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The Cars Shake It Up - Original Master Recording 180 Gram - Sealed US vinyl LP album (LP record)
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| Tracklisting / Additional Info: |
1981 Cars Album Is a New-Wave Landmark: Shake It Up Features Smash Title Track and Production by Roy Thomas Baker
Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition 180g 33RPM LP Delivers Ric Okasek and
Company's Rebound Effort in Audiophile Sound
1/4" / 15 IPS analog master direct to lathe
Shake It Up plays witness to primary songwriter/vocalist Ric Ocasek's increased cynicism and biting wit. While the Cars never took a rosy-eyed view of romance, the songs here impart a newfound sense of sympathy, regret, limbo, and reservation. The beauty of the Cars – and all ten tunes here – is that the music suggests something else entirely. Such subliminal emotions and dynamic contrasts act as a magnet, and the band plays as if it's in on the secret.
As Robert Christgau observed: “They've always cultivated a dark side--girls make boys want to end it all even after the boys have grown up. They've always basked in the shadow of Roxy Music, too. But they've never been so stylishly nightmarish--except for the title cut, even the fast ones don't aim for fun.”
Apart from the party vibe of the title cut, the Cars aim for deeper targets and smarter undertones. Shake It Up is defined by an urban edginess and modern feel that comes alive on tunes such as "Cruiser" and circular "I'm Not the One," a pop gem laded with stacked vocals and keyboard lines that double as a horn section. The band's arrangements have never been better – or more involved. Absent the cheesiness that would mar the group's late-period work, the songs ride on the strength of keyboard-heavy lines and layered harmonies. You will not be disappointed.
Sourced from the original analog tapes and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition 180g LP focuses on the myriad pitch changes that control the musical directions. Recorded at the band’s Synchro Sound studios by famed Queen producer Roy Thomas Baker, the album takes advantage of electronic textures and varying timbres in immersing the listener in accessible albeit abstract washes of sound.
Side One
1. Since You're Gone
2. Shake It Up
3. I'm Not the One
4. Victim of Love
5. Cruiser
Side Two
1. A Dream Away
2. This Could Be Love
3. Think it Over
4. Maybe Baby
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| Condition : |
Factory sealed from new. This item is unplayed. Click here for more info. |
| Availability: |
In Stock - Buy Now for shipping on Wednesday 10th December
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| Year of Release: |
2009 |
| Artist: |
The Cars (click here for complete listing) |
| Title: |
Shake It Up (click here for more of the same title) |
| Price: |
£ 59.99, US$ 79.79
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| Format: |
vinyl LP album (LP record) |
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| Record Label: |
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab |
| Catalogue No: |
MFSL1-325 |
| Country of Origin: |
USA
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| Language: |
Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. |
| Date of Release: |
Unconfirmed
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| EIL.COM Ref No |
C-RLPSH873941 (quote this reference in any e-mails, letters, faxes or phone calls to help identify this item) |
| Barcode : |
821797132510 |
| Genres: |
80's Pop, POP
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| Related Artists: |
Benjamin Orr, Ric Ocasek |
| Complete Stock List: |
The Cars |
| email: |
sales@eil.com to contact our sales team. |
| Alternative Names: |
None |
| To order by phone: |
Call +44 1474 815010 quoting EIL.COM reference number C-RLPSH873941 |
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