''Hate Your Friends'' is the debut

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of the American

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band

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. Produced and released on

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label Taang Records and licensed for simultaneous release to several other labels worldwide, the album showcases the band's early sound and

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roots. ''Hate Your Friends'' is also one of only three albums to feature the Lemonheads' original lineup with

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, Ben Deily and

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Recording and release

The album's track listing has varied from format-to-format and is culled from a few different recording sessions. The seven songs on side one of the 1987 LP show the band as a four-piece outfit, with Doug Trachten playing drums freeing up Dando and Deily to both man their guitars and switch off on lead vocals while Peretz played bass. The six songs on side two were recorded before Trachten joined the band back when Dando and Deily traded duties on guitar and drums. The cassette version contained seven bonus tracks: the three tacked onto the start of side one were taken from the band's previous EP, ''Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners'' and the four added to the end of side two were previously unreleased and were also pre-Trachten. With the 1988 release of the Lemonheads' second album, '' Creator'', Taang launched the group's debut CD as ''Create Your Friends'' containing the 13 tracks from the LP version of ''Hate Your Friends'' and the 13 tracks from the original ''Creator'' LP.. When Taang reissued both albums in 1992 as individual discs, the CD version of ''Hate Your Friends'' followed the 20-track sequence of the cassette.

Cover songs

On the album's vinyl version of the album, Ben Deily sings the American

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", which goes uncredited on the album as "traditional," although it is widely known to have been written by

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."Amazing Grace How Sweet the Sound"
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Track listing

Songs written by band member indicated.

Vinyl LP

;Side one #"Don't Wanna" (Dando) #"3-9-4" (Deily) #"Nothing True" (Dando) #"Second Chance" (Deily) #"Sneakyville" (Dando) #"

" (Traditional; arranged by Dando, Deily and Peretz) #"Belt" (Dando) ;Side two #"Hate Your Friends" (Dando) #"Don't Tell Yourself" (Dando) #"Uhhh" (Deily) #"Fed Up" (Dando) #"Rat Velvet" (Dando, Peretz, Deily) #"So I Fucked Up..." (Deily) These 13 tracks appeared in this order as the first half of the band's ''Create Your Friends'' CD in 1988.

Cassette

;Side A #"Glad I Don't Know" (Dando) #"I Like to" (Dando) #"Rabbit" (

cover) #"Don't Wanna" (Dando) #"3-9-4" (Deily) #"Nothing True" (Dando) #"Second Chance" (Deily) #"Sneakyville" (Dando) #"

" (Traditional; arranged by Dando, Deily and Peretz) #"Belt" (Dando) ;Side B #"Hate Your Friends" (Dando) #"Don't Tell Yourself" (Dando) #"Uhhh" (Deily) #"Fed Up" (Dando) #"Rat Velvet" (Dando, Peretz, Deily) #"So I Fucked Up..." (Deily) #"Ever" (Deily) #"Sad Girl" (Dando) #"Buried Alive" (Deily) #"Gotta Stop" (Dando) Tracks A1–3 and B6 taken from ''Laughing All The Way To The Cleaners'' 1986 EP. B8 appeared on the compilation LP ''Crawling From Within''. These 20 tracks appeared in this order as the 1992 CD version of the album.

Personnel

;The Lemonheads *Evan Dando - guitar, vocals, drums on tracks 13 and 16 *Ben Deily - guitar, vocals, drums on tracks 1–3, 11, 12, 14, 15, and 17–20 *Jesse Peretz - bass *Doug Trachten - drums on tracks 4–10 note: generally, Dando and Deily would sing lead vocals on the songs they wrote. In addition, Dando sings lead on the Proud Scum cover "Rabbit" and Deily sings lead on "Amazing Grace."

References

{{Authority control The Lemonheads albums 1987 debut albums Au Go Go Records albums Fire Records (UK) albums