title: We Buy a Hammer for Daddy
text: # We Buy a Hammer for Daddy
  
  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.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All tracks composed by the Lemon Kittens
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  
  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."
  
  ## 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
  