Lemonheads: Lick. RARE WHITE LABEL TEST PRESSING
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I picked up this very rare test pressing at a record fair in the early 90's. Clearing things out ahead of a house move now so time to say goodbye!
Lemonheads: Ben Deily (vocals, guitar, piano); Evan Dando (vocals, guitar, drums); Corey Loog Brennan (guitar); Jesse Pool Jesse (bass); John Strohm, Doug Trachten (drums).
The Lemonheads' third album was the charm. Although co-founder Ben Deily would leave after its release, LICK was so clearly superior to its predecessors that it snagged the group a recording contract with Atlantic. Its single, an irreverent but not mean-spirited version of Suzanne Vega's "Luka," increased the Boston pop-punk band's public profile tenfold.
The group was in a state of flux during the recording, with co-leader Evan Dando splitting his time between this group and playing bass with his friends the Blake Babies, and the increasing bifurcation between Deily's punkier tunes and Dando's fascination with oddball pop--listen to "Seven Powers" or the winsome "Anyway" for proof of Dando's maturing songwriting--makes LICK sound almost like two records by two different bands. The CD adds a few tracks, including a terrific take on Patsy Cline's "Strange."
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