Beat Happening is a band I feel strange about.
Here's why:
A) songs like "Indian Summer", "Bewitched", "Drive Car Girl" and "In Between" are pretty close to perfect pop songs.
B) songs like "Ask Me", "The This Many Boyfriends Club" and "Jamboree" sound like a bunch of cocky non-musicians that are acting like 4 year old morons yelling and clapping out of time with lyrics like "I love you like a chocolate cake....but we both know that your my dream date!" over a tambourine and drum stick clicking for 63 seconds.
C) Calvin Johnson seems like an arrogant pervert who liked having pajama parties when he was 26 years old and writing lyrics like "Lori Lori what's the story?/Why do the boys think that you're so whore-y?".
D) On that same song, it's just guitar feedback for 3 minutes, which is pretty cool.
E) Calvin Johnson also feels like Ian Curtis by singing in a voice that is uncomfortably low, out of tune, and at times, stupid sounding (which was probably the goal).
F) The sparse nature of the songs serves them well.
G) Michael Azerrad clearly has a man-crush on Calvin.
H) There are two other people in the band - Heather and Bret.
I) There are times I love this album.
J) There are times I HATE this album.
K) Right now, I'm impartial.
OVERALL RATING - AWESSSSOOOTERRIBLLLEEEYYGREAT!
KEY TRACKS - "Crashing Through", "Indian Summer", "In Between".
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