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Wednesday Coffee Break: Shake It!

Posted at 8:52 AM on November 30, 2011 by Steve Seel (36 Comments)
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break

For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, we want you to shake it. You may pick whatever it is you'd like to shake, but the point is, we want songs that encourage or command you to shake something. Ready? Shake!

Songs played:
Johnny Kidd and the Pirates "Shakin All Over"
Outkast "Hey Ya"
Ray Charles "Shake Your Tailfeather"
Otis Redding "Shake"
The Rolling Stones "Shake Your Hips"
Jerry Lee Lewis "Whole Lot of Shakin Going On"
The Subways "Shake! Shake!
KC and the Sunshine Band "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty"

Comments (36)

shake your rump - beastie boys
soul shakedown party - bob marley & the wailers
shake everythin you've got - maceo parker
shake it off - wilco
milkshake - kelis
p.s. how did y'all not play "everybody everybody" by blackbox yesterday? it's the jam!

Posted by andy | November 30, 2011 9:03 AM

Shake It Up -- the Cars

Hip Shake -- Rolling Stones

Shakes the Sheets -- Ted Leo

Shakin' Street -- MC5

And if you must play Twist and Shout ["shake it up baby"], make it the Isley Brothers instead of the Obligatories [give 'em a rest!]

Posted by lou | November 30, 2011 9:04 AM

The Time - "Shake!" (off of Prince's Graffiti Bridge album)
The Cars - "Shake It Up"

Posted by Todd | November 30, 2011 9:11 AM

OutKast - Hey Ya!

Posted by Adam | November 30, 2011 9:12 AM

Hey Ya -- OutKast [... like a Polaroid picture]

Posted by kyle | November 30, 2011 9:12 AM

gotta play "Hey Ya" by Outkast

Posted by Andrew S. | November 30, 2011 9:12 AM

Shake the Disease - Depeche Mode

Posted by eric | November 30, 2011 9:12 AM

"Hey Ya" (OutKast)

"Milkshake" (Kellis)

Posted by Craig Kepler | November 30, 2011 9:12 AM

"Shaking Through" - REM

"Let England Shake" - PJ Harvey

past tense...?

"You Shook Me All Night Long" - AC/DC

Posted by bob | November 30, 2011 9:12 AM

"Shake" - Sam Cooke (best lyric ever: "Shake it like a bowl of soup."

Posted by Shelley | November 30, 2011 9:14 AM

"Shake Rattle and Roll" - Bill Haley and the Comets
"Smoothie song" (because smoothie is just another word for shake, right?) - Nickel Creek

Posted by Ariel | November 30, 2011 9:14 AM

"Shake Ya Boogie" - Mocean Worker

Posted by Justin | November 30, 2011 9:15 AM

"Twist and Shout"- The Beatles
"La La Love You"- Pixies "Shake your butt! (Not too hard)" for a little practical view of shaking
"Hey Ya!"- Outkast
"Shake It"- Tom Waits
"Don't Stand So Close to Me"- The Police (while not demanding that we, as listeners, shake, it is mentioned that the teacher begins to "shake and cough just like the old man in that book by Nabokov" in what might be one of the most pretentious lines ever ("Oh, look at me, I read a book!"))

Posted by Topher Boyd | November 30, 2011 9:16 AM

"Shake, Rattle and Roll"-- Big Joe Turner or Bill Haley and the Comets

"Hippy Hippy Shake" The Beatles

"(Shake, Shake, Shake) Your Booty" K C & the Sunshine Band

Posted by Marlene | November 30, 2011 9:17 AM

Hey Ya! by OutKast, or is that too obvious?

Posted by JennyB | November 30, 2011 9:17 AM

Shake It Out-Florence and the Machine

Posted by Courtney | November 30, 2011 9:17 AM

How 'bout Otis Redding, and the non-specific "Shake" ?

Posted by Deeje | November 30, 2011 9:18 AM

shake your tail feather?

Makes me miss the blues brothers... they were on a mission from God ;)

Posted by Charlie | November 30, 2011 9:18 AM

The Cars - Shake it Up
George Clinton - Do Fries Go With That Shake
James Brown - Get Up (money makers will shake)

Posted by dc | November 30, 2011 9:22 AM

I would love to hear the Grateful Dead's "SHAKEDOWN STREET"!!!!!!!!!

also, I work at a dance studio and they had a dance 'Shake your groove thing...

Posted by Chris | November 30, 2011 9:23 AM

"Hippy Hippy Shake" - Chan Romero
"Shake It" - Tom Waits (I think it's almost as hard to find a topic that's Tom Waits-proof as it is to find one that's Beatle-proof... not that that's a bad thing, mind you)

Posted by jo | November 30, 2011 9:23 AM

You HAVE to play "Say Hey" by Michael Franti. My husband says this is my "bootie shaking song" :)

Posted by lsy | November 30, 2011 9:24 AM

Shake It Baby - John Lee Hooker
Shake Your Rump - The Beastie Boys
Shake Your Hips - The Rolling Stones

Posted by jason | November 30, 2011 9:25 AM

The Cure - Shake Dog Shake

Posted by Mike | November 30, 2011 9:25 AM

SHAKEDOWN STREET
SHAKEDOWN STREET
SHAKEDOWN STREET
SHAKEDOWN STREET

Posted by WEYANDTS | November 30, 2011 9:26 AM

'Shake Shake' - The Subways

Posted by JoeC | November 30, 2011 9:26 AM

"Jump in the Line (Shake, Señora)"--Harry Belafonte