Fire Records
Lemonheads - Creator
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Note
Sleeve
says
contains
a
bonus
CD,
these
represses
do
not
have
a
bonus
CD,
they
have
a
download
card.
Creator
is
the
second
album
by
legendary
Boston
band
The
Lemonheads.
Still
featuring
the
full
original
line-up
of
Evan
Dando,
Ben
Deily,
and
Jesse
Peretz,
the
album
also
includes
John
P.
Strohm
(of
the
Blake
Babies,
Antenna,
and
Velo-Deluxe)
on
drums.
From
the
oddly
surreal
album
cover
image
(a
snapshot
of
friend
and
high
school
classmate
Ivan
Kreilkamp,
originator
of
the
name
“Lemonheads,”
clutching
a
box
of
Cheerios)
to
the
themes
of
death,
dreams,
obsession,
and
mayhem
that
haunt
the
material,
Creator
is
weird,
ambitious,
and
markedly
moodier
than
its
predecessor—without
having
lost
the
band’s
irreverent
sense
of
humour.
Also
evident
in
this
sophomore
effort
is
a
newfound
attention
to
idiosyncratic
detail—from
the
precisely
timed
inter-song
pauses
and
sound
clips,
to
the
carefully-crafted
song
order
of
the
album’s
original
13
tracks.
Creator
finds
Ben
Deily
once
again
slipping
in
quotations
from
Emily
Dickinson
(“Burying
Ground”)
and
references
to
Matthew
Arnold
(“Come
to
the
Window”),
while
Dando
breaks
new
ground
in
song
writing
complexity
(the
rich
sonic
tapestry
of
“Out”)
as
well
as
arrangement,
ushering
in
the
band’s
first-ever
acoustic
recording
5
(his
cover
of
Charles
Manson’s
“Your
Home
Is
Where
You’re
Happy”).
At
the
same
time,
the
band
still
fires
off
blistering
punk
rock
(“Clang
Bang
Clang,”
“Die
Right
Now,”
“Take
Her
Down”)
and
finds
time
to
lovingly
trash
Kiss’
1977
classic
“Plaster
Caster.”
Recorded
in
one
coherent
series
of
sessions—unlike
its
predecessor,
Hate
Your
Friends,
and
its
follow-up
Lick—Creator
is,
for
all
its
musical
schizophrenia,
arguably
the
most
coherent
of
the
Lemonheads’
TAANG-era
recordings.
BONUS
TRACKS:
This
Fire
Records
re-issue
features
bonus
tracks
including
never-before-released
live
tracks
from
a
1988
radio
session
(featuring
a
never-before-heard
configuration
of
the
band,
including
guitarist
Ben
Deily
on
bass
and
vocals);
also
includes
an
original
song
(“Cease
to
Exist”)
never
released
on
any
album,
and
a
performance
by
Juliana
Hatfield.
Tracks
:
1.
Burying
Ground
2.
Sunday
3.
Clang
Bang
Clang
4.
Out
5.
Your
Home
Is
Where
You're
Happy
6.
Falling
7.
Die
Right
Now
8.
Two
Weeks
In
Another
Town
9.
Plaster
Caster
10.
Come
To
The
Window
11.
Take
Her
Down
12.
Postcard
13.
Live
Without.
Plus
additional
download
tracks:
14.
Sunday
(1987,
Live
on
WERS)
15.
Cease
To
Exist
(1988,
Live
on
WERS)
16.
Burying
Ground
(1988,
Live
on
WERS)
17.
If
Only
You
Were
Dead
(Early
Mallo
Cup)
(1988,
Live
On
WERS)
18.
Out
(1988,
Live
on
WERS)
19.
N.I.B.
(1988,
Live
on
WERS)
20.
Clang
Bang
Clang
(1988,
Live
on
WERS)
21.
Take
Her
Down
(1988,
Live
on
WERS)
22.
Falling
(1988,
Live
on
WERS)
23.
Instrumental
(1988,
Live
on
WERS)
24.
From
Here
to
Burma
(With
Juliana
Hatfield)
(1988,
Live
on
WERS)
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