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| Artist: The Cars
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $7.98
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 8559
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 567
UPC: 075596058520
EAN: 0075596058520
ASIN: B000002GXD
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Since You're Gone | | • | Shake It Up | | • | I'm Not the One | | • | Victim of Love | | • | Cruiser | | • | A Dream Away | | • | This Could Be Love - The Cars, Hawkes, Greg | | • | Think It Over | | • | Maybe Baby |
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| Customer Reviews:
 better then I remember February 10, 2008
Andy
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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
 In the back of the Cars September 26, 2007
J. Summers (Chandler, AZ United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While this CD will never be classified as one of The Cars best, it has enough to make it a disc that I reach for when driving with the top down. The music brings back memories of a simpler time and after a couple of tracks I find my stress level subsiding. Maybe I am just getting older but I thought when it first came out Shake It Up had a brighter sound. This version the music seemed a little more muted. Overall though it has found a place in my CD rotation.
Solid songs carry this not too extensive CD October 14, 2006
Benito Vasquez (Naperville, Il)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 August 10, 2006
Greg Cleary (Marquette, MI United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 January 24, 2005
Bruce P. Barten (Saint Paul, MN United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
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