Car Button Cloth

{{Infobox album

| name = Car Button Cloth

| type = studio

| artist = The Lemonheads

| cover = carbuttoncloththelemonheads.jpg

| alt =

| released = October 15, 1996

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = * Pop

• country rock
• alternative rock
• noise rock

| length = 43:18

| label = Atlantic, TAG

| producer = Bryce Goggin

| prev_title = Come on Feel the Lemonheads

| prev_year = 1993

| next_title = The Best of The Lemonheads: The Atlantic Years

| next_year = 1998

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Album

| type = studio

| single1 = If I Could Talk I'd Tell You

| single1date = 1996

| single2 = It's All True

| single2date = 1996

| single3 = The Outdoor Type

| single3date = 1997

}}

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web|last=Rabid|first=Jack|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/car-button-cloth-mw0000078869|title=Car Button Cloth – The Lemonheads|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=April 11, 2020}}

| rev2 = Chicago Tribune

| rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite news|last=Caro|first=Mark|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-12-06-9612060054-story.html|title=Lemonheads: Car Button Cloth (Atlantic/Tag)|work=Chicago Tribune|date=December 6, 1996|accessdate=April 11, 2020}}

| rev3 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev3score = B+{{cite magazine|last=Sinclair|first=Tom|url=https://www.ew.com/article/1996/10/18/car-button-cloth|title=Car Button Cloth|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=October 18, 1996|accessdate=December 7, 2016}}

| rev4 = The Guardian

| rev4score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite news|last=Sullivan|first=Caroline|title=The Lemonheads: Car Button Cloth (Atlantic)|work=The Guardian|date=October 4, 1996}}

| rev5 = Los Angeles Times

| rev5score = {{Rating|2.5|4}}{{cite news|last=Scribner|first=Sara|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-09-28-ca-48235-story.html|title=The Lemonheads, 'Car Button Cloth,' TAG/Atlantic|work=Los Angeles Times|date=September 28, 1996|accessdate=April 11, 2020}}

| rev6 = NME

| rev6score = 8/10{{cite magazine|last=Kessler|first=Ted|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000126reviews.html|title=The Lemonheads – Car Button Cloth|magazine=NME|date=September 29, 1996|accessdate=April 11, 2020|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817195012/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000126reviews.html|archivedate=August 17, 2000|url-status=dead}}

| rev7 = Q

| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine|last=Eccleston|first=Danny|title=The Lemonheads: Car Button Cloth|magazine=Q|issue=122|date=November 1996|page=126}}

| rev8 = Rolling Stone

| rev8score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine|last=Hoskyns|first=Barney|authorlink=Barney Hoskyns|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thelemonheads/albums/album/302633/review/5943510/car_button_cloth|title=The Lemonheads: Car Button Cloth|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=October 30, 1996|accessdate=December 7, 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630033623/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thelemonheads/albums/album/302633/review/5943510/car_button_cloth|archivedate=June 30, 2009|url-status=dead}}

| rev9 = Spin

| rev9score = 8/10{{cite magazine|last=Powers|first=Ann|authorlink=Ann Powers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dgSxMMIfuU8C&pg=PA120|title=Lemonheads: Car Button Cloth|magazine=Spin|volume=12|issue=8|date=November 1996|accessdate=April 11, 2020|page=120}}

| rev10 = Uncut

| rev10score = 8/10{{cite magazine|last=Deusner|first=Stephen|title=Buyers' Guide: Evan Dando & The Lemonheads|magazine=Uncut|issue=242|date=July 2017|page=59}}

}}

Car Button Cloth is the seventh studio album by the Lemonheads, and the last under their contract with Atlantic Records. The band, as it were, consisted mostly of Dando himself playing many instruments, including his usual guitars and lead vocals, and Patrick Murphy on drums, along with a series of session musicians and producer Bryce Goggin filling in on other instruments. Following the recording of the album, Bill Gibson, who had played bass on several tracks, joined the band for the supporting tour along with Dando and Murphy.

Despite receiving lukewarm reviews and not being as commercially successful as the Lemonheads' previous two albums, It's a Shame About Ray and Come On Feel the Lemonheads, Car Button Cloth has gained a minor cult following in recent years. The tracks "It's All True," and "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You" (cowritten by Eugene Kelly of the Vaselines) were released as singles in Europe. "Purple Parallelogram," a song written by Dando and Oasis's Noel Gallagher, was originally included on promotional copies of Car Button Cloth between "Something's Missing" and "Knoxville Girl," but was reportedly removed at Gallagher's request.{{Cite web|last=Kaufman|first=Gil|title=Purple Parallelogram Pulled From Lemonheads' Album|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/508118/purple-parallelogram-pulled-from-lemonheads-album/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114145238/http://www.mtv.com/news/508118/purple-parallelogram-pulled-from-lemonheads-album/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 14, 2017|access-date=2020-10-17|website=MTV News|language=en}} The album would be the last studio release from The Lemonheads for a decade, when they released a long-awaited self-titled follow-up, while in the meantime the group's frontman and sole remaining original member, Evan Dando, issued his first official solo album, 2003's Baby I'm Bored (a live album and EP were released in Australia two years earlier).