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'''''Shake Some Action''''' is the fourth studio album by American [[rock music|rock]] band the [[Flamin' Groovies]]. The album was released in June 1976 by [[Sire Records]]. The title ''Shake Some Action'' originates from a line in the 1965 film ''[[None but the Brave]]''.<ref name="Chronicle">{{cite news |url=http://www.chron.com/entertainment/music/article/Flamin-Groovies-frontman-remembers-5441859.php |title=Flamin' Groovies frontman remembers not-so-psychedelic '60s |work=[[Houston Chronicle]] |date=April 30, 2014 |accessdate=November 20, 2015 |last=Dansby |first=Andrew}}</ref>
'''''Shake Some Action''''' is the fourth studio album by American [[rock music|rock]] band the [[Flamin' Groovies]]. The album was released in June 1976 by [[Sire Records]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rhino.com/aod/shake-some-action-the-flamin-groovies|title = Shake Some Action &#124; Rhino| date=13 April 2015 }}</ref> The title ''Shake Some Action'' originates from a line in the 1965 film ''[[None but the Brave]]''.<ref name="Chronicle">{{cite news |url=http://www.chron.com/entertainment/music/article/Flamin-Groovies-frontman-remembers-5441859.php |title=Flamin' Groovies frontman remembers not-so-psychedelic '60s |work=[[Houston Chronicle]] |date=April 30, 2014 |accessdate=November 20, 2015 |last=Dansby |first=Andrew}}</ref>


==Background and recording==
==Background and recording==
''Shake Some Action'' was the first album by the newly reconstituted version of the Flamin' Groovies, who had returned from a five-year hiatus during which lead singer Roy Loney departed the band, leaving guitarist [[Cyril Jordan]] as its de facto leader.<ref name="Allmusic"/> During that period, the Groovies had released [[A Bucket of Brains|three singles]], all recorded in 1972 while the band was living in the UK, under contract to [[United Artists Records]], and being produced by [[Dave Edmunds]].<ref name="Slow">Jordan, Cyril. Liner notes to ''Slow Death'' (2002). Retrieved 5 December 2017.</ref> Two of the songs from those sessions (the title track and "You Tore Me Down") eventually ended up on this album.<ref name="Slow" /> The band drastically reshaped their musical style, stripping down the [[blues music|blues]] and [[rockabilly]] influences of their previous work in favor of a more retro, guitar-oriented [[power pop]] style emulating that of the 1960s [[British Invasion]] scene.<ref name="Allmusic"/><ref name="Reynolds">{{cite book |title=Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past |publisher=[[Faber and Faber]] |isbn=978-0-86547-994-4 |pages=260–61 |last=Reynolds |first=Simon |authorlink=Simon Reynolds}}</ref> The new band took to wearing velvet-collared three-piece suits and [[High-heeled footwear#Men and heels|Cuban heels]] in an attempt to recreate the fashion sense of the era.<ref name="Reynolds"/> In an interview with ''ZigZag'' magazine, Jordan stated that the band "just wanted to get back to the flash of that era, which were the best years, as far as I'm concerned."<ref name="Reynolds"/>
''Shake Some Action'' was the first album by the newly reconstituted version of the Flamin' Groovies, who had returned from a five-year hiatus during which lead singer [[Roy Loney]] departed the band, leaving guitarist [[Cyril Jordan]] as its de facto leader.<ref name="Allmusic" /> During that period, the Groovies had released [[A Bucket of Brains|three singles]], all recorded in 1972 while the band was living in the UK, under contract to [[United Artists Records]], and being produced by [[Dave Edmunds]].<ref name="Slow">Jordan, Cyril. Liner notes to ''Slow Death'' (2002). Retrieved 5 December 2017.</ref> Two of the songs from those sessions (the title track and "You Tore Me Down") eventually ended up on this album.<ref name="Slow" /> The band drastically reshaped their musical style, stripping down the [[blues music|blues]] and [[rockabilly]] influences of their previous work in favor of a more retro, guitar-oriented [[power pop]] style emulating that of the 1960s [[British Invasion]] scene.<ref name="Allmusic"/><ref name="Reynolds">{{cite book |title=Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past |last=Reynolds |first=Simon |author-link=Simon Reynolds |publisher=[[Faber and Faber]] |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-86547-994-4 |pages=260–61}}</ref> The new band took to wearing velvet-collared three-piece suits and [[High-heeled footwear#Men and heels|Cuban heels]] in an attempt to recreate the fashion sense of the era.<ref name="Reynolds"/> In an interview with ''[[ZigZag (magazine)|ZigZag]]'' magazine, Jordan stated that the band "just wanted to get back to the flash of that era, which were the best years, as far as I'm concerned."<ref name="Reynolds"/>


