The Beta Band (album)

Infobox Album | Name = The Beta Band
Type = Album
Artist = The Beta Band


Released = June 21 1999 (UK) June 29 1999 (US)
Recorded = 1999
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 62:02
Label = Regal REG59CD (UK) Astralwerks ASW 10446 (US)
Producer = The Beta Band, Chris Allison
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:j3r9283u051a~T00 link]
*Pitchfork (8.6/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/15407/Beta_Band_The_Beta_Band 1 Jul 99]
*Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau|hm3 [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=The+Beta+Band link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thebetaband/albums/album/116673/review/5941751/the_beta_band 8 Jul 99] | Last album = "The Three EPs"(1998)
This album = "The Beta Band" (1999)
Next album = "Hot Shots II" (2001) | |}

"The Beta Band" is the debut album of The Beta Band, released in 1999. The album followed the critically acclaimed compilation of their first three EPs titled "The Three EPs". The band themselves have half-seriously disowned this album, calling it "fucking awful", but nonetheless "still 10 times better than any other record that year". [ [http://www.synthesis.net/music/story.php?type=band&id=946 Synthesis : Music ] ]

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"The Hard One" uses samples of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler. Jim Steinman, (who wrote and produced "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and was planning on resurrecting the song at the time) wasn't too pleased at first and insisted that the band re-record it without the samples, but he soon had a change of heart and the track went ahead.

Track listing

#"The Beta Band Rap" – 4:41
#"It's Not Too Beautiful" – 8:29
#"Simple Boy" – 2:18
#"Round the Bend" – 4:56
#"Dance O'er the Border" – 5:33
#"Brokenupadingdong" – 4:46
#"Number 15" – 6:49
#"Smiling" – 8:35
#"The Hard One" – 10:06
#"The Cow's Wrong" – 5:49

External links

*MusicBrainz album|name =The Beta Band|id=cef71f86-fa75-4adb-8d52-d8b57f03d695

References