Shake It

Shake It

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Endorphin's 2004 album 'Shake It' builds on an eclectic array of visual imagery and energetic music. It is theatre for the dance floor and art for the ears. With a range of new vocalists, driving beats and soundscapes the result is a very tasty and spicy dish. Fly/ABC Music.

Tracks:

Stir It Up - Patti Labelle
One Little Slip - Barenaked Ladies
Shake A Tail Feather - The Cheetah Girls
All I Know - Five For Fighting
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.
We Are The Champions - Chicken Little
Wannabe - Abby Mallard And Runt Of The Litter
Don't Go Breaking My Heart - The Chicken Little Cast
The Sky Is Falling - John Debney
The Big Game - John Debney
Dad Apologizes - John Debney
Chase To Cornfield - John Debney
Dodgeball - John Debney
Driving With Dad - John Debney

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This soundtrack offers a pretty standard mix of new songs, old chestnuts, and excerpts from the score (here by John Debney). On the new tip, Joss Stone and Patti LaBelle engage in an overheated battle of the divas on CD opener "Stir It Up," a bouncy piece of fluff that sounds more like Aretha Franklin circa "Freeway of Love" than classic soul. Other originals include Barenaked Ladies' "One Little Slip" (this movie's answer to Counting Crows' "Accidentally in Love" from Shrek 2) and the Cheetah Girls' peppy-but-bland cover of "Shake Your Tail Feather." But the real highlights are the songs performed by the movie's vocal cast, which includes Joan Cusack, Garry Marshall, Zach Braff, Steve Zahn, and Amy Sedaris. Their group cover of Elton John and Kiki Dee's "Don¹t Go Breaking My Heart," for instance, sounds as if half of them were drunk in the recording studio (and this is meant as a compliment.) Braff's a cappella version of "We Are the Champions" is smashing and Cusack and Zahn's take on the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" is completely demented. The kids will laugh; their parents will laugh even harder for completely different reasons. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

my little one loves Chicken Little.......2007-04-05

My husband bought the Chicken Little movie for our 3 year old (mostly to get us OFF the Cars movie that we all have memorized) and he fell in love with it! He likes to act out the scenes and loves the music. He loves this CD at night when he's going to bed. We all have to dance to One Little Slip (he knows all the words) and then we have to "shake our tail feathers" before he jumps in bed every night! I enjoy the cd too, so it's good for everyone!

this is a great kids cd!!.......2007-03-24

My daughter absolutely loves this cd. I could not find it anywhere until i looked on amazon, so thank you amazon!!

Great soundtrack for the children, especially if they liked the movie!.......2007-03-14

My son loved the movie Chicken Little, so we decided to purchase this for him to listen to on his discman. He loves the soundtrack as much as the movie, which made it an awesome investment(especially since the soundtrack has many good singers that aren't too hard on the ears for the adult crowdes either). My son was very happy with this item, and so was I.

Her favorite gift..........2006-12-23

I bought the CD to accompany the movie. My four year old watches the movie everyday. When I gave her the CD, after listening to it nightly, she takes it to bed with her everynight where I have to pry it out of her hands after she falls off to sleep. I don't get it, but she does...so it's worth what I paid for it.

Chicken Little Soundtrack.......2006-08-29

This is a great soundtrack from a variety of different artists. If your child loved the movie you will absolutely love this CD!!!

Average customer rating:

Solid songs carry this not too extensive CD
More New Wave than Rock
Check out the words
Doesn't this disc need RE-MASTERING?!?
Shake It Up

Shake It Up
The Cars
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002GXD
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Since You're Gone
Shake It Up
I'm Not The One
Victim Of Love
Cruiser
A Dream Away
This Could Be Love
Think It Over
Maybe Baby

Customer Reviews:

