Beat It Down

by Y Pants

Beat It Down cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: Neutral
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 33:59
  • Community rating: 3.6/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Y Pants' 'Beat It Down' delivers quirky art-punk minimalism with rhythmic toy instruments and anxious energy. The album's playful yet tense approach defined the New York no wave-adjacent scene. It remains a cult favorite of the early 1980s experimental underground.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, minimalistic, experimental, lo-fi, minimal, noisy, atonal, novelty, stripped-down

Tracklist

  1. Obvious (2:53)
  2. Barbara's Song (3:36)
  3. Beat It Down (3:07)
  4. We Have Everything (2:36)
  5. Lulu (5:30)
  6. Love's A Disease (3:10)
  7. The Shah Song (2:17)
  8. The Fly (2:30)
  9. The Code Of Life (2:00)
  10. What Do You Take Me For? (3:05)
  11. That's The Way Boy's Are (3:15)

Credits

  • Y Pants - primary artist, composed by
  • Barbara Ess - bass, ukulele, vocals, composed by
  • Verge Piersol - drums, vocals, composed by
  • Gail Vachon - keyboards, vocals, composed by, arranged by
  • Lynne Tillman - words by
  • Bertolt Brecht - words by
  • Emily Dickinson - words by [adapted]
  • Ben Raleigh - composed by

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