The Lemonheads – Car Button Cloth – Vinyl LP

Deluxe 2xLP clothbound sleeve edition of ‘Car Button Cloth’, featuring Lemonheads classics ‘If I Could Talk I’d Tell You’ and ‘The Outdoor Type’. This reissue includes the original record alongside a whole extra LP of rarities and unreleased cuts, continuing Fire Records in-depth series of reissues from the legendary band.

 ‘Car Button Cloth’ is an extraordinary affair of musical and emotional extremes, a soundscape spanning “the most beautiful piano-led mourning in the history of the broken heart” that switches into perky jangle-pop for fleeting moments and contains the ultimate self-deprecating classic ‘The Outdoor Type’, penned by Smudge cohort Tom Morgan, as well as a cover of the bluegrass standard ‘Knoxville Girl’ and ‘If I Could Talk I’d Tell You’ co-written with The Vaselines’ Eugene Kelly. All bases are covered.

“One of the most distinctive voices of the ‘90s”  The New York Times

To further unravel where Evan’s head was at during the period of its creation, this deluxe double album comes with a record of exquisite and typically eclectic scene setting covers that occupied B-sides and alternative format versions, plus other super rare offcuts, live takes and remixes. A diet of Volcano Suns, Glen Campbell, The Jacobites, The Sir Douglas Quintet and Whitney Houston influenced Evan’s thinking and added further colour to an album that remains something of a Dorian Gray-style masterpiece. The first side of extras is rounded off with the never before released ‘Arise’, originally set for the remake of Great Expectations and later realised as Rancho Santa Fe on solo album ‘Baby I’m Bored’.

Side A
It’s All True
If I Could Talk I’d Tell You
Break Me
Hospital
The Outdoor Type
Losing Your Mind

Side B
Something’s Missing
Knoxville Girl
6ix
C’Mon Daddy
One More Time
Tenderfoot
Secular Rockulidge

Side C
If I Could Talk I’d Tell You
The Outdoor Type
Pin Yr Heart
Balancing Act
Galveston
Arise

Side D
Keep On Loving You
It’s All True
Losing Your Mind
How Will I Know?
I Don’t Want To Go Home
Fade To Black
Live Forever