Twist & Shout

The Isley Brothers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 21, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
• ASIN: B000003GWZ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #632,241 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Twist and Shout

2. I Say Love

3. Right Now

4. Hold on Baby

5. The Snake

6. Never Leave Me Baby

7. Time After Time

8. Let's Twist Again

9. You Better Come Home

10. Don't You Feel

11. Spanish Twist

12. Crazy Love [Previously Released][#]

13. Rubberleg Twist

14. Twistin' With Linda

15. Nobody But Me

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Shake it up, baby!, May 21, 2003

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Twist & Shout (Audio CD)

This is a reissue of the Isley Brothers 1962 album "Twist & Shout!" Unlike most albums from that time period, it doesn't include a lot of cover versions of recents hits by other perfomers, other than "Let's Twist Again" (which, bizarrely, is featured in an instrumental version). Unfortunately, the original compostions here are sometimes not very original. "Hold On Baby" and "You Better Come Home" are rewrites of "Twist and Shout" "Spanish Twist" is an instumental version of "Twist and Shout". "Twist and Shout", "Rubberleg Twist", "Twistin' With Linda" and "Nobody But Me" are the only really good songs here. Everything else is pretty forgetable. On the plus side, the remixing job here is excellent. It has very good stereo sound, especially considering the time period it was recorded in.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars early sixties r and b. , rock lives on, July 2, 2010

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Michael P. Dobey (colorado springs) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Twist & Shout (Audio CD)

The brothers were releasing typical good r and b and rock at this point the styles were pretty much the same anyways. This is in stereo and that's a plus! The songs are mostly originals too and that's cool. It's on the level of the times though , simple fun rock and roll songs that have a few real eternal classics on her and alot of filler songs. The classics 'twist and shout' , and 'twistin with linda' are top songs from that period. Now of course if you are a music fan from today you might take a while to enjoy the more simplistic songs of the early days of rock and roll. The Isleys were making good music in any era but this was a early peak of it's type of music for them. Their next one was less inspired but they'd rebound with some solid motown discs in the midsixties. Obviously this is early rock with saxophones and that type of music that was out back then. So you can't say 'I don't like this because it's not like their seventies period!' music wasn't the same , in fact it was like 40 years apart in one decade of time. which is very strange when you think about it. Still the basic rock formula is done well her via the 1961 era of music. The beach boys, beatles and other bands would be listening to this at the time and why not? it was good for it's day.

2.0 out of 5 stars not clear what is being sold here, October 28, 2011

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toptentwist - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Twist And Shout (Audio CD)

I bought this cd under the impression that it was the a CD version of the 12 song "Twist and Shout" LP released in 1962.

The first thing I noticed is that the disc I got (which is the one shown in the photo - with the Isley wearing orange suits has 10 songs.

The original LP is 12 songs.

So I assumed I was missing 2 songs.

Actually I was missing 5 songs from the original 12 songs.

Three of the songs out of the 10 on my disc were actually non-LP 45 rpm tracks.

I was able to go to Itunes and find the original album in its entirety and buy the five songs I was missing.

When I was trying to figure out what songs were released on what discs - I realized that various versions of this on CD have different tracks... with the Sundazed version having a pretty good sample of songs - but still incomplete with respect to the original 12 song LP>

So my basic point is research the various products carefully.

For what it's worth, I loved the music on the disc. Just found it left me thirsty for more.