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| We Buy a Hammer for Daddy | ||||
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| Released | 1980 | |||
| Genre | Experimental rock | |||
| Length | 35:08 | |||
| Label | United Dairies | |||
| Producer | Lemon Kittens | |||
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We Buy a Hammer for Daddy is the debut studio album by English experimental rock band Lemon Kittens. It was released in 1980, through record label United Diaries.
The phrase "We buy a hammer for Daddy" originates from the caption to an illustration in the 1958 Ladybird book Shopping with Mother. [1]
All tracks composed by the Lemon Kittens
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Pain Topics" | 4:24 |
| 2. | "Reversal 2" | 2:34 |
| 3. | "These Men of Old England" | 2:25 |
| 4. | "Wrist Job / Once Green and Pleasant Land" | 2:45 |
| 5. | "Lycanthrothene" | 3:06 |
| 6. | "Motet" | 3:10 |
| 7. | "Throat Violence" | 2:28 |
| 8. | "False Alarm (Malicious)" | 1:58 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "P.V.S" | 1:55 |
| 2. | "Small Mercies" | 2:03 |
| 3. | "Coasters" | 3:48 |
| 4. | "Up in Arms" | 2:34 |
| 5. | "The American Cousin" | 1:50 |
| 6. | "Evidence" | 2:25 |
| 7. | "Rome Burning" | 1:31 |
| 8. | "(Afraid of Being) Bled by Leeches" | 2:14 |
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
AllMusic's review was highly favourable, writing, "The tracks [...] are all highly original and have little precedent either in or beyond the annals of British pop/rock [...] We Buy a Hammer for Daddy belongs with Alternative TV's Vibing Up the Senile Man and the first This Heat LP as one of the milestones of experimental rock music." [3]
Lemon Kittens
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