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| | Beauty and the Beat | | | Music Artist : | | The Go-Go's | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | A&M | | Release Date : | | 1990-10-25 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Our Lips Are Sealed
2. How Much More?
3. Tonite
4. Lust to Love
5. This Town
6. We Got the Beat
7. Fading Fast
8. Automatic
9. You Can't Walk in Your Sleep (If You Can't Sleep)
10. Skidmarks on My Heart
11. Can't Stop the World
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Great record, BUT...The CD version is weird...
Submitted on: 2009-09-04 |
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An excellent album by these beautiful ladies. But something seems to be wrong with this CD "translation". Mine seems to be sloppily done, and I don't know if the newer CD versions are better. The first song, "Our lips are sealed" is amazingly chopped at the very beginning!!! My other complaint has to do with "We Got The Beat", which is a different version from what we heard on the original album, it is like a shorter edited version. That is the only reason for my 3 stars, if I could rate the LP I would give it a 5 definitely.
Anyway fortunately I have one of the 1981 LP's, so when I want to listen to this album properly, just play it like it should be heard. Notwithstanding these small things, the album is great, no question about it, these ladies were talented then and only get better with age. |
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 PURE, RAW & ESSENTIAL
Submitted on: 2009-06-27 |
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| A lot of people look at me like I'm crazy when I say this, but this is definately in my top 5 favorite albums of all time. I listen to everything from ABBA to ZZ Top and I am mainly a huge Nicks/Fleetwood Mac fan, but I keep going back to this cd time after time. There's not a track on there that I don't love. I was 13 when this came out in 1981 and it just takes me to an entirely different place and time. I'll say this once: You don't have to be a big Go-Go's fan, but IF YOU LOVE ROCK & ROLL, YOU MUST OWN THIS ALBUM! IT'S MANDATORY! |
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80s classic!
Submitted on: 2009-03-28 |
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 Music that really gets you Go-Go'ing
Submitted on: 2009-01-16 |
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While considered light pop by some, Beauty and the Beat stands out among the best albums of the 80s and retains all of its fun and energy even today. The music industry had never really seen a genuinely all-girl group, but the five talented women who joined together to become the Go-Go's did much more than sing--they wrote their own songs and played their own instruments. I personally would not call this music punk rock, but it is fresh and brash. Not only were these ladies having fun, they were boldly announcing to everyone that they could do whatever they wanted all by themselves. I personally love Belinda Carlisle, and I think the less developed, rough edge to her voice works very well on these earliest recordings. Charlotte Caffey is a terrific songwriter, guitarist, and backup singer, and the remaining players (Jane Wiedlin, Gina Schock, and Kathy Valentine) play a pivotal role in making this an enthusiastically successful team effort.
There are some great tracks on this album. Is there anyone born before 1975 who could not spontaneously sing every word of the infectious "We Got the Beat?" This was one of those rare songs that never grew old, no matter how often you heard it on the radio. The second prominent single, "Our Lips Are Sealed" was also a big hit. "Lust to Love," a tune about a fun relationship unpredictably turning into a serious one, is probably my personal favorite. The first half of this album, featuring songs such as "How Much More," "Tonite," and "This Town" is terrific. The album loses a little steam after its midway point, though, especially when the group slows down the tempo on "Automatic." It is the only track that cannot be said to have "the beat." "You Can't Walk in Your Sleep" and "Skidmarks on My Heart" have the beat, but they don't have the energy of the earlier tracks; in addition, the lyrics of the latter song, comparing love to auto repair, have never won me over. "Can't Stop the World, " written by Kathy Valentine, ends the album on a high note; the song really seems to exemplify the spirit and message of the Go-Go's. This is just a fun album to listen to and sing along with. Since "Automatic" and "Skidmarks on My Heart" are somewhat weak songs to my ears, I have to give the album four stars -- but the first seven tracks are five stars all the way. |
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The 1980s revisited!
Submitted on: 2009-01-13 |
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This album by the Go-Gos (probably the #1 female group of the 1980s) is a fun mix of top-flight dance/new wave music of the era. With headliner songs like "We've got the Beat" and "Our Lips are Sealed" lead singer Belinda Carlisle will take your memory back to those heady days of MTV and the era of fun new-wave music videos you used to see there.
Strong supporting songs like "This Town" and "Skidmarks on my Heart" make this an album well worth owning.
The snappy, upbeat music of the Go-Gos give this group a longevity that is well-deserved. You'll hear this music from time to time on oldies stations (alas, were the 80s really that long ago!?).
Think back to those happy times or discover this genre of music for the first time as you listen to the Go-Gos. The music is fun, it's clean, and it's available.
A solid 4-star album. |
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