― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:15 (twenty years ago) link
This description is so classic, it hurt my hips.
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:27 (twenty years ago) link
My answer is stupid, but: Los Fabulosos Cadillacs.
― Cacaman Flores, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 01:49 (twenty years ago) link
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― Shaeky Mo Collier, Monday, 18 April 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 18 April 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
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― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 18 April 2005 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Al (sitcom), Monday, 18 April 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 18 April 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Ricky Wilson was essential.
Of course, the story is sad (literally speaking) immediately after, so I can't blame the band for Bouncing.. not being up to par (though I love "Summer Of Love").. but I only like 3 songs from Cosmic Thing and can't stand the rest and what followed.
the Fred Schneider solo record Fred from 1996 is awesome, however. (and I have Martin Mushrush to thank for turning my head to it.)
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 18 April 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh and if I can make anybody feel old here, then :)
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Just Fred is indeed great. letting Fred rage over Albini production with backup from Six Finger Sattelite and Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet was an inspired move.
― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Good to see love for Whammy!, which often seems to be overlooked. But now I'm very worried about my version of Mesopatamia.
xpost: Haha, I just listened to that goofy white funk on Gabriel's So for the first time since I was a child. Woo-hoo!
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
It's really grand. Both albums, actually!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― f-a-b-o-l-o-u-s (adamwest), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 02:04 (nineteen years ago) link
I'd say Good Stuff is not their worst album. That would be Bouncing Off The Satelites.
― everything, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 02:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:10 (nineteen years ago) link
"Planet Claire" and "Rock Lobster" are classic in the extreme. The vocal on "Planet Claire" begins like two or three minutes in, and Fred is such a delightful spaz. It is a deeply weird track.
Hearing the B52s reminds me YET AGAIN about how rampantly eclectic was the mainstream pop music in my youth.
I mean, one still hears people saying that the 80s were a time of cookie-cutter bubblegum; of Reagan-era bright conformity. But right there on the top 40 as beamed by Casey Kasem into the American heartland, there were some strange-ass records being made--records that I doubt you could get in front of the youth of today.
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
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― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
DAN OTM!!!! I'm shocked to hear someone else feel that way. Never heard anybody mention it before and its totally a fave.
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― ShakEy Mo Collier, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― fred schneider's chrysler, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm wondering if that 1989 UK compilation Dance This Mess Around has any tracks from the original Mesopotamia... hmmmm.
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 02:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, and obv. CLASSIC!, at least until Ricky's death. And therever after, presumably. (I've only heard the singles.) My fave: Wild Planet. (Partly out of nostalgia, since "Strobe Light" was playing when I first...nevermind...)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 05:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― kacka thompson (kacka), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 06:20 (nineteen years ago) link
can't be doing with any version of that song that doesn't have the Galaga samples
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Sunday, 24 March 2024 21:23 (two months ago) link
I totally love Whammy. Alfred, have you heard Plastics? I’ve written this elsewhere but the second time I saw the B-52s Plastics toured with them, and I’ve long thought the “tinny” rhythms on Whammy may have been Plastics-inspired. That period after Wild Planet that yielded Party Mix and Mesopotamia they were obviously casting about for what to do next.
I thought Bouncing off the Satellites was a minor letdown on release, but I’ve come to love that as well. It lacks anything that rocks me like “Trism” or “Queen of Las Vegas” though.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:00 (two months ago) link
…which is crazy because Plastics were certainly inspired by the B-52s; Whammy seems to me like returning the favor.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:11 (two months ago) link
I think I've said it before, but I love the Mesopotamia outtake version of Queen of Las Vegas (from the Nude on the Moon anthology):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4SAclO9JAE
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:12 (two months ago) link
Absolutely, it’s wonderful. I wish there were more outtakes like that, but there really aren’t.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:16 (two months ago) link
yo I like The Plastics!! I have their Rough Trade 7"
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:16 (two months ago) link
Yay! I often use ilx threads to decide what to play. This afternoon: Good Stuff, Whammy, and Welcome Back Plastics.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:26 (two months ago) link
Good Stuff needed to be 20 minutes shorter, resequenced, and preferably done with other producers.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:29 (two months ago) link
That "Queen..." outtake is what I heard in my head that the Whammy version doesn't produce.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 March 2024 23:06 (two months ago) link
i completely forgot bouncing off the satellites even existed until we were listening to a b-52s mix in the car the other week and Wig came on. What a great song.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 24 March 2024 23:48 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mPCLvsB5GQ
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 2 June 2024 11:02 (one week ago) link
Awesome.
― Overly dramatic elevator music (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 2 June 2024 22:48 (one week ago) link
“Whammy Kiss” live, sans rhythm box, rocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIEobB7JDkA
― Overly dramatic elevator music (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 June 2024 12:11 (one week ago) link
FYI, they're playing a one-off show at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago in November.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 6 June 2024 21:01 (one week ago) link
Was talking with some friends yesterday about (the lack of) Mexican food in the UK and that you don’t see e.g. tamales.
I mentioned the line, “Hi, my name is ricky and i'm a pisces. I love computers and hot tamales” from Song For A Future Generation and was informed there is a candy brand called “Hot Tamales” and now I’m not sure which one he loved. Any ideas?
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 9 June 2024 12:23 (six days ago) link
I was just watching Twin Peaks and remembered that Julee Cruise joined to perform Cindy’s parts during her hiatus. Still doesn’t compute for me.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 9 June 2024 13:19 (six days ago) link
Not the candy. xp
Before the 1986 album Bouncing Off the Satellites was released, Ricky Wilson died of Aids-related illness, having kept his illness secret from all of his bandmates except Strickland until just before his death. “We saw Ricky get thin and asked, ‘Are you OK?’ And he said, ‘Oh, I stopped eating Mexican food.’ He loved Mexican food.
― Overly dramatic elevator music (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 9 June 2024 15:09 (six days ago) link
Thank you :)
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 9 June 2024 18:18 (six days ago) link