Wha'ppen?

Infobox Album
Name = Wha'ppen?
Type = studio
Artist = The Beat


Released = June 1981
Recorded = Roundhouse Studios, London
Genre = Ska, Rock
Length = 43:21 (CD)
Label = Go Feet, Sire
Producer = Bob Sargeant
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jifpxqt5ldfe link]
Last album = "I Just Can't Stop It"
(1980)
This album = "Wha'ppen?"
(1981)
Next album = "Special Beat Service"
(1982)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = CD cover
Type = studio


Lower caption = 1999 re-release

"Wha'ppen?" is the second album by the ska band The Beat (credited on the US release as The English Beat), released in 1981.

Track listing

All songs by The Beat except as indicated.

ide one

#"Doors of Your Heart" (The Beat, Colin Osborne)
#"All Out to Get You"
#"Monkey Murders"
#"I Am Your Flag"
#"French Toast (Soleil Trop Chaud)" (J. Jefferson)
#"Drowning"

ide two

#"Dream Home in NZ"
#"Walk Away"
#"Over and Over"
#"Cheated"
#"Get-a-Job"
#"The Limits We Set"

CD reissue

#"Too Nice to Talk To"
#"Doors of Your Heart"
#"All Out to Get You"
#"Monkey Murders"
#"I Am Your Flag"
#"French Toast (Soleil Trop Chaud)"
#"Drowning"
#"Dream Home in NZ"
#"Walk Away"
#"Over and Over"
#"Cheated"
#"Get-a-Job"
#"The Limits We Set"

Personnel

*Dave Wakeling - guitar, vocals
*Ranking Roger - vocals
*Andy Cox - guitar
*David Steele - bass
*Everett Morton - drums
*Saxa - saxophone

Additional musicians

*Blockhead - keyboards
*"Have a Go Bobby" Sargeant - marimba
*Cedric Myton - extra vocals on "Doors of Your Heart"
*Dick - steel drum
*Saltin - trumpet

References