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Album · 1996

Car Button Cloth

by The Lemonheads

Car Button Cloth is a 1996 alternative rock album by The Lemonheads. It runs 13 tracks across 43 minutes.

Alternative Rock

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13
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43 min
Runtime
139 bpm
Tempo
F minor
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13 tracks · 43 min

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Car Button Cloth is the seventh studio album by the Lemonheads, and the last under their contract with Atlantic Records. The band, as it were, consisted mostly of Dando himself playing many instruments, including his usual guitars and lead vocals, and Patrick Murphy on drums, along with a series of session musicians and producer Bryce Goggin filling in on other instruments. Following the recording of the album, Bill Gibson, who had played bass on several tracks, joined the band for the supporting tour along with Dando and Murphy. Despite receiving lukewarm reviews and not being as commercially successful as the Lemonheads' previous two albums, It's a Shame About Ray and Come On Feel the Lemonheads, Car Button Cloth has gained a minor cult following in recent years. The tracks "It's All True," "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You" (cowritten by Eugene Kelly of the Vaselines), and "The Outdoor Type" were released as singles in the UK. "Purple Parallelogram," a song written by Dando and Oasis's Noel Gallagher, was originally included on promotional copies of Car Button Cloth between "Something's Missing" and "Knoxville Girl," but was reportedly removed at Gallagher's request.

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The album would be the last studio release from The Lemonheads for a decade, when they released a long-awaited self-titled follow-up, while in the meantime the group's frontman and sole remaining original member, Evan Dando, issued his first official solo album, 2003's Baby I'm Bored (a live album and EP were released in Australia two years earlier).

In brief

When was Car Button Cloth released?
Car Button Cloth was released in 1996.
How many tracks are on Car Button Cloth?
Car Button Cloth has 13 tracks, with a runtime of 43 minutes.
What genre is Car Button Cloth?
Car Button Cloth is catalogued under Alternative Rock.
What BPM is Car Button Cloth?
Car Button Cloth runs at a median tempo of 139 BPM across its tracks, most often in F minor, measured from audio analysis.
What albums are similar to Car Button Cloth?
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