The Lemonheads - Come On Feel the Lemonheads

The album that took American alt rock global and turned Evan Dando into an unlikely, reluctant heartthrob for a generation. Originally released in 1993, Come On Feel The Lemonheads is the record that broke the band wide open, delivering a string of singles so effortlessly good they made the whole thing look easy. "Into Your Arms," "Big Gay Heart," "It's About Time," and "The Great Big NO" filled radio waves and indie record stores in equal measure, fabulous sunny power pop and gorgeous ballads that The Guardian accurately described as some of Dando's best and sharpest writing.

Thirty years on the album sounds as fresh and perky as it ever did, a testament to songwriting that was never chasing a moment but simply being itself with total conviction. Dando's gift for melody, his easy California looseness, and the warmth he brings to even the most offhand moments on the record are qualities that have only become more apparent with age and distance. As NME put it, Come On Feel The Lemonheads is a chance to dip into Evan's jumbled-up, love-buggy of a life and celebrate it. That is exactly what it remains.

One of the defining alt rock albums of the 1990s, on vinyl and sounding as good as it ever did.