==Release and reception==
==Release and reception==
{{Album ratings
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/shake-some-action-mw0000197755 |title=Shake Some Action – Flamin' Groovies |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |accessdate=August 13, 2015 |last=Deming |first=Mark}}</ref>
| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/shake-some-action-mw0000197755 |title=Shake Some Action – Flamin' Groovies |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |accessdate=August 13, 2015 |last=Deming |first=Mark}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]] |last=Larkin |first=Colin |authorlink=Colin Larkin (writer) |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |edition=5th concise |year=2011 |isbn=0-85712-595-8}}</ref>
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Flamin' Groovies |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |edition=5th concise |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-85712-595-8}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev3 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev3Score = 8.5/10<ref name="Pitchfork">{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/3286-shake-some-action/ |title=Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action |work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=September 5, 2005 |accessdate=August 13, 2015 |last=Tangari |first=Joe}}</ref>
| rev3score = 8.5/10<ref name="Pitchfork">{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/3286-shake-some-action/ |title=Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action |work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=September 5, 2005 |accessdate=August 13, 2015 |last=Tangari |first=Joe}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev4 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/194356/shake_some_action |title=Shake Some Action: Flamin' Groovies |work=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=August 25, 2005 |accessdate=August 13, 2015 |last=Fields |first=Gaylord |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310201851/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/194356/shake_some_action |archivedate=March 10, 2007}}</ref>
| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/194356/shake_some_action |title=Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=August 25, 2005 |accessdate=August 13, 2015 |last=Fields |first=Gaylord |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310201851/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/194356/shake_some_action |archive-date=March 10, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev5 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Flamin' Groovies |last=Sisario |first=Ben |title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=301–02}}</ref>
| rev5score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Flamin' Groovies |last=Sisario |first=Ben |author-link=Ben Sisario |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor1-link=Nathan Brackett |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |editor2-link=Christian Hoard |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/301 301–02]}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev6 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev6Score = B<ref name="Christgau">{{cite news |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv11b-76.php |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide |work=[[The Village Voice]] |date=November 22, 1976 |accessdate=August 13, 2015 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |authorlink=Robert Christgau}}</ref>
| rev6score = B<ref name="Christgau">{{cite news |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv11b-76.php |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide |work=[[The Village Voice]] |date=November 22, 1976 |accessdate=August 13, 2015 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau}}</ref>
}}
}}
In a contemporary review of ''Shake Some Action'', [[Robert Christgau]] of ''[[The Village Voice]]'' felt that the Flamin' Groovies, deprived of Roy Loney and having remodelled themselves as "an English pop-revival band", now "get their kicks playing dumb", and that while the album contained good songs, "only cultists will ever hear them."<ref name="Christgau"/> In the United States, ''Shake Some Action'' reached number 142 on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Billboard 200|albums chart]]. The album was released to a much greater reception in the United Kingdom, then in the early stages of the [[punk rock|punk]] era.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/flamin-groovies-mn0000180263/biography |title=Flamin' Groovies – Biography |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |accessdate=August 13, 2015 |last=Dougan |first=John}}</ref> Newly based in England, the reformed Flamin' Groovies found itself aligned with the burgeoning punk scene, along with the likes of bands such as the [[Ramones]] and the [[Sex Pistols]].<ref name="Chronicle"/>
In a contemporary review of ''Shake Some Action'', [[Robert Christgau]] of ''[[The Village Voice]]'' felt that the Flamin' Groovies, without Roy Loney and having remodelled themselves as "an English pop-revival band", now "get their kicks playing dumb", and that while the album contained good songs, "only cultists will ever hear them."<ref name="Christgau"/> In the United States, ''Shake Some Action'' reached number 142 on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Billboard 200|albums chart]]. The album was released to a much greater reception in the United Kingdom, then in the early stages of the [[punk rock|punk]] era.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://blurtonline.com/feature/shake-action-flamin-groovies/ |title=Shake Some Action Once More |magazine=[[Blurt (magazine)|Blurt]] |date=November 14, 2013 |accessdate=August 17, 2019 |last=Mills |first=Fred}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/flamin-groovies-mn0000180263/biography |title=Flamin' Groovies |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |accessdate=August 13, 2015 |last=Dougan |first=John}}</ref> Newly based in England, the reformed Flamin' Groovies found itself aligned with the burgeoning punk scene, along with the likes of bands such as the [[Ramones]] and the [[Sex Pistols]].<ref name="Chronicle"/>


