The Beat

Artist: The Paul Collins' Beat
Label: Wagon Wheel Records
Category: Music

Average customer rating:

Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 765473000222
EAN: 0765473000222
ASIN: B000001L4B

Release Date: 1994-05-19

The Beat

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Tracks:

Rock N Roll Girl
I Don't Fit In
Different Kind of Girl
Don't Wait Up for Me
You Won't Be Happy
Walking Out on Love
Work-A-Day World
U.S.A.
Let Me into Your Life
Working Too Hard
You and I
Look But Don't Touch
There She Goes [*]

Album Description

Debut LP from 1979, includes 'Don't Wait Up For Me', 'Rock 'N Roll Girl', 'There She Goes' and more. Digitally remastered from the Wagon Wheel label.

Customer Reviews:

Definitive Power Pop.......2004-12-18

Difficult to locate, but when you get it, you'll be glad you did. I saw this band live twice, and they were as tight live as they are on the record. The vibe you get is that these songs were done in just a coulple of studio takes. And like the other reviewers are saying, it still sounds as fresh today as when it was released. I would suggest not trying to get it on CD, and instead locate it on vinyl. The website Songsearch has a sub-section, Every cd on Earth, and you can find it on VINYL for a reasonable price. Let the collectors hoard the cd; get the vinyl and ENJOY THE MUSIC.

WHERE CAN I FIND A COPY OF THIS ALBUM.......2003-12-08

This is absolutely impossible to find, I need to know where to get this album. I downloaded two mp3s from the album, but I can't find anything else...

Classic New Wave.......2003-10-21

See my review of 20/20 (as Antagonico). I put this on a cassette with 20/20, and they have been bookends for me ever since. They capture the ersatz beetlish 60s sound that became so popular in the late 70s early 80s. Great work. Still holds it's own. Goes good with a cold one and a sunset after a drive to the coast.

This BEAT goes on!.......2003-10-06

The Beat (or Paul Collins' Beat, the moniker they eventually took on to avoid confusion with The English Beat, and in the UK, this album was called "The American Beat" for the same reasons) cut this gem of an album in 1979, when it seemed every band in Los Angeles with a skinny tie and a jangle guitar got a deal. And like many of them, they got swept away in the backlash that formed around The Knack. Collin's fate was undeserved, because this album just bristles with energy and pop smarts.

There are a couple undiscovered classics here. "I Don't Fit In" captures the angst of an outsider looking in with British Invasion snap, and "Don't Wait Up For Me," the second single, was the kind of great rock and roll that made new wave such a blast. The catchy "Rock and Roll Girl" also generated some radio attention. Oddly enough, what has probably become the CD's most-heard song wasn't even on the original album. "There She Goes" was used for the movie "Caddyshack," and just as great as any of the album's original dozen selections.

Producer Bruce Botnik also understood The Beat perfectly, keeping the sound minimal and raw, perfect for loud playing. If you miss the fun period of early eighties power pop (Dwight Twilley, Shoes, Producers, Knack, Motels, etc), this hard to find CD is worth the effort. You can also safely skip the follow-up, in which the moniker became "Paul Collins' Beat" and the band's sound was homogenized into a Bryan Adams kind of blandness.

Pure power pop fun!.......2003-05-10

Whatever happened to this band? I was a teenager when I stumbled across this album. I do not think they made it very big, (like The Knack). I never got rid of my records, but I did get rid of my turntable-until TODAY! After 15 years without a record player I bought one today. I put this record on and it sounds as fresh as it ever did! Power pop in the line of The Records,The Ramones, The Jags, you got it right? If you are a little younger, think the Hives, with a little less attitude and a little more pop. Every song on this is a catchy pop tune that will stick in your head and have you humming happy thoughts!

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