Hate Your Friends

Hate Your Friends
Studio album by The Lemonheads
Released	June 1987 (original LP) 1992 (extended CD reissue, with several bonus tracks)
Genre	Punk rock
Label	Taang! Records World Service Records (original release) Dojo Records (first 1995 reissue) Essential Records (second 1995 reissue) Fire Records (2013 reissue) Au Go Go Records Funhouse Records
Producer	Tom Hamilton
The Lemonheads chronology
Hate Your Friends (1987) Creator (1988)

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Hate Your Friends is the debut album of the American alternative rock band The Lemonheads. The album showcases their early punk roots, and is one of only three albums to feature the full original lineup of Evan Dando, Ben Deily, and Jesse Peretz. Under the original arrangements, as evidenced by the first three tracks of the album, as well tracks 11–20, Peretz played bass guitar while Deily and Dando, the two principal songwriters, switched duties as lead vocalist/lead guitarist and drummer. On tracks 4–10, drums are played by Doug Trachten while Deily and Dando share lead vocal and lead guitar duties.

Track listing

Songs written by band member indicated.

1987 original LP version

1. "Don't Wanna" (Dando)
2. "3-9-4" (Deily)
3. "Nothing True" (Dando)
4. "Second Chance" (Deily)
5. "Sneakyville" (Dando)
6. "Amazing Grace" (Trad; arr. by Dando, Deily, Peretz)
7. "Belt" (Dando)
8. "Hate Your Friends" (Dando)
9. "Don't Tell Yourself" (Dando)
10. "Uhhh" (Deily)
11. "Fed Up" (Dando)
12. "Rat Velvet" (Dando, Peretz, Deily)
13. "So I Fucked Up" (Deily)

1987 original cassette version

1. "Glad I Don't Know" (Dando)
2. "I Like to" (Dando)
3. "Rabbit" (Proud Scum cover)
4. "Don't Wanna" (Dando)
5. "3-9-4" (Deily)
6. "Nothing True" (Dando)
7. "Second Chance" (Deily)
8. "Sneakyville" (Dando)
9. "Amazing Grace" (Trad; arr. by Dando, Deily, Peretz)
10. "Belt" (Dando)
11. "Hate Your Friends" (Dando)
12. "Don't Tell Yourself" (Dando)
13. "Uhhh" (Deily)
14. "Fed Up" (Dando)
15. "Rat Velvet" (Dando, Peretz, Deily)
16. "So I Fucked Up" (Deily)
17. "Ever" (Deily)
18. "Sad Girl" (Dando)
19. "Buried Alive" (Deily)
20. "Gotta Stop" (Dando)

1992 version

1. "Glad I Don't Know" (Dando)
2. "I Like to" (Dando)
3. "Rabbit" (Proud Scum cover)
4. "Don't Wanna" (Dando)
5. "3-9-4" (Deily)
6. "Nothing True" (Dando)
7. "Second Chance" (Deily)
8. "Sneakyville" (Dando)
9. "Amazing Grace" (Trad; arr. by Dando, Deily, Peretz)
10. "Belt" (Dando)
11. "Hate Your Friends" (Dando)
12. "Don't Tell Yourself" (Dando)
13. "Uhhh" (Deily)
14. "Fed Up" (Dando)
15. "Rat Velvet" (Dando, Peretz, Deily)
16. "So I Fucked Up" (Deily)
17. "Ever" (Deily)
18. "Sad Girl" (Dando)
19. "Buried Alive" (Deily)
20. "Gotta Stop" (Dando)

(1 to 3 and 16 from Laughing All The Way To The Cleaners 1986 EP)

Personnel

• Evan Dando - guitar, vocals, drums on tracks 13 and 16
• Ben Deily - guitar, vocals, drums on tracks 1–3, 11, 12, 14, 15, and 17–20
• Jesse Peretz - bass
• Doug Trachten - drums on tracks 4–10

note: generally, Dando and Deily would sing lead vocals on songs each wrote. In addition, Dando sings lead on the Proud Scum cover "Rabbit" and Deily sings lead on "Amazing Grace."

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