Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons

Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
Studio album by Blonde Redhead
Released	June 6, 2000 (2000-06-06)
Recorded	Bear Creek Studio, January 25-February 16, 2000
Genre	Indie rock, noise pop
Length	39:29
Label	Touch and Go Records
Blonde Redhead chronology
In an Expression of the Inexpressible (1998) Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons (2000) Melodie Citronique (2000)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	73/100 link
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Pitchfork Media	(7.8/10) link
Robert Christgau	link

Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons is the fifth studio album by Blonde Redhead. It was produced by Guy Picciotto & Ryan Hadlock and released by Touch & Go Records in 2000.

Track listing

1. "Equally Damaged" – 0:40
2. "In Particular" – 6:05
3. "Melody of Certain Three" – 3:53
4. "Hated Because of Great Qualities" – 4:42
5. "Loved Despite of Great Faults" – 4:12
6. "Ballad of Lemons" – 1:54
7. "This Is Not" – 4:50
8. "A Cure" – 5:23
9. "For the Damaged" – 3:02
10. "Mother" – 2:08
11. "For the Damaged Coda" – 2:37 (this track is not listed on the back cover, but appears in the liner notes with an asterisk)

Credits

• Simone Pace - band member
• Kazu Makino - band member
• Amedeo Pace - band member
• Toby Christensen - piano on tracks 5, 8, 9 and 11.
• Guy Picciotto - producer
• Ryan Hadlock - producer, engineer
• Brad Zeffren - 2nd engineer
• Howie Weinberg - recording master

Use in media

The song "For the Damaged Coda" appears in the credit sequence of the Rick and Morty episode "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind".