30 Songs in 30 days: Day 2- The Lemonheads - Half the Time

1990: The calm before the storm as it were. It was when I first started REALLY coming into myself so to speak. I was about a year or so into my discovery of college radio, which was in an interesting place as the burgeoning indie rock/alternative scene was building up for it's big boom. I went to bed every night listening. This was where I first started winning tickets to shows for bands like the Cranes, TMBG, Pavement, the first two Lollapaloozas, Morphine, ect. ect. good stuff. It was also around the time when I discovered how to get to the East Village, NYC on my own and found a vast plethora of wonderful record shops that had all the music I had been looking for and a whole lot I had yet to discover.


Anyway, enough exposition, to the point! And away!

One night while listening to one of my favorite DJs (whose voice I'd had a big crush on), she premiered a new song by a band from the burgeoning Cambridge, Mass. scene, the Lemonheads. The song was called "Half the Time" (duh, it's right here), and I loved it immediately. That weekend, I took my measely allowance and head into the city to buy the album (tape), but they didn't have it yet, said it was on order (it took me another month to get it). Instead I bought what they did have by the band, their previous album, "Lick" and the initial more punk entry, "Hate Your Friends" both just blew me away, I fell in love with the band and they have always travelled with me on tape, CD or MP3 since. So...enjoy!

Half The Time (Video Version) Video The Lemonheads Contactmusic.com