My Top 1000 Songs #703: Shake Some Action

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.] 

After a few years of relative obscurity, San Francisco late 60s/early 70s garage band Flamin' Groovies shuffled the line-up and moved in a more pop direction. They recorded two amazing, jangly power pop tracks in 1972--the unabashedly Beatlesque "You Tore Me Down" and the anthemic "Shake Some Action." But jangly power pop was out of favor at the time (as t...

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Published on July 22, 2024 08:15
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