Adams Street Record Club: The Go Go's Beauty and the Beat
Like a book club, but for records! Join your peers to discuss albums from Brooklyn Public Library's Vinyl Collection. This month, we'll discuss Beauty and the Beat by the Go-Gos.
For NPR, Hilary Hughes wrote, "The Go-Go's debut album, Beauty and the Beat, is universally regarded as an '80s pop and new wave classic. It's rightfully celebrated as the first album by an all-woman band who played its own instruments and wrote its own songs to top the Billboard 200 albums chart. But it was revolutionary in more than one way: It's also a harbinger of what rock would become, and a bridge between punk, the movement whose rebelliousness had quashed the excesses of classic rock, and the genre-fusing music of the 1980s." in V Magazine, Drew Barrymore wrote, "When I was about seven, I discovered the Go-Go's. I went out and bought their album Beauty and the Beat and, as the vinyl twirled, my whole world changed. I stared at the girls on the cover like they were a gateway to cool. The fact that they were girls made me feel not only invited but more important – like I could be a badass too."
Join the conversation and let us know what you think!
Register online to receive digital listening information and optional supplementary reading!
All of the records we'll discuss are part of the Vinyl Collection at Central Library. You can borrow them with your library card or listen to them at the library's listening station! Please note that all vinyl records must be checked out from and returned at Central Library.
