Album Details

Excursion on the Version

RELEASE
1991
LABEL
PolyGram
GENRES
Electronica, House, Acid House, Dance-Pop, Club/Dance

Album Review

"Everybody get off your feet/And rock to this brand new beat" are the first words you hear on Beats International's second album, and the joke is that there's nothing "brand new" here, not the beats or anything else. Like most disk jockeys, Norman Cook has no problem with commandeering whatever copyrights take his fantasy, so don't be surprised when the chorus to "Echo Chamber," for example, cops part of Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle." Actually, the music on this album isn't as explicitly derivative as that on the group's debut, Let Them Eat Bingo, but it's all generally derivative, especially of all-purpose ska and reggae grooves.
William Ruhlmann, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Brand New Beat
  2. Change Your Mind
  3. Love Is Green
  4. Echo Chamber
  5. The Sun Doesn't Shine
  6. Herman
  7. Three Foot Skank
  8. No More Mr. Nice Guy
  9. Eyes on the Prize
  10. Ten Long Years
  11. In the Ghetto
  12. Come Home