How anyone cannot "get" The Beat, in particular their debut album, is
totally abso-$%$#ing-lutely beyond me. What do you normally listen to?

On 2/12/08, Josh Chasin <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> I've been dipping into the power pop canon based on the SSA book.  And I'm
> shocked by the extent to which I'm wholly unmoved by records that are
> apparently consensus great albums of the genre.  Some of the things I've
> picked up I've liked but they sounded a little too generic to me to be
> considered great (a.g. the Adam Schmidt, although I do like it.)  Others,
> I just totally don't get (Paul Collins Beat.)
>
> Not a criticism, just interesting the extent to which one's mileage may
> vary.
>