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"A minor (and possibly — time will tell — major) masterpiece."
-- L.A. Weekly

The Shakes: The Rise And Fall Of Modern
Living
$14/$17 non-US (includes shipping)
Released: 2006
Tired of trying
to save the world with their songs about girls, the Shakes on their third CD set their sites on the tragic remains of their
beloved Silverlake. The Rise and Fall of Modern Living is a Kinks-like travelogue on the nation's leading trust fund slum
set to a Cuisinart mix of rock history, employing everything from classic sixties pop and L.A. cosmic cowboy country to bubblegum
and Norteno to tell the story of the Gentrification Blues. Survivors of Silverlake’s post-whatever underground rock
scene, Peter Gilabert and Janet Housden’s long standing institution use their new release to reach out -- in their own
twisted and jaded way -- to both the people and parasites who populate the sunshine jungle/plastic paradise that Los Angeles
has devolved into.
Welcome to the
neighborhood.
tracklist
01 On My Street
02 Modern Living
03 The Greeter
Of Sanborn Avenue
04 Mr. Fix-It
05 Hyperion
Street Bridge Song (Sunshine City)
06 Right Down
The Hall
07 Dorian Gray
08 Gentrification
Blues
09 Wrong Side
Of The Door
10 Little Babies
11 Love And
Radiation
12 Ballad Of
A Carpetbagger
13 Yo Quiero
Dinero
14 Mexican
Wedding
15 Broken Beds/On
My Street Again
16 Mugged
17 Afterture
CAT. #: TEENA-011
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