We start of with the title track, opened by a neat guitar tone an a nice piece bit on the drums. From there greats like "Strange" and "Getting This Thing To Go" pop up and entertain. My favorite is the second to last song on the album, "Carrousel." It has an even better guitar tone than the opener, and it's so great to hear this main line sung like "Find the wiiiiiiil to gooooooo, FASTER!" Of course the lyrics are very vague in describing the meaning of the song, but that's ok. The super-melodic chorus makes up for any lyrical shortcomings. Finally I shouldn't forget to mention the closing "Superglue," while having the worst lyrics on the album, is musically a tender and lovely ballad, one of the best done in the nineties. It still doesn't come close to a masterpiece like "There Goes The One," though.
I do have a couple of complaints about this album too. First off, the vocal melodies during the choruses of "Brown Paper Bag" and "Sunbitten," besides being too similar, are very weak. "Had enoooough of you, hand enough of you it's truuue" is not the kind of chorus I want. It sounds twice as worse than it looks written, and that's a shame, since the verses in those songs rule. Oh yeah, the name of the album is Watermelon, so why is there a picture of a pumpkin on the front? Is it just me or does that not seem to fit? Anyway overall this is a solid album, one of the highlights of 90s modern rock.
