Beet (album)

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Beet
EDD Beet.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1989
RecordedJune 1989
Genre Rock
Length43:58
Label Atlantic
Producer Gary Waleik [1]
Eleventh Dream Day chronology
Prairie School Freakout
(1988)
Beet
(1989)
Borscht
(1990)

Beet is the second full-length album by Chicago, Illinois rock band Eleventh Dream Day and their first on a major label, Atlantic Records. [1]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Chicago Sun-Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [3]
Robert Christgau C+ [4]
The Great Alternative & Indie Discography 6/10 [5]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]

Chicago Reader wrote: "Beet, recorded over a leisurely four days, is a hoot. Lissome guitar lines float in and amongst varying degrees of thunder riffing; Rizzo's voice flails wildly above the mix." [8]

Track listing

  1. "Between Here and There" (Baird Figi, Rick Rizzo) - 4:45
  2. "Testify" (Rizzo) - 4:03
  3. "Bagdad's Last Ride" (Janet Beveridge Bean) - 4:04
  4. "Awake I Lie" (Rizzo) - 5:20
  5. "Road That Never Winds" (Rizzo) - 3:22
  6. "Axle" (Rizzo) - 3:42
  7. "Michael Dunne" (Figi, Rizzo) - 3:28
  8. "Bomb the Mars Hotel" (Figi) - 3:32
  9. "Teenage Pin Queen" (Rizzo) - 3:58
  10. "Love to Hate to Love" (Rizzo) - 3:31
  11. "Go (Slight Return)" (Bean, Rizzo) - 4:06
    Bonus tracks
  12. "Seiche" (Figi) - 3:07 On CD only

Personnel

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