All Shook Up [Import]

Cheap Trick | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 4, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00009WKXI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,638,992 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Stop This Game

2. Just Got Back

3. Baby Loves to Rock

4. Can't Stop It but I'm Gonna Try

5. World's Greatest Lover

6. Hight Priest of Rhythmic Noise

7. Love Comes A-Tumblin' Down

8. I Love You Honey but I Hate Your Friends

9. Go for the Throat (Use Your Own Imagination)

10. Who d' King

Editorial Reviews

Exclusive Japanese limited edition digitally remastered reissue of this 1980 album, packaged in a miniature LP sleeve featuring five bonus tracks: 'Everything Works If You Let It', 'Day Tripper' (Live), 'Can't Hold On' (Live), 'Such a Good Girl' (Live) and 'Take Me I'm Yours' (Live). CBS. 2006 --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Under-rated, May 12, 2006

By 

Count Spatula - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Shook Up (Exp) (Audio CD)

This album is a lot better than most people give it credit for, this from a musicians point of view - maybe it sounds different to me because I was a fan of the band from nearly the beginning. Another step down the "heavy production path" that was taking them farther away from their roots as a straight up rock band.

Still, you can't really go wrong with George Martin at the helm and Rick must've been in absolute heaven at this point of his life. Not only was he working with George Martin but around this same period he and Tom had worked with John Lennon on early recordings of Double Fantasy. I would have to assume Rick was on cloud 9 at about this time. The production is pretty lush, there is a consistency throughout the album that I really like. Even when there are strings they are not sappy arrangements like those found on the Dream Police album. The arrangements really fit the songs and this is what George Martin brings to the plate so well.

This re-mastered version "un-muddies" some of the tunes and brings back a broader spectrum of sound and better separation.

On to the songs -

Stop This Game - A really great song that sets the tone for the whole album - there's some great bass work by Tom Peterson going on throughout this song. It's very subtle but he sets some melodies of his own that play against some of vocal lines. Very cool.

Just Got Back - a very good rocker, if produced differently it would have fit well on Heaven Tonight

Baby Loves To Rock - pretty average. the best part is probably the solo section where Rick is doing his "Comedy Guitar" schtick and you get a nice earful of 12 string bass in one gap. You just never know about Rick Nielsen . . . . he's completely capable of tearing off fiery guitar solos where he can make the guitar wail and groan. . . . but sometimes he just likes to go corny and throw in a goof off solo. That's Rick.

Can't Stop It But I'm Gonna Try - This is actually a cool song. Under-rated. It's got a great melody to the verses and even a little snippet of the Donovan "Sunshine Superman" melody on the "and don't think I ever think about you" lines. I didn't care for the song much for years and then after years of not hearing it - I loved it.

World's Greatest Lover - well this is just an amazing song. Can't say enough about how moving and beatiful a love song this is.

High Priest Of Rythmic Noise - One of my 2 favorite songs on the album. This cacophony of organized mayhem is just one of the coolest tunes to crank up loud and shout along with in the car. Love the piano getting pounded on in the background wall of noise - complete chaos.

Love Comes A-Tumblin' Down - my OTHER favorite track on the album. This song shreds from the opening drum beats to Rick's "one note" solo. Robin's vocals just rip and the lyrics are a pastiche of classic 50's & 60's rock songs.

I Love You Honey But I Hate Your Friends - Don't care for the song itself much - but Tom Peterson just goes ape on bass on this one - and it's hard to miss since the bass is mixed right in your face throughout. Love the bass line, not crazy about the song.

Go For The Throat - not great. not poor. Tom's bass is front and center again and really takes the lead role.

Who d'King - Cheap Trick's answer to Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk". Kinda fun. I'm glad it's on there.

Then there are the Bonus Tracks from Found All the Parts.

Everything Works if You let It - is a fun pop tune.

Daytripper - ROCKS. It may be one of the best Beatles covers by anyone EVER.

Can't Hold On - is a great moody live track. A nicely written piece of music by Rick.

Such A Good Girl - Cheap Trick Pop the way few bands can write and sing it. So catchy you can't stand it.

Take Me I'm Yours - Very indicative of early, EARLY Cheap Trick when they were still "finding themselves". Not a bad song - not great.

All Shook Up may not be everyone's cup of tea but it has moments of pure rock brilliance with a consistent sound that ties it all together.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to Miss the Point about This CD, September 13, 2001

By 

John M. Brentar (Cleveland Heights, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Shook Up (Audio CD)

OK. Enough about trying to compare this album to other Cheap Trick efforts. Don't bother spewing mish-mash about Rick Nielson's sonic guitar playing or Bun E. Carlos' drumming.

The point here is that the album is a collection of marvelous pastiches/homages of other rock and pop performers. "World's Greatest Lover," for instance, is arguably the finest, most-straitforward tribute to John Lennon I can think of. And "I Love You Honey But Hate Your Friends" cannot be mistaken for anything other than a pointed burlesque of Rod Stewart.

The wackiest send-up is "Who Da King," which drags Fleetwood Mac and the USC Trojan band through the mud.

I invite you to listen to the album again (or for the first time, for that matter), with this question in mind: who's getting Cheap Tricked now? You might just end up laughing your butt off.

I did.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "...I Feel Just Great Again.", April 4, 2000

By 

T Cravens (Indy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Shook Up (Audio CD)

Often overlooked and underrated, ASU is Cheap Trick in top form with a little help from their friends George Martin and Geoff Emerick. It's my personal favorite along with their first lp. A big leap forward from "Dream Police" which alienated much of their Top Forty audience. That's not such a bad thing, is it? This album shows why Robin Zander is one of rocks greatest vocalists ("Stop This Game,") features awesome production and arrangement ("World's Greatest Lover,") showcases Rick Nielsen's gift for melody and songwriting ("Go For The Throat,") excellent bass playing courtesey Tom Petersson ("I Love You Honey, But I Hate Your Friends,") a tribal drum orchestration conducted by Bun E Carlos ("Who D' King,") stripped down rock and roll at its finest ("Just Got Back,") and the obligatory head-scratcher ("High Priest Of Rhythmic Noise") What more do you want? The only thing missing is "Everything Works If You Let it," which would have been a huge hit in a perfect world. I can't wait for the remastered version with the bonus tracks!