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The Go-Go's - Beauty And The Beat (1981)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 4 Jun 2023 11:17:11

It’s not quite right to say that the Go-Go’s' 1981 debut, Beauty and the Beat, is where new wave caught hold in the U.S., but it’s not quite wrong, either. Prior to this, there had certainly been new wave hits – Blondie had been reaching the Top Ten for two years running – but the Go-Go’s ushered in the era of big, bright stylish pop, spending six weeks at the top of the U.S. charts and generating two singles that defined the era: the cool groove of “Our Lips Are Sealed” and the exuberant “We Got the Beat.” So big were these two hits that they sometimes suggested that Beauty and the Beat was a hits-and-filler record, an impression escalated by the boost the Go-Go’s received from the just-launched MTV, yet that’s hardly the case. Beauty and the Beat is sharp, clever, and catchy, explicitly drawing from the well of pre-Beatles ‘60s pop – girl group harmonies, to be sure, but surf-rock echoes throughout – but filtering it through the nervy energy of punk. With the assistance of Rob Freeman, producer Richard Gottehrer – a veteran of the Strangeloves (“I Want Candy”) who also wrote the girl group standard “My Boyfriend’s Back” – sanded down the band’s rougher edges, keeping the emphasis on the hooks and harmonies but giving the Go-Go’s enough kick and jangle that at times the group resembles nothing less than early R.E.M., particularly on “How Much More” and “Tonite.” But this isn’t Murmur; there is nothing murky about Beauty and the Beat at all – this is infectiously cheerful pop, so hooky it’s sometimes easy to overlook how well-written these tunes are, but it’s the sturdiness of the songs that makes Beauty and the Beat a new wave classic.

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com

The Go-Go's at Allmusic
The Go-Go's at Wiki

Tracklist:

01. Our Lips Are Sealed (2:48)
02. How Much More (3:06)
03. Tonite (3:35)
04. Lust to Love (4:05)
05. This Town (3:20)
06. We Got the Beat (2:33)
07. Fading Fast (3:40)
08. Automatic (3:09)
09. You Can't Walk in Your Sleep (If You Can't Sleep) (2:54)
10. Skidmarks on My Heart (3:07)
11. Can't Stop the World (3:19)

EAC log

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 22. April 2014, 20:00

Go Go's / Beauty and the Beat

Used drive : TEAC DV-W524GSB Adapter: 2 ID: 1

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 320 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\FLAC\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -V -8 -T "Date=%year%" -T "Genre=%genre%" %source%

TOC of the extracted CD

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Range status and errors

Selected range

Filename C:\Go Go's - Beauty and the Beat.wav

Peak level 100.0 %
Extraction speed 5.6 X
Range quality 99.9 %
Test CRC B528DB55
Copy CRC B528DB55
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

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DR log

foobar2000 1.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2017-06-25 18:08:32

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Analyzed: Go Go's / Beauty and the Beat
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 0.00 dB -11.39 dB 3:35 03-Tonite
DR10 0.00 dB -12.01 dB 4:05 04-Lust to Love
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DR10 0.00 dB -11.35 dB 3:07 10-Skidmarks on My Heart
DR10 0.00 dB -10.72 dB 3:19 11-Can't Stop the World
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Number of tracks: 11
Official DR value: DR10

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 995 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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