Jamboree

by Beat Happening

Jamboree cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 29 January 1988
  • Label: K Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 23:58
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Mark Pickerel

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as a foundational text for the American indie pop movement, 'Jamboree' embraces a fiercely primitive, lo-fi aesthetic. Calvin Johnson's booming baritone and the band's amateurish, noisy garage rock instrumentation deliberately strip pop music down to its rawest, most playful essence.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, noisy, melodic, twee, unpolished

Tracklist

  1. Bewitched (3:06)
  2. In Between (2:21)
  3. Indian Summer (3:05)
  4. Hangman (2:31)
  5. Jamboree (1:03)
  6. Ask Me (0:58)
  7. Crashing Through (1:16)
  8. Cat Walk (1:58)
  9. Drive Car Girl (2:00)
  10. Midnight A Go-Go (2:18)
  11. The This Many Boyfriends Club (3:18)

Credits

  • Beat Happening - Member, primary artist
  • Mark Pickerel - Member
  • Bret Lunsford - performer [beat happening]
  • Calvin Johnson - performer [beat happening]
  • Heather Lewis - performer [beat happening]
  • Ann Culbertson - photography by
  • Steve Fisk - producer
  • Gary Lee Conner - producer [assistance], guitar
  • Mark Lanegan - producer [assistance]
  • Rich Jensen - recorded by [preserved for posterity by]
  • Pat Maley - producer

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