I Love Mekons

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I Love Mekons
Studio album by
the Mekons
ReleasedOctober 18, 1993 (1993-10-18)
GenrePunk rock
Length50:01
LabelQuarterstick/Touch and Go
The Mekons chronology
The Curse of the Mekons
(1991) 		I Love Mekons
(1993) 		Retreat from Memphis
(1994)

I Love Mekons (stylized I ♥ Mekons on the album cover; also referred to as I (Heart) Mekons) is an album by the British-American punk rock band the Mekons, released in 1993 on the Quarterstick and Touch and Go labels. It is a concept album consisting of twelve love songs.[1]

Background[edit]

Before I Love Mekons was released, the Mekons had been engaged in two years of rancorous arguments with their record label at the time, Warner Bros. Records subsidiary Loud Records. As a result, the Mekons did not release any albums for two years after the release of Curse of the Mekons in 1991. Originally, Warner Bros. had refused to release I Love Mekons because they thought it was not good enough. After the Mekons parted ways with Loud Records, the album was released in 1993 on Quarterstick, a subsidiary of Touch and Go.[2][3]

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Chicago Tribune[4]
Christgau's Consumer GuideB+[5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[6]
Orlando Sentinel[7]
Rolling Stone[8]

Melody Maker's Dave Jennings described I Love Mekons as "simultaneously a brilliant, exhilarating pop record and an exploration of the assumptions behind other people’s pop records."[9] Robert Christgau gave the album a B+ grade, describing it as "love songs, laid out casually across disc and lyric sheet--a country album without a happy ending."[5]

End-of-year lists[edit]

Greg Kot ranked I Love Mekons as his 10th favorite album of 1993,[10] and Mark Lepage of the Montreal Gazette named it his 4th favorite album of the year.[11]

Track listing[edit]

  1. "Millionaire" – 4:37
  2. "Wicked Midnite" – 3:51
  3. "I Don't Know" – 4:20
  4. "Dear Sausage" – 3:48
  5. "All I Want" – 3:49
  6. "Special" – 2:30
  7. "St. Valentine's Day" – 4:59
  8. "I Love Apple" – 3:26
  9. "Love Letter" – 4:18
  10. "Honeymoon in Hell" – 5:34
  11. "Too Personal" – 5:54
  12. "Point of No Return" – 3:00

References[edit]

  1. ^ Byrne, Richard (22 March 2004). "Mekon Love". The American Prospect. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  2. ^ a b Dougan, John. "I Love Mekons - The Mekons". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  3. ^ Rothschild, David (12 March 1993). "Cheap Trick Signs With Warner, Plans Album". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  4. ^ Kot, Greg (29 October 1993). "Falling In Love With Mekons". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  5. ^ a b Christgau, Robert (15 October 2000). "The Mekons: I Love Mekons". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 9780312245603.
  6. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958.
  7. ^ Gettelman, Parry (5 November 1993). "The Mekons". Orlando Sentinel.
  8. ^ Kot, Greg (31 July 1997). "The Mekons: I Love Mekons". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 14 May 2008.
  9. ^ "The Mekons". Contemporary Musicians. Gale. 2004. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  10. ^ Kot, Greg (31 December 1993). "City Band Tops Newspaper's Best Album List". NewsOK.com. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  11. ^ Lepage, Mark (23 December 1993). "Year's high and low notes". Montreal Gazette.

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