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The Rave-Ups | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fun Stuff Records, Beverly Hills, CA
• ASIN: B000Q37WRA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #728,267 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Once lost, now found!!!!, February 23, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Town & Country (Audio CD)

I remember the first time I heard this album. I was a rocker and my new girlfriend (now wife of 10 years) was one of those too-cool alternative chicks. I was amazed! We have worn out the cassette after 15 years, and it is a godsend to have it on CD. "By The Way", "Remember", "Not Where you're at" "Rave Up/Shut Up" and "My Gremlin" are rollicking, foot-tapping good times. "Positively Lost Me" is a classic of love gone bad. "Class Tramp" provides us a great moral in Jimmer's usual wry way. A real highlight of the album is the great cover of The Byrds "You ain't going nowhere". This album is really the beginning of The Rave Ups transformation from a good-time punkabilly band to a more introspective-well polished act. If you like this, try to find "Class Tramp", the original EP released on the Fun Stuff label, as well as "Book of your Regrets" and "Chance" their two Epic releases. And keep your eyes peeled; Jimmer Podrasky and Terry Wilson are writing together again, and we should soon see some new Rave Ups material for the first time in over 10 years!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars if you get it, you get it..., December 18, 2000

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simon becerra (los angeles, ca USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Town & Country (Audio CD)

it's not often i speak out but when i saw this album on cd, i thought i could say something to help someone want to buy this great album. in it's most simple state it was musicaly a great album. in a more complex state it is a wonderful insite into a time that made more sence. no drive bys, or road rage. i would listen to this and wonder where my roads would take me. so sad more people weren't exposed to the raves ups music. listen to "radio" and think how special it is and was to be young and live through music.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pioneers of 80's Rockabilly, February 1, 1999

By A Customer

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This review is from: Town & Country (Audio CD)

Cursed with a national debut in Molly Ringwald's "Pretty in Pink", this band's career as the could-be Rockabilly Kings of Hollywood lead ballooned to obscurity (with Ringwald). The Rave-Ups were only worth this one album which somehow was resurrected by someone with a penchant for showing off the rights to their lost treasures. No band could match the up-tempo changes of "Postively Lost Me", one of those peaking-at-number-94 adult hits you swear you've heard before the first time it goes from your ears to your tapping toes. If Americana and the country & Westerberg bands like Whiskeytown ever launch its genre into stardom, we owe some of it to this album. Before the well-known albums of Uncle Tupelo, Robbie Fulks and Joe Henry, these California cowboys managed to line-up a studio musician to lay down one of the greatest steel-guitar solos on "Radio." Otherwise, the grove is PURE rave-up: "In My Gremlin", "By the Way" and the poignant "Better World" are what rockabilly could have been. One taste of this lost delicacy will tell you how beautiful 1985 could have been for the rockabilly pioneers. One lost fan hereby professes his gratitude to the label which revived this gem on CD. I no longer have to perserve my cassette version into formal-de-hyde with the rest of scarry members of my cassette musuem of 1980's releases still waiting to be memoralized on Compact Disc.