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Lemon Parade by Tonic
Lemon Parade is an album by Tonic, released in 1996. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 44 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “If You Could Only See”, on 34 lists with a best position of #3.
Lemon Parade, the debut album from Tonic, the band Emerson Hart and Jeff Russo started in 1993, came out on Polydor on July 16, 1996. Nobody was throwing parades at first: the reviews were lukewarm and the sales slow. Then "Open Up Your Eyes" and "If You Could Only See" caught fire on the radio in 1997, and the record ended up platinum, with 1,300,000 copies sold to date.
It's alternative rock easing off the distortion pedal: chiming, earnest guitar rock with big, open-hearted choruses and Hart's grainy, heart-on-sleeve voice. "If You Could Only See" is the one that stuck, going all the way to number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and lingering on the Airplay Hot 100 for 63 weeks. The band toured behind it relentlessly, and in 2016, with money raised from fans, they cut an all-acoustic version called Lemon Parade Revisited to mark its 20th anniversary.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Lemon Parade on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If You Could Only See | 34 | #3 | – | 1997–2026 | |
| 2 | Open Up Your Eyes | 9 | #43 | – | 1996–2023 | |
| 3 | Casual Affair | 1 | #83 | – | 1997 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.