♫ Before I talk, I should read a POLL! ♪ ILM Artist Poll #93 ♪ B-52’s ♫

What I was expecting for the Top 5.

interesting bonus consideration, though:



Mesopotamia 
votes
+ Party Mix/Mesopotamia
 votes
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608 (4th place)

if i ever go to a party again, and the topic of the b-52's comes up, i am totally going to be that guy who is like "have you heard mesopotamia, though?"

xp That would have made the list close to chronological, with only Cosmic Thing out of place.

https://i.imgur.com/hIdAZM4.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/uMPNP2H.jpg
40. Butterbean

85 points, 5 votes. Highest position on ballot: 10

Whammy!

Pick 'em, hull 'em, put on the steam
That's how we fix butterbeans

Wow at the images!

Looking forward to this.

OH, i almost forgot! for those who would like to have the spotify playlist handy:

https://open.spotify.com/user/weinventyou/playlist/6I6dvoE1Vd3qOKe8fvRZRD?si=8R9kcvKwSDyimJoEFnvjyw

Yes, love the first of these images!

I play in a band that does mainly blues/roots rock kinda stuff, but I nicked the "pass me a plateful, I'll be grateful" line for a song I wrote.

the Whammy! images have less of a coherent style template than the others - really the only reference is just the colors of the track title. also, some of them i spent a lot of time and i'm pretty happy with how they came out, and others the product of rush-job solo drunkdom. but hopefully the enthusiasm shines through! really had a great weekend jamming all these songs and making weird cutouts

xp thanks dorsalstop!

Don't you wait, don't you linger
Butterbean don't slip through my fingers

BUTTAH BEAN
BUTTAH BEAN

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

aaaaaaaalfreeeeed

hi!

butterbeans are tasty iirc

oh shit, i forgot to include this link for Butterbean:

Live 1983
i'm not linking to the actual songs, because they're all easy enough to find using your favorite streaming service, or by walking over to your cd collection or whatever. but if anyone has any cool videos or performances or whatever, please feel free to link to them (but please don't embed the actual videos in the thread - broken youtube videos will make this thread look like garbage in the future)

butterbean must have been fun as hell to perform

https://i.imgur.com/eRG9ZCp.jpg
39. Throw That Beat In The Garbage Can

92 points, 5 votes. Highest position on ballot: 7

Mesopotamia
Performance on Guiding Light, the soap opera (?!?!)

seriously, check out the guiding light performance, it is amazing. was that a thing on soap operas back in the day, to feature full performances by new wave bands?

no IT WAS NOT

Brilliant image.

it reminds me of that Incredible Hulk episode with Mackenzie Phillips as a Ziggy Stardust-like androgyne...in 1978. These shows were at least four years behind the times.

i mean, it's not even the regular band cameo kind of thing where they occasionally get featured while the camera focuses on the characters, who are usually holding a conversation over the top of the music. it's the opposite - it's just a straight up b-52's music video, with a few occasional shots of the actors. i love it

These images are amazing! So excited for this roll-out

hahaha take that beats!

thanks bunny (and hi bunny!)

OMG that performance! In a soap opera!

https://i.imgur.com/oFMshA8.jpg
38. Queen Of Las Vegas

96 points, 6 votes. Highest position on ballot: 14

Whammy!
alt version (outtake from Mesopotamia sessions)

kind of a weird photo (she kinda looks like tom cruise there), but i liked the reflection

https://i.imgur.com/l1lCDp7.jpg

Haha I hadn't recognized her!

yeah, plus it's possible that britney is the queen of las vegas. it's all very subjective

https://i.imgur.com/5Orcd8C.jpg
37. Runnin’ Around

99 points, 5 votes. Highest position on ballot: 4

Wild Planet
Live 1978

I think you got it right with Céline. Your images are amazing and super fun!

QOLV = as monolithic as I find Whammy I kind of love one of the central ideas, which is to re-imagine "52 Girls" as coldwave and then use that as a template for a few almost singer-songwriter-type songs about counterfeiting and gambling

(& that doesn't even get into the Mesopotamia gersion, which I actually like better. It's so fervorous!)

^ totally dig this notion.

I voted for at least three of this first four!

"Runnin' Around" hadn't really stood out for me before this exercise, oddly.

images are so good i almost can't take in the results, karl you are spoiling us

yeah, plus it's possible that britney is the queen of las vegas. it's all very subjective

Bobbie Gentry is the queen, all others are residents of principalities

https://i.imgur.com/vbapyDE.jpg
36. Deep Sleep

105 points, 5 votes. 1 first place vote.

Mesopotamia
♫ Walking backwards into the sea /
Bodies, angels, like musical peaks♫

1 first place vote (!)

https://i.imgur.com/CQDyGQh.jpg
35. Whammy Kiss

107 points, 6 votes. Highest position on ballot: 6

Whammy!
Live 1983

I always have this song stuck in my head, thought it would be higher

tie for 33rd!

https://i.imgur.com/xVWekjo.jpg
33. (tie) There’s A Moon In The Sky (Called The Moon)

108 points, 6 votes. Highest position on ballot: 9

The B-52’s
Live in Rio, 1985, with Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz

https://i.imgur.com/YbwpQhR.jpg
33. (tie) Theme For A Nude Beach

108 points, 6 votes. Highest position on ballot: 5

Bouncing Off The Satellites

great rollout so far, these images <3

excited to see Deep Sleep place, stuck it on mine at the last minute. I always find the ending weirdly intense, it creeps up on you.

way fonder than expected of Whammy! on relistening. in my head it sounds a bit like it looks - a flat, pop-up B-52's, lots of arid black space between bright cut-out sounds.

first Bouncing of the Satellites track!

https://i.imgur.com/QX6lVZg.jpg

32. Nip It In The Bud

115 points, 5 votes. 1 first place vote.

Mesopotamia
Live 1983 (audio only)

You have done an amazing job today, so glad this ended up in your hands.

thanks Bee, it's been fun!