Solid songs carry this not too extensive CD.......2006-10-14

Almost every Cars CD contained songs with infectuous hooks, simple but fabulous guitar work, and songs driven by powerful rhythm and catchy lyrics. "Shake It Up" is no exception. Not unlike other artists of their time, however, the Cars also weren't exempt from tossing in a muligan or two to fill out their albums and/or contract obligation. Despite that fact, the first 6 songs on this CD are strong enough to outweigh the remaining fluff. "Since You're Gone" is my favorite Cars song for so many reasons. One of the best heartbreak/love songs ever written is an unrelenting, powerful, impossible not to sing along with tune, even if you can't relate to the simple but brilliant lyrics penned by Ric Ocasek (his solo effort, "Emotion in Motion" in my opinion, would provide the next best Cars' related love song). "Shake It Up" was the other radio darling from this CD. But you can't emphasize those 2 simply for that fact. "Victim of Love" and "A Dream Away" are 2 of the most unheralded songs by the Cars, certainly by radio play standards. Though "A Dream Away" didn't escape the astute ears of the deep AOR stations who know great music when they hear it. Talk about your infectuous songs. I challenge anyone to listen to this song cranked on a quality sound system and try to sit still. "Victim of Love" too has typical Cars hooks and is another Ocasek sung empathetic dity to the love lorn that is also one of my favorite Cars songs. "Cruiser" and "I'm Not The One" round off the best six songs for other reasons and make this CD worth buying, particularly at the bargain prices it can be found at. The last three songs are throwaways, but that doesn't make any difference as far as how I rate this CD. My last edition of this CD, though not remastered had very good sound quality. It was bought several years after the intial release of this CD (I bought the album my first copy) so it may have benefited from a quality production by that time. The point being you needn't wait for remastering to enjoy a solid Cars CD.

More New Wave than Rock.......2006-08-10

The first four Cars albums, all produced by Roy Thomas Baker and released in the space of four years, are a really solid body of work. Each one is not quite as good as the one that came before it, but this was a great band, so even this fourth one, "Shake It Up," is still a four-star album in my book. It's probably not the one to start with, but if you own a couple others and you're still curious about the Cars, give it a try.

"Shake It Up" is more commercial than the previous album, "Panorama," but at the same time, it has a warmer, more intimate sound, more along the lines of "Candy-O." The biggest difference is that "Shake It Up" is not as guitar-oriented as any previous Cars album (nor any of the later ones, for that matter). After delivering great solos on the first two songs, Elliot Easton only gets one more solo, on "Victim of Love," though he does play some really nice, raunchy fills at the end of "Cruiser." There is not a single solo on the entire second half of the album, as the keyboards carry the melodies and the guitar is relegated to a complementary role.

Still, this album sticks in my mind just as much as the first three. Ric Ocasek was still wrting good tunes, and even the weaker material toward the end is so cleverly arranged that it jumps right out of the speakers and into your head. "Think It Over" and "Maybe Baby" would've been dumb songs in the hands of lesser musicians, but the Cars make them come alive. "Maybe Baby" is the only song where David Robinson has a chance to cut loose on drums, and he attacks them with all the ferocity of a guy who has spent the entire album up till then playing with a drum machine.

There are two first-rate keyboard-driven slow songs on this album, "I'm Not the One" and "A Dream Away." "Since You're Gone" is one of the funniest, most fatalistic songs Ocasek ever wrote, and "Cruiser" is a great crunching rocker in the tradition of "Candy-0." Some people hate the title song, but I've always loved it.

Yes, the Cars were less of a "rock" band here, but being a "rock" band was never the point anyway. They always walked both sides of the line between rock and new wave. They just chose to be more of a new wave band with this album. And it worked out just fine, as far as I'm concerned.

Check out the words.......2005-01-24

A long time ago, I bought this record, not the CD. The Cars were a group that I considered popular. I know some of the songs were on the radio and eventually I saw a great music video of "You Might Think" that seemed as witty as anything that was on TV that week, but I was mainly buying records that appealed to me in a weird way, and The Cars always seemed to be weird enough for me. By the time "Shake It Up" came out in 1981, I might have read that their experimental efforts had flopped and The Cars were sticking with a simple format that worked for them in the past; so the title "Shake It Up" was meant in a mild way. The words tended to seem hypothetical, particularly in the song "This Could Be Love" :

. . . more than you want me to

till i met you in the dark
i was chasing little sparks
when you think you're going to sink
comes someone you wouldn't think
is this the kill
is this the thrill
i'll wait until you say
this could be love

Which is followed by a song called "Think It Over." The poetry is magically evasive, totally eschewing concrete images, calling a song "Maybe Baby." The tragic element is destiny for the victim of love :

framed by the night touched by the glove
you're the victim victim of love.

There might be a greatest hits CD with a lot more Cars songs that radio listeners would recognize, but this collection of nine songs in 1981 was the set I could even buy a book of music for and try to play and sing in simple beginner fashion. The sounds on the record were never as simple as what was in the book, but the music worked well at that level. Actually learning these songs was much better than just hearing them on the radio, and we all ought to be grateful that Ric Ocasek came up with so many songs that fans of popular culture could enjoy, even if our understanding was a bit vague.

