BEAT HAPPENING - S-T LP Orig 1985 1st Press K Records HALO BENDERS Wipers EX/EX
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Very Cool 1st Pressing - some different mixes from later re-issues.
Beat Happening defined a certain ethos of independent spirit and music, defying the established and the popular for a deeper inspection of unfiltered emotions. Unschooled, unrefined, and raw, the three members of the band approached music with a sometimes naive simplicity, but still sounded like no one else before or after them. Punk's rebellious fire and the innocence of youth were both somehow suspended in the band's minimal songs, offered up throughout the '80s and early '90s
Beat Happening formed in Olympia, Washington in the early '80s. Students of Evergreen University Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis, and Bret Lunsford had all been in each other's orbits for a time when the band came together. Johnson, a longtime fixture of the Olympia scene who also helped establish the original Sub Pop fanzine (the basis for the subsequent label), had already founded K, originally a cassette-only project to release music no other company would touch. An alumnus of the short-lived Cool Rays, Calvin teamed with Heather and assorted friends in the first incarnation of Beat Happening, playing shows whenever and wherever they could as long as the performances were held at all-ages venues; his canyon-deep baritone quickly became as much a group trademark as their sardonic, even juvenile songs. Lunsford joined in mid-1983 and Beat Happening issued their debut five-song cassette a year later; a sightseeing trip to Japan followed, and while in Tokyo, the trio recorded its second effort, 1984's Three Tea Breakfast EP. Their 1985 eponymous full-length debut, produced by the Wipers' Greg Sage, brought Beat Happening their first widespread exposure, as well as a number of comparisons to the burgeoning British twee pop scene spearheaded by the Pastels.
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