{{Infobox album | name = Betti-Cola | type = studio | artist = Cub | cover = Betticola.jpg | alt = | released = {{start date|1993|10|01}} | recorded = August 23, 1992 – August 15, 1993 | venue = | studio = * Noizi (Vancouver) * Yoyo (Olympia) | genre = Cuddlecore<ref name="Hogan"/> | length = 48:00 | label = Mint | producer = * Jean Smith * Cub * Nicolas Bragg * Anthony Hempell * Pat Maley * Dave Carswell * Kevin Komoda * Adam Sloan | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Come Out Come Out | next_year = 1995 }}
'''''Betti-Cola''''' is the debut album by the Canadian band Cub.<ref name="Robbins"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Prested |first1=Kevin |title=Punk USA: The Rise and Fall of Lookout Records |date=2014 |publisher=Microcosm Publishing |page=109}}</ref> It was released on October 1, 1993, by Mint Records.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4uhHRQN117IC&q=Betti-Cola+cub+1993&pg=PA73|title=Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records|first=Kaitlin|last=Fontana|date=October 22, 2011|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=9781770900523|via=Google Books}}</ref> The album was remastered and re-released with bonus tracks in 2007.
The album contains tracks taken from various 7-inch EPs as well as a handful of covers. A 12-song double 7-inch EP titled ''Betti-Cola'', with similar cover art, was released at roughly the same time as the CD.
The cover art is by Archie Comics cartoonist Dan DeCarlo.<ref name="canrock"/>
==Recording== Cub recorded ''Betti-Cola'' primarily with microphones and a Digital Audio Tape machine. The album was recorded in various locations, including in Olympia, Washington, and at CBC Television.<ref name="canrock">{{Cite book|title=Have not been the same: the CanRock renaissance, 1985-1995|last1=Barclay|first1=Michael|last2=Jack|first2=Ian A.D.|last3=Schneider |first3=Jason|date=2011|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=9781550229929|pages=20|oclc=702799226}}</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Ankeny">{{cite web|last=Ankeny|first=Jason|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/betti-cola-mw0000648351|title=Betti-Cola – Cub|website=AllMusic|access-date=November 15, 2025}}</ref> | rev2 = ''Pitchfork'' | rev2score = 8.0/10<ref name="Hogan">{{cite web|last=Hogan|first=Marc|author-link=Marc Hogan|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11902-betti-cola-come-out-come-out/|title=Cub: Betti-Cola / Come Out Come Out|website=Pitchfork|date=May 10, 2007|access-date=November 15, 2025}}</ref> }}
"While the band's primitive, sweet formula changes little over the duration of the set," wrote Jason Ankeny in a retrospective review for AllMusic, "the performances grow more assured with each passing track; whether tackling Lisa Marr's own infectious compositions{{nbsp}}... or well-chosen covers{{nbsp}}... Cub's naive charm is irresistible."<ref name="Ankeny"/> Ira Robbins of ''Trouser Press'' likewise found that as a whole, the album captures Cub's "increasing musical strength and confidence (especially on the part of guitarist Robynn Iwata and singer/bassist Lisa Marr; a procession of drummers make rhythmic progress impossible to chart)."<ref name="Robbins">{{cite web|last=Robbins|first=Ira|url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/cub/|title=Cub|website=Trouser Press|access-date=November 15, 2025}}</ref> ''Pitchfork''{{'}}s Marc Hogan stated that "like Jonathan Richman post-''Modern Lovers'', Cub prove that childlike whimsy can be, in the words of Joe Harvard, 'a purer form of rebellion.'"<ref name="Hogan"/>
==Track listing== All songs written by Cub, except where indicated.
#"Go Fish" – 2:00 #"What the Water Gave Me" – 1:14 #"Motel 6" – 2:21 #"A Party" – 1:18 #"Flying Carpet" – 2:38 #"My Chinchilla" – 1:23 #"Electric Chair" – 2:33 #"Nicolas Bragg" – 1:56 #"Pretty Pictures" – 1:38 #"They Don't" – 1:40 #"A Picnic" – 1:24 #"It's True" – 1:28 #"Someday" – 1:44 #"Cast a Shadow" (Beat Happening cover) – 2:12 #"The Day We Met" – 1:34 #"Surfer Girl" (The Beach Boys cover) – 1:33 #"Little Star" – 1:13 #"My Assassin" – 1:51 #"Tell Me Now" (Daniel Johnston cover) – 3:00 #"Lucky 7" – 1:46 #"Through My Hoop" – 2:25 #"Leapfrog" – 2:10 #"Backwoods" (Windwalker cover) – 3:14 #"What the Water Gave Me" (performed by NFA; Cub cover) – 3:45
'''2007 reissue bonus tracks''' #<li value="25">"Chico" – 1:15</li> #"Sweet Pea" (Tommy Roe cover) – 1:24 #"Summer Samba" (Astrud Gilberto cover) – 1:41 #"Hello Kitty" – 1:33 #"Wipeout!" (live) (unlisted) – 0:20
'''Notes''' *Tracks 1–4 and 25 are from the ''Pep'' 7-inch EP. *Tracks 5–8 and 27 are from the ''Hot Dog Day'' 7-inch EP. *Tracks 9–13, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 26, and 28 are from the ''Betti-Cola'' double 7-inch EP. *Tracks 14–16, 19, 21, 23, 24, and 29 are unique to the album, though alternate versions of 14, 15, and 21 appeared on the "Volcano" 7-inch single, ''Pep'', and ''Hot Dog Day'', respectively.
==Personnel== Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.<ref>{{cite AV media notes|title=Betti-Cola|others=Cub|publisher=Mint Records|year=1993|id=MRD-002|type=liner notes}}</ref>
{{columns-start}} '''Cub''' *Lisa Marr – vocals, bass *Robynn Iwata – guitar, backup vocals (tracks 1 and 15) *Valeria Fellini – drums (tracks 1–8 and 17–23), backup vocals (track 1) *Neko Case – drums (tracks 12 and 14–16)
'''Additional musicians''' *Dave Carswell – drums (tracks 9, 10, and 13), acoustic guitar (tracks 11 and 13), glockenspiel (track 9) *NFA (Jason Ogden, Andrew Earle, Craig Moore) – guest performance (track 24)
{{column}} '''Production''' *Jean Smith – production (tracks 1–4) *Cub – production (tracks 1–23) *Adam Sloan – engineering (tracks 1–8 and 17–23), production (tracks 17–23) *Nicolas Bragg – production (tracks 5–8) *Anthony Hempell – production (tracks 5–8) *Pat Maley – production and engineering (tracks 9–13) *Dave Carswell – production (tracks 9–13) *Kevin Komoda – production (tracks 14–16) *Anthony "Fu" Valcic – mastering, assembly
'''Design''' *Dan DeCarlo – cover drawing *Derrick Hanni – outer back cover photograph *Allen May – booklet back cover photograph *Miles Constable, Bill Baker, Lisa Marr, Robynn Iwata, Allen May, Derrick Hanni, Linda Scholten – booklet photographs *Adam, Melanie, Valeria Fellini – booklet drawings {{columns-end}}
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