Retrospectively, Ian S. Port of ''[[San Francisco Weekly]]'' states that ''Shake Some Action'' "influenced the rise of power pop and punk in America, and remains a vital document of that era."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/fire-still-burns-the-flamin-groovies-return-to-shake-some-action-again/Content?oid=2826655 |title=Fire Still Burns: The Flamin' Groovies Return to Shake Some Action Again |work=[[San Francisco Weekly]] |date=July 12, 2013 |accessdate=November 20, 2015 |last=Port |first=Ian S.}}</ref> In a retrospective review of the album, Mark Deming of [[AllMusic]] opined that "if ''Shake Some Action'' was the first salvo from the new and improved Flamin' Groovies, it also demonstrated that this edition of the band had as much promise as the Loney-fronted group," calling the title track "a brilliant evocation of the adventurous side of British rock circa 1966&nbsp;... [which] by its lonesome served as a superb justification for The Groovies' new creative direction."<ref name="Allmusic"/> Joe Tangari of ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' wrote that ''Shake Some Action'' "is in every sense both a comeback and a re-invention, and it's been rightly championed by collectors and critics extolling its effortless pop perfection."<ref name="Pitchfork"/>
Retrospectively, Ian S. Port of ''[[San Francisco Weekly]]'' states that ''Shake Some Action'' "influenced the rise of power pop and punk in America, and remains a vital document of that era."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/fire-still-burns-the-flamin-groovies-return-to-shake-some-action-again/Content?oid=2826655 |title=Fire Still Burns: The Flamin' Groovies Return to Shake Some Action Again |work=[[San Francisco Weekly]] |date=July 12, 2013 |accessdate=November 20, 2015 |last=Port |first=Ian S.}}</ref> In a retrospective review of the album, Mark Deming of [[AllMusic]] opined that "if ''Shake Some Action'' was the first salvo from the new and improved Flamin' Groovies, it also demonstrated that this edition of the band had as much promise as the Loney-fronted group," calling the title track "a brilliant evocation of the adventurous side of British rock circa 1966&nbsp;... [which] by its lonesome served as a superb justification for The Groovies' new creative direction."<ref name="Allmusic"/> Joe Tangari of ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' wrote that ''Shake Some Action'' "is in every sense both a comeback and a re-invention, and it's been rightly championed by collectors and critics extolling its effortless pop perfection."<ref name="Pitchfork"/>
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In 2014, the title track was one of the ten selected by [[Greil Marcus]] for his book ''The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs'':
In 2014, the title track was one of the ten selected by [[Greil Marcus]] for his book ''The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs'':


<blockquote>In "Shake Some Action" everything is new, as if the secret [of rock 'n roll] had been discovered and the mystery solved on the spot...It's what the singer is afraid of losing defined now purely in the positive, as flight, as freedom, in [[Norman Mailer|Norman Mailer's]] words loose in the water for the first time in your life, because no matter how many times in how many pieces of music you are swept away as the instrumental passages in "Shake Some Action" can sweep you away, it's always the first time.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Marcus|first1=Greil|title=The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs|date=2014|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300187373}}</ref></blockquote>
{{blockquote|In "Shake Some Action" everything is new, as if the secret [of rock 'n roll] had been discovered and the mystery solved on the spot...It's what the singer is afraid of losing defined now purely in the positive, as flight, as freedom, in [[Norman Mailer|Norman Mailer's]] words loose in the water for the first time in your life, because no matter how many times in how many pieces of music you are swept away as the instrumental passages in "Shake Some Action" can sweep you away, it's always the first time.<ref>{{cite book |title=The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs |last=Marcus |first=Greil |author-link=Greil Marcus |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year=2014 |isbn=9780300187373 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofrocknro0000marc |url-access=registration}}</ref>}}


