I Love Mekons


I Love Mekons is an album by the British-American punk rock band the Mekons, released in 1993 on the Quarterstick and Touch and [Go Records|Touch and Go] labels. It is a concept album consisting of twelve love songs.

Background

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.

Reception

Melody Makers 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." 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."

End-of-year lists

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

Track listing

  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