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Shake Some Action

Flamin' Groovies | Format: Audio CD
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (26 July 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Dbk Works
  • ASIN: B0009OORH4
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 457,630 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An Absolute Classic 7 Oct 2001
By Steven LeBeau
Format:Audio CD
Shake Some Action by the Flamin' Groovies is probably one of the best albums you've never heard. At the time it came out in the mid-seventies, it had to compete not only with other "power-pop" albums by artists such as Badfinger and Raspberries, but also with bands and artists representing the then-popular "California Sound" of Jackson Browne, The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, etc. Besides, music hadn't sounded like this for about ten years. The Groovies' music has always been about ten years behind the times, thus insuring their place in cult rock history. However, few "retro-rock" albums are quite this stunning: paired with Dave Edmunds (one of rock's great traditionalists), the Groovies created one of the best British Invasion album of the 60s, ten years after the fact. The album is split pretty evenly between covers and originals, with standouts being the anthemic title track, "Please Please Girl", "You Tore Me Down", and the album closer "I Can't Hide", but these are just icing on the cake. It's unfortunate, then, that this album seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Flamin' Great! 27 July 2007
By Anthony Clark
Format:Audio CD
Shake Some Action - possibly the finest `forgotten' album overlooked by the buying public - has a timeless quality regardless of being more than 30 years old.
Despite a strong reliance on a Beatles/Stones/Byrds vibe the band manages to infuse its own character into a clutch of covers that bulk up an album that also includes some fantastic originals.
The title track is simply a fantastic slice of guitar-driven pop music, and You Tore Me Down and I Can't Hide reach a similar peak of rock `n' roll purity.
The main problem with Shake Some Action is the production. Despite having Dave Edmunds at the controls, the recording is often a little weak and sometimes even murky. A proper remastering would improve things dramatically but don't let that put you off. This is a great collection of 60s-infused, guitar-based pop music - sunny harmonies, chiming chords and thumping drums. Totally Groovy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Seminal Recording 9 Mar 2012
By Keith M TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
My feelings about this 1976 masterwork by San Francisco's own Flamin' Groovies are perhaps summed up by the liner notes to the album where it states 'It's impossible to describe to those who weren't there to imagine just how refreshing Shake Some Action sounded in the summer of 1976'. But, whilst there is probably some truth in this contention (having owned the album since its release), I don't believe it is possible not to be moved by this album of inspirational music.

Whilst the Groovies' straight rock n'roll influences were more to the fore on the earlier albums Flamingo and Teenage Head, Shake Some Action is, for me, the closest that any 'post-70s' band got to recreating a magnificent wall of sound (a la Phil Spector), more so than the oft-cited influences for this record of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones (who? I hear you ask - OK, I admit that the 1972 classic Groovies' single Slow Death has hints of the Stones). That the band were able to produce such an invigorating sound is due in no small part to legendary producer Dave Edmunds, at whose Rockfield Studios in South Wales Shake Some Action was recorded (incidentally, the same location - but with a different producer - at which another (similarly soul/R&B-inspired) masterpiece was recorded, Graham Parker and The Rumour's Heat Treatment).

This album is a mix of 8 band (i.e. Cyril Jordan and Chris Wilson-composed) originals and 6 covers. Of the originals, of course the title track and album opener is probably the most renowned, being a (surprisingly short) epic of 4 minutes 30 seconds of pure poetry, kicked off by Messrs. Wilson and Jordan's guitars in unison playing one of the most stunning song openings ever recorded.... Read more ›
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Not what you might think 25 May 2007
By KRL
Format:Audio CD
Note that this is not the original 1976 album. In fact, it consists of tracks recorded in the 90s - a mixture of re-recordings of some old tracks (including 3 from the 'real' "Shake Some Action") and some new material. It's quite good, but hardly classic era Groovies.
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