The Ian Carey Project - 'Get Shaky'
If, Mr Carey, you wish to "go crazy", and indeed "break the rules" as a kind of wind-down after a hard day's studying at school, is Shaky really the person you want with you? I mean sure, he's a well-respected entertainer, can pretend to be Elvis with the best of them, and has a way with a '50s rock 'n' roll classic that few modern singers can match - outside of karaoke, that is - but as a provider of after-hours childminding, maybe not.
I mean, where are you going to go? Into his old house? Behind the green door? And whose rules are you planning on breaking anyway? Shaky's? Cos that, my friend, is a rockin' good way to feel the toe of his artificially whitened plimsoll up your rear end, and no mistake.
(. Some of these kids look suspiciously old. Have they been kept back a year or two?)
In other news, did you know this record spent 26 weeks on the Australian charts last year? A place where that whole Shakin' Stevens routine above would probably not work at all. I wonder if these two facts are related?
They probably aren't. I mean, if you wanted to pinpoint the appeal of 'Get Shaky' to our Antipodean cousins, you'd be better off starting with the handclaps, the first verse - which is something like what the Kills would sound like if they used that toy guitar thing off The Apprentice instead of a real guitar - the ghosty halo around Kelly Barnes's really quite scary voice, Kelly Barnes's voice itself, the brilliant chorus, the bowel-deep synth rumble, the song, the whole idea of "getting shaky" as a way of describing mad fun and chaos, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums...
...in fact, the only mystery really is how it's taken quite so long to make it over here. 26 weeks might have been the equivalent of first class post in pre-internet times, but I'm almost sure that Australians get the same information that we do, at pretty much exactly the same time. And Ian Carey is American, and Kelly Barnes is from Macclesfield, so there's really no geographical excuse for us being so tardy.
It is, as Shaky himself would have said, late. Oh well. Shall we?
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CD Released: August 24th
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(Fraser McAlpine)
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At 6th Aug 2009, CurtainJerker wrote:This comment has been referred for further consideration. Explain.
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At 7th Aug 2009, spirit wrote:I have been waiting for this very catchy song .
As soon as I realised the title , I thought that Fraser would spend half the review talkin about Shakin Stevens.
He doesn't disappoint .
Anyway , this is a very good pop song , which will be a top 10 hit .
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At 8th Aug 2009, thranjax wrote:Very catchy and cool, but is it really politically correct to promote Parkinson's Disease in this way?
Unless Shaky is himself a sufferer, which would be a mad coincidence.. or would the shaking cancel itself out against his name?
Top five actually, Spirit.. ;)
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At 8th Aug 2009, MozFoz wrote:I could consider the things I like about this song in extensive details and carefully explain my predic..I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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At 10th Aug 2009, Vickflo wrote:Kelly Barnes (the singer and co-writer of this song) is from Los Angeles CA. and is in a rock n roll band called Ragsy... It is not the Kelly Barnes from Macclesfield....
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At 10th Aug 2009, spirit wrote:Get Shaky in at 10 !
Expect it to rise.....
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