Search - Mighty Lemon Drops :: Young Gifted & Black Country

An excellent release, capturing a truly magical time

Jack Dempsey | South Miami Beach, Florida | 11/28/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Ok, first, this site gives you absolutely no info on this release, so here's the deal. First, the track listing - broken up in to two sets, though it's only one disc (I'll explain later):



01 Inside Out

02 Rollercoaster

03 No Bounds

04 Open Mind

05 Closer To You

06 Out Of Hand

07 When I Dream

08 Paint It Black

09 Like An Angel



LIKE AN ANGEL EP:

10 Something Happens

11 Sympathise With Us

12 Now She's Gone

13 Like An Angel



So the deal is this. Tracks 1 through 9 are live tracks captured in 1988 for Deidre O'Donoghue's SNAP radio show, caught live in the basement of KCRW on May 12,1988. It captures the Mighty Lemon Drops at a time when they were white hot. When they were really the darling children of 120 minutes on MTV (back in Kevin Seal's day). It's an awesome time to hear them live. The songs were recorded rather on-the-spot and the sound is wonderful. It's great to finally be apart of them, though I did catch them live several times over the years, the most stand-out-ish of which was with John Wesley Harding.



The last few tracks are from their "Like an Angel" EP which, as you can surmise, has been out of print since the horse and buggy era or, more precisely, 1985 (when it was released in scarce amounts).



Get this, get this, get this. It truly is a treasure you will cherish for years to come.





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