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Car Button Cloth by The Lemonheads
Car Button Cloth is an album by The Lemonheads, released in 1996. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 29 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Outdoor Type”, on 16 lists with a best position of #65.
Car Button Cloth, the Lemonheads' seventh album and the last one owed to Atlantic, turned up in October 1996, and by then the band was mostly Evan Dando with a lot of instruments and a few friends. Patrick Murphy of Dinosaur Jr. drums, producer Bryce Goggin fills in wherever needed alongside a cast of session players, and Bill Gibson played bass on several tracks before joining Dando and Murphy for the tour.
It's a shaggy, restless record that careens from scuzzy noise to country twang and back to sweet pop. "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You", written with the Vaselines' Eugene Kelly, has the easy hooks, and "The Outdoor Type" has hung around rock radio's countdowns far longer than anyone might have guessed. A Dando co-write with Noel Gallagher, "Purple Parallelogram", made the promo copies and then reportedly vanished at Gallagher's request. Reviews were lukewarm, but it has since picked up a small cult, and it would be ten years before another Lemonheads studio album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Car Button Cloth on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Outdoor Type | 16 | #65 | – | 1997–2023 | |
| 2 | If I Could Talk I'd Tell You | 13 | #23 | – | 1996–2021 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.