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Joan Osborne — Shake Your Hips
Album: Bring It On Home
Avg rating:
7.1

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Total ratings: 2727









Released: 2012
Length: 3:26
Plays (last 30 days): 0
Won't care about the dance spin going round
Everybody doing it from grownups down
You got to move your head you got to move your hands
You got to move your lips just move your hips
Do the hips shake baby
Do the hips shake baby
Shake your hips baby
Shake your hips baby

If you don't know don't be afraid
Just listen to me do what i see
Don't you move your hip don't you move your hands
Don't you move your lips just move your hips
Do the hips shake baby
Do the hips shake baby
Shake your hips baby
Shake your hips baby

Ain't that easy now say is easy now
Met a little girl in the country town
She said what do you know about ..
She didn't move her head didn't move her hands
Didn't move her lips just move her hips
Do the hips shake baby
Do the hips shake baby
Shake your hips baby
Shake your hips baby
Do the hips shake baby
Do the hips shake baby
Shake your hips baby
Shake your hips baby
Ain't that easy now
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huge fan. would love to see her live. would listen to her sing whatever she wanted. so underrated! 
Better than the Stones' original.
 gpommen wrote:

I saw her in concert at a festival years ago. Most of the crowd only knew her from her God song.  She ended up blowing us all away!  Great voice and great power behind it.  Love this song too.




You lucky duck. I wish I could have been there too!
 Sloggydog wrote:

Yeah, you can't chair jive like I am to this and deny it should go from 9 to 10.


I Agree!!

Yeah, you can't chair jive like I am to this and deny it should go from 9 to 10.
I saw her in concert at a festival years ago. Most of the crowd only knew her from her God song.  She ended up blowing us all away!  Great voice and great power behind it.  Love this song too.
 avereaiii590 wrote:
Love it!!



Same Here!   
Love it!!
 amcostigan88 wrote:

Holy Smokes! You can see the heat radiating off this one! Whoo!




AGREE!!!   SUPER GREAT!!!   Thanx RP!  
 Stefen wrote:

Joan's version is the best.



I Agree!!
 pomalley wrote:

Listen to her album Relish... Wow.  




I  Agree!!
Holy Smokes! You can see the heat radiating off this one! Whoo!
Listen to her album Relish... Wow.  
Joan's version is the best.
πŸ˜€
I'm not getting any sound up here in BC, Canada. Anybody else having issues?
great song for driving. fast. 
Yeah, decent version - not much reason to it, other than why not?

Not a patch on the original or on the Stones classic, but then ... hard acts to follow.

I do like the build up in this though, when it really cranks up a gear, it's a riot, so much kudos to the band, rather than Joan, on this.

I just don't think her vocal style works - not being sexist, but it's 100% a male vocal required.
No please not the hip shake again...
 cbhutchinson50 wrote:


A Stones song from the Exile on Main Street album. A very good cover version. Keith would be proud!


The Stones version is arguably even better than Slim Harpos original. They did a great cover of this song.
 tazmondpembroke wrote:

Thanks, I was perplexed who did the original - shame on me!


Slim Harpo, a tremendous influence from the Gator Rock section of the deep South, wrote the song and many, many other hits as well.
 Relayer wrote:


Yea, easy to hear that, but actually this song (and the style of it) predates ZZ Top. It was originally composted/recorded by Slim Harpo in 1966 (note she snuck his name in the lyrics), and really made famous by the Stones in 1972.  Both before ZZ Top recorded La Grange.


I think Slim had his name in the song to begin with. The Stones even used his same line in their famous version.  B.T.W. Got Love If You Want It (by Slim Harpo)is one of the best blues songs ever
It’s nice to hear joan do other songs
I have heard several artists do this tune! ...and Joan does it justice!!!
 Jenecho wrote:

All praise the PSD button. This is the most intrusively annoying song played on RP and it goes on FOREVER.


