Beat Happening (album)

Beat Happening
Studio album by Beat Happening
Released	1985
Recorded	1983 - 1985
Genre	Indie pop, lo-fi
Length	23:23 (Original LP) 42:14 (Reissue)
Label	K Records
Producer	Greg Sage
Beat Happening chronology
Beat Happening (1985) Jamboree (1988)

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Beat Happening is the debut album by Beat Happening, released in 1985 through K Records.

Track listing

All songs written by Calvin Johnson, Bret Lunsford, and Heather Lewis.

1. "Foggy Eyes"
2. "Bad Seeds"
3. "I Let Him Get to Me"
4. "I Spy"
5. "Run Down the Stairs"
6. "In Love With You Thing"
7. "I Love You"
8. "Down at the Sea"
9. "Fourteen"
10. "Bad Seeds [Live]"
11. "Our Secret"
12. "What's Important"

A later reissue added the following bonus tracks recorded around the time of the original LP's release and taken from self product homemade recorded in Tokyo and self releasing in 1984 Three Tea Breakfast Cassette:^[3]

1. "Run Down the Stairs"
2. "In My Memory"
3. "Honey Pot"
4. "Fall"
5. "Youth"
6. "Don't Mix the Colors"
7. "Christmas"
8. "Fourteen"
9. "Let's Kiss"

The track listing of the 1996 LP edition changes the song sequence and adds two more tracks.

Side One

1. Our Secret
2. What's Important
3. Down at the Sea
4. I Love You
5. Fourteen (1983)
6. Run Down the Stairs (1983)
7. Bad Seeds (Live)
8. In My Memory
9. Honey Pot
10. The Fall
11. Youth
12. Don't Mix the Colors

Side Two

1. Foggy Eyes
2. Bad Seeds
3. I Let Him Get to Me
4. I Spy
5. Run Down the Stairs (1984)
6. Christmas
7. Fourteen (1984)
8. Let's Kiss
9. 1, 2, 3
10. In Love With You Thing
11. Look Around

External links

• Beat Happening on AMG

References