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"Rattled"
Song by Traveling Wilburys
from the album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
Released18 October 1988
Genre
Length3:00
LabelWarner Bros.
Songwriter(s)Traveling Wilburys
Producer(s)

"Rattled" is a song by Traveling Wilburys from their 1988 studio album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1.

Background

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Rattled was written by all of the members, but Jeff Lynne claimed "Yeah, well, we all wrote [Rattled], but I hadn't got a song yet. This was about the fourth or fifth one we did and I thought, 'Oh, I gotta sing one otherwise I'll go home and get something to eat.' Anyway, I'll send one up when I was singing it. Anyway, so it didn't matter. The singing start is sort of the rock 'n' roll voice that I do sometimes on my other records."[3] When interviewed for the True History of the Traveling Wilburys, George Harrison joked that "the fridge, I tell you, it's a great new sound, folks, It's happening!"[4] As Jim Keltner stated about the "drumbeat" during an interview: "I opened the fridge and I saw all this stuff in there. And I thought, 'Oh, good. we're going to eat well this afternoon.' And I happen to have my dowel sticks at the time and I started running them across the grate... you know, the spacers that hold the eggs and things. And they're made of metal, you know. And any time I see something like that, being a drummer, I guess I always have to run my fingernail across or something. But I happen to have the sticks with me at the time. And so it created a great little sound and somebody made a comment in the background. And so I started playing like a little groove on it. And I noticed that if I move the eggs back a little bit, I move the enchiladas over to the side a bit, it tuned those little things."[5] "Rattled" and "Not Alone Any More" were published under Shard End Music.[6]

Release and reception

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"Rattled" was released in October 1988 on Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 to positive reviews from magazines and news articles such as Rolling Stone, who praised it as a "romantic, retro-sounding rockabilly number reminiscent of some of the tracks he produced for Dave Edmunds a few years back."[7]

References

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  1. ^ Leng 2006, p. 260.
  2. ^ Green, Matthew. "Rattled: Song Review on AllMusic". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  3. ^ Roger Scott (presenter) (1989). Saturday Sequence (radio interview). BBC Radio 1.
  4. ^ Smax 2007, event occurs between 9:05 and 9:10.
  5. ^ Traveling Wilburys (26 May 2007). The Traveling Wilburys Revisited. BBC Radio 2.
  6. ^ Ostin, Mo (2007). The Traveling Wilburys Collection (CD booklet). Traveling Wilburys. The Wilbury Record Co.
  7. ^ Wild, David (1988-10-18). "Traveling Wilburys Volume One". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2025-06-07.

Sources

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  • Leng, Simon (2006). While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard. ISBN 978-1-4234-0609-9.
  • Smax, Willy (dir.) (2007). The True History of the Traveling Wilburys (DVD). Traveling Wilburys; Willy Smax and Olivia Harrison (producers). Wilbury Record Co.
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