Ever notice how our sense of time has gotten destroyed by a modern convenience?  Way back when, before the microwave, people had patience.  That magical device in our kitchen has skewed our sense of time.  And suddenly the 3 minutes and 26 seconds of this song is FOREVER.  Go peel fifty pounds of potatoes and then come see me with what feels like a long time...
Excellent !!!!!
 DW4554 wrote:

Joan is as good as it gets.  Her work on Standing in the Shadows of Motown stole the show. 


Agree completely.
Her performance of "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" is incredible.
Ms Osborne has more soul then my whole body will ever 

experience. You are most awesome my lady.
{#Devil_pimp} zesty indeed
A Slim Harpo tune.
Later done by the Stones on their masterpiece - 'Exile on Main Street'.
Ms. Osborne has it goin' on here.



 stretcher wrote:
Wow, I love this version - Joanie can hold her own as a vocalist that's for sure.
ZZ Top lovers - quiet.  This riff isn't theirs.  'Nuff said.

Gotta shout out to the Stones too... too many people think of "start me up" when they think of the Stones.   Meh.  Listen to their 1968 - 1972 material, and you'll hear gritty, bluesy, raunchy, beautiful music that ties Slim Harpo to ZZ Top to Joan Osbourne.  The Stones were a very important "bridge" back then.

And for the record, Keith Richards always freely admitted his influences.  Like any good guitarist, he acknowledges his roots.

Sorry, got off on a tangent there.
Joan Osborne's version - solid.  Rock solid.
 

A lot of British bands starting out in the 60's began with American blues before they found their own sound.  Check out "This Was" by Jethro Tull from 68'.
 grhorn wrote:
SLIM HARPO-Composer, 1970
 
Apparently first released in 1966.
Some might say " I appreciate the effort". I wouldn't.
I always hear the opening riff and hope that Bill is putting on ZZ Top's "La Grange".  Nope, it's the hip shake song.  Come on Bill, give us some La Grange.
SLIM HARPO-Composer, 1970
 cbhutchinson50 wrote:


A Stones song from the Exile on Main Street album. A very good cover version. Keith would be proud!
 
Thanks, I was perplexed who did the original - shame on me!
Jeez, help me here - that is a beautiful rendition of what song, by who? Stones, Masters Apprentices, please where is this from?
 steveinfrance wrote:
I'm sat here at home recovering from a serious life saving operation I had earlier this month.

The best medicine by far is listening to this brilliant radio station.

Thanks Bill & Rebecca

Doesn't matter what the music is.
 
That is a beautiful thing - good on ya. Have a heart not a heel. Cheers.
Slim Harpo 
 cbhutchinson50 wrote:
...which was a cover song as well.

A Stones song from the Exile on Main Street album. A very good cover version. Keith would be proud!
 

 raga wrote:
One of the worst on RP
 

Poor raga.  Get a life. Easily one of Joan's best.
Joan is as good as it gets.  Her work on Standing in the Shadows of Motown stole the show. 
One of the worst on RP
 jahgirl8 wrote:
Oh Joan, you rock as hard as any of them boys. You know it too. Your lyrics are brilliant and you have a lovely middle name. We're in the same age group, but you seem timeless.
 

A Stones song from the Exile on Main Street album. A very good cover version. Keith would be proud!
Oh Joan, you rock as hard as any of them boys. You know it too. Your lyrics are brilliant and you have a lovely middle name. We're in the same age group, but you seem timeless.
Full tilt! πŸ‘
I'm sat here at home recovering from a serious life saving operation I had earlier this month.

The best medicine by far is listening to this brilliant radio station.

Thanks Bill & Rebecca

Doesn't matter what the music is.
Wow, I love this version - Joanie can hold her own as a vocalist that's for sure.
ZZ Top lovers - quiet.  This riff isn't theirs.  'Nuff said.

Gotta shout out to the Stones too... too many people think of "start me up" when they think of the Stones.   Meh.  Listen to their 1968 - 1972 material, and you'll hear gritty, bluesy, raunchy, beautiful music that ties Slim Harpo to ZZ Top to Joan Osbourne.  The Stones were a very important "bridge" back then.

