Hate Your Friends is the debut album of the 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....

. 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 EP

Extended play

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s. The album showcases their early punk

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 roots, and 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

Jesse Peretz is an American bass guitar player, feature film director, and Grammy-Award winning music video director.-Life and career:...

. Under the original arrangements, as evidenced by the first three tracks of the album, as well tracks 11–20, Peretz played bass guitar

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

 while Deily and Dando, the two principal songwriters, switched duties as lead vocalist/lead guitar

Lead guitar

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ist and drummer

Drummer

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. 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.

1. "Glad I Don't Know" (Dando)
2. "I Like to" (Dando)
3. "Rabbit" (Proud Scum
   Proud Scum
   Proud Scum was a notable punk band in New Zealand punk's second wave. Proud Scum were formed in Auckland in 1979 and attracted a hardcore punk and bootboy following....
   
    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
   Amazing Grace
   "Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton , published in 1779. With a message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of the sins people commit and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God,...
   
   " (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)

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."