Do you know any background info about this album? They were one of the first bands to make what was eventually called post-rock and to blend sampling, electronica, and rock music in a way similar to what the Beta Band had done.
Yet theirs is not a happy story, exactly.
They don't seem to take themselves too seriously, titling records like The band released three albums in the wake of As almost a direct reaction to the sloppy (albeit ambitious) fun of the self-titled debut, the band put out It’s somewhat of a disappointment that they followed it up three years later with their final album, 2004’s After that, things started to come to an end for the Beta Band.
“Dogs Got A Bone” might be the most charismatic track they ever made.
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The Beta Band are a raggle-taggle group of Scots and Brits who stirred up loads of justifiable interest for their genre-bending pop experiments.
While living in a flat in Shepherd's Bush they met Phil Brown, who after hearing their demo took it to Miles Leonard, who promptly signed the band.
You can read the final album as a last ditch effort: They pushed hard to make it radio (and fan) friendly, got Nigel Godrich to mix it, and released it right at the beginning of the summer.
A few years ago, Disco Inferno — an unfairly forgotten British ’90s band — had been trying to release a compilation of their early and long out-of-print music.
It’s with Mason’s simple and direct mantra: “She’s the one for me,” which gains more power with repetition than anything more complicated could.
But it wasn’t.
Albums include The Three E.P. That's to be expected. The Beta Band (1996-2004) were an alternative rock group from Edinburgh, Scotland who received much critical acclaim and achieved cult status, but failed to make much of a commercial impact on the popular music scene. Napster and the Napster logo are registered trademarks of Rhapsody International Inc.
The Beta Band are a raggle-taggle group of Scots and Brits who stirred up loads of justifiable interest for their genre-bending pop experiments.
A somewhat peculiar way to send off a very peculiar band, The Best of the Beta Band is a two-disc compilation (priced as a single) intended for newcomers and collectors alike, with disc one a best-of and disc two a recording of one of the last gigs.
You focus on it so much that the climax they’ve been building to seems to burst out of nowhere.In retrospect, it’s a song that reached back to the Beach Boys’ sincerity and experimentation while looking forward to the hypnotic folk of Animal Collective’s They don't seem to take themselves too seriously, titling records like
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They entered the studio with producer Since the split, Steve Mason has released music with his solo project The discography of The Beta Band consists of three studio albums, three extended plays, three compilation albums, six singles and a video collection.
Any Betas fan is bound to have at least one problem with the selection of tracks on the first disc.