We Buy a Hammer for Daddy explained

We Buy a Hammer for Daddy
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Lemon Kittens
Cover:	We Buy a Hammer for Daddy cover.jpg
Released:	1980
Genre:	Experimental rock
Length:	35:08
Label:	United Dairies
Producer:	Lemon Kittens
Prev Title:	Spoonfed and Writhing
Prev Year:	1979
Next Title:	The Big Dentist
Next Year:	1982

We Buy a Hammer for Daddy is the debut studio album by English experimental rock band Lemon Kittens. It was released in 1980, through record label United Diaries.

Background

The phrase "We buy a hammer for Daddy" originates from the caption to an illustration in the 1958 Ladybird book Shopping with Mother.^[1]

Track listing

All tracks composed by the Lemon Kittens

Critical reception

AllMusic's review was highly favourable, writing, "The tracks [...] are all highly original and have little precedent either in or beyond the annals of British pop/rock [...] We Buy a Hammer for Daddy belongs with Alternative TV's Vibing Up the Senile Man and the first This Heat LP as one of the milestones of experimental rock music."^[2]

Personnel

Lemon Kittens

• Danielle Dax – vocals, bass, keyboards, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, drone guitar, stick synthesizer], penny whistle, squeeze box, sleeve design, artwork
• Karl Blake – vocals, guitar, drums, bass, keyboards, recorder, stick synthesizer, squeeze box

Technical

• Bombay Ducks – engineering
• David Mellor – engineering

Notes and References

1. M.E. Gagg, Shopping with Mother. Loughborough: Ladybird Books [Wills & Hepworth], 1958.
2. Web site: We Buy a Hammer for Daddy – The Lemon Kittens : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic . . 15 February 2013.