BEAT HAPPENING S/T

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Formed in 1981 by three friends with a lack of basic musical understanding and almost no experience, Beat Happening have nonetheless proven to be one of the most influential bands from the American underground of the mid-to-late ’80s. The lackadaisical guitar strummed over tin-pan drums that roll in and out of time, monotone vocals that probably represent the antithesis of talent for those with hollow music degrees and a syrupy sweet frosting that basically invented the term ‘twee’.