Friday, November 26, 2004
October 27: Lemonheads - Come on Feel the Lemonheads
At some point either right before or right after this album came out, Evan Dando admitted to an interviewer that he'd smoked so much crack in one sitting a whole week of shows had to be cancelled.
This album is a lot more unfocused than Shame About Ray; Belinda Carlisle and Juliana Hatfield show up to do backing vocals, and Rick James plays bass and sings backup on the song "Rick James Style" (with the chorus "don't wanna get stoned / but I don't wanna not get stoned"), but it all seems a little loosey-goosey. Then Dando tells us he doesn't want us to suck his dick on the song "Big Gay Heart," and it all makes sense: this man is a junkie, and he's fried out of his head. Which would also explain the follow-up album, 1996's Car Button Cloth, which lyrically made no sense whatsoever (I sold my copy back years ago), and the fact that the Lemonheads haven't put out any material since then. Wasted talent: more fun or less fun to listen to than no talent at all? Let's discuss on the message board.
This album is a lot more unfocused than Shame About Ray; Belinda Carlisle and Juliana Hatfield show up to do backing vocals, and Rick James plays bass and sings backup on the song "Rick James Style" (with the chorus "don't wanna get stoned / but I don't wanna not get stoned"), but it all seems a little loosey-goosey. Then Dando tells us he doesn't want us to suck his dick on the song "Big Gay Heart," and it all makes sense: this man is a junkie, and he's fried out of his head. Which would also explain the follow-up album, 1996's Car Button Cloth, which lyrically made no sense whatsoever (I sold my copy back years ago), and the fact that the Lemonheads haven't put out any material since then. Wasted talent: more fun or less fun to listen to than no talent at all? Let's discuss on the message board.
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