Beat Hotel (The Bongos album)
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| Beat Hotel | ||||
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| Released | 1985 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock, power pop | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Producer | John Jansen | |||
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Beat Hotel is an album by the American band the Bongos, released in 1985.[1][2] Its title is an homage to the Beat Hotel, in Paris, where many Beat writers lived in the 1950s.[3] The first single was "Space Jungle".[4] The album peaked at No. 209 on the Billboard 200.[5] The band supported Beat Hotel with a North American tour.[6]
Produced by John Jansen, the recording sessions for the album took four months, with the Bongos using four different studios.[7][8][9] The band's frontman Richard Barone and guitarist James Mastro spent much of 1984 in Mexico, which influenced their decision to use Latin percussion on some of the tracks.[8] The Bongos were also inspired by the Beatles' Revolver and tried to write and record the songs in different ways.[10] Barone used the cut-up technique for some of the songs' lyrics.[11] He played a guitar synthesizer on several tracks; he borrowed the instrument from Kool & the Gang, who were recording in the same studio.[8] Kate Pierson sang on "Apache Dancing".[12]
