The Lemonheads might have been the most commercially viable jangle-pop band of the early ’90s, and this was their biggest hit. Like many of Evan Dando’s best songs, it’s melodic, a little melancholy and it clocks in at under 3 minutes. It spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, though it reached only No. 67 on the Hot 100 — a sure sign that rock music was morphing from the mainstream into a niche product. It helped propel the 1993 album it appeared on, “Come On Feel the Lemonheads,” to No. 56.
Dando heard the tune three years earlier during a trip to Australia to work with other songwriters, including Nic Dalton, who later joined the Lemonheads. He brought with him this song written by his partner in a duo called Love Positions, Robyn St. Clare.
Scott Weiland, the troubled frontman of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, also covered the song on his 2011 LP “A Compilation of Scott Weiland Cover Songs.”
