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The Beatnigs is the only album by the San Francisco band The Beatnigs, released in 1988.[4][5] It combined punk, industrial and hip hop influences.[6]

The Beatnigs
Studio album by The Beatnigs
Released	1988
Recorded	1988; Dancin' Dog Studio, Emeryville, California
Genre	Industrial hip hop, political hip hop, conscious hip hop, experimental rock, spoken word, funk rock, post-punk, industrial rock
Label	Alternative Tentacles[1]
Producer	The Beatnigs

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	7/10[3]

Production

Michael Franti wrote all of the lyrics to the songs; he also played bass.[7] The album was produced by the Beatnigs.[8] An enclosure explaining the origins of the band's name was included with the album.[9]

Critical reception

Spin wrote that the album mixed "the Last Poets’ severe rhetoric with the horrific industrial grinding of Einstürzende Neubauten."[10] Trouser Press wrote that "this striking San Francisco quintet explodes in a tight and danceable riot of industrial percussion, vocals and tape manipulations."[11] The New York Times called the album "a powerful conglomeration of taped sounds - speeches by Malcolm X, for instance - industrial noise made with saws, sirens and oil drums, and a conventional rhythm section."[7] MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide called it "the most interesting and innovative album any of Franti's three groups has made, loaded with sonic twists and turns."[8] The Spin Alternative Record Guide deemed it "an angrier warm-up to De La Soul a year later: choppy beats mingled with inflammatory news items, goofy how-to spiels, exhortations from Malcolm X and others, and twisted loops of electro-industrial din."[3]

Track listing

All songs written by The Beatnigs.

1. "(Welcome) - Television"
2. " C.I.A."
3. "(Instructions) - When You Wake Up In The Morning"
4. "(The Experience Of All Of Us) - Street Fulla Nigs"
5. " (Re-Classification) - Control"
6. "Malcolm X"
7. "Nature"
8. "Burritos"
9. "Rooticus Sporaticus"
10. "Who Is Doing This To All My People"
11. "Rules"

CD 'bonus tracks'

• "Jazzy Beats"
• "Pre-War America"
• "Television" (Radio Edit)
• "Television" (Remix)

Personnel

The Beatnigs

• Henry Flood - congas, timbales, industrial percussion
• Andre Flores - keyboards, sampling, vocals, industrial percussion
• Michael Franti - vocals, bass, tape edits, industrial percussion
• Kevin Carnes- vocals, tape edits, industrial percussion
• Rono Tse - industrial percussion, circular saw, siren electric buzzer, tire rim, chains, whistle, oil drum, shakers, tambourines

Also

• Robert Collins - piano

Engineer

• David "Davy D" Bryson

Remix

• "Television" (Remix) remixed by Adrian Sherwood, Gary Clail and Mark Stewart

References

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