The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray Collector's Edition
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Artist: The LemonheadsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Collector's Edition
CD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Music Label: Rhino Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Rockin Stroll
- Confetti
- It's A Shame About Ray
- Rudderless
- My Drug Buddy
- The Turnpike Down
- Bit Part
- Alison's Starting To Happen
- Hannah & Gabi
- Kitchen
- Ceiling Fan In My Spoon
- Frank Mills
- Mrs. Robinson
- Shaky Ground
- It's A Shame About Ray Demo
- Rockin Stroll Demo
- My Drug Buddy Demo
- Hannah & Gabi Demo
- Kitchen Demo
- Bit Part Demo
- Rudderless Demo
- Ceiling Fan In My Spoon Demo
- Confetti Demo
- Two Weeks In Australia
- It's A Shame About Ray Music Video
- Ride With Me Live
- Mrs. Robinson Music Video
- Being Around Music Video
- Alison's Starting To Happen Live
- Hannah & Gabi Music Video
- Half The Time Music Video
- Rockin Stroll Music Video
- Confetti Music Video
- It's About Time Live
- My Drug Buddy
Free Music Notes for It's a Shame About Ray Collector's Edition
Free Music Review: An Overlooked Classic
Hit: 5 Stars
I suppose it could have been easy to forget about the Lemonheads. They were a great band but they seemed to have burned out to quickly to make a significant mark. Evan Dando was either too reckless or too restless to let the band gather enough steam to garner mass appeal, and I for one tossed the Lemonheads into the pile of bands that almost reached their potential. That was a mistake, for two reasons. First of all, the Lemonheads are still with us, having reformed in 2005. Second, they actually did reach their potential, on "It's a Shame about Ray."
Released in 1992, "Ray" stood out like a glittering prize among the grunge and gangster rap that dominated the market. For its time, it was almost too pleasant, with more melodic hooks and intriguing lyrics than a boatload of contemporary disks. "Confetti" had a lyrical hook that was impossible to shake ("He kinda shoulda sorta would've loved her if he could've..."), while the title song sported a melody so timeless that it seems to have always been there. Lead singer and principal songwriter Evan Dando had the `wistful and cute' thing down pat, and women seemed almost magnetically attracted to him. With so much going right, this band had everything it needed to become gigantic, but coulda shoulda woulda....
The thing is, while the band faded to grey, the songs remained, and hearing them again is a revelation of sorts. In retrospect, "It's a Shame about Ray" has everything an album needs to be considered classic. It plays like a greatest hits record, with virtually every song making an impact. "Alison's Starting to Happen," "(I Just Want a) Bit Part (in Your Life)" and "My Drug Buddy" are impossible to forget, so how did I? Add in their rocking interpretation of Paul Simon's "Mrs. Robinson," and you have a virtually perfect pop album, so why didn't the world acknowledge this in 1992? Why wasn't the album on every critic's `best of' list for that year? It didn't receive the recognition it deserved back then, but we now have a chance to reassess the situation. The Collector's Edition not only contains the original album in full, but adds a slew of bonus material too, including a DVD disk that provides an intriguing visual insight to Evan Dando's world in 1992. If the Lemonheads never recorded anything else, "It's a Shame about Ray" should assure their status as one of the best bands of the nineties, even if I almost forgot about them.
A Tom Ryan
It's a Shame About Ray Collector's Edition Poster
Some of you are still possessed of the thoroughly old fashioned idea that songs with words demanding to be listened to are a bad thing. I suggest you purchase this album and get cured quick. Try not to resist. Melody Maker...Dando is at last emphatically his own man - and the results fall barely short of the miraculous. NME The Lemonheads formed in Boston in the late 80s and had their major label debut on Atlantic in 1990 with Lovey. It was 1992's IT S A SHAME ABOUT RAY, though, that proved to be their breakthrough success. Critical and fan acclaim surged for the album, which centered on lead singer/songwriter Evan Dando's melodic, left-of-center alt-rock artistry. His warm, resonant vocals and brilliant pop sensibilities often belied insurgent lyrics, a quality that runs throughout the title track a #5 BillboardŽ modern rock chart hit and the album's other stand-outs, including My Drug Buddy, Allison s Starting To Happen, Confetti, and the band's hit, punk-skewed cover of Mrs. Robinson. On this new 2-disc, CD+DVD COLLECTOR'S EDITION, the original album plus ten bonus tracks comprise Disc 1. The DVD features 45 minutes of content including videos and commentary from Dando.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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