Creator (Lemonheads album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Creator
Type = Album
Artist = The Lemonheads


Released = 1988 (original LP) 1992 (extended CD reissue, with three live bonus tracks)
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative, Pop rock
Length =
Label = Taang! Records
Producer = Tom Hamilton
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:w9fqxql5ldae link]
Last album = "Hate Your Friends" (1987)
This album = "Creator" (1988)
Next album = "Lick" (1989)

"Creator" is the second album of the indie rock band The Lemonheads. It was issued twice, as an LP in 1988, and as a CD in 1992, which included three bonus live tracks, recorded at the radio station VPRO in The Netherlands. It is one of only three albums to feature the full original lineup of Evan Dando, Ben Deily, and Jesse Peretz. When the band first formed, Deily and Dando would swap instruments, playing guitar and singing on tracks each wrote himself, and drums for songs the other wrote. Session drummer Doug Trachten was brought in for their first album, "Hate Your Friends". On "Creator", John Strohm of the band Blake Babies plays drums on all of the original tracks, while Mark Natola playes drums for the two live bonus songs at the end of the CD reissue. Also, by the time the live tracks were recorded, Deily had left the band to pursue a career in advertising, and the lead guitar on those tracks is played by his replacement in the Lemonheads, Corey Loog Brennan.

Track listing

All songs written by Ben Deily, except where indicated.
#Burying Ground
#Sunday
#Clang Bang Clang (Dando)
#Out (Dando)
#Your Home is Where You're Happy (N. N. Maddox)
#Falling
#Die Right Now (Dando)
#Two Weeks in Another Town
#Plaster Caster (Gene Simmons)
#Come to The Window
#Take Her Down
#Postcard
#Live Without
#Luka (Suzanne Vega)*
#Interview with the Lemonheads*
#Mallo Cup (Dando)*Note: Tracks marked with a * are live bonus tracks, recorded in 1989 at VPRO in The Netherlands and issued on the 1992 CD release.

Personnel

*Evan Dando (guitar, vocals)
*Ben Deily (guitar, vocals)
*Jesse Peretz (bass)
*John Strohm (drums)
*Corey Loog Brennan (lead guitar on 14 & 16)
*Mark Natola (drums on 14 & 16)

Note: Generally, Dando and Deily would sing lead vocals on songs each wrote. In addition, Dando sings lead on three cover songs on the album: the Kiss song "Plaster Caster", "Your Home is Where Your Happy", originally released on the 1970 Charles Manson album "", and the Suzanne Vega song "Luka".

References

*citation | contribution = Liner Notes to 1992 CD release | title = Creator (CD) | publisher = TAANG! Records | place = Cambridge, MA |date=1992
*cite web | title = Creator | publisher = Allmusic.com | url = http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:w9fqxql5ldae | date = 2008 | accessdate = 2008-04-22