The Lemonheads is really one guy - Evan Dando - pretending he's a band with a bunch of whatever friends happen to be available at the time. That included people from other Boston bands, session musicians, and at two different times, a couple of Blake Babies (another band he was a member of).
This was a single from their 1992 breakout album, It's A Shame About Ray. Written by Dando, the cheery-sounding song is about a guy who wanted to love someone but just couldn't, and instead decides to be alone. The fourth and final single from that album, it was a minor hit in the UK.
It also happens to be one of my favorite songs by the band.
The Lemonheads are still together, and still performing this song live, thirty years later.
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