Beauty and the Beat
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Beauty and the Beat is the debut album from California new wave band the Go-Go's. Released July 14, 1981 on the I.R.S. Records label, the album reached number one on Billboard's Top LPs & Tape chart in March 1982, bolstered by its two big Hot 100 hit singles: "Our Lips Are Sealed" (no. 20) and "We Got the Beat" (no. 2), released in 1980, but in a different version. After a long and steady clim…

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Released
Jul, 1981
Type
Album
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I.R.S. Records

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American Songwriter (Eric Allen – May 22, 2011)
4/5 stars
The Irish Times (Tony Clayton-Lea – July 22, 2011)
4/5 stars
Pitchfork (Quinn Moreland – October 20, 2019)8.3/10
Record Collector (Mark Elliott – June 2016)
4/5 stars
The Village Voice (Robert Christgau – October 5, 1981)B+
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