The Complete Beat
- The English Beat
- Band Name: The English Beat
- Record Label: Shout! Factory
- Release Date: Jul 10, 2012
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Aug 3, 2012100These lavish Deluxe Editions are fat with rare tracks and live performances on accompanying DVDs - they are all the Beat anyone could ever wish for. [Aug 2012, p.112]
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Jul 20, 201290This five-CD box set features the band's three great studio albums, plus terrific bonus tracks and dub versions, and a slew of live recordings in which the Beat unleash their dance-floor fury and their Thatcher-era protest politics.
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Jul 20, 201290Despite its girth, Shout! Factory's The Complete Beat isn't really complete....Complete still gives you three Peel Sessions, a mini-concert, and some fine dubs and 12" mixes along with the original albums.
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Jul 20, 201290They grew up strong and they grew up fast, so fast that their recordings retain a visceral force that makes The Complete Beat something more than a dream come true for fans: it is a convincing argument for their greatness.
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Jul 20, 201288While it's great to have the old albums re-mastered, the real draw here are the remixes and the concert performances.
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Jul 20, 201280Serious fans will appreciate the sessions recorded with John Peel for BBC Radio 1 and the highlights culled from a 1982 performance at Boston's Opera House. [No.89, p.56]
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Jul 20, 201280The the three original albums -- I Just Can't Stop It, Wha'ppen? and Special Beat Service, from '80, '81 and '82 respectively, still hold together well....The Complete Beat offers completists an ideal opportunity to ditch that well-worn vinyl and get in the groove with a compendium that puts all the music in one place.
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Jul 26, 201267[Graceland is] perhaps, the musical mash-up of all time... a summit of Western self-reflection and African spirituality.