And for the record, Keith Richards always freely admitted his influences.  Like any good guitarist, he acknowledges his roots.

Sorry, got off on a tangent there.
Joan Osborne's version - solid.  Rock solid.
Great song for the "home stretch" of Friday work 1.75 hours to go. 
One thing is for sure. Joan ain't no Hooker.
 MattRudely wrote:
Why are there squabbles about ZZ Top and Joan Osbourne? How silly. John Lee Hooker and way before, back and back.
 

Yep.  Norman Greenbaum, who used the exact same chord progression in Spirit in the Sky, thinks it dates back to the 1920s.  

http://www.classicrockmusicwriter.com/2011/12/exclusive-interview-norman-greenbaum.html

Joanie's drummer does a smokin shuffle beat here, as does the ironically named Frank Beard on La Grange.
Why are there squabbles about ZZ Top and Joan Osbourne? How silly. John Lee Hooker and way before, back and back.
 hugo59bell wrote:
Does this remind you of ZZ Top?  Plagiarism
 

Yea, easy to hear that, but actually this song (and the style of it) predates ZZ Top. It was originally composted/recorded by Slim Harpo in 1966 (note she snuck his name in the lyrics), and really made famous by the Stones in 1972.  Both before ZZ Top recorded La Grange.
Does this remind you of ZZ Top?  Plagiarism
 Jota wrote:
Great voice.  I do wonder at times the real reason at the root of some of her critics....

  Maybe some don't agree she has a great voice. Always seems a bit flat to me and lacks conviction imho.

{#Hug}Shake them hips baaabeee.
To misappropriate George Clinton, free your ass and your mind will follow up by hitting PSD. 
I think she does a great job with this one, keeps the bluesy energy and adds her own signature sound and pace - I dig it!
Again?
Again?  {#Cry}  Sorry I don't have PSD, I'm on the livestream so I guess I gotta deal.
I should like to hear this Slim Harpo original. Not sure if I've heard the Stones version either.

But I dig this version. You can do about anything with a Bo Diddley(ish?) beat and a distorted harmonica and I'm gonna like it.
Danny Gatton to this?

Buzz killed. 
Joan doing  justice to Rolling Stones early number from the Exile on Main Street album. Nice cover !
Gosh! Almost makes me forget about the RollIng Stones version
a 9 
I am good with it...{#Fire}
 timmus wrote:
Is Radio Paradise on autopilot?  This song seems to be on every several days now.  There seem to be a lot fewer music sets, too.

 
That's the third comment about overplaying. From the song info:

Last play: Jan 28, 2017
Plays in last 30 days: 3

It's a common theme on RP comments that a song you dislike is overplayed because you notice it when it comes on, but that rarely coincides with the objective number of plays.
Bill, that was a sweet segue from EC.
 timmus wrote:
I feel like I want to start a protest for more variety on Radio Paradise.  I keep hearing the same songs in rotation.

 
this one especially
I too liked this version a lot the first few times.
Now, not so much.
Much rather hear the Stones version.
inauthenticity
 Jota wrote:
Great voice.  I do wonder at times the real reason at the root of some of her critics....

 

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

-Theodore Roosevelt


Great voice.  I do wonder at times the real reason at the root of some of her critics....
{#Frustrated}
enought of this...
Wasn't this originally a Rolling Stones song?
 haljordan wrote:
Wow, I am really tired of this one. Seems to get played all the time.
 
And it grates on the nerves every time.
Wow, I am really tired of this one. Seems to get played all the time.
 FlatCat wrote:
 chris_the_man wrote:
i heard her saying Slim Harpo somewhere in the song. Others heard that too? The lyrics text does not show it.
 
It puzzled me, too. The original song is by Slim Harpo, and he sings this line, too. So do the Stones in their version.

     I met a little girl
     In a country town.
     She said "What do you know?
     There's Slim Harpo."

So sorry others find this tedious. I could listen to it all day. I think her version is even better then the original and all the covers (especially the Stones).

