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 Great album May 15, 2004
Reza (Lancaster, England)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great album. This is back in the days when Lemonheads were a bit more Husker Du than R.E.M. It's catchy hardcore punk with a fair dose of melody thrown in. The soft songs are good too. Your Home is where your happy has to be my personal favourite here. This is one overlooked 80's album, good stuff
DANDO & DEILY...DYNAMIC DUO February 25, 2004
Thomas A. Corpino (Hartsdale, New York United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
THE best album released that year. Starting with the very first
song, you'll hear ALL their influences, from Black Sabbath, the
Psychedelic Furs, Kiss, the Replacements...hell, Ben Deily's
guitar bridge in the middle of "Come to the Window" will remind
of early Hot Tuna. At this stage (and with this "once in a
lfetime" line-up) the 'Heads were an unstoppable, untouchable
supergroup. After Ben Deily's departure and Evan Dando's descent into the "abyss", they were never the same. Just think
kids-Dando/Deily up there, along side, hmmm...let's say...
Jagger/Richards...Lennon/McCartney...Mould/Hart. Who Knows?
Forget the haphazardness of "Lick" or the rawness of "Hate
Your Friends", on this disc this is one MAJOR force to be
reckoned with.
 The Lemonheads' Strongest Work? September 22, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I completely disagree with the other reviewers. I've always felt that the Lemonheads died when Ben Deily left, and this album showcases some of his strongest songs ("7 Powers" on Lick notwithstanding). Evan Dando has always seemed too contrived, too eager to offend, to be anything more than a novelty. Deily, on the other hand, had the goods: he could write songs as heavy and image-laden as "Burying Ground" (which seems to draw heavily upon Black Sabbath, not to mention W.B. Yeats) as well as nostalgic acoustic numbers like "Postcard," which, to me, ranks right up there with "Unsatisfied." Granted, everyone and their brother will tell you "Hate Your Friends" is a better record, and maybe it is. All I know is Deily's songwriting really progressed (musically at least) from "Friends" to "Creator." While still able to churn out amazingly literate lyrics, Deily successfully moved past the standard three-chord punk songs he sang on "Friends." Witness "Live Without" and "Falling" if you don't believe me. And that, friends, should be enough to warrant a closer look.
*This* is the Lemonheads July 8, 2001
eric b rad (Burlington, VT United States)
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Throughout rock history, there are a lot of examples of frontmen retaining a band's name after all other original members have departed or been dismissed, and this is probably the worst. The Deily/Strohm/Peretz/Dando Lemonheads were an awesome band. Creator is probably the best recorded representation of that lineup, but live they were just an untouchable punk rock force. Dando's insistence on dragging the name through the mud with the dreck that he foisted on the public after 1989 was inexcusable.That being said, you should all pick this up and bow down at the altar of one of rock's best tunesmiths... Ben Deily.
Sometimes the cliches are true January 3, 2007
K. Mccandless (Earls Court, London United Kingdom)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album has been described as early Husker Du meets REM and that's a perfect description of it. If that's the sort of thing you go for (like me), you'll love it. On the other hand, if you don't, I have absolutely no idea how you'll take this.
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