Is that a party game?
― how's life, Saturday, 3 June 2017 23:01 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjyJ7pSUnYU
Planets pulsating, constellations creatingVoices are guiding me to the cities by the seaYes, I see cities by the sea
― Treeship, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 04:52 (six years ago) link
Amazing song. This and Deadbeat Club and Dry County forever.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 12:12 (six years ago) link
When I finally ventured into Cosmic Thing when I was around 25, I was absolutely floored by 'Topaz.' How did such an incredible song not get released as a single?
― Austin, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
sometimes my favorite b52's song! did they do anything else quite like it? New cities by the seaSkyscrapers are winking
― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
'Roam' is fucking all-time.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
Topaz is one of my top 20 songs of all time. One of the prettiest melodies ever recorded.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
It's a truly beautiful song. I hadn't heard it until the other day.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 11:40 (six years ago) link
have i ever weighed in on this thread that Dirty Back Road is the best B-52s song? if not, here i am, and it is
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 11:47 (six years ago) link
I think there could be compelling arguments for so many B-52s songs to be the best B-52s song.
Did you hear the Veruca Salt song from two years ago that references Dirty Back Road in the chorus though?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMeYDS9kZcE
― how's life, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 12:14 (six years ago) link
ha no! unsurprisingly the best part of the song by about a million miles!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 12:20 (six years ago) link
They were here in concert on Sunday but I didn't go. I thought about about starting a TS: B-52s vs. King Crimson, since they were here recently too, and I didn't go to that either. Seemingly polar opposites, prog vs. new wave, both hugely influential to me in their heydays, both led me into rabbit holes of unfamiliar music (KC: classical and jazz, B-52s: surf music and Henry Mancini.) And I don't listen to either a whole lot these days, although I always love 'em when I do.
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
Glove slap, baby, glove slap.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
Fripp played in the B-52s once!
http://www.elephant-talk.com/wiki/Interview_with_Robert_Fripp_in_Best
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
whoa and The Screamers?!?!?
― sleeve, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
damn
Ruby Ray JUST posted all her pics of the night Fripp played with The Screamers https://www.facebook.com/ruby.ray.752/posts/10214036279682579?pnref=story
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
saw them last night in L.A. -- they still sound amazing. It wasn't a super long set, they were on a bill w/OMD and Berlin (Berlin was decent, only caught the last couple songs, OMD was astonishing as per usual), but they played all the key hits. Rock Lobster closed it out. They had someone in a lobster suit dancing around onstage with them. good times!
― omar little, Monday, 5 August 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
Cool. Was Tracy W on bass?
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 August 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
yep! that band was super tight.
― omar little, Monday, 5 August 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
"Some say she's from Mars or one of the seven stars that shine after 3:30 in the morning. WELL, SHE ISN'T!" just jumped out at me. Never really noticed the last part before.
Listening at work, no one can see me laughing under this COVID mask.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 18 June 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
I only just noticed this morning that for their formative (pre-mainstream) days, the B-52s didn't have a bassist!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 12:55 (two years ago) link
There's a Bass in the Band (And It's Called the Bass)
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
the gypsies had no home and the b-52s had no bass
― na (NA), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 13:53 (two years ago) link
https://www.vintagesynth.com/sites/default/files/2017-05/sb100.jpg
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
iirc ricky wilson tuned the bottom two strings down, removed the middle two strings, and played "bass" on the low strings simultaneously with guitar on the high strings.
― Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
A number of songs are CFxxFF, where x is missing string.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
and Kate Pierson handled the rest on her keyboard xpost
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
I just tried experimenting with the CFxxFF tuning for the first time, and it's amazing! Taking the bottom strings down that far makes them ridiculously slack and floppy, but you instantly get *that* sound. (I'm guessing Ricky used thicker gauge strings for this?) And then tuning the top two to the same F is similarly weird, but it is the magical sound of the "down! down!" part of "Rock Lobster." The way he combined bass parts and lead parts on only four strings was wonderfully eccentric and original.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 14 October 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
yeah, that's amazing! i didn't know that at all
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Thursday, 14 October 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
I would assume one would be playing mostly unison on the top two strings, rather than a lot of minor and major seconds?
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 14 October 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
Yes, the "down!" riff is literally just placing one finger over both strings at the 12th fret, descending each step down the fretboard. The two unison strings create a sort of wavery sound, probably aided by just a touch of reverb, and voila.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 14 October 2021 15:32 (two years ago) link
“Without anything but the love we feel”
― calstars, Sunday, 24 March 2024 03:13 (two months ago) link
otm
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 March 2024 04:17 (two months ago) link
bought "Good Stuff" on CD at Half Price today, but listened to another acquisition ("Chorus" by Erasure) on the way home instead
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Sunday, 24 March 2024 05:03 (two months ago) link
Waiting for bus number 99Goin to the store for hot dogs and wine
― brimstead, Sunday, 24 March 2024 15:13 (two months ago) link
A number of songs are CFxxFF, where x is missing string.― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, October 6, 2021 8:25 AM
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, October 6, 2021 8:25 AM
imagine if he had gotten his hands on one of those guitars with moveable frets.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 24 March 2024 15:38 (two months ago) link
Cracked case copies of Good Stuff (probably harvested from long boxes) were staples of late-'90s Walmart cutout bins.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 March 2024 16:35 (two months ago) link
yeah, that album was made for cutout bins.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 March 2024 16:48 (two months ago) link
I remember buying it the day it was released at Peaches Records in Seattle and being disappointed.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 17:26 (two months ago) link
I remember spending a summer almost wearing my cassette copy of Good Stuff out, even though I knew in my heart that it wasn’t quite as awesome of the prior album
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 24 March 2024 18:06 (two months ago) link
This one's been stuck in my head all weekend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKEzFZYqBg
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 March 2024 18:16 (two months ago) link
It’s a good track. The 9 minute Shep Pettibone one works really nicely if you are a fan of 80s extended mixes.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 24 March 2024 18:42 (two months ago) link
nice, thanks, I do love extended 80s/90s mixes
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 24 March 2024 19:29 (two months ago) link
I like the Good Stuff remix too
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:06 (two months ago) link
I had Bouncing Off the Satellites on tape in high school (I took my car in for service and it was in the cassette player when I picked it up) and I think it's kinda slept on... has some of their very best songs (Summer of Love, Ain't It a Shame, Girl from Ipanema, Wig). She Brakes for Rainbows kinda points the way to Cosmic Thing, too.
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:21 (two months ago) link
yeah it's a solid LP imo, better than Whammy (which, in turn, sounded MUCH better when I revisited it recently)
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:27 (two months ago) link
Bouncing Off The Satellites has been out of print for ages. Don't remember ever seeing a copy in the UK.
Good Stuff forms part an extremely incongruous 2-for-1 CD package.
https://countrymusicusa.com/cdn/shop/products/20190320_123_740x.jpg
― Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:40 (two months ago) link
Ahahaha!
Well, there are too many horn arrangements on Good stuff imo
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:43 (two months ago) link
That’s the Blood, Sweat and Tears album where Fred Schneider joined as lead singer
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:44 (two months ago) link