The Lemons “Hello, We’re the Lemons”

(TrippTapes) Lemon is not the most popular flavor of bubblegum (in fact the only lemonade-flavored bubblegum I can recall featured a cartoon of LeBron James on the wrapper, meaning it became a virtually villainous flavor once he signed with Miami). The Lemons, in contrast, are destined to be the most popular classic bubblegum band of the 21^st Century. With tasty tunes about seaweed, Kool-Aid, Ice Cream and Chubby Checker sounding better than all the filler and a few of the singles on most of the Archies albums these local limón-lovers have crafted the first tape of the nuevo-cassette era that I actually wore out from playing so much. The “Chubby Checker” track in particular is such a perfect Kasenetz-Katz revival that it made want to run off and join the Super Circus. In Lemons we (ci)Trus(t)!