''Lick'' is the third

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and the last to feature founding member Ben Deily. It was released in 1989 and was the group's last album before signing to major label

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. A typo on the album itself erroneously states its release date as 1988. As with their first two albums, it was re-released as a CD in 1992, with two bonus tracks.

Album information

As would become something of a trademark, the Lemonheads' lineup featured some significant differences on ''Lick'' from both previous and later albums. Although the band had officially broken up after recording their second album, '' Creator'', in 1988, they were offered a chance to play a European tour, so in early '89 the band reformed with

Evan Dando Evan Griffith Dando (born March 4, 1967) is an American musician and frontman of the Lemonheads. He has also embarked on a solo career and collaborated on songs with various artists. In December 2015 Dando was inducted into the Boston Music Awards ...

on drums, Corey Loog Brennan and Ben Deily on guitars, and

Jesse Peretz Jesse Peretz (born May 19, 1968) is an American film and television director, TV producer and former musician. He first rose to prominence as a bass guitarist and founding member of The Lemonheads, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based band which for ...

on bass. Deily and Dando, the Lemonheads' two singers, were still not getting along, and their personality clashes and technical difficulties in the studio meant that only five new original songs were recorded. To fill out ''Lick'', several earlier unreleased tracks, B-sides, and covers were added to the album. After completion, Deily left the band permanently, replaced on their subsequent European tour by Dando and Brennan on guitars and Mark Natola on drums. Peretz, one of the original Lemonheads along with Dando and Deily, stayed on to record their next album, '' Lovey'', but left after the supporting tour in '91. Ever since, Dando has been the Lemonheads' sole permanent member amid frequent lineup changes.

Reception

*'' Q'' (2/96, p. 109) – "...the seeds of their future and mainstream successes were firmly sown...and about to emerge..." *

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(12/16/95, p. 32) – Recommended – "...the rapidly budding Dando lexesa burgeoning ongwritingtalent....the real killer here is "Luka", a wired rewrite of

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's ghastly, mawkish hit; hows atalent for melancholy recontextualisation of the oddest source material..."

Track listing

All songs by

unless otherwise stated. # "Mallo Cup" – 2:12 # "Glad I Don't Know" – 1:21 # "7 Powers"* ( Ben Deily) – 2:32 # "A Circle of One" – 2:49 # "Cazzo di Ferro" ( Corey Loog Brennan, Dando) – 3:45 # "Anyway" (Deily) – 3:10 # "

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cover) – 3:09 # "Come Back D.A." – 1:54 # "I Am a Rabbit" (

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cover) – 1:46 # "Sad Girl" – 1:48 # "Ever" (Deily) – 2:48 # "Strange" (

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cover) – 2:57 # "Mad" – 1:41 Note: Only tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, and 8 were written and recorded specifically for ''Lick''. Tracks 2 and 9 are new recordings of songs from the Lemonheads' 1986 EP, ''Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners'', while 10 and 11 were recorded for ''

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'' and 7 was originally intended for ''Creator''. Tracks 12 and 13, the "Luka" single's B-sides, are bonus tracks added for the album's 1992 CD reissue ("Mad" also happens to be the first song the Lemonheads ever recorded, an outtake from ''Laughing All the Way'').

Personnel

;The Lemonheads *Evan Dando – drums, lead vocals, guitar on tracks 3, 6, 7, 10 *Ben Deily – guitar, piano, lead vocals on tracks 3, 6, 11 *Corey Loog Brennan – lead guitar *Jesse Peretz – bass guitar * John Strohm – drums on track 7 *Doug Trachten – drums on track 10

References

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