 
Perhaps they find a quickened pulse tedious?
This is a 33 life spinning at 45.
Hallelujah!
Makes my day.  I would like to have made hers.  :-)
All praise the PSD button. This is the most intrusively annoying song played on RP and it goes on FOREVER.
 TerryS wrote:

So there I was, hoisting a litre of good Austrian lager at the end of Oktoberfest earlier this month; in the shadow of the Wiener Riesenrad (Vienna Ferris wheel to us), when  the serving fraulein, who was of mammoth proportions, lumbered into view and your damned comment came to mind.
Froth sprayed. 

 
Ta mate. I can think of no finer testimonial to my bons mots :o)
 aelfheld wrote:
 FrankDebbieCote wrote:
THIS KICKS ASS! 

You mispelled 'sucks'.

 
yep, something is wrong with this song
loved the Rolling Stones version until I heard the original by Slim Harpo which the Stones copied note for note which made me feel like I got short-changed
 FrankDebbieCote wrote:
THIS KICKS ASS! 

You mispelled 'sucks'.
 FrankDebbieCote wrote:
THIS KICKS ASS!

 
Totally...!!!
{#Bananajam}
                                                      Brighter
                                             

                                    I was green, and lookin for a job
                                    She said what do you know buddy?
                                      As Obligingly,  I moved my lips
                                  Right then,  out in meadow,  I thought
                              From the corner of my eye I saw something
                                

No members of ZZTop were injured in the making of this record......
THIS KICKS ASS!
 chris_the_man wrote:
i heard her saying Slim Harpo somewhere in the song. Others heard that too? The lyrics text does not show it.
 
It puzzled me, too. The original song is by Slim Harpo, and he sings this line, too. So do the Stones in their version.

     I met a little girl
     In a country town.
     She said "What do you know?
     There's Slim Harpo."

So sorry others find this tedious. I could listen to it all day. I think her version is even better then the original and all the covers (especially the Stones).
 fredriley wrote:

From song info:

Last play: May 16, 2014 - 08:51
Plays in last 30 days: 3

Once every 10 days is not "heavy rotation". Still, if you think a song sucks, then one play every geologic era would probably count as "heavy rotation"...

Which rather puts me in mind of elephants on a Ferris wheel...

 
So there I was, hoisting a litre of good Austrian lager at the end of Oktoberfest earlier this month; in the shadow of the Wiener Riesenrad (Vienna Ferris wheel to us), when  the serving fraulein, who was of mammoth proportions, lumbered into view and your damned comment came to mind.
Froth sprayed. 
IT'S A GOOD JAM
how is this only averaging 6.9?  {#Bananasplit}
Just tuned in. What a tune it is!
 Poacher wrote:
Hell yes. 

 

 
ditto
Hell yes. 

 
SO sick of this song

``Heavy rotation          Which rather puts me in mind of elephants on a Ferris wheel...

Fred, ya sneaky bastard, you made me laugh out loud.

 


 pcicatar wrote:

Definitely not in the minority.  What started as a catchy ZZ Top ripoff is now an annoyance that gets played far too often.  3 —> 1

 
"ZZ Top ripoff"?  Slim Harpo recorded this in 1966 and The Stones covered it in 1972.  "La Grange" was released in 1973.
 maxjboxer wrote:
Joan has some major mojo my friend.

 
yes
Joan has some major mojo my friend.
 fredriley wrote:

From song info:

Last play: May 16, 2014 - 08:51
Plays in last 30 days: 3

Once every 10 days is not "heavy rotation". Still, if you think a song sucks, then one play every geologic era would probably count as "heavy rotation"...

Which rather puts me in mind of elephants on a Ferris wheel...

 
Hilariously, I started listening to RP again for the first time in 6+ months, and in my first 3hrs of listening what song do you think comes up? Yeah. *sigh*

I think what gets me about this song is that it's in regular rotation for such a long period of time, and yet it strikes me as mediocre *at best*. There were songs that played semi-regularly when I first started listening to RP 7 or 8 years ago that aren't played anymore at all. Some of them were quite good and things I'd love to be hearing today. This song was released in 2012 and I recall it being played around the time it was new, with a fair amount of frequency. 2+ years later it's still in regular rotation, and other (IMO better) songs released at a similar time have dropped off the list, or are at least played much less. So...

