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Each of these songs are performed live, and for the all the musicians involved, I am sure this was quite an undertaking. Dvorak's Song To The Moon is a true highlight, with simple instrumentation and Tarja's sweeping vocals carrying the song. Tarja's vocals on the songs she does sing on, on disc one are absolutely beautiful as one would expect. The songs vary from Classical masterpieces( Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) to movie and broadway styles( I Feel Pretty). The first disc is a live album, with a mixture of Mike Terrana's complex drumming and a symphony orchestra. Album DescriptionBeauty and The Beat is a double LIVE album, from vocalist Tarja Turunen and drummer Mike Terrana(ex- Rage, Tarja and ex- Masterplan). See More Your browser does not support the audio element. © Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo More info With the assistance of Rob Freeman, producer Richard Gottehrer - a veteran of the Strangeloves (“I Want Candy”) who also wrote the girl group standard “My Boyfriend’s Back” - sanded down the band’s rougher edges, keeping the emphasis on the hooks and harmonies but giving the Go-Go’s enough kick and jangle that at times the group resembles nothing less than early R.E.M., particularly on “How Much More” and “Tonite.” But this isn’t Murmur there is nothing murky about Beauty and the Beat at all - this is infectiously cheerful pop, so hooky it’s sometimes easy to overlook how well-written these tunes are, but it’s the sturdiness of the songs that makes Beauty and the Beat a new wave classic.

Beauty and the Beat is sharp, clever, and catchy, explicitly drawing from the well of pre-Beatles ‘60s pop - girl group harmonies, to be sure, but surf-rock echoes throughout - but filtering it through the nervy energy of punk. charts and generating two singles that defined the era: the cool groove of “Our Lips Are Sealed” and the exuberant “We Got the Beat.” So big were these two hits that they sometimes suggested that Beauty and the Beat was a hits-and-filler record, an impression escalated by the boost the Go-Go’s received from the just-launched MTV, yet that’s hardly the case. 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.

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.

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