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Beat Happening

by Beat Happening

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    A hundred summer days bottled up inside one guitar. This release is the first Beat Happening album, reissued with lots of extra material recorded during 1983-85, the time during which the first album was originally recorded and released.

    This album is now available as a DELUXE DOUBLE LP via Domino Records.

    Bret, Heather and Calvin made music hot and bothered, the world listened with trepidation. As the first album released on K in 1985 this collection set a mood of irresistibility that has endured for decades.

    The refurbished Beat Happening includes the original Greg Sage (Wipers) produced sessions that comprised most of the original album and the first single ("Our Secret" / "What's Important"). Five of the songs were recorded while Beat Happening was living in Japan and then released as the Three Tea Breakfast cassette. There are also several songs that were originally included on various cassette compilations long out of print.

    SIDE ONE

    Foggy Eyes
    Bad Seeds
    I Let Him Get to Me
    I Spy
    Run Down the Stairs

    SIDE TWO

    In Love with You Thing
    I Love You
    Down at the Sea
    Our Secret
    What's Important
    fourteen
    Bad Seeds (live)

    SIDE THREE

    Run Down the Stairs
    In My Memory
    Honey Pot
    The Fall
    Youth
    Don't Mix the Colors

    SIDE FOUR

    Christmas
    fourteen
    Let's Kiss
    1, 2, 3
    Look Around
    I Love You (Demo)

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  • Compact disc version of Beat Happening album
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The K compact disc of the debut Beat Happening album from 1985 (produced by Greg Sage) with additional songs from cassette-only releases and the debut Beat happening 45rpm "Our Secret" / "What's Important".

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Our Secret 02:52
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I Love You 02:01
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In My Memory 02:03
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Honey Pot 01:06
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The Fall 01:46
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Youth 01:57
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Foggy Eyes 02:46
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Bad Seeds 01:49
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I Spy 01:50
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Fourteen 01:44
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Let's Kiss 02:46
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1, 2, 3 01:46
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released November 27, 1985

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Beat Happening Olympia, Washington

Beat Happening formed in Olympia, Washington in 1983. Heather Lewis, Bret Lunsford (D+) and Calvin Johnson (Selector Dub Narcotic, The Halo Benders, Dub Narcotic Sound System, The Hive Dwellers), met at punk shows and decided they could do as well and why not. Arch your back to the primative beat. ... more

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