Before Evan Dando turned the band into a hippy pop band the #lemonheads were an awesome punk band. Their debut "hate your friends" got me through a long ass bus ride to Johnson City, TN in the summer of 1990. I have taken bus trips a few times in my life and I really always hate that mode of transportation. It's not that I hate driving places, it's that I hate not being able to stop whenever you feel the urge. The long winding road loses all it's romance if you're stuck in an uncomfortable seat with no options to exit. What makes road trips fun is the prospect of adventure, on a bus you're relegated to passive observer. The whole trip might as well be a t.v. show you're watching through plate glass. That trip was with a volital girlfriend to visit her sister at college. This album I had on cassette (the cd wasn't released until 1992 which I had bought immediately) is filled with short blasts of romantic punk ("ever") and well, more short blasts if romantic punk ("uhhh"). It filled the gaps between our fights and was a great soundtrack for the trip. Years later I was invited with a friend to fly out to San Diego to visit his sister and see the Big Four concert. While you can't jump out of a plane to chase adventure the sheer shortness of the trip is a good tradeoff. On that trip we found the Taang! Records shop and I bought all the pre-crappy Lemonheads releases, but this one remains my favorite.
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