Beat Hotel

by The Bongos

Beat Hotel cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: RCA
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:54:24
  • Community rating: 3.36/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Kate Pierson, John Jansen, James Mastro, Fernando Diaz, Rob Norris, Richard Barone, Tom Tiscornia, Frank Giannini

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Transitioning from their jangle-pop origins in the Hoboken indie scene, the band aimed for mainstream success with slicker, radio-friendly production values. 'Beat Hotel' incorporates significant electronic percussion and layered synthesizers, representing an overt shift toward the era's dominant new wave aesthetics.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, jangly, guitar-driven, retro, infectious

Tracklist

  1. Space Jungle (3:48)
  2. Apache Dancing (3:09)
  3. Brave New World (4:33)
  4. A Story (Written In The Sky) (3:09)
  5. The Beat Hotel (4:00)
  6. Come Back To Me (3:31)
  7. Splinters (3:43)
  8. She Starts Shaking (3:26)
  9. Totem Pole (3:11)
  10. Blow Up (4:06)
  11. Apache Dancing - Live at the Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ - 5/24/1985 (3:42)
  12. A Story (Written in the Sky) - Live at the Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ - 5/24/1985 (3:11)
  13. Splinters - Live at the Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ - 5/24/1985 (3:38)
  14. Blow Up - Live at the Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ - 5/24/1985 (3:21)
  15. Come Back to Me - Live at the Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ - 5/24/1985 (3:33)
  16. Brave New World - Live at the Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ - 5/24/1985 (4:26)
  17. Totem Pole - Live at the Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ - 5/24/1985 (3:36)
  18. The Beat Hotel - Live at the Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ - 5/24/1985 (3:25)
  19. Space Jungle - Live at the Tradewinds, Sea Bright, NJ - 5/24/1985 (3:42)
  20. Apache Dancing - Demo - 1984 (2:58)
  21. The Beat Hotel - Demo - 1984 (4:53)
  22. A Story (Written In The Sky) - Demo - 1984 (2:56)
  23. Totem Pole - Demo - 1984 (3:16)
  24. Slingshot - Demo - 1984 (2:39)
  25. Splinters - Demo - 1984 (3:42)
  26. Space Jungle - Demo - 1984 (4:09)
  27. Roman Circus - Demo - 1984 (3:52)
  28. South of the Border - Demo - 1984 (3:38)
  29. She Starts Shaking - Demo - 1984 (3:41)
  30. Blow Up - Demo - 1984 (4:15)
  31. Brave New World - Tour Bus Demo - 1984 (5:01)

Credits

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