By 1989 the
Lemonheads were still trying to find their sound. Their third album, Lick, features mostly
heavy rock. Opener Mallo Cup is a
propulsive rocker with a spindly riff, but was probably Evan Dando’s most
accomplished song to date. Almost as
strong is the countrified strum A Circle of One which has quite an unusual
melody and sees Dando in fine voice.
More typical
are Dando’s brief speed rockers Glad I Don’t Know, Come Back D.A. and Ben
Deily’s 7 Powers and Anyway which add little to the album really. The Italo-metal Cazzo Di Ferro is pretty
appalling really.
The most well
known track on the album sees them take Suzanne Vega’s Luka and rock it up with
heavy riffs, and a ‘loose’ treatment of the lyrics, and it works really well. But the rest of the album is too hit and miss to have any lasting impact.
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