You Turn Me On

You Turn Me On is the fifth album by indie rock/pop/punk band Beat Happening. Their style of music is quite original. As a Rolling Stone critic wrote: "The group's songs combine the spooky-sparse quality of early rockabilly with the naive sound of Sixties teen-beat pop.". Anyway it's a lot of fun and the combination of the female vocals and the dark baritone voice of the front man is great. Best songs are "Tiger Trap", "Pinebox Derby" and "You Turn Me On".

Love Calvin Johnson's voice. I have never heard of this band before, but it is right up my alley. Standouts: Tiger Trap, Pine Box Derby, You Turn Me On, Hey Day This album might be one of my favorite listener selections. 4/5

While first listening to this I realized how much a lot of this lo fi was presaged by The Shaggs… I think maybe their album should be on this list somewhere… There were other sorts of sounds this group exhibits though including some psychedelic diversions that kept me pretty interested throughout. Good selection!

Meh meh

Rating: 6/10

There was a lot to like here, but nothing was different enough or perfect enough to hook me.

It was pretty good. 3 stars.

Some fun, scrappy indie pop from the grunge era – not exactly wowed by this one, but I could dig the lo-fi production and decent instrumentals.

First impression, pre-listen, on sight: my brother, an artist, spent a long period doing daily exercises motivated by Nicolaïdes' The Natural Way to Draw - I'd recognize that "gesture drawing" style on the cover art a mile away. Possibly not coincidentally, the band name was really familiar to me and I couldn't figure out why because the music wasn't - until I hit Godsend which was so immediately and profoundly familiar that I was 99% certain it must have been on one of the mix cassette tapes that same brother made for me in the 90s and early aughts. I texted him to confirm, his response "Yes! Sold that record— huge mistake. On red vinyl now too expensive to replace". A familiar tale with him. What's this say about the music? Not much, you know, personal color. This is of that indie era where proficiency at the craft of making music was at a reduced priority, which I lose patience with. But it has a definite charm and doesn't overstay it's welcome.

Dream pop, pop, punk. No me va. Un 2.