The Beakers released a 7" single on the independent Mr. Brown record label (an offshoot of the Lost Music Network, more known for OP Magazine), containing the two songs "Red Towel" and "Football Season is in Full Swing" and featuring an altered version of Pablo Picasso's classic painting Guernica on the cover. The single received a positive review by NME, praising the "push-pull rhythms [and] stuttering horns, laced and livened with farcical tootings, clever asides and nonsense ravings" in "Red Towel". During the band's brief existence, only two more Beakers songs were released, among them a cover version of the hit disco song "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc. A number of songs also emerged post-breakup on other compilations like Seattle Syndrome Volume One or Sub Pop 5, both released in 1981. One of the band's last performances took place on January 15, 1981, opening for Captain Beefheart on band founder Don Van Vliet's 40th birthday.
