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Released
  
June 1981

Producer
  
Bob Sargeant

Release date
  
June 1981

Genres
  
Ska, 2 Tone, Rock music

Length
  
43:21 (CD)

Artist
  
The Beat

Label
  
Sire Records

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Recorded
  
Roundhouse Studios, London

Wha'ppen? (1981)
  
Special Beat Service (1982)

Similar
  
The Beat albums, Ska albums

Wha'ppen? is the second album by the British ska band The Beat (credited on the US release as The English Beat), released in 1981 via Go Feet Records.

Contents

Track listing

All songs by the Beat, unless otherwise noted.

Original release

Side One
  1. "Doors of Your Heart" (The Beat, Colin Osborne)
  2. "All Out to Get You"
  3. "Monkey Murders"
  4. "I Am Your Flag"
  5. "French Toast (Soleil Trop Chaud)" (Joseph Jefferson)
  6. "Drowning"
Side Two
  1. "Dream Home in NZ"
  2. "Walk Away"
  3. "Over and Over"
  4. "Cheated"
  5. "Get-a-Job"
  6. "The Limits We Set"

CD reissue

  1. "Too Nice to Talk To" ♦
  2. "Doors of Your Heart"
  3. "All Out to Get You"
  4. "Monkey Murders"
  5. "I Am Your Flag"
  6. "French Toast (Soleil Trop Chaud)"
  7. "Drowning"
  8. "Dream Home in NZ"
  9. "Walk Away"
  10. "Over and Over"
  11. "Cheated"
  12. "Get-a-Job"
  13. "The Limits We Set"

Bonus tracks (some editions):

  1. "Psychedelic Rockers"
  2. "Hit It"
  3. "Which Side of the Bed...?"

Personnel

The Beat
  • Dave Wakeling – guitar, vocals
  • Ranking Roger – vocals
  • Andy Cox – guitar
  • David Steele – bass
  • Everett Morton – drums
  • Saxa – saxophone
    • Additional musicians
  • Dave "Blockhead" Wright – keyboards
  • "Have a Go Bobby" Sargeant – marimba
  • Cedric Myton – extra vocals on "Doors of Your Heart"
  • Dick – steel drum
  • Saltin – trumpet
    • Technical personnel
  • Bob Sargeant – Producer
  • Mark Dearnley – Engineer
  • Hunt Emerson, The Beat – Sleeve design

    • Reception

    Wha'ppen? was ranked at #4 among the top ten "Albums of the Year" for 1981 by NME.

    Songs

    1Doors of Your Heart3:47
    2All Out to Get You2:46
    3Monkey Murders3:12

    References

    Wha'ppen? Wikipedia
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