Doesn't this disc need RE-MASTERING?!?.......2004-08-15

I appreciate the content-based reviews, but some of us are long-time Cars fans who made their minds up about the songs many years ago. The question is, is this compact-disc everything it could be in terms of SOUND REPRODUCTION?

Regrettably not. The Cars albums were initially "dumped" to CD back in the early 90s, and it took a long time for the first three albums to be decently re-mastered. (Sadly, ART and LYRIC reproduction still has not been handled properly! Each new CD version looks exactly like the older, worse version!) As far as I can tell, Shake It Up and Heartbeat City have never been properly transferred. In other words -- they sound terrible.

Seems the problem is, Elektra's out of business. Certaintly, it's not a question of The Cars being able to sell records, since they ALWAYS DID, FROM DAY ONE. It's just not fair.

Somebody, please, obtain the rights and do The Cars right! Don't these pioneers of 80s sound quality deserve modern reproduction?

Shake It Up.......2004-08-13

A little more light-hearted this time around, a year after the darker textures of Panorama. Shake It Up is a wonderful album that's sometimes forgotten, stuck between their "commercial disappointment album" and their "commercial smash album". It all starts out with one of the band's most memorable tunes, 'Since You're Gone', with Ric Ocasek's charming rhymes and Elliot Easton's faux E-Bow solo. A true classic. The title track is also a true classic, featuring a neo-doo-wop groove that remains the Cars' most danceable tune. 'I'm Not The One' is a simply incredible ballad, one of their best. It wasn't released as a single until 1986, as a remixed version from the Greatest Hits album. The original is better, with yet another wonderful synth solo by the band's secret weapon, Greg Hawkes. It sounds downright gothic. 'Victim Of Love' is a more light-hearted ditty. I love Hawkes' giddy synth touches on this one. 'Cruiser' is an awesome rocker, a perfect cruising song, naturally. I haven't owned this album for very long, and 'Cruiser' has already become one of my favorite Cars songs, along with the next song, 'A Dream Away'. This song is astounding; a great mood created by a driving synth line and synthesized drums, coupled with Ric's moody voice and lyrics. Probably my favorite song on the album. 'This Could Be Love' is another moody ballad, and a great one at that. Could've made a good single, too. 'Think It Over' has a bit different sound for the Cars. Despite the synths, it feels a little more rockabilly than usual. Ben Orr's vocal, as usual, make this song jump from good to great. "Everytime you run around, it makes me wanna pop". Also would've made a great single. 'Maybe Baby' is a driving Ric Ocasek rocker with some pretty slick percussion. And that's the end of this short but sweet Cars album, their one and only album cut at their own custom studio, Syncro Sound in Boston. I wonder whatever happened to that place? Anyway, Shake It Up remains one of the Cars' more light, enjoyable albums and I never tire of it.

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The Best
I Love Boney but this combo is absolutel great
Oh Yea
One of the Best
Boney James + RIck Braun = EXCELLENT

Shake It Up
Boney James & Rick Braun
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004TCP4
Release Date: 2000-05-30

Tracks:

R.S.V.P.
Grazin' In The Grass
More Than You Know
Shake It Up
Central Ave.
Love's Like That
Song For My Father
Chain Reaction
The Stars Above
Grazin' In The Grass (Can You Dig It? Vocal)

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From Bob James and David Sanborn's Grammy-winning Double Vision to George Benson and Earl Klugh's Collaboration, Warner Bros. Records has released some of the greatest duo projects in smooth jazz. With Rick Braun and Boney James's Shake It Up, the label's tandem projects have hit a new plateau, pairing Braun's jazzy trumpet sensibilities with James's ultra-funk saxophone dynamics. The album title reflects the way the two bounce off and drive each other to artistic heights beyond either's typical solo work. The two horns dance over a shuffle beat and simmering blues keyboard textures on the opening track, "RSVP," first soaring in perfect unison, then breaking for back-and-forth conversation between James's lower smoky tone and Braun's higher-pitched crackling. Their musical chatter builds slowly, culminating in a powerful end chorus. Similarly celebratory are two versions (one vocal) of the jubilant horn hit "Grazin' in the Grass," which features the two swaying as one over jumpy retro guitar and keyboard parts, then blasting off into percussive improvisations. The disc's gentler moments are equally remarkable, notably the silky "More Than You Know" (in which Braun introduces a tender thought and waits for James to complete it) and a smoky, gently grooving cover of Horace Silver's "Song for My Father." --Jonathan Widran

