Shake!

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Sadie O.
Reviewed 2009-10-09
The Hi-Nobles – Shake!
Reviewed by Sadie O., 10/9/09
60’s-style Garage Soul from the East Bay. Features Greg Avenger on guitar (in a suit and tie no less! I always suspected there was something odd about that boy…) Fine vocals, and lots of farfisa, too – imagine the Animals and Steppenwolf after hanging out at Stax for a few weeks.
No (overt) FCCs detected. All good to great, in a garage kinda way.
1. 2:13 ***midtempo Memphis-style soul.
2. 3:07 ****4/4 garage rock with low soul vocals. Extremely hormonal.
3. 3:33 ****midtempo shuffle with fine, simple bass line.
4. 3:07 ***rather uptempo rocker with double-time chorus.
5. 2:15 ****uptempo romp – this’ll get you out of bed happy in the morning.
6. 3:07 ***uptempo rocker with lots of farfisa, lyrics NOT about sex, for once.
7. 2:44 ***uptempo garage rock, a la Count Five or Standells.
8. 3:09 ***fast - the sort of song go-go boots were made to dance to.
9. 3:08 ***very fast rocker, wonderfully adenoidal vocals. More an order than a statement.
10. 2:37 ***groovy rock with psychedelic guitar.
11. 2:15 ****fast R&B with both farfisa and reverb. Whoo!
12. 6:33 ***big fanfare intro, then fast frug. Get up and shake! Actually two songs, but with only a couple of seconds in between. Second song is a midtempo soul strut. Might as well play em both, hell!

Recent airplay

Shake!
Best Disorders of 2009Dec 19, 2009
Don't Go
New World DisorderDec 12, 2009
Big Black Car
New World DisorderDec 05, 2009
Ain't No Sin
Music CasseroleNov 28, 2009
Red Eye
Brownian MotionOct 28, 2009
Ain't No Sin
The DJ Never Has ItOct 23, 2009

Charting

2009-10-18 — 2009-12-20
Week EndingAirplays
Dec 20 1
Dec 13 1
Dec 6 1
Nov 29 1
Nov 1 1
Oct 25 2

Track listing

1. Soul Sister
2. Ain't No Sin
3. Big Black Car
4. Stings A Bit
5. Shake!
6. International Playboys
7. Red Eye
8. Shelter
9. Love Don't Come Around
10. Miss Addy
11. Don't Go
12. Gold Tipped Rhino