Beet (album) explained

Beet
Type:	Album
Artist:	Eleventh Dream Day
Cover:	EDD_Beet.jpg
Released:	November 1989
Recorded:	June 1989
Genre:	Rock
Length:	43:58
Label:	Atlantic
Producer:	Gary Waleik^[1]
Prev Title:	Prairie School Freakout
Prev Year:	1988
Next Title:	Borscht
Next Year:	1990

Beet is the second full-length album by Chicago, Illinois rock band Eleventh Dream Day and their first on a major label, Atlantic Records.^[1]

Critical reception

Chicago Reader wrote: "Beet, recorded over a leisurely four days, is a hoot. Lissome guitar lines float in and amongst varying degrees of thunder riffing; Rizzo's voice flails wildly above the mix."^[2]

Track listing

1. "Between Here and There" (Baird Figi, Rick Rizzo) - 4:45
2. "Testify" (Rizzo) - 4:03
3. "Bagdad's Last Ride" (Janet Beveridge Bean) - 4:04
4. "Awake I Lie" (Rizzo) - 5:20
5. "Road That Never Winds" (Rizzo) - 3:22
6. "Axle" (Rizzo) - 3:42
7. "Michael Dunne" (Figi, Rizzo) - 3:28
8. "Bomb the Mars Hotel" (Figi) - 3:32
9. "Teenage Pin Queen" (Rizzo) - 3:58
10. "Love to Hate to Love" (Rizzo) - 3:31
11. "Go (Slight Return)" (Bean, Rizzo) - 4:06

Bonus tracks

1. "Seiche" (Figi) - 3:07 On CD only

Personnel

• Janet Beveridge Bean  – piano, drums, vocals
• Baird Figi – guitar, background vocals, lap steel guitar
• Douglas McCombs  – bass, background vocals
• Rick Rizzo  – guitar, vocals

Notes and References

1. Web site: 11 Eleventh Dream Day Songs From 11 Eleventh Dream Day Records. Jason. Cohen. Pitchfork. 26 August 2015.
2. Web site: Rock 'n' Roll: Eleventh Dream Day's pretty decent debut. Bill. Wyman. Chicago Reader. 9 November 1989.