It's Alright (Chris Stamey album)
# It's Alright (Chris Stamey album)

It's Alright is an album by the American musician Chris Stamey, released in 1987. Stamey supported it with a North American tour that included Alex Chilton on keyboards. It's Alright was expected to be somewhat of a mainstream success; it did not perform as well as envisioned, and Stamey was dropped from A&M Records two years after its release.

## Production

"The Seduction" was inspired by Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Stamey played lead guitar on the album; Richard Lloyd and Mitch Easter played rhythm guitar. Chilton and Marshall Crenshaw sang on It's Alright. Jane Scarpantoni played cello.

## Critical reception

Professional ratings :

| Review scores ||
| - | - |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Chicago Sun-Times | |
| Robert Christgau | B |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Los Angeles Daily News | A |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | |
| The Record | |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |

Trouser Press called It's Alright "an emotionally lucid pop-rock album." The Philadelphia Inquirer labeled it "an impressive and graceful solo pop-rock album that presents his gifts for songwriting and guitar-playing in full flower." The Los Angeles Daily News considered it "a near masterpiece," writing that "Stamey makes his way through the lost terrain covered by mid-'70s Memphis-based popsters Big Star."

Robert Christgau wrote that "Stamey's new wave supersession is excessively conventional, subsuming his mad pop perfectionism and repressed inner turmoil in mere well-madeness." The Washington Post opined that "tracks such as 'It's Alright' and 'If You Hear My Voice' are elaborate studio chamber pieces in the spirit of the best of the late-'60s Beatles and Beach Boys." The Charlotte Observer determined that, "with a wispy voice, shimmering pop-rock melodies and lyrics full of irony and disillusionment, Stamey looks suspiciously at modern love."

AllMusic deemed It's Alright "the most uncomplicated and genuinely poppy album of his career."

