The Beat/Kids Are the Same

1. Rock N Roll Girl
2. I Don't Fit In
3. Different Kind of Girl
4. Don't Wait Up for Me
5. You Won't Be Happy
6. Walking Out on Love
7. Work-A-Day-World
8. U.S.A.
9. Let Me into Your Life
10. Working Too Hard
11. You and I
12. Look But Don't Touch
13. There She Goes [][]
14. That's What Life Is All About
15. Dreaming
16. On the Highway
17. Will You Listen
18. Crying Won't Help
19. Kids Are the Same
20. Trapped
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The Beat/Kids Are the Same

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Power pop classic and its good, but less classic follow-up
The Beat is Back!

The Beat/Kids Are the Same
Paul Collins' Beat
Manufacturer: Wounded Bird Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0009E323E
Release Date: 2005-05-31

Tracks:

Rock N Roll Girl
I Don't Fit In
Different Kind of Girl
Don't Wait Up for Me
You Won't Be Happy
Walking Out on Love
Work-A-Day-World
U.S.A.
Let Me into Your Life
Working Too Hard
You and I
Look But Don't Touch
There She Goes [*]
That's What Life Is All About
Dreaming
On the Highway
Will You Listen
Crying Won't Help
Kids Are the Same
Trapped
It's Just a Matter of Time
Met Her Yesterday
I Will Say No
Down [*]

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Power pop classic and its good, but less classic follow-up.......2005-08-14

Coming from the same L.A. milieu that launched Peter Case into The Plimsouls, Collins left their shared band (The Nerves, together with Jack Lee) to form The Beat, rechristened Paul Collins' Beat after The (English) Beat broke onto these shores. Their first album, simply titled "The Beat" is a bona fide 1979 power pop classic, matching the electricity of contemporaneous releases by The Records ("Shades in Bed") and Bram Tchaikovsky ("Strange Man, Changed Man") and the following year's debut by The Plimsouls ("Zero Hour").

Collins wrote the sort of post-teen angst-ridden love songs that defined the genre, and the band cranked out their harmony-laden guitar rock with terrific verve, punctuated by Michael Ruiz's punchy, up-in-the-mix drumming and Larry Whitman's guitar solos. Legendary engineer/producer Bruce Botnick (The Doors, Love) captured the simplicity of the band's four-piece energy with just the touch of polish needed to frame this as a studio recording, but without losing the underlying power of their DIY edge.

1982's follow-up, "The Kids Are the Same" features another good batch of Collins originals, but the band and their producer crafted a more produced mainstream sound. The added reverb is distracting and blunts the punch heard on the straightforward debut. Highpoints include the hard-rocking "Will You Listen," the power ballad "Met Her Yesterday," and the rambunctious teen anthem "The Kids Are the Same."

The Beat: 5 stars. The Kids are The Same: 3-3/4 stars.

The Beat is Back!.......2005-06-02

The Beat (or Paul Collins' Beat, the moniker they eventually took on to avoid confusion with The English Beat, and in the UK, this album was called "The American Beat" for the same reasons) cut thier gem of a debut album in 1979, when it seemed every band in Los Angeles with a skinny tie and a jangle guitar got a deal. And like many of them, they got swept away in the backlash that formed around The Knack. Collin's fate was undeserved, because this album just bristles with energy and pop smarts.

There are a couple undiscovered classics here. "I Don't Fit In" captures the angst of an outsider looking in with British Invasion snap, and "Don't Wait Up For Me," the second single, was the kind of great rock and roll that made new wave such a blast. The catchy "Rock and Roll Girl" also generated some radio attention. Oddly enough, what has probably become the CD's most-heard song wasn't even on the original album. "There She Goes" was used for the movie "Caddyshack," and just as great as any of the album's original dozen selections.

Producer Bruce Botnik also understood The Beat perfectly, keeping the sound minimal and raw, perfect for loud playing. But, after almost 3 years, Paul Collins' Beat had both their name and sound homogenized. They now had more in common with the likes of Eddie Money than their smart pop of the first album, and the similarity between "The Kids Are The Same" and Bryan Adams' "The Kids Wanna Rock" is kind of sad. Another case of corporate record company takes another promising band and blands them out before dismissing them....

I'll still keep the review of this Paul Collins' CD to four stars, if only because the debut is still killer. If you miss the fun period of early eighties power pop (Dwight Twilley, Shoes, Producers, Knack, Motels, etc), this combo CD by The Beat is worth the bucks.

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Paul Collins Beat CD includes Caddyshack movie soundtrack song

Beat + Kids Are the Same

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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000B8GICU
Release Date: 2005-10-25

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Paul Collins Beat CD includes Caddyshack movie soundtrack song.......2005-10-26

The new deluxe CD re-release of The Beat 1979/The Kids Are The Same is incredible. Not only is this release digitally remastered from the original master tapes, but it includes bonus tracks, such as the song 'There She Goes' from the Caddyshack Official Movie Soundtrack. The adventures of Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield and Ted Knight were put to music with a great full-length soundtrack album that included Paul Collins' Beat, then known as The Beat. Whether you're a fan of Caddyshack, or just want to hear a great rock and roll band, I recommend this disc, which contains nearly 80 minutes of solid rock music.

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A good followup to the beat
The Kids Are the Same, but still didn't care

The Kids Are the Same
The Paul Collins' Beat
Manufacturer: Wagon Wheel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001L4C
Release Date: 1995-03-07

Tracks:

That's What Life Is All About
Dreaming
On the Highway
Will You Listen
Crying Won't Help
Kids Are the Same
Trapped
It's Just a Matter of Time
Met Her Yesterday
I Will Say No
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A good followup to the beat.......2004-02-05

A much tougher sound than the self titled album, The Kids Are The Same is good follow up. With should have been hits such as That's What Life's All about or I will Say No, this album is one of the great lost classics of the 80s.

However, CBS did release On The Highway and it didn't chart. Had they decided to make That's What Life's All About a single, perhaps things would have been better for Paul Collins and company. Nevertheless, CBS then sat on the rest of the album, and then bounced The Beat off the roster. In the early 90s, Paul Collins managed to reissue his first two albums on CD via his Wagon Wheel label to which now they have fallen out of print again. Fan demand are high for both Paul Collins' Beat albums. How bout it Wounded Bird?

And Wounded Bird Records comes through once again. Now you can get The Beat AND The Kids Are The Same as a two on one CD, so you don't have to pay a hundred bucks for just one of them. It will be released sometime in May, so be on the lookout for it.

The Kids Are the Same, but still didn't care.......2003-10-06

After almost 3 years, Paul Collins' Beat had both their name and sound homogenized. They now had more in common with the likes of Eddie Money than their smart pop of the first album, and the similarity between "The Kids Are The Same" and Bryan Adams' "The Kids Wanna Rock" is kind of sad. Another case of corporate record company takes another promising band and blands them out before dismissing them....

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