The Beta Band - The Beta Band
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Artist: The Beta BandBrand: Beta
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-06-29
Music Label: Astralwerks
Soundtracks:
- Beta Band Rap
- It's Not Too Beautiful
- Simple Boy
- Round the Bend
- Dance O'Er the Border
- Broken up Adingdong
- Number 15
- Smiling
- Hard One
- Cow's Wrong
Music reviews of The Beta Band
Music Review: better than just "good"
Rating: 4 Stars
I hate how people keep saying this is one of the beta band's "weekest" or "worst" albums. i admit im not too fond of some songs on here, but "it's not too beautiful" is fabulous! one of my favorite songs, and "hard one" is definately one of the best 10 minute songs i've heard. "broken up adingdong" is definately a fun song too. "smiling" at the begining might sound kinda annoying or wierd, but as it progresses it becomes really quite original and cool. "dance o'er the border" has it's strange parts but it's a pretty experimental song, and i'm glad at least some bands take risks like that instead of sounding like everyone else. "the cows wrong" in my opinion is also definately better than just 'good'. "round the bend," featured in High Fidelity is good but deinfately not the best of them and that song doesn't even begin to represent the awesomeness of the Beta Band.
Description of The Beta Band
Debut full length by U.K. alternative outfit who mix just about every style of music and end up sounding like no one else. Traces of Beck, Aphex Twin, Guided By Voices and many others can be heard in the 10 cuts. 1999 release.When a record that starts with a freakish rendering of the '40s novelty tune "Mr. Sandman" collides into a loping rap that boasts of chicken, fish, and cold love in Scotland and then maneuvers into a rave-up worthy of Elvis, it normally would spell trouble. But the Beta Band actually manage to make this wacked-out pastiche work. The Scottish combo skillfully massage their tracks into thrilling sound collages that draw on electronica, country, prog rock, and psychedelia without ever going beyond the point of kitsch. The stoned beauty of "It's Not Too Beautiful" recalls the mesmerizing layered vocals of Pink Floyd, but tosses in a demented breakdown to throw any nostalgia seeker off the scent. The steel drums and reggae bass line of "No. 15" combine shamble with shuffle to give this slacker's recitation of "15 reasons not to spend my life with you" a lazy charm. The Beta Band extend a simple invitation with their woozy music: Get baked. --Lois Maffeo
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