Review of Lick
by Matthew Fritch
From Magnet Magazine June 2003
Best known for its trashed punk cover of Suzanne Vega's "Luka" (think Dinosaur Jr's similar treatment of the Cure's "Just Like Heaven"), Lick is a sloppy kiss goodbye to the Dando/Deily years. Reprising a few earlier tracks along with some post-Deily output, the album is mostly a gag gag gag "7 Powers" steals some lyrics from the All In The Family theme song, while "I Am A Rabbit" finds Dando singing about his sex drive . Opening track "Mallo Cup," however, sounds like early R.E.M. with a chorus burst of buzzsaw guitar, offering one of the record's few signs that the Lemonheads would ever make it out of their dorm-room adolescence. That joke isn't funny anymore: The awful "Cazzo Di Ferro" unsuccessfully mocks macho punk/metal... in Italian.