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"We Got the Beat" is a song by the American rock band the Go-Go's, written by the group's lead guitarist and keyboardist Charlotte Caffey. The band first recorded the song in 1980 for a single on UK-based Stiff Records , and later rerecorded it for their debut album Beauty and the Beat on I.R.S. Records .
Beauty and the Beat is the debut album from California new wave band the Go-Go's.Released July 14, 1981 [2] on the I.R.S. Records label, the album reached number one on Billboard's Top LPs & Tape chart in March 1982, bolstered by its two big Hot 100 hit singles: "Our Lips Are Sealed" (no. 20) and "We Got the Beat" (no. 2), released in 1980, but in a different version.
"We Got the Beat" Mick Haggerty, C.D. Taylor "Vacation" 1982 "Get Up and Go" Douglas Martin "Head over Heels" 1984 "Turn to You" Mary Lambert "Yes or No" "Cool Jerk" 1991 Martin Coppen, Sid Bartholomen "The Whole World Lost Its Head" 1994 Roger Avary "Unforgiven" 2001 Troy Smith "Club Zero" 2020
In 2003, the album was ranked No. 413 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. "Our Lips Are Sealed" and a new version of "We Got the Beat" were popular singles in North America in early 1982. During this period, the Go-Go's started building a fanbase.
From 1988 until 1992, she led her own band, The Graces, with Meredith Brooks and Gia Ciambotti, who released the album Perfect View in 1989. Caffey also co-wrote the theme song to the television series Clueless with Anna Waronker , and played piano on the album version of " Foolish Games " by Jewel , as well as co-writing the No. 1 U.S. country ...
The compilation included rehearsal, demo, and live recordings that had never been previously released, the original Stiff Records version of the band's first single, "We Got the Beat," as well as the group's major hits, B-sides, and deeper tracks culled from the studio sessions that generated the Go-Go's' first three LPs. [7]
VH1 Behind the Music: Go-Go's Collection is the Go-Go's third compilation album, released in 2000, on the Interscope Records label. It contains previously released songs from the band, including all of their singles, except "He's So Strange", originally on their second album, the 1982 Vacation, plus a number of stand-out tracks, and one non-album B-side, "Speeding", also recorded during the ...
"Our Lips Are Sealed" is a song co-written by Jane Wiedlin, guitarist of the Go-Go's, and Terry Hall, singer of the Specials and Fun Boy Three. It was first recorded by the Go-Go's as the opening track on their album Beauty and the Beat (1981) and was their debut American single in June 1981.