''Lemonade and Brownies'' is the debut studio album by the American

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. It was produced by the band's director friend Joseph McGinty "McG" Nichol and executive produced by

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is featured on the cover. Even though the album did not chart and was a commercial and critical failure for Atlantic Records, the band stayed on the label, going on to huge success. The music video for "Mean Machine" was featured in a '' Beavis and Butt-Head'' episode "Bang the Drum Slowly Dumbass".

Musical style

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describe the album as being "sub-

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shuck-and-jive." The ''Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll'' (2001) states that Sugar Ray was initially influenced by "a variety of sounds: Red Hot Chili Peppers-style

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, hip hop, and a little bit of retro new wave." In her 2000 Sugar Ray biography book, author Anna Louise Golden states that people at the time considered the band's sound to be "putting the funk into music that was perilously close to metal."

Reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of

wrote that the album is "a competent set of alternative funk/metal", but noted that "nothing on ''Lemonade & Brownies'' is particularly distinctive." In 1995, the ''

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'' labelled it "juvenile", and added that "with the album’s cheesecake artwork and infantile, toilet-humor title, it’s clear Sugar Ray is factoring its appeal down to lowest denominators with this debut CD." They further wrote, "what’s most galling about ''Lemonade and Brownies'' is how cannily it is put together to seduce young headbangers and hip-hoppers. The album’s chugging metal riffs and shout-along refrains, its rapped sloganeering, its poppy hooks, and its ear-teasing production touches (deejay Lethal of

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gets production credit, along with Sugar Ray’s O.C. homeboy, McG Nichol) give it the dumb-fun appeal that’s the essence of frat rock."

Track listing

All songs written by McGrath, Sheppard, Karges, Frazier & McG #"Snug Harbor" – 0:50 #"Rhyme Stealer" – 2:51 #"Iron Mic" – 4:40 #"Hold Your Eyes" – 3:29 #"The Greatest" – 3:58 #"Big Black Woman" – 1:43 #"Mean Machine" – 2:41 #"Dance Party USA" – 3:18 #"10 Seconds Down" – 3:39 #"Danzig Needs a Hug" – 3:07 #"Drive By" – 1:58 (

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skit) #"Caboose" – 3:13 #"Scuzzboots" – 3:29 #"Streaker" – 4:12 #"One Brave Cowboy" – 1:37 (Hidden bonus track plays after 2 minutes of silence) ;Japan bonus tracks #

" White Minority" ( Black Flag cover) – 1:03 #"Wasted" – 0:49 #"Wango Tango" (Ted Nugent cover) – 3:56 #"Dr. J" (Live) – 3:11

Personnel

Sugar Ray

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- lead vocals (credited as ''"Liar"'') *

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- guitars, backing vocals (credited as ''"Traitor"'') * Murphy Karges - bass, backing vocals (credited as ''"Sellout"'') * Stan Frazier - drums, backing vocals (credited as ''"Cheat"'')

Additional musicians

- turntables, samples *

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- additional scratches * Janine Harris - additional vocals on "Danzig Needs a Hug"

Production

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- producer * DJ Lethal - executive producer * Jason Roberts - mixing * Ben Wallach - engineer * Tom Baker - mastering * Barry "Lord" Conley, Steve Gallagher, Mon Agranat, Eric Fischer & John Ewing Jr. - additional engineers * Chip Quigley & Lee Heiman - management * Dante Ariola & Jay Papke - art direction and design * Stephen Stickler & Dante Ariola - cover photography * Melanie Nissen - additional photography

References

1995 debut albums Sugar Ray albums Atlantic Records albums Funk metal albums Nu metal albums by American artists Rap metal albums {{1990s-metal-album-stub