Beat Happening: C or D.

here are those mixtape tracklists btw: http://yarnlazer.com/calvintapes/

the disco ones do look damn interesting

from here: http://www.furious.com/perfect/beathappening.html
"But Beat Happening was also hated by their underground peers. For instance, when the band opened for Black Flag at the Tropicana, Henry Rollins famously heckled Calvin Johnson, including grabbing Calvin's crotch mid-song. "There seemed to be a lot of animosity directed towards us," Calvin says."

at least sonic youth and beck like them...

They make a lot of rules
They tell a lot of lies
If we don't wanna, we won't behave
And they can't make us 'cause we can't be made

“By disrupting the status quo concept that music must be polished, practiced, and public, Beat Happening helped crack open a world for new voices usher in a wave of cloying, obnoxious mediocrity that continues unabated to this very day”

worst band, now and forever

surprised Calvin hasn't been #metoo'd tbh

That too

Reading this thread, LOL that there was ever any question about Rollins hating beat happening... getting pissed off about a band that he perceived as wimpy/weak/meek, yeah gosh that doesn't sound like rollins at all, lol

most of my favourite Beat Happening songs are Heather songs anyway tbh

I've had a CD-R of Jamboree for a long time, but just got a cheap CD copy in the mail. There's probably a thread for this: gap between your three favourite songs and the rest of the album. I love "Indian Summer," "Cat Walk," and "Drive Car Girl" so much, and the rest of the album does nothing for me.

I've had Dreamy and You Turn Me On waiting on my computer for a while, burned them for a long car trip today. All three songs I'll save are sung by Heather Lewis: "Noise," "Sleepy Head," and (epic drone, love it) "Godsend."

oh c'mon "Pinebox Derby" rules

Nothing else made much of an impression on me, beyond that I often found Calvin Johnson's vocals annoying (which on the three songs I posted about nine months ago, I totally love--I can't explain that).

Man Tiger Trap is an all timer

All killer, no filler, tbh. (YTMO, that is. Some of Dreamy tests my patience, which seems an improbable thing to be typing given it's the later LP that drones on endlessly lol)

Burned their expanded debut...My favourites (evenly split this time between Heather and Calvin): "Our Secret," "What's Important," "1, 2, 3," "Look Around." The first, beyond sounding great, is the perfect launch for such a strange folk/post-punk band: the title, and "That's why we're running away..."

listened to this audio doc about the making of Jamboree the other day, some good insight into the record and the relationships between the band members (both then and now)
https://lifeoftherecord.com/#/beat-happening/