Creator is the second album by American alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band The Lemonheads

The Lemonheads

The Lemonheads are an American alternative rock band first formed in 1986 by Evan Dando, Ben Deily and Jesse Peretz. Dando has remained the band's only constant member....

. It was issued twice, as an LP in 1988, and as a CD in 1992, which included three bonus live tracks, recorded at the radio station VPRO

VPRO

The VPRO was established in the Netherlands in 1926 as a religious broadcasting organization. Falling under the Protestant pillar, it represented the Liberal Protestant current...

 in The Netherlands. It is one of only three albums to feature the full original lineup of Evan Dando

Evan Dando

Evan Griffith Dando is an American musician, most famous for fronting the alternative rock band The Lemonheads. He is the only original member left in the current Lemonheads line-up, having served as lead singer since the band's original formation in 1986...

, Ben Deily

Ben Deily

Ben Deily is an American musician and songwriter, most famous as one of the founders, writers and lead singers of the Boston-based alternative rock band The Lemonheads.-Advertising career:...

, and Jesse Peretz

Jesse Peretz

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.

When the band first formed, Deily and Dando would swap instruments, playing guitar and singing on tracks each wrote himself, and drums for songs the other wrote. The first "official" Lemonheads drummer, Doug Trachten, was brought in for their first album Hate Your Friends

Hate Your Friends

Hate Your Friends is the debut album of the American alternative rock band The Lemonheads. The original 1987 LP release is a rare find; most available copies are of the 1992 reissue, featuring tracks from the original LP, along with bonus tracks from small-run singles and EPs...

. On Creator, John Strohm of the band Blake Babies

Blake Babies

Blake Babies was an alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The three primary members were John Strohm, Freda Love , and Juliana Hatfield, with Evan Dando, Andrew Mayer, Seth White, Anthony DeLuca , and Mike Leahy each also performing as members of the band at...

 plays drums on all of the original tracks, while Mark Natola playes drums for the two live bonus songs at the end of the CD reissue. Also, by the time the live tracks were recorded--during the European tour supporting the Lemonheads' final TAANG! album, "Lick" (1989)--Deily had left the band to complete his degree at Harvard College

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: the lead guitar on those tracks (and the voice of the "band" during the interview segment) is provided by "Lick"-era lead guitarist Corey Loog Brennan

T. Corey Brennan

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.

Track listing

All songs written by Ben Deily, except where indicated.

1. "Burying Ground"
2. "Sunday"
3. "Clang Bang Clang" (Dando)
4. "Out" (Dando)
5. "Your Home is Where You're Happy" (Charles Manson
   Charles Manson
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   )
6. "Falling"
7. "Die Right Now" (Dando)
8. "Two Weeks in Another Town"
9. "Plaster Caster" (Gene Simmons
   Gene Simmons
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   )
10. "Come to The Window"
11. "Take Her Down"
12. "Postcard"
13. "Live Without"
14. "Luka
    Luka (song)
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    " (Suzanne Vega
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    )*
15. Interview with the Lemonheads*
16. "Mallo Cup" (Dando)*

Note: Tracks marked with a * are live bonus tracks, recorded in 1989 at VPRO in The Netherlands and issued on the 1992 CD release.

Personnel

• Evan Dando - guitar, vocals
• Ben Deily - guitar, vocals, keyboard
• Jesse Peretz - bass
• John Strohm - drums
• Corey Loog Brennan - lead guitar on 14 & 16
• Mark Natola - drums on 14 & 16

Note: Generally, Dando and Deily would sing lead vocals on songs each wrote. In addition, Dando sings lead on three cover songs on the album: the Kiss

KISS (band)

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 song "Plaster Caster", "Your Home is Where Your Happy", originally released on the 1970 Charles Manson album Lie: The Love & Terror Cult

Lie: The Love & Terror Cult

Lie: The Love and Terror Cult is the debut album by Charles Manson, originally released by ESP-Disk.-The album:Recorded on September 11, 1967 and August 9, 1968 , its distribution began during the Manson murder trial by Phil Kaufman who initially pressed a run of 2,000 copies, that of which only...

, and the Suzanne Vega song "Luka".