The Beat "Rock N Roll Girl"

One of power pop's greatest bands, The Beat performing Rock N Roll Girl on American television, This is the original lineup -- Paul Collins, Steve Huff, Larry Whitman, Michael Ruiz circa 1980.

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[thedps1998]

I'll take it over Aerosmith any day of the week.

[TimmytheGeek2009]

The Beat, The Nerves, Plimsouls...wrote some of the best sub-3:00 songs ever.

[dc5241]

I used to listen to this album over and over when it first came out. A highlight for me was going to San Francisco to watch them perform.

[TheLegendaryTim]

@bobo007xx Powerpop is the right term because it expresses energy. New Wave is just a term that the Record industtry moguls came up with just to get the new sounds that were coming out on the radio.

[BlackRaven156]

saw Paul Collins couple of months ago at the blue star cafe and met him. They sounded amazing and Paul was such a down to earth guy. It was a tiny gig.

[mikeinoakland]

ahhhh uh on the great MnM's "I'm Tired" 45

it's Harlan (hollander) / gtr

(and peter case/bass)

sooooo, confused with that long forgotten actual cassette dub / Breakaways that was briefly sitting on the kitchen table at 12967 Kittridge north hollywood back then. annnd wait. ? who drummed on the MnM's 45? too much info am harde to remember makes barbies brother's head hurt.

[mikeinoakland]

("MIke was the original drummer in The Beat.")

yess but who played drums on the Breakaways tracks ha

the guy who played gtr at that session (and i believe he's on the great MnMs 45, definitley) was a housemate at the time, yea whatever, but he brought homke the "breakaways demo" and we were all wot? huh? this is kinda a lot better than the dopey wimpy Nerves that nobody in LA liked to speak of. "uh, look at the player credit u idiot. NO JACK LEE huh!" hmm historical info, extremely sketchy

[elnunn]

@hectorsalinasisback + WTF are you talking about? This is a totally nonpolitical POP song. Keep your Ron Paul testimonials to threads that have bearing to your beliefs. Okay? Thanks.

[hectorsalinasisback]

People who dislike Paul Collins Beat are liberal idiots who support Obama and Bush's wars in the middle east where the U.S. spends billions to invade and brutally occupy sovereign nations where we force them to accept democracy as a form of government at the expense of our taxpayers and the cost of countless lives of innocent U.S. soldiers and civilians. Real conservatives know the U.S. should spend that money to create new jobs! PAUL COLLINS BEAT FANS FOR RON PAUL 2012!

[jtab4994]

@theonlytruepunk I thought they were called The New Originals ... LOL Anyway in the late 70's/early 80's, Squeeze were originally UK Squeeze in the U.S. because there was an American band called Tight Squeeze. There was another band called U.K. (a descendant of King Crimson) so there was some confusion between UK and UK Squeeze, although not much because of the difference in styles, over here, and U.K. disappeared pretty quickly.

[rod280459]

I regard these guys as power pop. Thank goodness for the power pop bands of the late 70's and early 80's - there was not much else to listen to at that time unless you liked new wave/punk or techno...........

Paul Collins beat very underrated - many thanks for posting !

[bobo007xx]

what is it with you guys and the term powerpop?

these guys are NEW WAVE not ""powerpopopopoppopp"