Beat Happening is an American indie pop and punk rock band formed in Olympia, Washington, United States in 1982. Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis and Bret Lunsford have been the band's continual members. Beat Happening were early leaders in the American indie pop and lo-fi movements, noted for their use of primitive recording techniques, disregard for the technical aspects of musicianship, and songs with subject matters of a childish or coy nature.
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Beat Happening
Beat Happening is an American indie pop and punk rock band formed in Olympia, Washington, United States in 1982. Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis and Bret Lunsford have been the band's continual members. Beat Happening were early leaders in the American indie pop and lo-fi movements, noted for their use of primitive recording techniques, disregard for the technical aspects of musicianship, and songs with subject matters of a childish or coy nature.
This song has the wrong photo. The photo on Slaps below this was accidently switched. There is shouting and losing voice in this that I enjoy. Photo by Abbas Tehrani on Unsplash (on this song too).more
The rest is what it is, but I really do like the first chorus, without vocals, when the chaos of putting an old laptop filter to a low budget acoustic guitar appears.more