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- Date Released: January 1, 1985
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: K Records / SC Distribution
Featherweight, ramshackle, childish and perversely radical.
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We Say...
From 1983-1985, when these tracks were recorded, K Records' house band sounded perversely radical: in place of the precision and machismo that had overtaken punk rock, they were deliberately featherweight, ramshackle and childish, right down to the stick figure kitty cat on the cover. But what attracted them to the idea of childhood was that it's the time when everything feels scaldingly intense, love is scary and new, and establishing an identity is more important than anything. They created a subcultural style of their own: an entire generation of indie-pop followed in the wake of the "International Pop Underground" that rumbling-voiced frontman Calvin Johnson brought into being, simply by declaring its existence.
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They Say...
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.
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| 01. |  |
Our Secret |
2:51 |
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| 02. | |
What's Important |
2:02 |
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| 03. | |
Down At The Sea |
1:24 |
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| 04. | |
I Love You |
2:03 |
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| 05. | |
Fourteen |
1:50 |
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| 06. | |
Run Down The Stairs |
2:13 |
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| 07. | |
Bad Seeds (Live) |
2:03 |
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| 08. | |
In My Memory |
2:04 |
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| 09. | |
Honey Pot |
1:06 |
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| 10. | |
The Fall |
1:46 |
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| 11. | |
Youth |
1:57 |
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| 12. | |
Don't Mix The Colors |
3:00 |
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| 13. | |
Froggy Eyes |
2:46 |
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| 14. | |
Bad Seeds |
1:50 |
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| 15. | |
I Let Him Get To Me |
1:33 |
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| 16. | |
I Spy |
1:50 |
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| 17. | |
Run Down The Stairs (2) |
1:55 |
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| 18. | |
Christmas |
1:24 |
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| 19. | |
Fourteen (2) |
1:44 |
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| 20. | |
Let's Kiss |
2:46 |
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| 21. | |
1,2,3 |
1:45 |
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| 22. | |
In Love With You Thing |
1:11 |
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| 23. | |
Look Around |
2:45 |
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| 24. |
Bonus Track |
0:11 |
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24 Total Tracks, 45:59 Total Length
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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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