Squares..The Beta Band were a British musical group who received much critical acclaim and achieved cult status, but failed to make much of a commercial impact on the popular music scene. Their style was self-described as being folk hop, a blend of folk, rock, trip hop, and experimental jamming..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beta_Band.http://www.betaband.com/gotflash.html.http://www.myspace....
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The Three EPs is a compilation of The Beta Band's first three releases, consisting of the EPs Champion Versions, The Patty Patty Sound and Los Amigos del Beta Bandidos. The cover art shows the 3 main images from those EPs.In the film High Fidelity, a record store owner played by John Cusack mentions the band by name ("I will now sell five copies of The Three EPs by The Beta Band") and plays a m...
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That was my best Rob Gordon...John Cusak, I am not...although I would love to be. I would love to be Rob Gordon actually...I practically am him, minus the good looks, hot girlfriend, and cool record store...but now I am just splitting hairs...we are practically the same guy ;-)
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Kaleef's earlier post about the late great Beta Band put a specific song in my head.http://mog.com/kaleef/blog_post/49410And then as I scoured my digital library I realized I have like 3 other versions of the same song...making it the most covered in my collection. Filter, Aimee Mann, and a local Columbus band called Earwig are the other bands that cover 'One'The Beatles 'In My Life' was a clos...
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Squares..The Beta Band were a British musical group who received much critical acclaim and achieved cult status, but failed to make much of a commercial impact on the popular music scene. Their style was self-described as being folk hop, a blend of folk, rock, trip hop, and experimental jamming..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beta_Band.http://www.betaband.com/gotflash.html.http://www.myspace....
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Apparently tornado's are touching down all over the place. My co-workers laugh and shrug it off. "Welcome to South Florida," they say. Atlanta was different. Tornado's touched down north of the city, but always seemed to miss the city. Weird to be governed by the environment again. We have needed the rain, desperately. I'm glad to see it, my darker side a little fed up with all the sunsh...
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This song has been running through my head for the past week or so, culminating in yesterday in which I listened to it over and over again on my way to and from work. I think there are a couple of reasons for this. First, for some reason this song just feels like autumn to me. Second, it is one of those songs that makes me smile while I'm listening to it. I haven't been in a bad mood this w...
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| 1 Round the Bend |
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| 2 The Beta Band Rap |
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| 3 It's Not Too Beautiful |
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| 4 Broken up Adingdong |
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| 5 Simple Boy |
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