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
{{Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing = [[Cyril Jordan]] and [[Chris Wilson (guitarist)|Chris Wilson]] except where noted
| all_writing = [[Cyril Jordan]] and [[Chris Wilson (guitarist)|Chris Wilson]], except where noted
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| title1 = Shake Some Action
| title1 = Shake Some Action
| length1 = 4:34
| length1 = 4:34
| title2 = Sometimes
| title2 = [[Sometime (Gene Thomas song)|Sometimes]]
| writer2 = Gene Thomasson
| writer2 = [[Gene & Debbe|Thomasson]]
| length2 = 2:21
| length2 = 2:21
| title3 = Yes, It's True
| title3 = Yes, It's True
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==Personnel==
==Personnel==
;Flamin' Groovies
* Cyril Jordan - guitar, vocals
* [[Cyril Jordan]] – guitar, vocals
* Chris Wilson - vocals, guitar
* James Ferrell - guitar
* Chris Wilson – vocals, guitar
* James Ferrell – guitar
* George Alexander - bass
* George Alexander – bass
* David Wright - drums
* Danny Mihm - drums on 1, 5
* David Wright – drums
* Danny Mihm – drums on 1, 5


==Cover Versions==
==Cover versions==
The title song was covered by [[Cracker (band)|Cracker]] for the soundtrack to the 1995 film, ''[[Clueless (film)|Clueless]]''.
The title song was covered by [[Cracker (band)|Cracker]] for the soundtrack to the 1995 film ''[[Clueless (film)|Clueless]]''.<ref>[https://www.allmusic.com/album/clueless-mw0000644899 Clueless - Original Soundtrack|AllMusic]</ref> The [[Newtown Neurotics]] live album ''Kickstarting a Backfiring Nation'' features “Shake Some Action” redone as “Take Strike Action.”.<ref>[https://trouserpress.com/reviews/newtown-neurotics/ Jack Rabid, "Newtown Neurotics", Trouser Press]</ref>

[[Yo La Tengo]] performed "You Tore Me Down" on their album ''[[Fakebook (album)|Fakebook]]''.

[[The Hitmen]] have a recorded live version of the song on their compilation album ''Dancing Time '78-'79''. The take is from Live at The Local Inn, Ryde, September 1979.

[[Michael Monroe]] recorded Shake Some Action on his first solo album [[Nights Are So Long]] released in 1987.


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist|2}}
{{Reflist|2}}


==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAichz6F8oI Audio only video of the song ''Shake Some Action'' on YouTube]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cxM51kPdeQ Remastered audio only video of said song on YouTube]
*[https://www.rhino.com/aod/shake-some-action-the-flamin-groovies Official site at RHINO]
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{{Flamin' Groovies}}

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Latest revision as of 13:43, 24 February 2024

Shake Some Action
Studio album by
Flamin' Groovies
ReleasedJune 1976
Recorded1972–1976
StudioRockfield Studios, Monmouth, South Wales
Genre
Length35:56
LabelSire
ProducerDave Edmunds
Flamin' Groovies chronology
Teenage Head
(1971) 		Shake Some Action
(1976) 		Flamin' Groovies Now
(1978)

Shake Some Action is the fourth studio album by American rock band the Flamin' Groovies. The album was released in June 1976 by Sire Records.[1] The title Shake Some Action originates from a line in the 1965 film None but the Brave.[2]

Background and recording[edit]

Shake Some Action was the first album by the newly reconstituted version of the Flamin' Groovies, who had returned from a five-year hiatus during which lead singer Roy Loney departed the band, leaving guitarist Cyril Jordan as its de facto leader.[3] During that period, the Groovies had released three singles, all recorded in 1972 while the band was living in the UK, under contract to United Artists Records, and being produced by Dave Edmunds.[4] Two of the songs from those sessions (the title track and "You Tore Me Down") eventually ended up on this album.[4] The band drastically reshaped their musical style, stripping down the blues and rockabilly influences of their previous work in favor of a more retro, guitar-oriented power pop style emulating that of the 1960s British Invasion scene.[3][5] The new band took to wearing velvet-collared three-piece suits and Cuban heels in an attempt to recreate the fashion sense of the era.[5] In an interview with ZigZag magazine, Jordan stated that the band "just wanted to get back to the flash of that era, which were the best years, as far as I'm concerned."[5]

Release and reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[6]
Pitchfork8.5/10[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[9]
The Village VoiceB[10]

In a contemporary review of Shake Some Action, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice felt that the Flamin' Groovies, without Roy Loney and having remodelled themselves as "an English pop-revival band", now "get their kicks playing dumb", and that while the album contained good songs, "only cultists will ever hear them."[10] In the United States, Shake Some Action reached number 142 on the Billboard albums chart. The album was released to a much greater reception in the United Kingdom, then in the early stages of the punk era.[11][12] Newly based in England, the reformed Flamin' Groovies found itself aligned with the burgeoning punk scene, along with the likes of bands such as the Ramones and the Sex Pistols.[2]

