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"We Got The Beat" - The Go-Go's

The original version of "We Got the Beat" was released forty-one years ago today on July 27, 1980.

A perfect Go-Go's song.

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by Anonymousreply 40August 8, 2021 3:39 AM

Re-recorded US version released on January 16, 1982

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by Anonymousreply 1July 28, 2021 12:38 AM

Silly lyrics, but such a great feel-good song

by Anonymousreply 2July 28, 2021 12:39 AM

I have a video of my mom dancing to this song as part of her dance group in high-school! The version at R1

by Anonymousreply 3July 28, 2021 12:41 AM

Back when Margot Oliverra was the bass player before she was replaced by Kathy Valentine

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by Anonymousreply 4July 28, 2021 12:51 AM

Cinemax Album Flash from1984

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by Anonymousreply 5August 5, 2021 3:30 AM

When pop music was actually fun and not Billie Eilish's creepy killer baby whispering in your ear.

by Anonymousreply 6August 5, 2021 3:36 AM

We have Alanis Morrissette to thank for that, R6. I heard one of her songs in a grocery store the other day that I hadn't heard since it was new, then I tried to play it when I went back in the car. After 25 years of singers trying to imitate that, I couldn't finish it.

by Anonymousreply 7August 5, 2021 3:39 AM

Richard Gottehrer produced the re-recorded version and their first album, Beauty and the Beat.

He found the band's playing so hopeless that he and his studio hands played all the instruments on the final tracks of that album.

by Anonymousreply 8August 5, 2021 3:42 AM

Although this gives me a seizure to watch, I think the sound is pretty good. But I've used Zoom a million times and I really can't believe that this was recorded live.

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by Anonymousreply 9August 5, 2021 3:57 AM

"We Got The Beat" was The Go-Go's biggest hit single. It almost reached the hallowed #1 spot - #2 for 3 weeks and earned them a gold record.

by Anonymousreply 10August 5, 2021 4:00 AM

Their best video (with Rob Lowe)

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by Anonymousreply 11August 5, 2021 4:01 AM

Behind the scenes of Turn to You

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by Anonymousreply 12August 5, 2021 4:02 AM

Bitchlinda - ugh

by Anonymousreply 13August 5, 2021 4:04 AM

RAW BLOW!

by Anonymousreply 14August 5, 2021 4:10 AM

The Go-Go's didn't last very long. Belinda Carlisle wanted to leave and pursue her own solo career and some of the members of the group were VERY angry with her.

by Anonymousreply 15August 5, 2021 4:10 AM

I like the song, but now when I listen to the GoGos and Belinda Carlisle, the lead vocals sound really thin and tinny.

by Anonymousreply 16August 5, 2021 4:11 AM

She never had much of a voice compared to Pat Benatar or Joan Jett.

by Anonymousreply 17August 5, 2021 4:14 AM

It was the 80s!

Do you know how much aluminum the coke was cut with?!

by Anonymousreply 18August 5, 2021 4:15 AM

I always thought it was a weak excuse that Belinda was the lead singer, so Jane shouldn't sing lead on any songs, which led to Jane quitting.

The Bangles, Heart, The Cars, Fleetwood Mac, Rolling Stones, U2, Smashing Pumpkins, REM all include songs sung by various band members on their albums.

by Anonymousreply 19August 5, 2021 4:17 AM

meh. Aged like milk.

by Anonymousreply 20August 5, 2021 4:17 AM

He's got the Beat!!

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by Anonymousreply 21August 5, 2021 4:19 AM

Belinda doing a coke nostril check at 8:56 in video at R5

by Anonymousreply 22August 5, 2021 4:23 AM

As a gayling I bought and listened avidly to their big album....can't remember the name. But looking back and re-listening, they were one of the lightest weight and inconsequential 80's acts (to me). They sound terrible to me now.

by Anonymousreply 23August 5, 2021 4:25 AM

I always thought it was “We Got Big Feet.”

by Anonymousreply 24August 5, 2021 4:26 AM

It isn’t really about the quality of the music.

It’s sbout then having the balls to play music, get fucked up, and GET LAID!

by Anonymousreply 25August 5, 2021 5:13 AM

Belinda and Michael Hutchence were fuck buddies for years and stayed under the radar

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by Anonymousreply 26August 5, 2021 5:19 AM

Even into the Mad About You era

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by Anonymousreply 27August 5, 2021 5:21 AM

With that short butch haircut and being plump Belinda looked like a lesbian.

by Anonymousreply 28August 5, 2021 5:22 AM

Today, instead of losing 30 pounds before her first solo album, Belinda would gain another 30, get two tattoo sleeves and come out as non-binary. While keeping her drug habit.

by Anonymousreply 29August 5, 2021 5:33 AM

"Our Lips Are Sealed" for me.

by Anonymousreply 30August 5, 2021 5:33 AM

^^me too, it’s my fave song by them. Have you heard the slow version by Moon Talk? It’s amazing.

by Anonymousreply 31August 5, 2021 6:36 AM

[quote] I always thought it was a weak excuse that Belinda was the lead singer, so Jane shouldn't sing lead on any songs, which led to Jane quitting.

Bitchlinda felt threatened. It ruined the band and killed Talk Show the album, which was a great album, on par with Beauty and the Beat.

[quote] Belinda Carlisle wanted to leave and pursue her own solo career and some of the members of the group were VERY angry with her.

I mean, they would have been disappointed no matter what but it was HOW Bitchlinda did it. The band hired a new member to replace Jane, made a whole bunch of commitments, and then Bitchlinda called a meeting and said, we're breaking up. Without talking to anyone else (except Charlotte, who she was working with on her new music).

She's always been a shady cunt. The threads we had here when they kicked Kathy out....most of that mess was Bitchlinda. It always is.

by Anonymousreply 32August 5, 2021 1:14 PM

hearing the song sounded so transgressive at the time. . . . . . .

by Anonymousreply 33August 5, 2021 1:33 PM

R31 I can't find it. Where did you hear it at?

by Anonymousreply 34August 5, 2021 2:59 PM

I like this version from Urgh! A Music War. I think this is where Belinda says she was her fattest.

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by Anonymousreply 35August 5, 2021 3:15 PM

R34 oh, i first heard it in 2015, ABC used it to promote the Lily Rabe/Milo Ventimiglia show ‘“The Whispers.” I bought it off ITunes.

by Anonymousreply 36August 6, 2021 12:01 AM

Underrated song on Jane's solo album "Inside a Dream"

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by Anonymousreply 37August 6, 2021 12:44 AM

[quote] Belinda says she was her fattest.

so she truly was a

FAT

WHORE

by Anonymousreply 38August 6, 2021 1:42 AM

Our lips are sealed!

by Anonymousreply 39August 6, 2021 6:32 AM

"I'm the Only One" is an underplayed banger from Talk Show written by Kathy Valentine

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by Anonymousreply 40August 8, 2021 3:39 AM
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