Miles Copeland, brother of Police drummer Stewart Copeland, co-founded the indie rock label I.R.S. and in early 1981 signed a Los Angeles-based, all-female New Wave quintet called The Go-Go’s.

The band landed a gig opening for The Police thanks to that connection and within a year their debut album, Beauty and the Beat, topped Billboard’s albums chart, spending a month and a half at #1. It was the first time in the chart’s history that an all-female group who wrote their own music hit the top spot.

Anchored by hit singles ‘We Got the Beat’ and ‘Our Lips Are Sealed,’ Beauty and the Beat is an infectious collection of gentle punk, surf rock and New Wave pop. And it holds up beautifully. You would not go wrong playing this album at a party in 2018.

The band had a lesser hit the following year with Vacation, but in-fighting and drug use got in the way of future success. 1984’s forgotten Talk Show was their last album until a 2001 reunion record titled God Bless the Go-Go’s.