Released by Sire in 1999 (31041-2) containing music from A Walk on the Moon (1999). The band's use of 1980s musical mainstays such as keyboard and synthesizer is also notable. A Walk On The Moon soundtrack from 1999, composed by Various Artists. Ryan Seed of Billboard gave 'Shut Up and Dance' four and a half stars out of five.Walk the Moon have cited Talking Heads, David Bowie, The Killers, The Police, Tears for Fears, and Phil Collins as influences.

This album includes the song 'Shut Up and Dance', which hit number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number one on the Billboard Rock Songs chart and Billboard Alternative Songs chart. The album includes a re-recorded version of 'Anna Sun.' In December 2014, the band released their second major-label studio album, Talking Is Hard. Influential music blog Neon Gold helped to break the band in January 2011, calling 'Anna Sun', 'the kind of stuff British A&R dreams, and major label bidding wars, are made of.'In February 2011, Walk the Moon signed to RCA Records and in June 2012, released their first major label studio album, Walk the Moon. Along with the success of 'Anna Sun', Alt Nation named them a band you need to know for the summer of 2012. It was also the free single of the week on iTunes for the week of May 15. The group independently released their debut studio album, I want! I want!, in November 2010, receiving airplay for the track 'Anna Sun' on multiple alternative radio stations. Before the release of their self-titled album, Walk the Moon joined many other. Lead singer Nicholas Petricca started the band in 2006, while a student at Kenyon College, deriving the band's name from the song 'Walking on the Moon' by The Police. Walk the Moon (stylized as WALK THE MOON) is an American rock band based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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