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Beat Farmers

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 24, 1995)
• Original Release Date: May 1985
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Demon Records UK
• ASIN: B000001170
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #393,871 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Indescribably delicious, January 18, 2000

By	Spencer K. Stephens (Rockville, Maryland USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

You will like this album, but only if you like rock and roll songs about laughing at dead dogs in drawers and about waking up hungover and newly married and about the old west and about gettin' even with the woman what dumped ya. When anthropologists a thousand years from now point to this album as the major turning point in western civilization, you'll want to be able to them you understand why. Plus which, this will put "Green Acres" in a whole new light.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best band in America, March 25, 1999

By	[e-mail] (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews

My introduction to the Beat Farmers was hearing a ditty called Happy Boy in 1987. Interesting but just a novelty.

A year later the band was touring and came through town. I went, and was truly thrilled to hear something in the band's sound that had been lost to poular music in the decade preceding their show. ROCK AND ROLL! All caps, beer, sweat, no posing, no haircuts. Not metal mind you but honest, ballsy throwback rock. Played extraordinarily well and thoughfully. Piercing harmonies and twin lead guitars were the ID's of this band.

Calling on Springsteen for one song and their own talents as writers for most of the rest, this album paints pictures of maturity and yearning to rival The Boss himself. The difference, you could still catch these guys in a club instead of an arena.

Then there's Country Dick Montana the group's drummer and story teller. The aformentioned Happy Boy is pure Country Dick. Askew but not psycho. His entries on the album include a whacked out western, a Rod McKuen sendup and of course the "ditty". You've got to hear them.

Tragedy struck this group in 1997 when Country Dick was felled by an aneurysm while performing in Vancouver. Our loss. But the groups records live on to provide some of the finest rock and roll of the last twenty years. Get it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Look for the 2004 Rhino reissue (remastered and expanded), April 17, 2004

By A Customer

5 stars for the original release -- and 5 more for the Rhino reiussue. Amazon needs to stock it, and don't settle for less. The reissue has 28 tracks including some brilliant live performances from the Spring Valley Inn and other unreleased material. The sound is improved over the original and there's not an ounce of filler. This is the definitive Beat Farmers collection. (And no, I'm not with the band!)