Customer Reviews:

The Best.......2007-01-11

I have ordered many times from Amazons sellers and have never had a bad experience. All orders have been just what was stated. I have come to rely on Amazon and at this point would not even consider ordering from anyone else.
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I Love Boney but this combo is absolutel great .......2005-02-01

One of my favorite Smooth Jazz CD's I own !!
The combo for Boney's Sax folowed up with Rick's Horn is truly wondefull. 1+1 = 2 Man! check it out

Oh Yea.......2004-05-03

I heard this whole CD playin non-stop on some radio station in Dallas and just had to find it. I'm usually more into regular jazz as opposed to smooth jazz, but Rick Braun(trumpet) and Boney James(sax) working together like they do in this album is great. I especially enjoy the remakes of the Freind Of Distinction's Grazin in the grass. Cool, Cool stuff. May God bless us all.

One of the Best.......2004-02-20

Let me get right to it: this is one of the five greatest smooth jazz albums of all time. There, I said it. Why should you get this record?

First off, even though it is "smooth" or "contemporary jazz" and is played at a very high level, this music is surprisingly accessible. Simply great hooks, fattt beats, and a collaborative vibe that is infectious.

Moreover, the cover art and liner notes are tastefully done, as is the clever title.

Very much a genre benchmark.

Boney James + RIck Braun = EXCELLENT.......2004-01-02

This is the best smooth jazz collaboration CD I have ever heard. On this disc you get Rick Braun, who himself is a great trumpet player along side Boney James. Boney himself is as smooth of a sax player as you can get. This 2000 realese is very well produced. The two often times take on a song together and never do a song alone. Although there are quite a few a slow songs, the tempo is always raised when a fast one comes on. Key tracks include "R.S.V.P.", "Shakin' It Up", and "Grand Central."

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Modern Rock 1982-1983
1. Down Under -- Men At Work 2. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) -- Eurythmics 3. Come On Eileen -- Dexy's Midnight Runners 4. Hungry Like The Wolf -- Duran Duran 5. Shake It Up -- The Cars various artists , 6. She Blinded Me With Science -- Thomas Dolby 7. Too Shy -- Kajagoogoo 8. (She's) Sexy + 17 -- Stray Cats 9. Steppin' Out -- Joe Jackson 10. In A Big Country -- Big Country , 11. Love My Way -- The Psychedelic Furs 12. Mexican Radio -- Wall Of Voodoo Track Title 1. True -- Spandau Ballet 2. One Thing Leads To Another -- The Fixx , 3. Back On The Chain Gang -- The Pretenders 4. Vacation -- The Go-Go's 5. Love Plus One -- Haircut 100 6. I Want Candy -- Bow Wow Wow 7. Our House -- Madness 8. Always Something There To Remind Me -- Naked Eyes , and 9. Only The Lonely -- The Motels 10. I Ran (So Far Away) -- A Flock Of Seagulls 11. Goody Two Shoes -- Adam Ant 12. I Know What Boys Like -- Waitresses
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000NHZHKS

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Year: 1982 Track Title 1. Down Under -- Men At Work 2. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) -- Eurythmics 3. Come On Eileen -- Dexy's Midnight Runners 4. Hungry Like The Wolf -- Duran Duran 5. Shake It Up -- The Cars 6. She Blinded Me With Science -- Thomas Dolby 7. Too Shy -- Kajagoogoo 8. (She's) Sexy + 17 -- Stray Cats 9. Steppin' Out -- Joe Jackson 10. In A Big Country -- Big Country 11. Love My Way -- The Psychedelic Furs 12. Mexican Radio -- Wall Of Voodoo Track Title 1. True -- Spandau Ballet 2. One Thing Leads To Another -- The Fixx 3. Back On The Chain Gang -- The Pretenders 4. Vacation -- The Go-Go's 5. Love Plus One -- Haircut 100 6. I Want Candy -- Bow Wow Wow 7. Our House -- Madness 8. Always Something There To Remind Me -- Naked Eyes 9. Only The Lonely -- The Motels 10. I Ran (So Far Away) -- A Flock Of Seagulls 11. Goody Two Shoes -- Adam Ant 12. I Know What Boys Like -- Waitresses

D.I.Y.: Shake It Up: American Power Pop II (1978-80)

Average customer rating:

great pop tunes for aficionados
A few songs worth having on CD.

