Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat POLL

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I couldn't find a poll of one of my favorite records.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
1. "Our Lips Are Sealed" Wiedlin, Hall 2:45	19
6. "We Got the Beat" Caffey 2:36	5
5. "This Town" Caffey, Wiedlin 3:20	3
2. "How Much More" Caffey, Wiedlin 3:06	3
11. "Can't Stop the World" Valentine 3:20	2
3. "Tonite" Caffey, Wiedlin, Case 3:35	1
4. "Lust to Love" Caffey, Wiedlin 4:04	1
7. "Fading Fast" Caffey 3:41	1
9. You Can't Walk in Your Sleep (If You Can't Sleep)" Caffey, Wiedlin 2:54	1
8. "Automatic" Wiedlin 3:07	0
10. "Skidmarks on My Heart" Caffey, Carlisle 3:06	0

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago)

Love every single song, esp the droney "Automatic," but "Our Lips" is alltime.

― An influential prophet from Denton, Texas (Dan Peterson), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:21 (thirteen years ago)

"Can't Stop the World," whose goodness makes me wonder why Kathy Valentine didn't write every song.

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:22 (thirteen years ago)

"How Much More, " which to me captures every element of the band's aesthetic in one brief package.

― BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago)

I like "We Got the Beat" in Fast Times, otherwise no. "Our Lips Are Sealed" I still like. But "Can't Stop the World" has always been my favourite.

― clemenza, Monday, 18 July 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago)

Love every track on this album but it has to be Our Lips Are Sealed, it's such a perfect song.

I only just got round to listening to Vacation, wasn't too impressed with it. Do people rate any of the other albums?

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 01:54 (thirteen years ago)

BATB
Talk Show
Vacation (which I no longer own)

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:20 (thirteen years ago)

"Lips" is eternal...it always transports me back to an extremely depressing time in my life; that I still love it, says a lot

― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago)

I love Belinda's cry of agony in "Lust to Love."

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago)

Alex the Seal

― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago)

lol skidmarks doesn't have the same slang connotation in the US as in the UK then?

― don't be so dayo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago)

oh yes it does

― a variable (sic) "League of Nations" (DJP), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago)

awesome

― don't be so dayo (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago)

Which explains why Belinda wasn't asked to write many lyrics.

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuGo5LESPjg

Damn this thread, I have work to do but I'm surfing Go-Go's vids on youtube. Vacation LP is no BatB, but it still holds a place in my heart (and on my laundry room wall, where I still have a cardboard promo display with the water-skiing girls.) More overtly surfy and kitschy than Beauty, but I find even the seeming throwaway filler charming.

― An influential prophet from Denton, Texas (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:46 (thirteen years ago)

Our Lips Are Sealed, but really, the whole damn thing.

― jer.fairall, Friday, 22 July 2011 04:49 (thirteen years ago)

I went for We Got The Beat over Lips are Sealed. Fun, frothy album.

― Hinklepicker, Friday, 22 July 2011 05:32 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 24 July 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

Vote you fools!

― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 July 2011 23:11 (thirteen years ago)

I mean can I just

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EToEhep4rco

― BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Monday, 25 July 2011 00:03 (thirteen years ago)

That's pre-Kathy Valentine, btw. They pulled a Pete Best on their founding bass player just before they hooked up with IRS.

― BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Monday, 25 July 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago)

I had this album when I was six. "Fading Fast" was my favorite then, and still is. Though "Tonight" needs more love.

― thinveneer, Monday, 25 July 2011 01:32 (thirteen years ago)

(X-post) The old bass player also appears in their clip from Urgh!: A Music War.

― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 July 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago)

I was certain I had heard the Stiff single before, but listening to the original "How Much More" just now was revelatory. Gina tearin' it up!

― An influential prophet from Denton, Texas (Dan Peterson), Monday, 25 July 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 25 July 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

Probably not that surprising, though I might have expected "How Much More" to take in a few more votes. Seems right that the album's weakest track would get 0, but it would've been nice to have seen "Automatic" get at least one vote (though I say this as someone who went the "Our Lips Are Sealed" route)

― jer.fairall, Monday, 25 July 2011 23:23 (thirteen years ago)

ohhhh man I NEED that Stiff single now, never knew they were different versions/lineups.

"We Got The Neutron Bomb" has a great great section on the making of this album.

― sleeve, Monday, 25 July 2011 23:33 (thirteen years ago)

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