Make way for the Lemon Parade
I just found one of my favorite missing CD’s: It’s Lemon Parade from Tonic. I don’t know why this CD has stayed so steadily in my musical graces, but it goes clear back to when I saw them play as the opening act at the TLA on a Saturday night in 1996. The two bands that followed them that night were The Refreshments (best known in some circles as the performers of the King of the Hill theme song) and Dishwalla. (Dishwalla was the headliner but due to the excellence of the two opening acts, coupled with Dishwalla’s lack of live excellence, they were the only band I didn’t enjoy that night.)
I ended up leaving the show with copies of CD’s from both The Refreshments and Tonic, neither of whom I knew anything about going into the show.
While I still listen to, and definitely appreciate, Fizzy Fuzzy Big and Buzzy on a somewhat regular basis, Lemon Parade was the disc that really hit home for me. Add to that the fact that I haven’t been able to locate this album for the past couple years, which made stumbling across it while engaging in some seasonal cleaning seem like an early Christmas present for me.
(-guess I didn’t really have a snappy ending to this post. I just wanted to tell whoever would listen about how much I like this particular compact disc.)
