Zack: Emily kept insisting that this album would
actually be good, and I am shocked to announce that she was right. I was
dubious because, while I do know the song We Got the Beat and think it’s
catchy, we’ve been burned a lot by New Wave albums that we picked because that
one song is good (see: Cell, Soft). But the entire album is just poppy songs
with great hooks. It kind of sounds like the feeling of jumping on a trampoline.
It’s an album made almost entirely of songs to set movie montages to. As a
result, while this certainly will not go down as my favorite album from this
batch of 100, it definitely won’t be making the least favorite list, and for a
New Wave album that’s about all that you can ask.
Favorite Tracks: Our Lips Are Sealed; We Got the Beat; How
Much More
Emily: After a long hiatus (and two months of nearly non-stop work on one case), I'm back on my album-listening grind. And what a lovely way to jump back in with The Go-Go's. It's a super fun, positive jaunt that, as Zack described, feels like it would fit perfectly in any prom-night-getting-ready or windows-down-car-singalong montage in a teen movie from 1981 to today. That's particularly true for the iconic singles We Got the Beat, featured on the Jimmy Neutron soundtrack, the staple of my childhood that I've mentioned here many times before, and Our Lips Are Sealed, which for my '90s-'00s generation had both an eponymous Mary-Kate and Ashley movie and a Hilary and Haylie Duff cover. I'm pretty sure anyone alive since 1981 knows both of those songs, and most of them probably know the words well enough to bust them out at karaoke. Sometimes you just need a burst of fun from your music, and Beauty and the Beat certainly has delivered that for almost 40 years and counting.
Favorite Tracks: Our Lips Are Sealed; We Got the Beat; Tonite
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