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    It's a Shame About Ray (Collector's Edition) (CD/DVD)

    03/25/2008 | Rhino / Wea 

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    • All Music Guide Review

    If Lovey captured Evan Dando as he found his signature blend of punk-pop, jangle pop, and folk-rock, It's a Shame About Ray is where he perfected that style. Breezing by in under half an hour, the album is a simple collection of sunny melodies and hooks, delivered with typical nonchalance by Dando. None of the songs are about anything major, nor do they have astonishingly original melodies, but that's part of their charm -- they're immediately accessible and thoroughly catchy. Dando's laid-back observations of middle-class outcasts are minor gems. The heartbroken title track or "Confetti," the crushes of "Bit Part in Your Life," the love letter to substances "My Drug Buddy," or the wonderful "Alison's Starting to Happen," where a girl finds herself as she discovers punk rock, capture the laconic rhythms of suburbia, and his warm, friendly voice, which is offset by Juliana Hatfield's girlish harmonies, gives the songs an emotional resonance. [Rhino's 2008 collector's edition included ten bonus tracks on the CD. The included bonus DVD featured music videos and live footage.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

    Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • 1
  • Rockin Stroll
  • 1:46

  • 2
  • Confetti
  • 2:44

  • 3
  • It's a Shame About Ray
  • 3:07

  • 4
  • Rudderless
  • 3:19

  • 5
  • My Drug Buddy
  • 2:51

  • 6
  • The Turnpike Down
  • 2:33

  • 7
  • Bit Part
  • 1:51

  • 8
  • Alison's Starting to Happen
  • 1:59

  • 9
  • Hannah & Gabi
  • 2:40

  • 10
  • Kitchen
  • 2:54

  • 11
  • Ceiling Fan in My Spoon
  • 1:48

  • 12
  • Frank Mills
  • 1:43

  • 13
  • Mrs. Robinson
  • 3:45

  • 14
  • Shaky Ground (*)
  • 1:48

  • 15
  • It's a Shame About Ray (#)(*)(Demo Version)
  • 2:56

  • 16
  • Rockin Stroll (#)(*)(Demo Version)
  • 1:48

  • 17
  • My Drug Buddy (#)(*)(Demo Version)
  • 2:46

  • 18
  • Hannah & Gabi (#)(*)(Demo Version)
  • 2:26

  • 19
  • Kitchen (#)(*)(Demo Version)
  • 3:12

  • 20
  • Bit Part (#)(*)(Demo Version)
  • 1:54

  • 21
  • Rudderless (#)(*)(Demo Version)
  • 3:20

  • 22
  • Ceiling Fan in My Spoon (#)(*)(Demo Version)
  • 2:17

  • 23
  • Confetti (#)(*)(Demo Version)
  • 1:15

  • 24 (2)
  • It's a Shame About Ray (Multimedia Track)
  • 25 (2)
  • Ride with Me (Live)
  • 26 (2)
  • Mrs. Robinson (Multimedia Track)
  • 27 (2)
  • Being Around (Multimedia Track)
  • 28 (2)
  • Alison's Starting to Happen (Live)
  • 29 (2)
  • Hannah & Gabi (Multimedia Track)
  • 30 (2)
  • Half the Time (Multimedia Track)
  • 31 (2)
  • Rockin Stroll (Multimedia Track)
  • 32 (2)
  • Confetti (Multimedia Track)
  • 33 (2)
  • It's About Time (Live)
  • 34 (2)
  • My Drug Buddy (Multimedia Track)
  • 35 (2)
  • Bonus Material (DVD)(*)

  • Credits

    • Evan Dando
    • Guitar, Vocals, Group Member, Original Album Producer, Reissue Producer

    Notes

    from Rhino: "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

    Rhino gives you even more to love about The Lemonheads' 1992 modern rock masterpiece with IT'S A SHAME ABOUT RAY (COLLECTOR'S EDITION), a deluxe two-disc CD+DVD reissue. In addition to the original album, this expanded edition features previously unreleased tracks and forty-five minutes of video content.

    When IT'S A SHAME ABOUT RAY was released in 1992, lead singer Evan Dando's tart, literate alt-pop came together in a way that made it the Boston-based band's major breakthrough. UK music journal NME wrote, "...Dando is at last emphatically his own man - and the results fall barely short of the miraculous." Rolling Stone has called the disc a, "bubble-grunge classic...a seamless listening experience."

    Dando and Mason Williams are the reissue producers for Rhino's COLLECTOR'S EDITION. Audio Disc 1 presents the original album including the signature songs "My Drug Buddy," "Allison's Starting To Happen," the title track and The Lemonheads' hit cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson." A hefty ten bonus tracks include "Shaky Ground" plus nine previously unreleased demos, among them "It's A Shame About Ray," "My Drug Buddy," "Confetti" and "Ceiling Fan In My Spoon."

    DVD Disc 2, titled "Two Weeks In Australia," reels out live footage of three songs- "Ride With Me," "Alison's Starting To Happen" and "It's About Time"-and eight Lemonheads videoclips. It also features candid commentary by Evan Dando on the band and their antics in the land down under.



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