THE LEMONHEADS Debut Album from 1987. It is the ultimate power pop punk gem from BOSTON. Fans of SEX PISTOLS, SAINTS, DESCENDENTS, ANGRY SAMOANS, HUSKER DU, PAGANS, RAMONES. RSD exclusive limited yellow vinyl deluxe edition in gatefold slevve with bonustracks! The son of a Boston attorney and a fashion model, Evan Dando (vocals, guitar, drums) formed the Lemonheads with his high-school classmates Ben Deily (vocals, guitar, drums) and Jesse Peretz (bass). Initially, the group was called the Whelps, but 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 high-school graduation, Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners was released on the group's own label, Huh-Bag. The EP gained the attention of the Boston-based indie label Taang!, which signed the band later that same year. By the beginning of 1987, Doug Trachten had become the band's full-time drummer, leaving Dando and Deily to share guitar and vocal duties. Hate Your Friends, a speedy hardcore LP that fell halfway between Hüsker Dü and the Replacements, was released in 1987. The Lemonheads' evolution from post-Hüsker Dü hardcore punk rockers to teenage heartthrobs is one of the strangest sagas in alternative music, for anyone living Punk/HC/Garage, HATE YOUR FRIENDS is the definitive Lemonheads album. Tracks 1 to 3 are taken from 'Laughing All The Way To The Cleaners', which was first issued as a 7-inch in 1986 (Amory Arms ½ / Huh-Bag Records 1). Tracks 17 was recorded during the sessions for 'Hate Your Friends', but this outtake was not issued until 1989 on the album 'Lick'. Track 18 was first issued on the 13 Track various artists compilation 'Crawling From Within', which was released by 77 Records in 1987 (001). Tracks 19 & 20 are Whelps songs, which is the name the band had pre-Lemonheads. First issued as bonus tracks on the cassette version of 'Hate Your Friends', which was released by Taang! Records in 1989 (TAANG- 15).
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