Car Button Cloth

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Car Button Cloth
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 15, 1996
Genre
Length43:18
Label Atlantic
Producer Bryce Goggin
The Lemonheads chronology
Come on Feel the Lemonheads
(1993)
Car Button Cloth
(1996)
The Best of The Lemonheads: The Atlantic Years
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [2]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [8]
NME 8/10 [3]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Spin 8/10 [5]
Uncut 8/10 [10]

Car Button Cloth is the seventh studio album by the Lemonheads, and the last under their contract with Atlantic Records. The band, as it were, consisted mostly of Dando himself playing many instruments, including his usual guitars and lead vocals, and Patrick Murphy on drums, along with a series of session musicians and producer Bryce Goggin filling in on other instruments. Following the recording of the album, Bill Gibson, who had played bass on several tracks, joined the band for the supporting tour along with Dando and Murphy.

Contents

Despite receiving lukewarm reviews and not being as commercially successful as the Lemonheads' previous two albums, It's a Shame About Ray and Come On Feel the Lemonheads , Car Button Cloth has gained a minor cult following in recent years. The tracks "It's All True," "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You" (cowritten by Eugene Kelly of the Vaselines), and "The Outdoor Type" were released as singles in the UK. "Purple Parallelogram," a song written by Dando and Oasis's Noel Gallagher, was originally included on promotional copies of Car Button Cloth between "Something's Missing" and "Knoxville Girl," but was reportedly removed at Gallagher's request. [11] The album would be the last studio release from The Lemonheads for a decade, when they released a long-awaited self-titled follow-up, while in the meantime the group's frontman and sole remaining original member, Evan Dando, issued his first official solo album, 2003's Baby I'm Bored (a live album and EP were released in Australia two years earlier).

Track listing

All songs by Evan Dando except where noted.

  1. "It's All True" – 2:15
  2. "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You" (Dando, Eugene Kelly) – 2:50
  3. "Break Me" – 3:34
  4. "Hospital" – 2:54
  5. "The Outdoor Type" (Tom Morgan) – 2:35
  6. "Losing Your Mind" – 5:36
  7. "Something's Missing" – 2:47
  8. "Knoxville Girl" (Traditional; arranged by Dando) – 3:53
  9. "6ix" – 2:39
  10. "C'mon Daddy" (Dando, Epic Soundtracks) – 3:32
  11. "One More Time" – 2:39
  12. "Tenderfoot" (Morgan, Adam Young) – 2:01
  13. "Secular Rockulidge" – 5:33

Personnel


Charts

Chart performance for Car Button Cloth
Chart (1996)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [12] 36
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [13] 54
UK Albums (OCC) [14] 28
US Billboard 200 [15] 130

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