Shake It Up

What Elliot Easton does with the real estate he has given is, is remarkable.

I've always said my favorite guitar solo of all time is his guitar solo in Shake It Up, which is not on this record, but he does every possible permutation or machination on a guitar in that solo within a measure.

And you get the beginnings of that on this record.

So that leads me, before we get into the tracks, asking you one more key question.

And, and some of the later cars albums too, you know, like panorama, their, their third album is like a pretty avant-garde record.

It's pretty difficult.

I mean, you know, they kind of reverted to making, you know, you mentioned that song, shake it up.

Like their fourth record is called shake it up.

Round and round, still taking all the heat

Yeah, I'm not sure that song was ever even released off of 1981's Shake It Up or not.

I had that, so it's very feasible that we just have that going here.

Did it ever do anything, that song? Um, let's see.

so it's panorama kind of like uh precursor to heartbeat city because i love heartbeat city

Yeah, it went Panorama, Shake It Up, Heartbeat City.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Panorama, 1980.

Shake It Up, 82.

Heartbeat City, 84.

And honestly, I think they're probably one of the greatest new wave bands of all time.

I got into them physically, and by this I mean my first album was Shake It Up.

I got that from where? Columbia House and Record and Tape Club.

One red

This is like Bad Company's first album, their debut, just like loaded with hits across the board, albeit completely different style of music.

And it wasn't even like their biggest album.

You know, I mean, Shake It Up has Since You're Gone, Shake It Up.

But then Heartbeat City, you know, is probably, I'm guessing that, I don't know, maybe the first album.

I just was even tentative about saying that at first.

Like, did I have a Cars record? Did I buy Shake It Up at the Harvard Coupe the day it came out? Of course I did.

Like, I mean, so...

But I tread so lightly upon this and I learned from talking to you and from your wise counsel to like bring him into the conversation.