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The Lemonheads

Lemonheads in Dreamland (RSD 25)

Record Store Day 2025 - White LP - £23.99
Unreleased and long lost ‘Car Button Cloth’-era radio sessions and out-takes collection, featuring Evan Dando at the peak of his powers.
The Lemonheads

Car Button Cloth (Deluxe Expanded ‘Clothbound’ Edition)

limited indies only deluxe red 2LP (with rare bonus tracks) in limited cloth-bound gatefold sleeve + download - £44.99 | Buy
A deluxe 2xLP clothbound sleeve edition of ‘Car Button Cloth’, featuring Lemonheads classics, ‘If I Could Talk I’d Tell You’ and &...
The Lemonheads

Come on Feel (30th Anniversary Edition)

black 2lp in gatefold sleeve + download - £28.99 | Buy
2cd - £13.99 | Buy
"For Evan Dando, deeply dippy, crack smokin', high priest of slackerdom, has actually managed to create the perfect pop album" 9/10 - NME, 1993.
It’s A Shame About Ray (30th Anniversary Edition)

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It's A Shame About Ray

1. Rockin' Stroll

2. Confetti

3. It's A Shame About Ray

4. Rudderless

5. My Drug Buddy

6. The Turnpike Down

7. Bit Part

8. Alison's Starting To Happen

9. Hannah & Gabi

10. Kitchen

11. Ceiling Fan In My Spoon

12. Frank Mills

 

Essential Extras

1. Mrs Robinson

2. Shakey Ground

3. My Drug Buddy (KCRW Session, 1992)

4. Knowing Me, Knowing You (Acoustic)

5. Confetti (Acoustic)

6. Alison's Starting To Happen (Acoustic)

7. Divan

 

Demo Recordings

1. It's A Shame About Ray (Demo)

2. Rockin' Stroll (Demo)

3. My Drug Buddy (Demo)

4. Hannah & Gabi (Demo)

5. Kitchen (Demo)

6. Bit Part (Demo)

7. Rudderless (Demo)

8. Ceiling Fan In My Spoon (Demo)

9. Confetti (Demo)

The Lemonheads

It’s A Shame About Ray (30th Anniversary Edition)

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  • black LP + download with bonus tracks

    Released: 4th Apr 2025

    £22.99
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  • deluxe bookback 2cd

    Released: 4th Mar 2022

    £19.99
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  • 2cd

    Released: 4th Mar 2022

    £13.99
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this long overdue reissue includes a heck-load of extra material.

This expanded reissue includes an unreleased ‘My Drug Buddy’ KCRW session track from 1992 featuring Juliana Hatfield, B-sides from singles ‘It’s A Shame About Ray’ and ‘Confetti’, a track from the ‘Mrs. Robinson/Being Round’ EP, alongside demos that will be released for the first time on vinyl. This reissue celebrates their prestigious fifth album, these deluxe bookback editions feature new liner notes and unseen photos. Described by music journalist and author Everett True as “A 30-minute insight into what it’s like to live hard and fast and loose and happy with like-minded buddies, fuelled by a shared love for similar bands and drugs and booze and freedom.”.

‘It's A Shame About Ray’ had a considerable impact back in those heady, carefree days of '92, the record perfectly captures Dando’s ability to effortlessly encapsulate teenage longing and lust over the course of a two-minute pop song. Singles such as 'My Drug Buddy' and the breezy perfect pop of the title track might stand out (plus the add-on of 'Mrs. Robinson' which later copies included), but the album's real strength lies in the tracks in-between; the truly fantastic 'Confetti' (written about Evan's parents' divorce), and the eye-wateringly casual acoustic cover of 'Frank Mills' (from the "hippie" musical Hair), a version that seems to resonate with every ounce of pathos and emotion felt for the lost 1960s generation. To hear Evan Dando sing lines like 'I love him/but it embarrasses me/To walk down the street with him/He lives in Brooklyn somewhere/And he wears his white crash helmet' is to truly appreciate how wonderful and tantalising pop music can be. Then, there's the rush of insurgency and brattishness on the wonderfully truncated 'Bit Part'; the topsy-turvy 'Ceiling Fan In My Spoon'... this was male teenage skinny-tie pop music on a level of brilliance with The Kinks, early Undertones, Wipers.