POLL if you want to...POLL around the world: The B-52's Cosmic Thing

I now like "Deadbeat Club" a lot more than I used to

This album is really, really perfect

I've fallen for 'Deadbeat Club' so hard in recent years that I made it the subject of a Pop Con paper. They release it the same year as Pet Shop Boys' "Being Boring," which covers similar ground.

OH LIGHTNING, STRIKE TWICE
HEY EVERYBODY, BASK IN THE AFTERGLOW

i love that topaz was the #13 b-52's song of ALL TIME on our poll a while back

and actually, since you're both here, i thought this was a nice quote:

DJP's enthusiasm for "Topaz" a decade ago taught me to love it.

Strickland's slink guitar sounds marvelous.

― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),

deadbeat club is amazing. love this album.

Great Moments in Vocals: Cindy exclaiming "I Want The World To Change For Me!" in "Channel Z".

otm

oddly enough i had "Wig" from BOtS stuck in my head an hour ago

there are these commercials for a hotel chain I keep getting which has like an EDM version of "Roam" in it, but it's completely re-recorded and completely replaces the groove, it sounds really weird. I always thought the most distinctive feature of that track was the harmony vocals, now I think it's actually the rhythm