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Shake It Up (The Cars album) ... Shake It Up is the fourth studio album by American new wave band the Cars, released on November 6, 1981, by Elektra Records. It was the last Cars record to be produced by Roy Thomas Baker. A much more pop-oriented album than its predecessor, its title track became the band's first Billboard top-10 single.
Rolling Stone ranked "Fast Car" number 167 on their 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. [13] It was Chapman's only song on the list, and the highest-ranking song performed and written solely by a female artist.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is widely regarded as one of John's best albums, and is one of his most popular. [8] It is his best-selling studio album. In the US, it was certified gold on 12 October 1973 (just days after release), 5× platinum in March 1993, and eventually 8× platinum in February 2014 by the RIAA.
The song won the 2003 Grammy for best vocal collaboration in country music. In 2004, he co-wrote Courtney Love 's song "Uncool", from her 2004 debut solo album America's Sweetheart. In 2005, he co-wrote the title track to What I Really Want for Christmas with Brian Wilson for his first seasonal album.
Ultimate Classic Rock named the song the fifth best Cars song, calling it "one of the best side ones, track ones ever." [14][15] Classic Rock History critic Brian Kachejian rated it as the Cars' 7th greatest song, stating that the "forceful driving beat and loud vocal harmonies hit the listener hard in all its new wave rock and roll glory." [3]
In addition, the cover was placed as a bonus track on later versions of the album Me and My Gang, and also was included on Greatest Hits Volume 1 (2008) and Twenty Years of Rascal Flatts: The Greatest Hits (2020). This version also won the "Favorite Song from a Movie" and "Favorite Remake" awards at the 33rd People's Choice Awards.
The song was nominated for a 2007 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song [20] as well as for a 2007 BRIT Award for Best British Single. [9] In 2007, "Chasing Cars" was voted number one on the Top 500 Songs: The Words Behind the Music, on Bristol's GWR FM (and other stations in The One Network).
Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by the English rock band the Cure. It was first released in Japan on 7 November 2001, [6] before being released in the UK and Europe on 12 November and then in the US the day after.