D.I.Y.: Shake It Up: American Power Pop II (1978-80)
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008F4O
Release Date: 1993-02-16

Tracks:

Shake It Up (Ain't It Time) - Cryers
I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - The Rubinoos
(I Thought) You Wanted to Know - Chris Stamey, The dB's
First One [*] - Gary Valentine
Love You Tonight [*] - Prix
Giving It All [*] - 20
Tell It to Carrie - The Romantics
Tomorrow Night - Shoes
Yellow Pills - 20, 20/20
Walking Out on Love [*] - The Beat
Too Late - Shoes
Work-A-Day World - The Beat
Waiting for the Night [*] - The Pop
You Got It (Release It) - Pearl Harbour & the Explosions
Stay in Time - Off Broadway,
What I Like About You - The Romantics
Zero Hour - The Plimsouls
I Like Girls - Know
Tell That Girl to Shut Up - Holly, Holly & the Italians,

Customer Reviews:

great pop tunes for aficionados.......2006-04-25

well all the title in this cd released in between 78 and 80 the heyday of power pop movement!
all the majors contribution are there, the shoes, the paul collins beat etc. anyway this one must be have more succes than he deserve!
well you can buy with confidence! trust!!!

A few songs worth having on CD........2005-03-12

Fair compilation, not as good as a lot of other Power Pop discs
It is worth buying for The Cryers, The Rubinoos, 20/20, The Shoes, Chris Stamey and the dBs early single, the Plimsouls - Zero Hour is great, and who wouldn't want Holly and the Italians - Tell That Girl to Shut Up. If you already have most of these songs from your other records don't bother buying this one since the rest here are easily forgettable.
I would get Lost Weekend: A Celebration of Australia instead.

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shakin all over

I Heard It on NPR: Shake These Blues
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Npr National Public
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000D8L3H
Release Date: 2003-10-14

Tracks:

St. Louis Blues (Bessie Smith w/Louis Armstrong)
Mannish Boy (Muddy Waters)
Good Morning Little School Girl (Fred McDowell)
No Gettin'Over You (Bonnie Raitt)
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Customer Reviews:

shakin all over.......2003-10-18

There are some great surprises on this compilation. Some of the tracks are classic blues tunes but are not played by the same old artists you hear doing them every time. My favorite cut is a fine rendition of "How Long Before I Change My Clothes" by Alvin Youngblood Hart. There's lots of great archieval stuff on here but some sweet tunes by newer artists as well.

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Perfectly realized classic R&B
I can't shake it off!!!
Amazing CD!
Good CD, lots of variety
Impressive!

Shake It Off
Jarvis Church
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006BXFX
Release Date: 2002-07-03

Tracks:

Shake It Off
She's In Love With You
Who Will Be Your Man
Fine Line
That Old Love Song
Run For Your Life
If We Only Knew
So Amazing
Last Night Ever
Never Gonna Let You Go
She Kills Like A Soldier
All I Ever Wanted
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Customer Reviews:

Perfectly realized classic R&B.......2005-06-21

Jarvis Church (aka. Gerald Eaton, formerly of The Philosopher Kings and the Co-Producer whiz behind both of Nelly Furtado's albums) simply made the Summer of 2002 for my ears when I first heard promos of "Shake it Off" bubbling out of the radio as I drove through the streets of Toronto (his Monkier comes from an intersection near where he lived in the City at that time - Javis and Church Streets). I picked up the release on it's first day and it did not dissapoint. From the deep groove of the title track; the classic Track & Field intricacy of "Who Will Be Your Man"; the simple, beautiful and romantic, 'That Old Love Song"; and on throughout the entire release - there isn't a track that dissapoints. Highlights include the tunes mentioned above, "Run for Your Life" (featuring Esthero's breakout rap), "Last Night Ever" and "She Kills Like a Soldier".

RCA really messed up the promotion of this release in the US, but you still have a chance to learn what a lot of Canadians and a select few in the US know - Jarvis Church has created R&B for the ages with "Shake it Off."

