Hate Your Friends

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Hate Your Friends
Hate Your Friends cover
Studio album by The Lemonheads
Released 1987 (original LP)
1992 (extended CD reissue, with several bonus tracks)
Genre Alternative, Pop Rock
Label Taang! Records
Producer Tom Hamilton
Professional reviews
The Lemonheads chronology
Debut
 Hate Your Friends
(1987)		 Creator
(1988)

Hate Your Friends is the debut album of the indie rock band The Lemonheads. The original 1987 LP release is a rare find, most availible copies are of the 1992 reissue, featuring tracks from the original LP, along with bonus tracks from small-run singles and EPs. It is one of only three albums to feature the full original lineup of Evan Dando, Ben Deily, and Jesse Peretz. Under the original arrangements, as evidenced by the first three tracks of the album, as well tracks 11–20, Peretz played bass guitar while Deily and Dando, the two principal songwriters, switched duties as lead vocalist/lead guitarist and drummer. On tracks 4–10, drums are played by Doug Trachten while Deily and Dando share lead vocal and lead guitar duties.

[edit] Track listing

Songs written by band member indicated.

  1. Glad I Don't Know (Dando)
  2. I Like To (Dando)
  3. Rabbit (cover of a Proud Scum song)
  4. Don't Wanna (Dando)
  5. 3-9-4 (Deily)
  6. Nothing True (Dando)
  7. Second Chance (Deily)
  8. Sneakyville (Dando)
  9. Amazing Grace (Trad., arr by Dando, Deily, Peretz)
  10. Belt (Dando)
  11. Hate Your Friends (Dando)
  12. Don't Tell Yourself (Dando)
  13. Uhhh (Deily)
  14. Fed Up (Dando)
  15. Rat Velvet (Dando, Peretz, Deily)
  16. So I Fucked Up (Deily)
  17. Ever (Deily)
  18. Sad Girl (Deily)
  19. Buried Alive (Deily)
  20. Gotta Stop (Dando)

[edit] Personnel

  • 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 songs each wrote. In addition, Dando sings lead on the Proud Scum cover "Rabbit" and Deily sings lead on "Amazing Grace."

[edit] References

  • Conway, Chris (1992), “Liner Notes to 1992 CD release”, Hate Your Friends (CD), Cambridge, MA: TAANG! Records 
  • Hate Your Friends. Allmusic.com (2008). Retrieved on 2008-04-22.
v • d • e
The Lemonheads
Evan Dando • Karl Alvarez • Vess Ruhtenberg • Bill Stevenson • Devon Ashley
Former members
Ben Deily • Corely Loog Brennan • John Strohm • Doug Trachten • Jesse Peretz • Juliana Hatfield • Nic Dalton • Dave Ryan • Patrick Murphy
Studio albums
Hate Your Friends (1987) • Creator (1988) • Lick (1989) • Lovey (1990) • It's a Shame about Ray (1992) • Come on Feel the Lemonheads (1993) • Car Button Cloth (1996) • The Lemonheads (2006)
EPs and other releases
Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners (1986) • Create Your Friends (1989) • Favourite Spanish Dishes (1990) • Patience and Prudence (1991) • The Best of the Lemonheads: The Atlantic Years (1998)
Singles
"Luka" • "Different Drum" • "Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now" • "It's a Shame about Ray" • "Mrs. Robinson" • "Confetti" • "Into Your Arms" • "It's About Time" • "Big Gay Heart" • "The Great Big No" • "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You" • "It's All True" • "The Outdoor Type" • "Balancing Act" • "Become the Enemy"