moments, overall, this is garage rock played at hardcore punk speed.


An another excellent album by the Dando and Co.
"(if you like that album, you must be listening to too much new kids/nsync/backstreet boys). This is before they hit it big with crappy "masterpieces" such as "Come on, feel the lemonheads. This is powerful from the first song to the last song. If you are into real, powerful, honest yet slapstick pop punk music, buy this album. But if you like bands being changed by fat cat major record labels, wimpy lyrics, songs that sound like they came out of the sixties by other "changed by the major labels" bands, then "Come on, feel the lemonheads" may be the right album for you.


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