Track Listing

1. Black Gown
2. Become The Enemy
3. Pittsburgh
4. Let's Just Laugh
5. Poughkeepsie
6. Rule Of Three
7. No Backbone
8. Baby's Home
9. In Passing
10. Steve's Boy
11. December

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55846 in Music
• Released on: 2006-09-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Limited Edition
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
It may have been ten years since the last Lemonheads album, but on this self-titled album, frontman Evan Dando sounds like he hasn't missed a beat. The Lemonheads is a great album, showcasing Dando's knack for combining rock, punk and country with his trademark laconic vocals. And despite his place at the band's helm, this is very much a Lemonheads album, and not another Evan Dando solo album. Much of this is down to the quality of the people he works with here. Bill Stevenson, of Black Flag and the Descendents, plays drums, co-produces and even wrote a couple of tracks (so he's responsible for penning the twisted singalong chorus "pass the blame and our life away" on "Become the Enemy"). Longtime collaborator Tom Morgan contributed "No Backbone" and one of the album's highlights, "Baby's Home", a country-rock murder ballad. Other guests run the gamut from indie hero (Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis) to rock legend (The Band's Garth Hudson). The Lemonheads is melodic and supremely catchy, perfectly recapturing that which very nearly made the band superstars back in the 1990s, before Evan Dando very nearly self-destructed. It's to the music world's benefit that he survived, and reformed the Lemonheads. This is, by any reckoning, a triumphant return. --Ted Kord

CD Description
Coming ten years after 1996's 'Car Button Cloth', Evan Dando's new incarnation of The Lemonheads return with their eighth studio album and their first for punk label Vagrant. Backed by Karl Alvarez and Bill Stevenson of legendary punk outfit The Descendents, the album sees Dando and co. returning to the pop-punk sound that graced the bands early recordings.The seven-inch only single 'Become The Enemy' is also included.

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Return to Form
From the Rockin' Stroll-esque opener of Black Gown, we are instantly reminded just how good Evan Dando is. As the sole survivor of the original Boston punksters, Dando's voice is sounding mellower, like a really good tobacco. His new Lemonhead cohorts Bill Stevenson and Karl Alvarez are quite frankly awesome, and give Dando the power he really needs to compliment his voice and his fine guitar work.

Become the Enemy rocks in at track 2 - no pop here - this is serious grown up slacker rock. Pittsburgh trips by quite sweetly however, and you're soon on to Let's Just Laugh - certainly reminiscent of the last `Heads album, Car Button Cloth, rather than the more commercial sounding Shame About Ray. Again, the rhythm section are superb. The upbeat Poughkeepsie follows, and then there's the guaranteed future live classic of Rule of Three.

J Mascis joins the party for the excellent No Backbone, and then the slightly disturbing rock/country of Baby's Home. In Passing is more reminscent of Ray-era Lemonheads. Steve's Boy is an excellent Bill Stevenson composition and December could fit onto Lovey / Car Button Cloth comfortably - especially when it loses it's way in the middle with the classic Lemonheads "phone message" thing, only to come back round with a big chorus.

This album rocks. Welcome back Evan - we missed you.

Welcome Back
After a ten year hiatus since their last album, Evan Dando has finally resurrected the fantastic Lemonheads. This time backed by members of punk stalwarts The Decendents they have returned to their early sounding pop-punk roots and it works brilliantly. "Black Gown" with its deceptive piano intro kicks things off before storming into classic Lemonheads. Punk legend J Mascis rips up "No Backbone" with a trademark solo. "Poughkeepsie" and "Become The Enemy" will have you dancing and bopping the night away. Overall its a very welcome return for Dando, we've missed you.

A welcome return for Evan & co
The Lemonheads were the soundtrack to many a night in my teenage years, and I feel Evan Dando is criminally underrated for such a bright talent. (ever hear a Lemonheads song on the radio apart from their Mrs Robinson cover??)

I actually really liked his solo album, and although it was a little downbeat it had several great tracks (Repeat, All the Grass Wine Coloured). But I'm really glad he's back with a band doing what he does best.

On The Lemonheads, the new line up definitely makes the sound a bit more rockier than the more acoustic It's a Shame About Ray or Come on Feel, so more akin to their live act. At first, I wasn't really impressed, but after a few listens the songs really grew on me. Highlights are definitely Pittsburg and No Backbone for me, and the single Become the Enemy is also fantastic. Evan's warm voice is also on fine form throughout

ALthough certainly not a par with Ray, this is a great album and is definitely worth buying