Beat Happening

Beat Happening

Beat Happening - Beat Happening

01/01/1985 | K. Records 

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All Music Guide Review

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

Beat Happening Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • lyrics
  • 1
  • Our Secret
  • 2:51
  • Sound Clip for Our Secret from Beat Happening


  • 2
  • What's Important
  • 2:02
  • Sound Clip for What's Important from Beat Happening


  • 3
  • Down at the Sea
  • 1:24
  • Sound Clip for Down at the Sea from Beat Happening


  • 4
  • I Love You
  • 2:03
  • Sound Clip for I Love You from Beat Happening


  • 5
  • Fourteen
  • 1:50
  • Sound Clip for Fourteen from Beat Happening


  • 6
  • Run Down the Stairs
  • 2:13
  • Sound Clip for Run Down the Stairs from Beat Happening


  • 7
  • Bad Seeds (Live)
  • 2:03
  • Sound Clip for Bad Seeds (Live) from Beat Happening


  • 8
  • In My Memory
  • 2:04
  • Sound Clip for In My Memory from Beat Happening


  • 9
  • Honey Pot
  • 1:06
  • Sound Clip for Honey Pot from Beat Happening


  • 10
  • The Fall
  • 1:46
  • Sound Clip for The Fall from Beat Happening


  • 11
  • Youth
  • 1:57
  • Sound Clip for Youth from Beat Happening


  • 12
  • Don't Mix the Colors
  • 3:00
  • Sound Clip for Don't Mix the Colors from Beat Happening


  • 13
  • Foggy Eyes
  • 2:46
  • Sound Clip for Foggy Eyes from Beat Happening


  • 14
  • Bad Seeds
  • 1:50
  • Sound Clip for Bad Seeds from Beat Happening


  • 15
  • I Let Him Get to Me
  • 1:33
  • Sound Clip for I Let Him Get to Me from Beat Happening


  • 16
  • I Spy
  • 1:50
  • Sound Clip for I Spy from Beat Happening


  • 17
  • Run Down the Stairs
  • 1:55
  • Sound Clip for Run Down the Stairs from Beat Happening


  • 18
  • Christmas
  • 1:24
  • Sound Clip for Christmas from Beat Happening


  • 19
  • Fourteen
  • 1:44
  • Sound Clip for Fourteen from Beat Happening


  • 20
  • Let's Kiss
  • 2:46
  • Sound Clip for Let's Kiss from Beat Happening


  • 21
  • 1, 2, 3
  • 1:45
  • Sound Clip for 1, 2, 3 from Beat Happening


  • 22
  • In Love with You Thing
  • 1:11
  • Sound Clip for In Love with You Thing from Beat Happening


  • 23
  • Look Around
  • 2:45
  • Sound Clip for Look Around from Beat Happening


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