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Beat Happening

 
Album Review: Beat Happening
 

  • Artist: Beat Happening
  • Rating: StarStarStar
  • 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 Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Our Secret Bret Lunsford, 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)

Credits

Beat Happening (Main Performer), Greg Sage (Producer), Greg Sage (Engineer), Calvin Johnson (?), Heather Lewis (?), Patrick Maley (Bongos), Patrick Maley (Producer), Patrick Maley (?), Rich Jensen (Engineer)
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Wikipedia: Beat Happening (album)
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Beat Happening
Beat Happening cover
Studio album by Beat Happening
Released 1985
Recorded 1985
Genre Indie rock
Length 42:14
Label K Records
Producer Greg Sage
Professional reviews
Beat Happening chronology
Beat Happening
(1985)
Jamboree
(1988)

Beat Happening was the debut album by Beat Happening, released in 1985 through K Records.

Track listing

All songs written by Calvin Johnson, Bret Lunsford, and Heather Lewis.

  1. "Foggy Eyes"
  2. "Bad Seeds"
  3. "I Let Him Get to Me"
  4. "I Spy"
  5. "Run Down the Stairs"
  6. "In Love With You Thing"
  7. "I Love You"
  8. "Down at the Sea"
  9. "Fourteen"
  10. "Bad Seeds [Live]"
  11. "Our Secret"
  12. "What's Important"

A later reissue added the following bonus tracks recorded around the time of the original LP's release:

  1. "Run Down the Stairs"
  2. "In My Memory"
  3. "Honey Pot"
  4. "Fall"
  5. "Youth"
  6. "Don't Mix the Colors"
  7. "Christmas"
  8. "Fourteen"
  9. "Let's Kiss"

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