..., on Car Button Cloth his voice sounds as though he's come out the other side but fried a few creative brain-cells in the process.
Not that this album is by any means bad. If I Could Talk I'd Tell You is right up there with Shame About Ray and It's About Time - classic Lemonheads. And Six ... Read review
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...album, Come On Feel..., on Car Button Cloth his voice sounds as though he's come out the other side but fried a few creative brain-cells in the process.
Not that this album is by any means bad. If I Could Talk I'd Tell You is right up there with Shame About Ray and It's About Time - classic Lemonheads. And Six is an interesting little thrashy number about the movie Seven ("Here comes Gwyneth's head in a box"). However, there ... more
It's a popular myth in rock lore that drugs fuel the creative process. Not in Evan Dando's case. Having nursed an (un)healthy crack habit around the time of his previous album, Come On Feel..., on Car Button Cloth his voice sounds as though he's come out the other side but fried a few creative brain-cells in the process.
Not that this album is by any means bad. If I Could Talk I'd Tell You is right up there with Shame About Ray and It's About Time - classic Lemonheads. And Six is an interesting little thrashy number about the movie Seven ("Here comes Gwyneth's head in a box"). However, there is more filler than usual, and Come On Daddy is so cloying as to almost make the listener nauseous.
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Product details
Title
Car Button Cloth
Performer
Lemonheads (The)
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Alternative
Release Date
09/1996
Recomended Retail Price
10.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1996
Label / Distributor
Atlantic / Cinram Logistics
Engineer
Bryce Goggin
Producer
Bryce Goggin
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
75679272621
Catalogue Number
7567927262
Additional notes
Album Notes
Lemonheads: Evan Dando (guitar, vocals, percussion, piano, bass, Moog synthesizer, drums); Bill Gibson (bass, guitar, tambourine, background vocals); Patrick Murphy (drums). Additional personnel includes: Bryce Goggin (vocals, moog, organ); Kenny Lyon (guitar, hand claps); Rich Gilbert (pedal steel); Royston Langdon (piano, bass); Dina Waxman (bass). Recorded at Dreamland, Woodstock, New York. CAR BUTTON CLOTH features the same sort of sugary melodies and clever lyricism that made the Lemonheads' 1992 album IT'S A SHAME ABOUT RAY one of the decade's pop classics. But this time, with the aid of Dinosaur Jr. drummer Patrick "Murph" Murphy and producer Bryce Goggin, the Lemonheads have both a harder edge and a looser feel. There's a wider range of styles, too. Evan Dando, the singer/songwriter/heartthrob who is the Lemonheads' only constant member, co-wrote songs for CAR BUTTON CLOTH with Eugene Kelly (Eugenius, the Vaselines) and Epic Soundtracks (Swell Maps). The pop standouts include Dando/Kelly's "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You" (listen for the newspaper-crunching sound), "Break Me" (with its sweet flute-sounding solo) and the all-too-short "Tenderfoot." CAR BUTTON CLOTH also nods in the directions of country (a cover of the Louvin Brothers' "Knoxville Girl"), punk, metal and even jazz. In his warm baritone, Dando sings lines like "Khmer Rouge qua/Your place or Mein Kampf." The album title has its roots in a second-grade homework assignment that called on Dando to drop objects in a bathtub and see what would float or sink. It's a safe bet the quality and eclectic nature of CAR BUTTON CLOTH's songs will assure this record's buoyant rise to the top of the pop bathtub.
Album Reviews
NME (12/21-28/96, pp.66-67) - Ranked #23 in NME's 1996 critic's poll. Rolling Stone (11/28/96, pp.132-134) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...Gone are the acoustic guitars that dominated the last two albums; the music is now beefed up by the churning, dual-guitar electricity of [Evan] Dando and Bill Gibson....Perhaps the most startling development...is the degree to which Dando is prepared to risk being serious..." Spin (11/96, p.120) - 8 (out of 10) - "...his deftest yet, jumping from pastel-toned jangle to messy rawk noise. The resulting music lifts Dando into the category of first-rate rock'n'roll weirdo, a less bonkers Syd Barrett for the generation that buys its psychedelics at Urban Outfitters..." Q (11/96, p.126) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...an awkward but magnetically honest instance of mental spring-cleaning, as Black Sabbath as it is Burrito Brothers. One hopes he's feeling better now." Melody Maker (9/21/96, p.48) - Recommended - "...Sometimes soulful, sometimes...glib. Sometimes plain irritating. And sometimes pure genius....basically, COME ON FEEL THE LEMONHEADS part two--and recommendations don't come much higher than that. It's just as sad, lonely, confused, tormented. It's just as relentlessly inward-looking..." NME (9/28/96, p.54) - 8 (out of 10) - "For one so royally f---ed up, Evan Dando's a very tidy craftsman....caressing the sharp, rhythmic lines and upward curves of melodic loveliness that fatten CAR BUTTON CLOTH, it's easy to forget Dando's recent history..." Entertainment Weekly (10/18/96, p.82) - "...prove[s] the Lemonheads can still squeeze deliciously bittersweet pop out of their souls." - Rating: B+
Titles on disc 1
1.
It's All True
2.
If I Could Talk I'd Tell You
3.
Break Me
4.
Hospital
5.
Outdoor Type
6.
Losing Your Mind
7.
Knoxville Girl
8.
6ix
9.
One More Time
10.
C'mon Daddy
11.
Something's Missing
12.
Tenderfoot
13.
Secular Rockulidge
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