Lemonheads

   
Artist: Lemonheads

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 The Best of the Lemonheads

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 19


   
 the Secret Life Of Evan Dando

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 20

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The Lemonheads' phylogeny from post-Hüsker Dü hard-core strong-armer bikers to teenage heartthrobs is one of the strangest sagas in alternative medicine. Initially, the radical was a punk-pop tierce formed by leash teenaged Boston suburbanites, just over the years, the band became a vehicle for Evan Dando. Blessed with safe looks and a warm, sweet voice, Dando became a teenager matinee idol in the former '90s, when Nirvana's success made alternative bands commercially feasible. While his round-eyed, catchy songs were now accessible, they tended to conceal the more than subverter nature of his lyrics, as well as his giving for upbeat covers and his devotion to country-rock father Gram Parsons. After development his signature blending of pop, punk, and country-rock on several independent records in the late '80s, Dando stirred the Lemonheads to Atlantic Records in 1990. Two age later, It's a Shame About Ray made the chemical group into media sensations, as Dando's face appeared on music and teen magazines across America and Britain. Though the Lemonheads were self-contained to suit superstars, the band never rather set up the right find single, and their popularity peaked in the early '90s. Around the same time, Dando descended into knockout do drugs maltreat that he curbed by the 1996 acquittance of Railroad car Button Cloth. However, he had lost his chance at stardom -- though the radical maintained their cultus, very much of their audience had already slipped aside.


The boy of a Boston lawyer and a fashion modelling, Evan Dando (vocals, guitar, drums) formed the Lemonheads with his high classmates Ben Deily (vocals, guitar, drums) and Jesse Peretz (bass voice). Initially, the radical was called the Whelps, just by the time the band made their debut EP, Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners, they had changed their name to the Lemonheads. Recorded the day after their senior high school graduation, Riant All the Way to the Cleaners was released on the group's have label, Huh-Bag. The EP gained the aid of the Boston-based indie label Taang!, which signed the band later that like twelvemonth. By the beginning of 1987, Doug Trachten had become the band's full-time drummer, going away Dando and Deily to part guitar and vocal duties. Hate Your Friends, a quick hardcore LP that fell halfway betwixt Hüsker Dü and the Replacements, was released in 1987. Trachten left after the record's outlet, and the band made 1988's Lord with Blake Babies drummer John Strohm.


Released in 1989, Lick expanded the Lemonheads' cult, thanks to a loud office belt down cover of Suzanne Vega's "Luka." Following the release of Lick, Deily snag and eventually formed the Pods and then Varsity Drag. Dando shortly played with the Blake Babies in front forming a unexampled version of the Lemonheads with drummer David Ryan. The Lemonheads signed with Atlantic Records in 1990, cathartic Lovey, their most effected, melodious, and eclecticist record book to particular date, later on that year. Dando's interest in the band began to cheat on the following twelvemonth, as he recorded the solo EP Darling Spanish Dishes. In 1992, he recorded It's a Shame About Ray, which featured Blake Baby Juliana Hatfield on bass voice and harmoniousness vocals.


It's a Shame About Ray would prove to be the Lemonheads' breakthrough album, merely it didn't become a rack up until a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" was added to the album various months later its initial firing. By the goal of 1992, the record had gained impulse, and Dando was beingness touted as the next alternative asterisk. By the fall release of 1993's Come on Feel the Lemonheads, Dando had go a minor fame, coming into court in gossiper columns frequently and suspension out with buster Gen-X icons, including actors like Johnny Depp and musicians like Hole's Courtney Love. His celebrity was large sufficiency to glint the conception of an anti-Dando fanzine, I Hate Evan Dando. Recorded with the band's new bassist Nic Dalton, Come on Feel was hyped as the album that would constitute the striation superstars, but Dando's antics standard more press out than the record received airplay, tied though "Into Your Arms" near scraped the pop charts. During the press junket to promote the album, he confessed to enceinte habit of hard drugs, including an escapade where he smoke-dried enough crack to ruin his voice for various weeks. His addiction deepened throughout 1994, and he was oftentimes seen in a drug-induced haze on Oasis' fall hitch of Britain. Early in 1995, he launched a solo hitch of the U.S. with Epic Soundtracks, after which he played the Glastonbury Festival, where he was booed for appearing several hours late.


Dando sobered up during the left over months of 1995, though he hadn't completely stopped drinking by the metre he recorded Gondola Button Cloth with a new lineup of the Lemonheads featuring former Dinosaur Jr. drummer Murph, guitarist John Strohm, and bassist Bill Gibson. The album was greeted with mixed reviews upon its light 1996 acquittance and failed to bring forth a hit single; furthermore, Dando launched no all-out hitch to living the album. Late the following year, the Lemonheads and Atlantic Records parted shipway; Atlantic retained the rights for a greatest-hits album, which was released in mid-1998.





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