Released 1981 Release date 1981 Label PVC Records | ||
Recorded April 1981, Woodcottage, Goring-On-Thames Guitar Beat(1981) It's Only a Movie!(1983) Genres Surf music, Avant-garde music People also search for Old School Instrumentals, It's Only a Movie!, The Lost Phillip Glass Sessions | ||
Guitar Beat is the debut album by the neo-surf band the Raybeats. It was released in 1981 and produced by Martin Rushent. The album features ten original instrumentals, plus a Jan and Dean cover.
Contents
In tongue-in-cheek fashion, the original LP sleeve characterized the first side as the "listless, spotty & wasteful side" and the second as the "brave, clean & reverent side". The record sleeve also featured on the front a hand-colored photo of the band by photographer Laura Levine.
Reception
AllMusic called it "a magnificent, echo-drenched set of concise and atmospheric riff-driven tunes that in a better world would have turned up as the soundtrack for a James Bond movie directed by David Lynch."
Track listing
All compositions by Pat Irwin, Jody Harris, Don Christensen and George Scott III except as indicated.
Side one
- "Tight Turn"
- "Big Black Sneakers"
- "Tone Zone"
- "The Backstroke" (Irwin, Harris, Christensen)
- "B-Gas Rickshaw" (Jan Berry)
- "International Operator"
Side two
- "Searching"
- "The Calhoun Surf" (Danny Amis)
- "Piranha Salad"
- "Cocktails" (Irwin, Harris, Christensen)
- "Guitar Beat" (Irwin, Harris, Scott, Amis)
Personnel
Songs
1Tight Turn3:48
2Big Black Sneakers2:06
3Tone Zone3:21