I can't shake it off!!!.......2003-10-22

This is a fantastic cd....one of my all time favourites. His lyrics are great; they take you through every emotion. He is ahead of his time, a very thoughtful artist.... I hope he continues to make music....

Amazing CD!.......2003-04-27

Jarvis Church's "Shake it Off" is just one of those CD's that really stand out. I first heard of him, when I was living in NY, and I'm desperately trying to get his name out down south. Church's CD has so much variety on it, and I thoroughly enjoy his debut with another awesome Canadian Nelly Furtado. All of his songs have an amazing beat, whether they are fast, or have a slower soulful sound. He is the only one I know of that can infuse pop, r&b and soul together and do it well. He is original, and really catchy. His Jamaican roots are obvious in the CD as well. I strongly recommend "Shake it off" and I know there is more great stuff to come from Jarvis Church.

Good CD, lots of variety.......2002-10-13

Congrats to Jarvis on his debut CD.
An excellent melange of several genres of music.
I would classify most of his music as slow to fast pop.
Nothing too R&B or hip-hop, although the publicity
for his CD might allude to it. A touch of Reggae
in one of his tracks but that's about it.
I especially liked tracks 4-6, 11, and 13.
Jarvis (who was lead singer for the Philosopher Kings
back in the '90s) was highly undersold, especially in Canada
where he is from. Part of this, I believe, is from marketing himself as a rookie (with a new name) as opposed to a veteran with plenty of past successes and the producer behind Nelly Furtado. (his real name is Gerald Eaton, by the way)
Despite the lagging sales, I think it was an excellent CD
and worth a listen.

Impressive!.......2002-09-07

Wow! Some of the songs on this album are really hot, especially "Fine Line" and "Run for Your Life, which are danceable, fun, original and passionate (voices, "storylines", beats). This album also contains several ballads. I find some of them rather plain in comparaison to the aforementioned tracks (which is probably a matter of personal taste), but they are growing on me and Jarvis' voice is very nice, smooth and sexy on all the tracks. The beats are harmonious as well (pleasing blend of musical influences and styles). I can say that I am impressed with the guy's talent. He put out a very enjoyable album.

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Shake It Up! With Fruits and Veggies

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0007G8X0Q

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Tracks: 1. Shine 'Em Up! Keely Hawkes with the Shepherd & Lang Kids 2. Put A Little Sunshine In Your Mouth - James B. Coffey 3. We Will Fly Across The Sky - Meeka & Her Cool Cousins 4. Five A Day - Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer 5. I Wanna Eggplant - Stephen Patman 6. Tropical Fruit - Kelly & John Fumo 7. Gotta Eat More Fruit - Lori Moitie & Renard (RJ) Johnson 8. Eat A Rainbow - Cindy O'Connor 9. Fruit Boogie - Laura Freeman 10. Nature's Candy - Simon Gwilliam 11. Take Good Care of Yourself - Fred Koch & The Lil' Cow Band 12. Every Day of the Week - Steve Lorentzen & Eric Pagan 13. I Go Bananas - Monty Harper 14. Fruity Frambaloozie - Shana Banana 15. Veggie Rap - Wanye, Noriko & Ellington Peet 16. Peppers - Chris Buckley 17. I'll Take Them Anyway You Make Them - Chance Scoggins

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Get Your Number/Shake It Off
Mariah Carey
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000BM3YD2
Release Date: 2006-04-04

Tracks:

Get Your Number (Album Version)
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Secret Love (Album Version)
Get Your Number (Video)

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Mariah carey is the best selling female artist of all time, and what a year she's had! With worldwide sales now over 8 million and her last single 'don't forget about us' becoming her seventeenth #1 on billboard's hot 100, she's now set to continue her record breaking year with the next hit 'get your number'. Universal. 2006

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Mariah Carey is the Best Selling Female Artist of all Time, and What a Year She's Had! with Worldwide Sales Now Over Eight Million and her Single "Don't Forget About Us" Becoming her Seventeenth #1 on Billboard's Hot 100, She's Now Set to Continue her Record Breaking Year with the Next Hit "Get Your Number" from the Smash Album "The Emancipation of Mimi".

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Infectious.......2006-04-24

This is just one of many excellent tracks of Mariah's latest album "The Emancipation of Mimi". It's her alongside Jermaine Dupri, and immediately upon listening to it you know it's a hit. It's very fun, extremely catchy, and will probably be a big summer jam heard blaring out of car radios everywhere.

