Go-Go's - Beauty And The Beat - 30th Anniversary Reissue - Pink Vinyl 80`s Rock LP
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Go-Go's - Beauty And The Beat


Label: I.R.S. Records, Capitol Records
Catalog#: SP70021, 50999 027027 11
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Pink
Features:

• 30th Anniversary Reissue
• Translucent Pink Vinyl LP
• Remastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Studios
• Digitally Remastered from Analog source
• Pressed at Rainbo Records
New
Country: US
Released: 17 May 2011
Released in 1981
Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock


Tracklist


A1 Our Lips Are Sealed 2:45
A2 How Much More 3:03
A3 Tonite 3:33
A4 Lust To Love 4:00
A5 This Town 3:15



B1 We Got The Beat 2:36
B2 Fading Fast 3:32
B3 Automatic 2:34
B4 You Can't Walk In Your Sleep (If You Can't Sleep) 3:00
B5 Skidmarks On My Heart 3:13
B6 Can't Stop The World 3:22


Credits
Art Direction – Ginger Canzoneri, Mike Doud
Bass, Guitar – Kathy Valentine
Design – Mike Fink
Drums, Percussion – Gina Schock
Lead Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards – Charlotte Caffey
Lead Vocals – Belinda Carlisle
Management [Go-go's Management] – Ginger Canzoneri
Mixed By [Assistant] – Darroll Gustamachio, Eric Kortee, Gray Russell
Music By [All Selections Written By] – Go-Go's
Photography By – George Du Bose
Photography [Photo Illustration] – Cindy Marsh
Producer – Richard Gottehrer
Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By – Rob Freeman
Recorded By [Additional, Assistant] – James Ball
Recorded By [Assistant] – John Terelle, Ted Blechta
Rhythm Guitar, Vocals – Jane Wiedlin
Written-By – B. Carlisle (tracks: B5), C. Caffey (tracks: A2 to B5), Go-Go's, The, J. Wiedlin(tracks: A1 to A5, B3, B4), Kathy Valentine (tracks: B6), P. Case (tracks: A3), T. Hall (tracks: A1)



Beauty and the Beat was the Go-Go’s debut album, released in 1981 by I.R.S. Records. The album hit #1 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart, and was the first album to top the chart by an all-female band that wrote and performed its own songs.

Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix Number (Etched into Side A run out): S-76117
Matrix Number (Etched into Side A run out): 5099902702711-A
Matrix Number (Etched into Side B run out): 5099902702711-B



BEAUTY AND THE BEAT is not just one of the best albums of the 1980s...it's one of the great pop albums of all time. Coming from their L.A. punk roots, Belinda Carlisle and company, at the hands of producer Richard Gottehrer, take us on a ride through love and heartbreak that's joyous, ironic, both candy-colored and dark, and relentlessly compelling. Surf guitar-inspired riffs, deliciously paired with Belinda Carlisle's sparkling vocals and Gina Schock's thundering beat, give way to songs that are so perfect that they seem effortless. This version of BEAUTY AND THE BEAT -- presented in sonic splendor -- is nothing short of a dream come true.

When the 1970s punk scene was washed away by the undertow of '80s new wave, few bands surfed the transition as well as the Go-Go's. These Valley grrrls dressed up their punk heritage with a sense of glamour so that their music was at once ballsy and fanciful. The peppery singles "We Got the Beat" and "Our Lips Are Sealed" were their debut's chart climbers and glossiest tracks. The rest of the album has a tougher crust. For example, the jittery "Can't Stop the World" would make the Ramones proud. And take a look at the lyrical content of "This Town": "Change the lines that were said before / We're all dreamers--we're all whores / Discarded stars / Like worn out cars / Litter the streets of this town." Hole's single "Celebrity Skin" is a '90s rendition of the same theme: "When I wake up with my makeup / Have you ever felt so used up as this? / It's all so sugarless / Hooker / Waitress / Model / Actress / Oh, just go nameless." Just as Courtney Love has made a career out of publicly displaying her glam-trash lifestyle, the Go-Go's song about the self-eroding lifestyles of Hollywood revealed that they, too, were more hard living than hard candy


This is where Belinda Carlisle got her start, and here her vocals, like the music, have an edge, but not an overly hard one. Carlisle's mid-range vocals are offset beautifully by Jane Wiedlin's domination of the higher vocal registers. (Jane Wiedlin is still one of the coolest music people around today, and she was great as Joan of Arc in the cult movie classic "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.")

The Go-Gos' sound is underpinned by the driving drums of Gina Schock, the driving bass of Kathy Valentine, and Wiedlin's driving rhythm guitar. Did I mention it was driving? Then there is the lead guitar of Charlotte Caffey, at times light and airy, and at times more... well, driving. They don't call this record "Beauty and the Beat" for nothing -- it really is beat-driven. But it's not just mindless beat, it's combined with great melodies and a positive but still edgy attitude.

The highlight of the record for me is "Our Lips Are Sealed", one of the greatest pop songs ever, written by Wiedlin and Terry Hall, who was at the time the lead singer of the UK ska band "The Specials". Hall later did a dark and brooding version of the song with his Specials break-away band, Fun Boy Three. But this version is definitive for the song, I think, especially with Wiedlin's angelic-sounding middle-eight vocal.



The Go Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed





The Go-Go's - Can't Stop The World (Live from Berlin 1982)





Go-Go's - We Got The Beat (Hollywood Heartbeat TV Show 1980)