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“If I Could Talk I'd Tell You” by The Lemonheads
From the album Car Button Cloth (1996)
“If I Could Talk I'd Tell You” by The Lemonheads appears on 13 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 1996 and 2021. It was first released in 1996 on the album Car Button Cloth. Its best result is #23 on the WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1996. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #70 alternative song of 1996 and #3,697 alternative song of all time.
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Evan Dando wrote the music for "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You" with Eugene Kelly of the Vaselines, who supplied the words, and the Lemonheads put it on Car Button Cloth, their seventh album and their last for Atlantic, out in October 1996. In Europe it went out as a single, as did "It's All True".
By then the Lemonheads were mostly Dando himself, handling guitars, lead vocals and a pile of other instruments, with Patrick Murphy behind the kit and session players plus producer Bryce Goggin covering the rest. The album drew middling reviews and sold less than the two before it, but it has picked up a small cult since, and it turned out to be the band's last studio record for a decade.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 40 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1996 | 91 |
| 1996 | 23 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1996 | 99 |
| 1996 | 76 | WBCN Boston, MA | WBCN Top 104 Songs of 1996 | 104 |
| 1996 | 54 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996 | 100 |
| 1996 | 92 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 96 Songs of 1996 | 96 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1627 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1628 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1628 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1620 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1612 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1612 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1612 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2021 | 619 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
Also listed as: If I Could Talk, I'd Tell You.
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