I Love Mekons | ||||
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Released | October 18, 1993 | |||
Genre | Punk rock | |||
Length | 50:01 | |||
Label | Quarterstick/ Touch and Go | |||
The Mekons chronology | ||||
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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]
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]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Chicago Tribune | [4] |
Christgau's Consumer Guide | B+ [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]
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]
I Love Mekons | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | October 18, 1993 | |||
Genre | Punk rock | |||
Length | 50:01 | |||
Label | Quarterstick/ Touch and Go | |||
The Mekons chronology | ||||
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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]
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]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Chicago Tribune | [4] |
Christgau's Consumer Guide | B+ [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]
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]