Black Candy

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Black Candy
Black Candy.jpg
Studio album by
Beat Happening
Released1989 [1]
Recorded1988
Genre
Length30:03
Label K
Producer Steve Fisk [2]
Beat Happening chronology
Jamboree
(1988)		Black Candy
(1989)		 Dreamy
(1991)

Black Candy is the third studio album by indie pop band Beat Happening. [3]

Contents

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Alternative Rock 4/10 [5]
Hi-Fi News & Record Review B:1 [6]

Beat Happening promoted it with tours alongside Fugazi in 1990 and 1991. [5]

Author Dave Thompson, in his book Alternative Rock (2000), wrote that despite the titular song "kick[ing] critical ass," the remainder of the album "sounds like BH didn't actually know they were making it. Or that someone was taping the rehearsal." [5] The name of the song "T.V. Girl" was the inspiration for indie pop group TV Girl's name. [7]

Track listing

All tracks written by Beat Happening.

  1. "Other Side" – 3:35
  2. "Black Candy" – 3:00
  3. "Knick Knack" – 2:13
  4. "Pajama Party in a Haunted Hive" – 4:38
  5. "Gravedigger Blues" – 2:26
  6. "Cast a Shadow" – 2:31
  7. "Bonfire" – 3:12
  8. "T.V. Girl" – 2:31
  9. "Playhouse" – 2:30
  10. "Ponytail" – 3:27

Cover versions

Beat Happening's songs from Black Candy have been covered by other artists:

References

Citations

  1. ↑ Lindsay, Cam (November 12, 2015). "Rank Your Records: Calvin Johnson Reluctantly Ranks Beat Happening's Records".
  2. ↑ Azerrad, Michael (December 1, 2012). Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991. Little, Brown. ISBN   9780316247184 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ "TrouserPress.com :: Beat Happening". www.trouserpress.com.
  4. ↑ Allmusic
  5. 1 2 3 Thompson 2000, p. 182
  6. ↑ "Review: Beat Happening — Black Candy" (PDF). Hi-Fi News & Record Review (magazine). Vol. 34, no. 12. Croydon: Link House Magazines Ltd. December 1989. p. 145. ISSN   0142-6230. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 3, 2021. Retrieved September 30, 2021– via World Radio History.
  7. ↑ "WHRB :: Interview With TV Girl". www.whrb.org. Retrieved May 19, 2025.

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