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- Artist: Beat Happening
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- Release Date: 1985
- Type: Enhanced CD-ROM
- Genre: Rock
Review
Beat Happening can't be given credit for creating the indie pop genre, but they certainly gave it life in America. This, their first album, is indie pop in its purest form: fuzzy bedroom recordings of simplistic, cutesy songs, with intentionally innocent and juvenile lyrics, which Calvin Johnson belts out with one of the most endearingly bad voices in music history. Their later albums sport better songwriting and are more listenable from a production standpoint, but Beat Happening is as twee and charming as this type of music can get. 1983-85, its CD reissue (with a few live songs and early recordings added), is for devoted indie pop fans only. ~ Nitsuh Abebe, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Our Secret | Calvin Johnson, |
Beat Happening | (2:51) |
| What's Important | Beat Happening | (2:02) | |
| Down at the Sea | Beat Happening | (1:24) | |
| I Love You | Beat Happening | (2:03) | |
| Fourteen | Beat Happening | (1:50) | |
| Run Down the Stairs | Beat Happening | (2:13) | |
| Bad Seeds [Live] | Beat Happening | (2:03) | |
| In My Memory | Beat Happening | (2:04) | |
| Honey Pot | Beat Happening | (1:06) | |
| The Fall | Beat Happening | (1:46) | |
| Youth | Beat Happening | (1:57) | |
| Don't Mix the Colors | Beat Happening | (3:00) | |
| Foggy Eyes | Beat Happening | (2:46) | |
| Bad Seeds | Beat Happening | (1:50) | |
| I Let Him Get to Me | Beat Happening | (1:33) | |
| I Spy | Beat Happening | (1:50) | |
| Run Down the Stairs | Beat Happening | (1:55) | |
| Christmas | Beat Happening | (1:24) | |
| Fourteen | Beat Happening | (1:44) | |
| Let's Kiss | Beat Happening | (2:46) | |
| 1, 2, 3 | Beat Happening | (1:45) | |
| In Love with You Thing | Beat Happening | (1:11) | |
| Look Around | Beat Happening | (2:45) |