Retrospectively, Ian S. Port of San Francisco Weekly states that Shake Some Action "influenced the rise of power pop and punk in America, and remains a vital document of that era."[13] In a retrospective review of the album, Mark Deming of AllMusic opined that "if Shake Some Action was the first salvo from the new and improved Flamin' Groovies, it also demonstrated that this edition of the band had as much promise as the Loney-fronted group," calling the title track "a brilliant evocation of the adventurous side of British rock circa 1966 ... [which] by its lonesome served as a superb justification for The Groovies' new creative direction."[3] Joe Tangari of Pitchfork wrote that Shake Some Action "is in every sense both a comeback and a re-invention, and it's been rightly championed by collectors and critics extolling its effortless pop perfection."[7]

In 2014, the title track was one of the ten selected by Greil Marcus for his book The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs:

In "Shake Some Action" everything is new, as if the secret [of rock 'n roll] had been discovered and the mystery solved on the spot...It's what the singer is afraid of losing defined now purely in the positive, as flight, as freedom, in Norman Mailer's words loose in the water for the first time in your life, because no matter how many times in how many pieces of music you are swept away as the instrumental passages in "Shake Some Action" can sweep you away, it's always the first time.[14]

Track listing[edit]

All tracks are written by Cyril Jordan and Chris Wilson, except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Shake Some Action" 4:34
2."Sometimes"Thomasson2:21
3."Yes, It's True" 2:29
4."St. Louis Blues"W. C. Handy2:39
5."You Tore Me Down" 2:50
6."Please Please Girl" 2:04
7."Let the Boy Rock 'n' Roll"Joe Butler, John Sebastian2:18
8."Don't You Lie to Me"Hudson Whittaker, Chuck Berry2:27
9."She Said Yeah"Roddy Jackson, Sonny Christy1:38
10."I'll Cry Alone" 2:15
11."Misery"John Lennon, Paul McCartney1:39
12."I Saw Her"Jordan, Mike Wilhelm, George Hunter2:41
13."Teenage Confidential" 2:45
14."I Can't Hide" 3:12

Personnel[edit]

Flamin' Groovies
  • Cyril Jordan – guitar, vocals
  • Chris Wilson – vocals, guitar
  • James Ferrell – guitar
  • George Alexander – bass
  • David Wright – drums
  • Danny Mihm – drums on 1, 5

Cover versions[edit]

The title song was covered by Cracker for the soundtrack to the 1995 film Clueless.[15] The Newtown Neurotics live album Kickstarting a Backfiring Nation features “Shake Some Action” redone as “Take Strike Action.”.[16]

Yo La Tengo performed "You Tore Me Down" on their album Fakebook.

The Hitmen have a recorded live version of the song on their compilation album Dancing Time '78-'79. The take is from Live at The Local Inn, Ryde, September 1979.

Michael Monroe recorded Shake Some Action on his first solo album Nights Are So Long released in 1987.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Shake Some Action | Rhino". 13 April 2015.
  2. ^ a b Dansby, Andrew (April 30, 2014). "Flamin' Groovies frontman remembers not-so-psychedelic '60s". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d Deming, Mark. "Shake Some Action – Flamin' Groovies". AllMusic. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  4. ^ a b Jordan, Cyril. Liner notes to Slow Death (2002). Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  5. ^ a b c Reynolds, Simon (2011). Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Faber and Faber. pp. 260–61. ISBN 978-0-86547-994-4.
  6. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). "Flamin' Groovies". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  7. ^ a b Tangari, Joe (September 5, 2005). "Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  8. ^ Fields, Gaylord (August 25, 2005). "Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on March 10, 2007. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  9. ^ Sisario, Ben (2004). "Flamin' Groovies". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 301–02. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  10. ^ a b Christgau, Robert (November 22, 1976). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  11. ^ Mills, Fred (November 14, 2013). "Shake Some Action Once More". Blurt. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
  12. ^ Dougan, John. "Flamin' Groovies". AllMusic. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  13. ^ Port, Ian S. (July 12, 2013). "Fire Still Burns: The Flamin' Groovies Return to Shake Some Action Again". San Francisco Weekly. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
  14. ^ Marcus, Greil (2014). The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300187373.
  15. ^ Clueless - Original Soundtrack|AllMusic
  16. ^ Jack Rabid, "Newtown Neurotics", Trouser Press

External links[edit]

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