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Excursion on the Version,Beats International

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Beats International
Released 1991

In the Ghetto
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Brand New Beat
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4 plays

Echo Chamber
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songs

- 1
- Brand New Beat
- 00:00
- 4 plays

- 2
- Change Your Mind
- 00:00
- 1 plays

- 3
- Love Is Green
- 00:00
- 3 plays

- 4
- Echo Chamber
- 00:00
- 3 plays

- 5
- The Sun Doesn't Shine
- 00:00
- 2 plays

- 6
- Herman
- 00:00
- 1 plays

- 7
- Three Foot Skank
- 00:00
- 1 plays

- 8
- No More Mr. Nice Guy
- 00:00
- 1 plays

- 9
- Eyes on the Prize
- 00:00
- 0 plays

- 10
- Ten Long Years
- 00:00
- 2 plays

- 11
- In the Ghetto
- 00:00
- 9 plays

- 12
- Come Home
- 00:00
- 0 plays

album review

"Everybody get off your feet/And rock to this brand new beat" are the first words you hear on Beats International's second album, and the joke is that there's nothing "brand new" here, not the beats or anything else. Like most disk jockeys, Norman Cook has no problem with commandeering whatever copyrights take his fantasy, so don't be surprised when the chorus to "Echo Chamber," for example, cops part of Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle." Actually, the music on this album isn't as explicitly derivative as that on the group's debut, Let Them Eat Bingo, but it's all generally derivative, especially of all-purpose ska and reggae grooves. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide