We Buy a Hammer for Daddy

We Buy a Hammer for Daddy
Studio album by Lemon Kittens
Released 1980
Genre Experimental rock
Length 35:08
Label United Dairies
Producer Lemon Kittens
Lemon Kittens chronology

Spoonfed and Writhing
(1979)		 We Buy a Hammer for Daddy
(1980)		 The Big Dentist
(1982)

We Buy a Hammer for Daddy is the debut studio album by English experimental rock band Lemon Kittens. It was released in 1980, through record label United Diaries.

Background

The phrase "We buy a hammer for Daddy" originates from the 1958 book Shopping with Mother.

Track listing

Side L
No. Title Length
1. "Pain Topics"   4:24
2. "Reversal 2"   2:34
3. "These Men of Old England"   2:25
4. "Wrist Job / Once Green and Pleasant Land"   2:45
5. "Lycanthrothene"   3:06
6. "Motet"   3:10
7. "Throat Violence"   2:28
8. "False Alarm (Malicious)"   1:58
Side K
No. Title Length
1. "P.V.S"   1:55
2. "Small Mercies"   2:03
3. "Coasters"   3:48
4. "Up in Arms"   2:34
5. "The American Cousin"   1:50
6. "Evidence"   2:25
7. "Rome Burning"   1:31
8. "(Afraid of Being) Bled by Leeches"   2:14

Critical reception

AllMusic's review was highly favourable, writing, "The tracks [...] are all highly original and have little precedent either in or beyond the annals of British pop/rock [...] We Buy a Hammer for Daddy belongs with Alternative TV's Vibing Up the Senile Man and the first This Heat LP as one of the milestones of experimental rock music."[1]

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "We Buy a Hammer for Daddy – The Lemon Kittens : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 February 2013.

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