Oh well, clearly it's (mostly) just me. Also, Van Morrison just came on so all is forgiven, haha. 
Me Likey like!
{#Dancingbanana_2} 

Heck ... I was just thinking that the ghost of John Lee was playing with Joan Osborne on that one ... then comes "This is Hip."

Nice.

 
Not usually a big blues fan, but this has got the juice.
Should I be embarrassed that I thought this was a Stones' original (ripped off by ZZ Top) for about 35 years?
Looks like Joan ditched the nose ring since "Relish"...a good move IMO.
If you've got to move your lips to move your hips, there's something drastically wrong, love.
Love this track,
Sounds like some of the old Red Devil's with Lester Butler! Yay! 
 rocklandlove wrote:
Intro (happily) brings to mind La Grange by ZZ Top.

 
Yes, and some J. Geils Band as well.
Cover this one, Joan?
Why not!  Good job.
Yeah BABY!
Rocking tune.
If that doesn't get your butt jumping, you should maybe get it checked, there might be a problem.

Love to see this being remade, love the Stone's album this came from Exile on MaIn St. 
 fredriley wrote:

From song info:

Last play: May 16, 2014 - 08:51
Plays in last 30 days: 3

Once every 10 days is not "heavy rotation". Still, if you think a song sucks, then one play every geologic era would probably count as "heavy rotation"...

Which rather puts me in mind of elephants on a Ferris wheel...

 
I quite like the variety and one can not get enough Blues... how about some Buddahead?
 JavaJones wrote:
I get that you love this song Bill, and so do a number of listeners. But please just consider adjusting the frequency of play a bit, that's all. There's a world of other music out there for us to learn about. Hey, how about some Typhoon! White Lighter is pretty incredible in entirety. I know, I know, submit it...
 
From song info:

Last play: May 16, 2014 - 08:51
Plays in last 30 days: 3

Once every 10 days is not "heavy rotation". Still, if you think a song sucks, then one play every geologic era would probably count as "heavy rotation"...

Which rather puts me in mind of elephants on a Ferris wheel...
This is lame, I don't care how hip people think it is.
Intro (happily) brings to mind La Grange by ZZ Top.
 chris_the_man wrote:
i heard her saying slim harpo somewhere in the song,others heard that too?the lyrics text does not show it .
 
 
Yea, she sung it.  My guess it was tip of the hat to him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKtOUdc19Ps

Th' Legendary Shack Shakers - Shake Your Hips

Good voice, great music and great sound!
 JavaJones wrote:
I really don't get the love for this song. It's so incredibly repetitive, uninteresting, unimaginative, and does virtually nothing to showcase Joan's great vocal talent. It's just a super boring blues cover. But, hey, to each their own. OK, people like it.

All I ask, all I ask, is please, for the love of god, just play it a bit less! I used to listen to RP a lot a year or so ago and it was in heavy rotation then, and it was one of the reasons I stopped listening. I used to be able to just keep RP on all day, but this song literally makes me have to turn it off, at least until it's over. Now a year or more later and the song is still in *heavy* rotation (for RP standards at least). I really feel like I shouldn't hear this song multiple times a week considering I only listen maybe 15hrs/wk total.

I get that you love this song Bill, and so do a number of listeners. But please just consider adjusting the frequency of play a bit, that's all. There's a world of other music out there for us to learn about. Hey, how about some Typhoon! White Lighter is pretty incredible in entirety. I know, I know, submit it...

- Oshyan 

 
{#Think}

I am beginning to get the distinct impression that you do not like this song.
Everyone in my Turtle Tank is rockin!!!

{#Bananasplit}{#Dancingbanana_2}   {#Bananajam} {#Drummer}   {#Bananajam}
Awesome! Joan the real deal Osborne!