The Fusion Reactor #176 - The Beat Goes On
 

This edition of The Fusion Reactor focuses on the all-important beat. Without it, we'd just be listening to soundscapes... not that there's anything wrong with that. But here are a bunch of prog and fusion beats, for your listening and dancing pleasure, followed by an epic tune that kind of defies classification. But it's got plenty of beats.

Beat 70 - Metheny, Pat 5:06
Eurobeat - Counter World Experience 6:18
Buzz Beat - Woodenhead 7:00
Delivering the Groceries at 138 Beats per Minute - Don Caballero 5:49
Beatnicks and Bohemians - Ghosts of Pompeii 3:57
Quick Is The Beat Of My Heart - Styx 3:52
Heartbeat - Hancock, Herbie 4:52
Two Hearts Beat As One - U2 4:04
Heartbeat - Eloy 6:12
Heartbeat - King Crimson 3:55
No Heart Beats - Iona 4:49
Croquette for Electronic Beating Group - National Health 3:52
Beat the Heat - Gamalon 4:32
From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser - Jethro Tull 4:08
Beat The Drum - Pallas 9:18
Beat The Drum - Mermaid Kiss 6:36
Beat Box Guitar - Belew, Adrian 5:09
The Box - Orbital 28:26

Re: The Fusion Reactor #176 - The Beat Goes On
 

Moses,

Is that U2 song, "2 Hearts beat as 1" a remake of another song - or did they write it? Something in the back of my mind reminds me that this is a song someone else has done...

Thanks for clarifying for me... (to Moses or any one else...)

Regards from Texas,
Ted

Re: The Fusion Reactor #176 - The Beat Goes On
 

The liner notes to the "War" album proclaim that all the songs were written by U2. Maybe someone else recorded it after them?

Re: The Fusion Reactor #176 - The Beat Goes On
 

Moses,

I probably have it all wrong... but maybe I am thinking of their song... I'll have to listen to your show next Wednesday and find out!!

Thank you,
Ted

Re: The Fusion Reactor #176 - The Beat Goes On
 

When I read over the set list I didn't notice the U2 cut. Great tune from when I liked the band.

Beat the Heat is awesome. I can still remember Tom Reinhardt doing this little shuffle with his feet while playing the bass line, the onle and only time I caught them.

Adrian Belew's cover of heartbeat on Young Lions is a bit different but also enjoyable.

Some great stuff here...and I'm not at all familiar with Orbital. Have to check it out.

Re: The Fusion Reactor #176 - The Beat Goes On
 

"Delivering the Groceries at 138 BPM" is a rager with a great false ending, and that U2 song? Classic. As for other bands, my guess is there's more than one song with that title.