Shake It Up Music Cd

Cars - Shake It Up

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Shake It Up      Artist : The Cars      List Price : $7.98 USD        Your Price : $6.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1990-10-25      Studio : Elektra / Wea      Label : Elektra / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (19 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Shake It Up      Shake It Up...The Last Great Cars Album      Rating:      Shake It Up is a fantastic album. Although I didn't realize this upon first listen, a few listens later I understood this album to be exceptional. It incorporates more synthesizer parts than before but the arrangements are good, and every guitar, synth and vocal line is purposeful and concise. David Robinson also regrettably started using a lot of synthesized drums in addition to his standard drum kit which in time began to date even the Cars best songs. But the songs on Shake It Up are thankfully untouched by such horribly dated sounds. "Since You're Gone" is one of Ric Ocasek's finest songs, the lightly psychedelic "Victim Of Love" and the fun, mindlessly-catchy throw-away title track are some of the best singles of 81/82. "Cruiser" is a fine straight-ahead rocker and "This Could Be Love" is melodically twitchy. Songs such as "Think It Over", "I'm Not The One" and "A Dream Away" are the weakest songs here and none of them are bad, just weak only by comparison. Nothing here sounds like filler even if it is. As far as the currency of the songs: "Since You're Gone" and "Shake It Up" were both featured in the film and soundtrack to 'The Last American Virgin' and "I'm Not The One" was in 'Billy Madison'. For some reason I still associate these songs directly with both of these films. In fact this was the last Cars album where non-single tracks got just as much airplay as some singles might have (in fact some may very well have charted as a result). It's also the last cohesive Cars album (Heartbeat City was wildly uneven) as all of the tracks are strong and are relatively well-sequenced. Recommended? Surely.     Customer Reviews for Shake It Up Cd      better then I remember      Rating:      I remember being disapointed with the polish and the silly title track (it's far better live)but this album I now find far more likeable I always liked Ocasek's quirkiness and they do stretch with "dream away" other strong numbers are opener "Since your gone" "Cruiser" "think it over" and the percusiion of "Maybe baby" definitely eighties and not anywhere near as good as there debut or Candy O and not as interesting as Panorama but still as I said better then I remember