What Is Beat?
The English Beat
1983: IRS CD70040
Generally I wouldn’t include this CD in my collection of reviews, as it’s mostly a greatest-hits kind of package, but it did break the mold by including a few B-sides and live versions in addition to the long version of “Save It for Later” (the “Can’t Get Used to Losing You ” extension is negligible). Most important are the three B-sides: “Too Nice to Talk to,” “What’s Your Best Thing,” and “Hit It” (an inimitible paeon to masturbation, featuring the chorus which begins “Autoerotic / Well you could not be in better hands / Autoerotic / When it comes down to love you please yourself”).
Comments © 2005 Mark Ellis Walker, except as noted, and no claim is made to the images and quoted lyrics.