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L.A.'s the Go-Go's had shed a lot of the strict punk rock-isms of their past by the time of their first album, though the best moments of BEAUTY & THE BEAT still present them a touch closer to punk than to pop. It is as a result of recordslike this that new wave came into being. The Go-Go's were one of the first American punk bands to achieve significant commercial success (probably only Blondie really preceded them), and this album is no sell-out to "the man".
The record spawned two huge hits, "Our Lips Are Sealed", "We Got theBeat", and one not-as-huge one, "Can't Stop the World" (written by bass player Kathy Valentine). All three feature GinaSchock's powerful drumming way up into the front of the mix, Belinda Carlisle impassioned (and slightly unschooled) vocals, and brief allusions to surf-guitar rock. As good as those tracks are, "Skidmarks on My Heart", an awesome nitro-injected, adrenalised pastiche of '60s girl-group standards, and "This Town", a scathing character study of L.A. life, are possibly better. For all of its enormous commercial success,this record is one of the very best albums of the early '80s.
L.A.'s the Go-Go's had shed a lot of the strict punk rock-isms of their past by the time of their first album, though the best moments of BEAUTY & THE BEAT still present them a touch closer to punk than to pop. It is as a result of recordslike this that new wave came into being. The Go-Go's were one of the first American punk bands to achieve significant commercial success (probably only Blondie really preceded them), and this album is no sell-out to "the man".
The record spawned two huge hits, "Our Lips Are Sealed", "We Got theBeat", and one not-as-huge one, "Can't Stop the World" (written by bass player Kathy Valentine). All three feature GinaSchock's powerful drumming way up into the front of the mix, Belinda Carlisle impassioned (and slightly unschooled) vocals, and brief allusions to surf-guitar rock. As good as those tracks are, "Skidmarks on My Heart", an awesome nitro-injected, adrenalised pastiche of '60s girl-group standards, and "This Town", a scathing character study of L.A. life, are possibly better. For all of its enormous commercial success,this record is one of the very best albums of the early '80s.
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