Beat Happening - Beat Happening

Title: Beat Happening Artist: Beat Happening Release Date: 1985 Re-Released On: 3/26/1996 Label: K Records Album Type(s): Enhanced CD-ROM UPC: 789856100125 Genre: Rock Styles: Alternative Pop/Rock, Lo-Fi, Indie Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Twee Pop, Indie Pop, American Underground Moods: Eccentric, Giddy, Ramshackle, Innocent, Naive, Playful, Precious, Quirky, Reserved, Sweet, Bittersweet, Ironic, Reflective, Whimsical, Witty, Wry, Irreverent, Messy Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 2 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

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. The Fall
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

Year Type Label Catalog # 1996 CD K Records 1

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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

Name Credits Calvin Johnson ? Greg Sage Engineer, Producer Heather Lewis ? Patrick Maley Bongos, ?, Producer Rich Jensen Engineer