Review of Come On Feel
by Matthew Fritch
From Magnet Magazine June 2003
If The Lemonheads ever created a great misunderstood album, this is it. Come On Feel was slotted to repeat the commercial success of Ray with radio results but is instead filled with a curious mush of inside jokes and cutesy ballads. Of the fluff, there's insipid love song "Into Your Arms", the jokey "Being Around" ("if I was a booger, would you blow your nose?") and can-we-get-along country ditty "Big Gay Heart". But it's the songs featuring vocals harmonies by Juliana Hatfield that give Come On Feel its unmistakable sexual tension and melodic release. Unpredictably, the LP features a slam on the music-biz lackies ("Paid To Smile") and ends with an atonal piano instrumental ("The Jello Fund"). Unmistakable sign of debauchery: "Rick James Style", doubling Dando singing "I'm not gonna not get stoned".