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Beat Happening (CD)

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Beat Happening Artist Snapshot:

Led by monotoned vocalist and K Records founder Calvin Johnson, Olympia's Beat Happening had an entirely unique take on what it meant to be punk rock. Stridently adhering to DIY ethics, the band played a primitive, jangly style of pop. The songs often sounded like they might fall apart at any moment, yet they were so undeniably catchy the band endeared itself to a tremendous swath of the indie underground of the 1980s and '90s. Following Beat Happening's break-up, Calvin Johnson went on to form Dub Narcotic Sound System and released a solo album in 2005.

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DISC 1 for Beat Happening (CD) Album By Beat Happening (Artist)
1   Our Secret
2   What's Important
3   Down At The Sea
4   I Love You
5   Fourteen
6   Run Down The Stairs
7   Bad Seeds - (live)
8   In My Memory
9   Honey Pot
10   Fall, The
11   Youth
12   Don't Mix The Colors
13   Foggy Eyes
14   Bad Seeds
15   I Let Him Get To Me
16   I Spy
17   Run Down The Stairs
18   Christmas
19   Fourteen
20   Let's Kiss
21   1, 2, 3
22   In Love With You Thing
23   Look Around
24   (untitled) - (bonus track)
 

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Review

Spin (5/01, p.112) - Ranked #39 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...Light and flexible, confrontationally cute and hilarious..."

Title Note

This 1996 reissue of Beat Happening's first LP, which was originally released in 1985, includes additional material from the band's first single and from the compilation cassettes THREE TEA BREAKFAST (1984), LET'S TOGETHER (1984), LET'S KISS (1985) and LET'S SEA (1986), along with some previously-unreleased tracks.

Producers include: Greg Sage.

Beat Happening: Heather Lewis, Calvin Johnson (vocals, guitar); Bret Lunsford (guitar, drums).

An expanded reissue containing all of their self-titled 1985 vinyl debut, two five-song cassettes from 1984, an early single and a pair of previously unreleased tracks, BEAT HAPPENING is an essential document of the early days of what would become one of the most divisive scenes in '90s indie music. Either you "get" Beat Happening or you don't. The first-names-only Olympia, Washington trio of Calvin, Heather and Bret were amateurish on a scale unimagined by even Brian Eno or Jonathan Richman (Calvin's froggy baritone sounds like Richman with laryngitis); non-musicians in the truest sense, the trio deliver these 24 willfully simplistic songs in a way that will either utterly charm and beguile you or drive you up the wall. Calvin's label, K Records, became the home of this style of winsome nanvetT throughout the '90s, and while some bands did it better, no one did it with such unself-conscious grace.

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