It's Low Beat Time

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It's Low Beat Time
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Studio album by
Released1992
Genre Rock
Label Frontier Records
Producer Conrad Uno, Butch Vig
Young Fresh Fellows chronology
Electric Bird Digest
(1991)
It's Low Beat Time
(1992)
Temptation on a Saturday
(1995)

It's Low Beat Time is an album by the Americanrock band Young Fresh Fellows. [1] [2] It was released by Frontier Records in 1992. [3] The album was produced in part by Butch Vig. [4]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Tampa Tribune wrote that "[Scott] McCaughey's brain gives his sharper songs resonating edges of meaning while avoiding lyrics that make much linear sense." [6] The Seattle Times opined that "99 Girls" and "She Won't Budge" "rank with the greatest of classic Northwest rock." [7]

Track listing

  1. Low Beat Jingle
  2. Right Here
  3. Snow White
  4. Mr. Anthony's Last
  5. Whatever You Are
  6. Two Headed Flight
  7. A Minor Bird
  8. Faultless
  9. The Crafty Clerk
  10. Low Beat
  11. Love Is A Beautiful Thing
  12. She Sees Color
  13. Monkey Say
  14. 99 Girls
  15. She Won't Budge
  16. Green Green

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