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Black Candy

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Black Candy
Studio album by
Released1989[1]
Recorded1988
Genre
Length30:03
LabelK
ProducerSteve Fisk[2]
Beat Happening chronology
Jamboree
(1988)
Black Candy
(1989)
Dreamy
(1991)

Black Candy is the third album by indie pop band Beat Happening.[3]

Release and reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [4]
Alternative Rock4/10[5]
Hi-Fi News & Record ReviewB:1[6]

Beat Happening promoted it with tours alongside Fugazi in 1990 and 1991.[5]

Author Dave Thompson, in his book Alternative Rock (2000), wrote that despite the titular song "kick[ing] critical ass," the remainder of the album "sounds like BH didn't actually know they were making it. Or that someone was taping the rehearsal."[5]

Track listing

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All tracks written by Beat Happening.

  1. "Other Side" – 3:35
  2. "Black Candy" – 3:00
  3. "Knick Knack" – 2:13
  4. "Pajama Party in a Haunted Hive" – 4:38
  5. "Gravedigger Blues" – 2:26
  6. "Cast a Shadow" – 2:31
  7. "Bonfire" – 3:12
  8. "T.V. Girl" – 2:31
  9. "Playhouse" – 2:30
  10. "Ponytail" – 3:27

Cover versions

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Beat Happening's songs from Black Candy have been covered by other artists:

References

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Citations

  1. ^ Lindsay, Cam (November 12, 2015). "Rank Your Records: Calvin Johnson Reluctantly Ranks Beat Happening's Records".
  2. ^ Azerrad, Michael (December 1, 2012). Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316247184 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "TrouserPress.com :: Beat Happening". www.trouserpress.com.
  4. ^ Allmusic
  5. ^ a b c Thompson 2000, p. 182
  6. ^ "Review: Beat Happening — Black Candy" (PDF). Hi-Fi News & Record Review (magazine). Vol. 34, no. 12. Croydon: Link House Magazines Ltd. December 1989. p. 145. ISSN 0142-6230. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021 – via World Radio History.

Sources

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