Tuesday, June 13, 2017

#2479 The Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat

There're those that try to reclaim the Go-Go's as cool-before-they-were-pop new-wavers -- the truth's somewhere in between.

Lush jangle, beats that bite harder than they have to, swaggery leads, layered backing, a generally inventive streak; yes yes yes. They're more than We Got the Beat. But that mostly lands them at also-ran cool-band: not arch enough to escape the pop orbit, not catchy enough to rule it, "great" mostly as a reaction to the underestimaters 3/5

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