I bought the album when it came out last April and was constantly listening to this track. It will refuse to leave your head; it's the epitome of a good pop song: Fun, original, catchy, made to be sung along to.

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A Masterful Snapshot of the Past

The Okra Years
Ass Ponys
Manufacturer: Shake It (Hepcat)
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000EXZFQ2
Release Date: 2006-04-25

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Good with Guns
I Love Bob
Azalea
It's Not Happening
Ball Peen
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Julia Pastrana
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Her Father Was a Sailor
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All Tomorrow's Parties
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Mr. Superlove
Hey Swifty
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Thank You for the Roses
Ride Ramona
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Some Kind of Fun
Not Happy
Peanut

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A Masterful Snapshot of the Past.......2006-04-25

Okay, let's get this straight at the outset. The Ass Ponys were way, way, ahead of their time. They predated the whole `alternative-country' thing literally by years. Were all of their records released five years later than they were, I firmly believe they'd be much better known than they are now. As it stands, they're simply considered legends in the alt-country world, which isn't too shabby, and certainly isn't worth complaining over.

In November 1988, a new band called The Ass Ponys played their first show at the Top Hat in Newport, KY. Comprised of Chuck Cleaver and Dan Kleingers of Gomez (not the UK band), Randy Cheek of The Libertines (again, not the UK band) and John Erhardt, who previously had played primarily bluegrass music, the band quickly developed a small following presumably due to their unique sound and Cleaver's quirky tales of country life and woes of the destitute, all sang in a falsetto voice. A few gigs opening for national acts like Yo La Tengo followed and the band went into the studio to record their first album, Mr. Superlove, which was released in 1990.

More shows followed as the Cincinnati music scene picked up steam (these were the days of Afghan Whigs and Lazy), and the following grew. Another batch of songs were written, Dan left the band to pursue a career as a glass blower, and was replaced by Dave Morrison, who had never played in a band before. A second record was released, Grim, in 1992. The band toured with Pavement, and eventually was signed to A&M where they became minor one hit wonders before being unceremoniously dropped, only to release two critically acclaimed albums that nobody bought and to slowly fade from the national eye, while still occasionally playing in Cincinnati (the band also released a new song as part of a compilation last year), but those are all stories for some other time. The point of this is to discuss their latest release, and the first in a series of reissues of their back catalog by Shake-It Records, The Okra Years, named such for the time period that the band was on Columbus based Okra Records.

The 24 tracts on this two CD set capture the band at the height of their youthful exuberance, almost as if they didn't realize just how different what they were doing was. What's more, they've all been digitally restored and remastered allowing the listener to finally appreciate them for how great they are. Chuck Cleaver's songwriting is always top notch and these songs are no exception. Who else could write a heartfelt, truly sad song about real life sideshow freak Julia Pastrana or weave an equally somber tale of an obese man who died of a broken heart such as Azalea? Alternately, Cleaver manages to capture the feeling of boredom in a small town with Hey Swifty and the joys of being young and discovering the world in Ride Ramona. Complimenting the selection of songs from the two albums is a generous helping of previously unheard or rare originals and covers, notably a cover of the Velvet Underground's All Tomorrow's Parties and a surreal live cover of the New Bangs' Go Go Kitty that was recorded at that first Top Hat show on November 18th, 1988. Neither album is complete on this collection however, which will of course cause some fans to lament the fact that their personal favorite is absent. Cleaver unapologetically explains this by saying that the band simply doesn't like some of the songs anymore, so they've been excised. Makes sense, I suppose.

Liner notes explain in an easy to read casual manner the meanings of the songs, all written by Chuck Cleaver himself. Indeed, they read like your sitting at the bar talking to Chuck before the band takes the stage to play through a blistering set of all of your favorite songs from the last 15 years, and makes you realize just how humble and nice these guys are. Fans need no more motivation to buy this. They know just how bad the mixing on those first two records could be, and to actually be able to clearly understand the lyrics and to hear the songs without having to turn up the volume on their stereo considerably is worth the purchase price alone. The real joy in this release and those that will follow it however, is that the Ass Ponys are an extremely good band, and they deserve to be heard, yet, all of their albums are out of print. Now a new audience can discover the songs of an amazingly talented band that always refused to compromise their artistic vision and standard for quality and were eventually, like so many bands, damned for it. It's hard not to applaud that, and think that sometime, maybe years from now, people will realize just how important The Ass Ponys were.

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