I Love Mekons

I Love Mekons (stylized I ♥ Mekons on the album cover; also referred to as I (Heart) Mekons) is an album by the British-American punk rock band the Mekons, released in 1993 on the Quarterstick and Touch and Go labels. It is a concept album consisting of twelve love songs.

Background
Before I Love Mekons was released, the Mekons had been engaged in two years of rancorous arguments with their record label at the time, Warner Bros. Records subsidiary Loud Records. As a result, the Mekons did not release any albums for two years after the release of Curse of the Mekons in 1991. Originally, Warner Bros. had refused to release I Love Mekons because they thought it was not good enough. After the Mekons parted ways with Loud Records, the album was released in 1993 on Quarterstick, a subsidiary of Touch and Go.

Reception
Melody Maker's Dave Jennings described I Love Mekons as "simultaneously a brilliant, exhilarating pop record and an exploration of the assumptions behind other people’s pop records." Robert Christgau gave the album a B+ grade, describing it as "love songs, laid out casually across disc and lyric sheet--a country album without a happy ending."

End-of-year lists
Greg Kot ranked I Love Mekons as his 10th favorite album of 1993, and Mark Lepage of the Montreal Gazette named it his 4th favorite album of the year.

Track listing

 * 1) "Millionaire"         – 4:37
 * 2) "Wicked Midnite"      – 3:51
 * 3) "I Don't Know"        – 4:20
 * 4) "Dear Sausage"        – 3:48
 * 5) "All I Want"          – 3:49
 * 6) "Special"             – 2:30
 * 7) "St. Valentine's Day" – 4:59
 * 8) "I Love Apple"        – 3:26
 * 9) "Love Letter"         – 4:18
 * 10) "Honeymoon in Hell"   – 5:34
 * 11) "Too Personal"        – 5:54
 * 12) "Point of No Return"  – 3:00