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120 REASONS TO LIVE

120 Reasons To Live: The Lemonheads (Part 2)

Nothing did more to further the cause of Alternative Nation-building than 120 Minutes, MTV’s Sunday-night video showcase of non-mainstream acts. For nearly two decades, the program spanned musical eras from ’80s college rock to ’00s indie, with grunge, Britpop, punk, industrial, electronica and more in between. MAGNET raids the vaults to resurrect our 120 favorite and unjustly forgotten videos from the show’s classic era.

#52: The Lemonheads “Second Chance”

We already posted a video from the Lemonheads when the Boston band was at its early-’90s peak, with frontman Evan Dando on a beautiful people/celebrity trip. But there is a special place in music-nerd heaven for those who prefer the Ben Deily-fronted Lemonheads. On the band’s first three albums, Deily and Dando shared lead singing/songwriting duties, and there’s something far more endearing about Deily’s scratchy, scrappy songs. The Lemonheads were generally snotty and punk in the late ’80s, but a Deily-penned acoustic song such as “Postcard” could just about make you cry. “Second Chance” is more typical, taken from 1987 debut Hate Your Friends. Deily disappeared from music after leaving the band in 1989 but in recent years resurfaced with a new group, Varsity Drag.

One reply on “120 Reasons To Live: The Lemonheads (Part 2)”

whew! much better than the first Lemonheads feature in this series. Great song on a great album. This one has been in rotation on my home stereo for the past 20 years.

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