Business Casual

Beep Beep | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 24, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Saddle Creek
• ASIN: B0002IQOKA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,110 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "An orchestrated, dancable tantrum...", September 7, 2004

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B. Miller "Brandon Miller" (Big Bear City, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Business Casual (Audio CD)

That is the best way to describe this album. It will make you dance, it will make you laugh, it will throw your entire body into a seizure-like tantrum that won't stop until the album is over.

Beep Beep's style is very distinctive in the sense that I've heard nothing like it. If you mixed the vocals from The Pixies, The Rapture, and Cursive with a more frenzied At The Drive-In with The Faint-esque keyboards you'd be somewhere close. The lyrics are cynical and sarcastic like those of Jello Biafra. I can't wait until the next album to hear what else these guys come up with.

1. I Am The Secretary - 5/5 - This was the song that turned me on to Beep Beep. The chaotic vocals and guitars make this song an excellent start to the album.

2. Oh No! - 5/5 - Probably the most frenzied song on the album. It makes me dance.

3. Misuse Their Bodies - 5/5 - Another dancable song with a bit of slower beat and guitars similar to The Rapture. The back-up vocals on the chorus are beautiful.

4. Giggle Giggle - 5/5 - The song starts out with keyboards similar to The Faint and goes into a perverted frenzy about having sex with a high school cheerleader. Probably the most funny song on the album.

5. Electronic Wolves - 5/5 - A conga drum driven song about pornography.

6. Chewy Poison - 3/5 - A 41 second song about candy filled with poison. More of an interlude than a song.

7. Executive Foilage - 5/5 - Another awesome song with frenzied guitar and a business theme.

8. Flourescent Lights - 5/5 - A dancy song about the horrors of office life.

9. Vertical Cougar - 5/5 - A song about treating women as prey and men as the hunter

10. The Threat Of Nature - 5/5 - My favorite song on the album. A very sarcastic song about destroying nature.

This album is very innovative and a must-have if you're a fan of Indie rock with a more of a punk side.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Damn, Beep Beep, you crazy, June 12, 2011

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Eric J. Hernandez "A novel a day" (CHICAGO, IL, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Business Casual (Audio CD)

I'll keep it concise: This album is akin to a bunch of gun-toting meth heads that have done shameful things to acquire their fix, and yet, when the opportunity presents itself, they will help a friend move or take out an elderly lady's garbage.



Great for working out.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Like kids throwing a hissy-fit, October 3, 2004

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Z. Hibbard "Smart guy" (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Business Casual (Audio CD)

Beep Beep just might be the most intense and sporadic album to ever come from the Saddle Creek family. The greatest thing about it is that BUSINESS CASUAL continually surprises the listener track after track. It'll make you want to dance... but not the kind of dancing you do in a club, trying to get the pretty brunette in the corner to notice you, it's the seizure-like aneurysm that shakes you from your brain to your toes. Drawing from the likes of XTC, Gang of Four, and Sparks, Beep Beep achieves a sound similar to modern bands like The Faint and The Rapture...on speed and ecstasy that is. Electrifying and perverse, it's the next album you're going to buy.