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Track Listing
1. Millionaire
2. Wicked Midnite
3. I Don't Know
4. Dear Sausage
5. All I Want
6. Special
7. St Valentine's Day
8. I Love Apple
9. Love Letter
10. Honeymoon in Hell
11. Too Personal
12. Point of No Return
Album Notes
The Mekons: Jon "Don Juan" Langford, Tom "Cat" Greenhalgh (vocals, guitar); Sally "Bunny" Timms (vocals); Susie "Honeybaby" Honeyman (violin); Sarah "Casanova" Corina (bass); John "Lovely" Langley (drums).
Additional personnel: John "Lovely Dubbly" Gill (melodeon); Eric "Rico" Bellis, Elie Hollingshead (background vocals).
Engineers: P.K., Paul "Toyboy" Tippler, Guy Crackers.
Recorded at Worldwide Studios and Blackwing Studios, London, England; Lion Studios, Leeds, England.
Actually titled with one of those hearts you see on t-shirts and bumper stickers, I LOVE MEKONS is an utterly delightful album that makes the title a self-fulfilling prophecy. Something of a concept album examining various perversions of the concept of love, the album can be appreciated as an ironic statement about the lyrical obsessions of pop music, a theoretical examination of social constructs, or a damn fine pop album.
At its best, it's all three at once; witness the brilliant opening track, "Millionaire," which is as arch and melodic as the Magnetic Fields, but with a noisier rock & roll heart. Elsewhere, the thumping "Wicked Midnite" and the sly "Dear Sausage"--the best metaphor song since XTC's "Pink Thing"--match the edgy lyrics with tougher-sounding music than anything the band have done since their early postpunk days. For those needing an entry into the Mekons' large and confusing oeuvre, you couldn't go wrong here.
Industry Reviews
...Mekons are one of the finest, funniest and most fascinating bands that are currently breathing....
Melody Maker (10/30/1993)
8 - Excellent - ...Never have they eschewed a current scene's dozy attitude with more vigour, biting comment and determined, hobnail-booted disco charm....
NME (10/30/1993)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...Flippant, funny and fond of preternaturally infectious melodies, Today's Mekons even find time to sound like Bon Jovi on `Honeymoon In Hell'...
Q (12/01/1993)
...the Mekons are still intent on charming the pants off of us... - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (10/29/1993)
Highly Recommended - ...I LOVE THE MEKONS is their closest fascimile yet to a by-the-numbers rock 'n' roll record...
Spin (11/01/1993)
3 1/2 Stars - Good Plus - ...I LOVE MEKONS [is] a barbed wire valentine all the more poignant for the way it confronts and finally rises above its jadedness....I LOVE MEKONS is the work of skeptics who refuse to cave in to cynicism....
Rolling Stone (02/10/1994)
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