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Other usesInfobox album| | Name = Beauty and the Beat| Type = Album| Artist = The Go-Go's | Cover = The Go-Go'sBeautyandtheBeatalbumcover.jpg| Released = July 8, 1981| Recorded = 1980–1981| Genre = Pop rock , New wave music|New Wave | Length = 32:17| Label = IRS Records|I.R.S. | Producer = Rob Freeman, Richard Gottehrer | Last album =| This album = Beauty and the Beat (1981)| Next album = '' Vacation (The Go-Go's album)|Vacation (1982) Beauty and the Beat is the debut album from Californian all-female band The Go-Go's . Released in 1981 on the IRS Records label, the album was preceded by the single (music)|single " We Got the Beat ," which became a massive club hit in Europe and, later, the United States. When the album was eventually released, it steadily climbed the Billboard 200 chart, ultimately peaking at Chart topper|number one , where it remained for six consecutive weeks. The long play|L.P. sold in excess of three million copies and reached double platinum status, making it one of the most successful debut albums of all time. It is now widely considered as one of the cornerstone albums of 1980s new wave music. It was the first, and so far the only, album entirely written and performed by an all-female band to top the charts.
The title is a play on the European fairy tale Beauty and the Beast .
Reception
Album ratings| rev1 = Allmusic | rev1score = Rating|4.5|5Allmusic |class=album |tab=review |id=r8312 |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |authorlink=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |accessdate=Date|2004-11-05 | rev2 = Robert Christgau | rev2score = Rating-Christgau|B+Cite news |newspaper= The Village Voice |date=October 5, 1981 |first=Robert |last=Christgau |title=Consumer Guide: The Go-Go's: Beauty and the Beat |url= http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv10-81.php |accessdate=Date|2011-12-09 Also posted at Cite web |publisher= Robert Christgau |title=The Go-Go's: Beauty and the Beat > Consumer Guide Album |url= http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php? id=3636 |accessdate=Date|2006-02-25 | rev3 = Rolling Stone | rev3Score = positive Cite news |newspaper= Rolling Stone |issue= |date=October 29, 1981 |first=Jon |last=Pareles |authorlink=Jon Pareles |title= Beauty and the Beat Go-Go's > Album Review |url= http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thegogos/albums/album/194714/review/5947001/beauty_and_the_beat |accessdate=Date|2012-04-17 |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20090615082805/ http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thegogos/albums/album/194714/review/5947001/beauty_and_the_beat |archivedate=Date|2009-06-15 | rev4 = Rolling Stone | rev4Score = Rating|4|5Cite news |newspaper=Rolling Stone |issue=948 |date=May 13, 2004 |page=77 |first=Warren |last=Zanes |title=The Rolling Stone Hall of Fame: Go-Go's: Beauty and the Beat |url= http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thegogos/albums/album/194714/review/5947001/beauty_and_the_beat |accessdate=Date|2007-08-12 |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20071104164224/ http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/194714/review/5947001/beautyandthebeat |archivedate=Date|2007-11-04
Beauty and the Beat was released to reviews that while positive were not outstanding especially in light of its eventual summit of the album charts. Robert Christgau found the album good and wrote "this one's got hooks" in his Village Voice column. while Jon Pareles in Rolling Stone called it a "solid, likable debut". The album placed 10th on the annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll in the Village Voice for 1981.cite news |newspaper=The Village Voice |date=February 1, 1982 |title=The 1981 Pazz & amp; Jop Critics Poll |url= http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres81.php |accessdate=date|2012-04-18
The album has since gained in regard. Stephen Thomas Erlewine called it "one of the cornerstone albums of new wave" and praising its "catchy hooks and an exuberant sense of fun" on Allmusic .
In 2003, the album was ranked number 413 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|the 500 greatest albums of all time . http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/beauty-and-the-beast-go-gos-19691231 "413 & #124; Beauty and the Beat" " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ". Rolling Stone (937): pp. 83& ndash;178. December 11, 2003. http://www.webcitation.org/67ZcC9jSj Archived from the original Date|2012-05-11. Retrieved 2 December 2009. This album was chosen as one of Amazon.com 's Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005. The album opener, "Our Lips Are Sealed," has been cover version|covered over the years by numerous artists, and remains a staple of '80s playlists. It is frequently cited as one of the Top 100 and Top 50 songs of the '80s. Rolling Stone magazine has named it one of the Top 100 Pop Singles of all time. "We Got the Beat" has been named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll . http://rockhall.com/exhibits/one-hit-wonders-songs-that-shaped-rock-and-roll/ Experience The Music: One Hit Wonders and The Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll | The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
The album gained a deluxe remastered compact disc when EMI released the Beauty and the Beat 30th Anniversary Edition on May 17, 2011. Disc one features the remastered original album while disc 2 offers an entire live show, recorded at the Metro Club in Boston on August 20, 1981. Both '' Vacation (The Go-Go's album)|Vacation (1982) and Talk Show (The Go-Go's album)|Talk Show (1984) were previously issued in remastered CD form in 1999.
Rob Freeman: production, sound engineer|engineering , and Audio mixing (recorded music)|mixing
Richard Gottehrer: production
James A. Ball: assistant engineer and mixing assistant
Ted Blechta, Darroll Gustamachio, Gray Russell, John Terelle: assistant engineers
Stuart Furusho, David Leonard (producer)|David Leonard : mixing assistants
Doug Schwartz: remix ing
Greg Calbi: mastering
Staff
Ginger Canzoneri, Mike Doud, Mick Haggerty, Vartan: art direction
Mike Fink, Mick Haggerty: design
George DuBose, Mick Haggerty, Cindy Marsh: photography
Cindy Marsh: illustration s
Charts
Album
Chart (1982)
Peak position
Certifications
Sales
Australian Albums Chart
27
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Canadian Albums Chart
2
Platinum
200,000+
U.S. Billboard 200
1
2× Platinum
2,000,000+
Singles
Year
Song
U.S. Hot 100
U.S. MSR
U.S. Dance
UK singles
CAN singles
AUS singles
1981
" Our Lips Are Sealed "
20
15
10
47
4
2
1982
" We Got the Beat "
2
7
35
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3
29
s-startsuccession box| before = Freeze Frame (J. Geils Band album)|Freeze Frame by The J. Geils Band | title = Billboard 200| Billboard 200 Number-one albums of 1982 (USA)|number-one album | years = March 6, 1982 – April 10, 1982 | after = Chariots of Fire (album)|Chariots of Fire (soundtrack) by Vangelis s-end
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