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- Date Released: January 1, 1988
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: K Records / SC Distribution
Lean and not mean, this is it, the classic of late '80s indie "love rock."
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We Say...
The beat music that longs for the '60s before drugs, and love before wisdom, is nonetheless radical — for their amped-up second album, Beat Happening take the Replacements' line about music having too many notes literally. The absence of bass ingeniously emphasizes a powerful floor tom while the guitar distortion clears the head for straight talk and suggestive nonsense. Calvin's voice looms like a rockabilly ghoul, while Heather's skips rope. His "Indian Summer" became the oft-covered classic, but her "In Between" was the key song — a kind of bed-bouncing, punk rock house music for the subconscious. Only Public Enemy presented as great a challenge in 1988, or stands up so well.
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They Say...
Co-produced by Steve Fisk and the Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan and Gary Lee Conner, Beat Happening's brief, brilliant sophomore effort significantly expands the trio's horizons without sacrificing any of their naïve charm. Sporting a fuller, more intricate sound and stronger songs than their debut, Jamboree crystallizes the trio's love-rock aesthetic in its embryonic stages; veering sharply from the idyllic drones of the perennial "Indian Summer" to the poignant crush-pop of "Cat Walk" to the indie-party classic "Midnight a Go-Go," each cut is a marvel of innocence and ingenuity.
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Bewitched |
3:06 |
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| 02. | |
In Between |
2:21 |
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| 03. | |
Indian Summer |
3:05 |
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| 04. | |
Hangman |
2:31 |
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| 05. | |
Jamboree |
1:03 |
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| 06. | |
Ask Me |
0:58 |
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| 07. | |
Crashing Through |
1:16 |
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| 08. | |
Cat Walk |
1:58 |
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| 09. | |
Drive Car Girl |
2:00 |
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| 10. | |
Midnight A Go-Go |
2:18 |
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| 11. | |
The This Many Boyfriends Club |
3:18 |
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11 Total Tracks, 23:54 Total Length
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Credits
- Beat Happening - Main Performer // Mark Lanegan - Producer // Mark Lanegan - Producer // Mark Lanegan - Associate Producer // Mark Lanegan - Associate Producer // Steve Fisk - Producer // Lee Conner - Guitar // Lee Conner - Producer // Lee Conner - Associate Producer // Heather Lewis - ? // Patrick Maley - Producer // Rich Jensen - Producer // Ann Culbertson - Photography // Calvin - Group Member // Bret - Group Member
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