Come on feel The Lemonheads...

Evan Dando, Ben Deily and Jesse Peretz formed the Lemonheads as teenagers at the Commonwealth School in Boston around 1986. The and was originally called the Whelps until inspiration came from a brand of candy, which Dando noted was "sweet on the inside and sour on the outside," possibly a metaphor for the band's sound. The band recorded and self-relesaed the 7" EP "Laughing all the way to the Cleaners".

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After high school, Dando enrolled at Skidmore College but couldn't maintain his grades and dropped out to pursue a musical career. Having signed to local label Taang! Records, the Lemonheads released the albums "Hate your friends" (1987), "Creator "(1988), and "Lick" (1989) with Deily and Dando sharing lead vocals and songwriting duties. The band enjoyed a good deal of college radio airplay and were popular in the burgeoning indie rock scene, up until Deily left the band in 1989. Dando then recruited David Ryan on drums, signed to major label Atlantic Records, and produced the album "Lovey" in 1990. Straddling punk rock, country music and heavy metal, Lovey album was released a year before the commercial explosion of grunge and did not sell well by mainstream standards—roughly 30,000 copies. ...

Evan Dando cut his losses and flew to Australia to write some songs with friends Nic Dalton and Tom Morgan.

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The Lemonheads' popularity grew in 1992 with the album "it's a Shame about Ray", followed by a cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson", which eventually became one of the band's most successful singles. The band officially renamed themselves from "Lemonheads" to "The Lemonheads" prior to the release of the "Come on Feel the Lemonheads" LP. A huge breakthrough single still eluded the band as they released "Come on Feel the Lemonheads" in late 1993. This was a successful album but paved the way for future madness with tracks like "it's about time" and "The Great big no" The band enjoyed modest mainstream success.

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Evan Dando famously befriended Oasis and appeared at the band's live shows. The cracks were beginning to show, and after one particularly disjointed interview where Dando (not being able to speak, having lost his voice after smoking crack cocaine) admitted to having a drugs problem. he was no longer viewed as the "Slacker Sex Kitten" of the previous year... and in 1996, Dando re-formed The Lemonheads, featuring old friends John Strohm Murph (ex-Dinosaur Jr), as well as Ken Lyons of 38 Special. This band produced another Lemonheads album, "Car Button Cloth". While featuring jangly guitar songs such as "If I could talk I'd tell you," this set also showed off the darker side of Dando's writing: "Break me" and "Losing your mind" suggested that all was not well with Dando.

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On 23 April 2008 at the inaugural NME US Awards ceremony at the El Rey in Los Angeles, Dando received the classic album award for "It's a shame about Ray", The album and its title track was inspired partially from a club owner who called everyone Ray. Band leader Evan Dando later saw the actual line "It's a shame about Ray" in a Sydney newspaper article about something that happened to a child named Ray. "It's a shame about Ray" was a big international hit for the band, as well as a #5 hit on the Modern Rock Tracks chart in America...(from wikipedia)