SHAKE IT UP AND OTHER HITS

	Shake It Up And Other Hits
	previously released material
	Released on 2001
	no chart information
	Find it at GEMM
R2 74320 cover [high resolution scan]

I bought this compilation at Stop & Shop for $5.49. I also bought GE Reveal light bulbs (buy one, get one free). Now lately I’ve been trying to save money, and I’ve noticed this insidious trend: everything on sale is terrible for you. For example, Stop & Shop cookies were one dollar a box this week, so I bought some peanut butter/fudge cookies thinking How bad could they be? Very bad, it turns out. Not that they weren’t delicious (they were), but one serving (two cookies, and what a lusty serving that is) delivers 160 calories (70 from fat). Which would make them, what, essentially compressed slices of lard fat? It’s just plain unhealthy to eat those, so why make them nigh irresistible? Same thing with salty snacks, canned food, frozen food: high in fat, high in salt, low in price. As for the GE Reveal light bulbs I mentioned earlier, their Buy One Get One Free display was the first thing I saw when I walked into Stop & Shop. “100 watts, 1260 lumens, 750 hours” it said in bold type on the front of the package. It also had a pictorial comparison showing how much better everything looked with the GE Reveal bulb versus a regular soft white bulb. Only the photos were “enhanced to dramatize difference in color” according to the tiny text below them. And as for the high numbers, 1600 lumens is the average output for a 100-watt bulb and 1000 hours the average life span. In other words, Buy One Package of Really Inefficient Light Bulbs Whose Lone Redeeming Feature Is So Insignificant We Had To Exaggerate The Benefits With A Doctored Photo, Get One Free. Caveat emptor in this case just doesn’t cut it. We live in a world where healthy food is more expensive than unhealthy food and inferior products go undetected because the measurements for quality are couched in technical jargon that few understand. Which would seem to have nothing to do with Shake It Up And Other Hits, but in researching this I found an interesting anomaly. Rhino sells this on their Internet site for $9.90, despite the fact that it retails everywhere else for $5.49. Why? Because Rhino is also selling the individual songs online for 99 cents. (Why is the sign for cents so counterintuitive on a keyboard? Couldn’t they have just replaced the tilde key?) That just doesn’t make any sense, and Rhino should know better. So, in summary, (1) If the price of a food item seems too good to be true, it’s probably very unhealthy for you; (2) Buy compact fluorescent light bulbs at your local hardware store (visit EnergyStar for more information) and (3) Don’t pay more than $5.50 for Shake It Up And Other Hits.

TRACK LISTING

SHAKE IT UP
LET'S GO
MAGIC
TOUCH AND GO
BYE BYE LOVE
TONIGHT SHE COMES
WHY CAN'T I HAVE YOU
COMING UP YOU
YOU ARE THE GIRL
JUST WHAT I NEEDED

All songs written by Ric Ocasek

CREDITS

Mark Pinkus -- compilation producer
Craig DeGraff -- production assistance
NNP -- art direction
michaelochsarchives.com -- photo

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REGION	RELEASE DATE	LABEL	MEDIA	ID NUMBER	FEATURES
US	2001	Rhino Flashback	CD/CS	74320

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