''Beet'' is the second full-length album by

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rock band

Eleventh Dream Day Eleventh Dream Day (EDD) is an American alternative rock band from Chicago. History The band was founded by guitarists Rick Rizzo and Janet Beveridge Bean, who met at a place fondly known as 1069. This was a house/practice space/hang out in Lou ...

and their first on a major label, Atlantic Records.

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."

Track listing

# "Between Here and There" (Baird Figi, Rick Rizzo) - 4:45 # "Testify" (Rizzo) - 4:03 # "Bagdad's Last Ride" (Janet Beveridge Bean) - 4:04 # "Awake I Lie" (Rizzo) - 5:20 # "Road That Never Winds" (Rizzo) - 3:22 # "Axle" (Rizzo) - 3:42 # "Michael Dunne" (Figi, Rizzo) - 3:28 # "Bomb the Mars Hotel" (Figi) - 3:32 # "Teenage Pin Queen" (Rizzo) - 3:58 # "Love to Hate to Love" (Rizzo) - 3:31 # "Go (Slight Return)" (Bean, Rizzo) - 4:06 #;Bonus tracks # "Seiche" (Figi) - 3:07 On CD only

Personnel

*Janet Beveridge Bean –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, drums,

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

*Baird Figi –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

background vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

, lap steel guitar * Douglas McCombs – bass, background vocals *Rick Rizzo – guitar, vocals

References

{{Authority control 1989 albums Eleventh Dream Day albums