Formed in San Francisco in 1979, the new wave/pop band the Beat was led by Paul Collins, who had previously played in power-pop band the Nerves, with Peter Case, who later joined the Plimsouls, and songwriter Jack Lee (whose "Hanging On The Telephone" was a hit for Blondie). The Beat signed with Bill Graham's management company and secured a recording contract with Columbia Records. Their debut, The Beat, was popular on college radio but never broke nationally. Their second album and a 1983 EP for Passport Records, recorded with a new line-up, failed to garner much interest and the group broke up.

Listen to The Beat at Finetune.

• You Won't Be Happy
• Mirror In The Bathroom

• The Jam
• The Clash
• The Specials
• The Ramones
• Sex Pistols
• The Damned
• Buzzcocks
• The Stranglers
• The Boomtown Rats
• Joy Division
• Stiff Little Fingers
• Madness
• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
• New Order
• The Smiths
• XTC
• The Vapors
• The Dead Kennedys
• The Aquabats
• Human League

• johneb
• dharmanavy
• Wigshen
• adrianwag

• bishimike on 2008-11-22 11:26:07.253:
  you need to better extricate the song listings for the (usa)(Paul Collins) Beat from the (english) Beat.