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Podcast: Comics In Motion
Episode: Mandatory Music and CD: Beauty and the Beat by The Go-Go's
Description: Beauty and the Beat Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
It’s not quite right to say that the Go-Go’s'
1981 debut, Beauty and the Beat, is where new wave caught hold in the
U.S., but it’s not quite wrong, either. Prior to this, there had
certainly been new wave hits -- Blondie
had been reaching the Top Ten for two years running -- but the Go-Go’s
ushered in the era of big, bright stylish pop, spending six weeks at the
top of the U.S. charts and generating two singles that defined the era:
the cool...