It's A Shame About Ray

Replacement level 90s pop radio alt rock - nice jangle, strummy, some twang, it's very bright, melodic and earnest, but extremely paint by numbers. I like this genre a lot, but really hard to call this essential listening as an album - maybe a song on a best of the rest 90s comp.

It's a shame about this album Lemon is synonymous with dud, and that's what this is, one lemon out of five 🍋

nope. thumbs all the way down.

Meh. Could be any early 90s middle of the road band

One long song?

Meh. Such an unremarkable and dull album. It’s the most vanilla rock that doesn’t generate any emotion in me whatsoever.

It's a shame I had to listen to this.

Might be the most boring thing I've listened to so far.

ja nee ook, weer niet met je rock

I didn't know who they were. I thought. I absolutely hate the 2 most famous covers of Simon And Garfunkel songs and this makes me want to give a bad score to this album.

It's a shame that this band/albun was included at expense of much more deserving artists. They had one song. It was a cover.

This feels like a subgenre of 90s alt rock that I can't stand. Acoustic guitar-led sort of cloudy vocals. Toad the wet sprocket. Lemonheads. All them things. They all had a hit, and those are fine, but an entire album of them is distasteful.

It’s a shame this album is on the list.

Dreadful

Eh boring

Really didn't like this album, didn't feel anything while I listened. Nothing new or interesting here, the best song was the Mrs. Robinson cover (not included on the original release), and even that did not provide anything new.

Truthfully I skipped through these songs and nothing in there made me think that this album elevated the band above a one hit wonder. Maybe emblematic of the music of that time, but there were probably way more albums that year that had a bigger cultural impact.

There is certainly a feel of an American bias in this list, I bet some corkers have missed the cut in place of shite like this

1.5 Every song sounds the same. Their biggest hit is a cover, says it all…

Crap

Not my kind of alternative rock. Each song sounds the same.

I would give it a zero but that’s not an option

Saved for later

Ahhh no era la misma canción catorce veces??

This was very 90s teen movie, i think the standout song being a cover says it all. Not my taste

90s teen movie stoner music.

Bland

ei voi olla ei ei ei indie rock ja 1992 ei voi näitä olla jäljellä enään ei ei ei ei loppu nämä piti olla loppu paskaa paskaa niin vitun paskaa ei pumppu.. pumppu petttää hengitys tihenee nyt vittu miksi tälläsiä pitää tunkea kolmesataa tänne missä vitussa kenen mielestä tämäm musiikin historiassa albumeista tonnin tärkeämmällä puolella ei missään vitun universumissa ole tämä saanut mitään aikaan menkää oikeisiin töihin kusipäät MISSÄ GANGAM STYLE??? VÄHÄN TÄRKEEMPI... rockin stroll

a lil too soft for me

I really didn't like this one, kinda generic

NBz. No PL adds. Drab and dull. Album felt like listening to one entire song. Not for me.

D-

It's a shame this album is so shit

I was quite looking forward to playing that I knew of the Lemonheads but had never listened to an entire album theirs before. Every day’s a school day and all that. However, I didn’t really find anything in this to latch on to. I’m not even sure how I would describe it if someone asked me. “mature 90s alt rock” maybe? Feels very much of its time and place, but it didn’t grab me in the way I had hoped.

Boring

Tak hamerykansko brzmiacego albumu dawno nie slyszalem, w negatywnym znaczeniu tego zwrotu, pierwszy raz takze slysze o lemonheadsach, ale gdy spotifajowym najbardziej granym trakiem jest cover, mrs robinson, ktory jest bonusowym trakiem tego krazka, to wiedz, ze cos jest nie tak, bo cale 30 minuty plyty brzmia jak pierwszy trak, wyjatkiem jest ostatni coverowy trak, na ktorym ktos zastapil tego niepelnosprytnego basiste, co troche zmienilo kompozycje, ale 12 orginalnych trakow nie brzmi zbyt tak lekko, ze jednym uchem wpadnie, a drugim wypadnie, pan Dando tworzy raczej liryki, tak typowo hamerykanskie, ze az do bolu, hamerykanskie jak lata 90 alternatywnej muzyki i kucingu, na plejke dodam kawalek tytulowy, ktory najlepiej oddaje odcienie szarosci w jakich utrzymana jest plyta

Du teenage + une reprise passable de Ms Robinson, pas mieux qu'une étoile

Finding this rather exhausting. This is what Wilco would sound like if Wilco sucked. Thought Mrs. Robinson might make me like them more but that one annoyed me too.

Very boring

Whatever, man. 1001 albums you must hear before you sleep Saved: It's a Shame About Ray*, Mrs. Robinson

One hit don't make a classic album

The punk undertones are heavy, but it is eclipsed by the mediocre sad/whiny 90s tone. Absolutely nothing of interest lyrically, and the 2 is only coming from the instrumentation being above average. That Mrs. Robinson cover is a nail in the coffin for this album. Christ almighty.

Absolutely nothing memorable or interesting?

Was kind of bland compared to its contemporaries. Maybe I need another listen but...

no

Made it through 3 or 4 songs and stopped cuz I wasn't enjoying

0 stars if i could

1992: Mrs. Robinson