LEMONHEADS The Lemonheads LP HALL OF RECORDS 2007 UK orig+insert EVAN DONO

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THIS IS THE 2007 UK ORIGINAL PRESSING on HALL OF RECORDS label. IN SHRINK SINGLE COVER + INSERT. The cover is in EX condition, normal wear, BUT some discolouration/wear on right corners (where missing shrink), surface sticker mark on rear (top left corner), left spine is fully readable; for details see photos. The vinyl is in EX condition [barely played]. 

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THE LEMONHEADS

Led by Evan Dando, hugely popular in the early 90s with their melodic blend of punk and indie rock. The Lemonheads' evolution from post-Hüsker Dü hardcore punk rockers to teenage heartthrobs is one of the strangest sagas in alternative music. Initially, the group was a punk-pop trio formed by three teenage Boston suburbanites, but over the years, the band became a vehicle for Evan Dando. Blessed with good looks and a warm, sweet voice, Dando became a teen idol in the early '90s, when Nirvana's success made alternative bands commercially viable. While his simple, catchy songs were instantly accessible, they tended to hide the more subversive nature of his lyrics, as well as his gift for offbeat covers and his devotion to country-rock father Gram Parsons. After developing his signature blend of pop, punk, and country-rock on several independent records in the late '80s, Dando moved the Lemonheads to Atlantic Records in 1990. Two years later, It's a Shame About Ray made the group into media sensations, as Dando's face appeared on music and teen magazines across America and Britain...

"THE LEMONHEADS"

Produced by Bill Stevenson and Evan Dando

tracklisting: please, for tracklist see pictures

2007        LP     HALL OF RECORDS   HOR1114

MADE IN ENGLAND       ORIGINAL PRESSING

IN SHRINK SINGLE COVER + INSERT

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 6 31778 11121 8

Label: HALL OF RECORDS - BLACK LABEL - WHITE TEXT

Catalog on cover: HOR1114

Catalog on labels: HOR1114

Matrix / Runout (Side A, EtchedStamped): HOR-114-A GOLDEN 70873E1/A

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched/Stamped): HOR-114-B GOLDEN 70873E2/A

On labels: please, for details see dedicated pictures

On Back Cover: Tracklist

℗© 2007 Hall Of Records.........Manufactured & distributed by Cargo.......prosecution.

grading

RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Many bands break up at the right time, or at least a little past it, but the Lemonheads' disbandment seemed premature, particularly because it didn't seem like they officially broke up; they just faded away. For Lemonheads leader Evan Dando, it was a surprisingly quick fall from glory -- or at least from being a Sassy star and one of People's Most Beautiful People, touted as the next big thing after Kurt Cobain, to being alt-rock's most notorious also-ran. Not long after the group's fourth album for Atlantic, 1996's Car Button Cloth, he quietly pulled the plug on the group and slinked away from the spotlight, taking a long, long time to recharge. After seven years, he resurfaced with a sleepy but likeable solo debut called Baby I'm Bored in 2003, and that activity apparently lit a fire underneath Dando, since three years later he reunited the Lemonheads, releasing an eponymous album that fall. The album only confirms the suspicion that the group should never have broken up -- unless that Dando needed the time to sober up and get refocused, since he certainly couldn't have made a record as tight and direct as this in the mid-'90s. Lord knows he tried, but for as wonderful as much of 1993's Come on Feel the Lemonheads and Car Button Cloth are, both are ragged and filled with aimless filler, two things thankfully missing from The Lemonheads. Like the 1992 power pop classic It's a Shame About Ray, this is brief, lively, and tuneful, filled with two-to-three-minute songs that make their point and then get out of the way. If this isn't as incandescent, joyful, and effervescent as It's a Shame About Ray, that's because this is the work of a different band, one that's a bit older and not quite as exuberant, but one that nevertheless displays a renewed vigor and sense of purpose. And not only does the band sound excellent -- whether they're working as a trio or being goosed along by J Mascis, who provides typically excellent guitar on occasion here -- but they have a good batch of songs here that add up to Dando's most consistent album in years. They're zippier and catchier than anything on Baby I'm Bored, and even if there aren't any outright immediate classics along the lines of "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You," song for song this builds into not only a strong comeback, but one of the group's better records. The best thing that can be said about The Lemonheads is that it sounds like the album Dando and company should have released in 1995 -- and that it sounds like they could turn another of these out soon and that it'd be every bit as good. Which is the right kind of return for a band that should never have gone away in the first place...(AllMusic)