OMG that performance! In a soap opera!
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 12 November 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/oFMshA8.jpg38. Queen Of Las Vegas 96 points, 6 votes. Highest position on ballot: 14 Whammy!alt version (outtake from Mesopotamia sessions)
― Karl Malone, Monday, 12 November 2018 21:01 (five years ago) link
kind of a weird photo (she kinda looks like tom cruise there), but i liked the reflection
https://i.imgur.com/l1lCDp7.jpg
― Karl Malone, Monday, 12 November 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
Haha I hadn't recognized her!
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 12 November 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
yeah, plus it's possible that britney is the queen of las vegas. it's all very subjective
― Karl Malone, Monday, 12 November 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/5Orcd8C.jpg37. Runnin’ Around 99 points, 5 votes. Highest position on ballot: 4 Wild PlanetLive 1978
I think you got it right with Céline. Your images are amazing and super fun!
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 12 November 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
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!)
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 12 November 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
^ 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.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 12 November 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
images are so good i almost can't take in the results, karl you are spoiling us
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 12 November 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
Bobbie Gentry is the queen, all others are residents of principalities
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Monday, 12 November 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/vbapyDE.jpg36. Deep Sleep 105 points, 5 votes. 1 first place vote. Mesopotamia♫ Walking backwards into the sea /Bodies, angels, like musical peaks♫
― Karl Malone, Monday, 12 November 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
1 first place vote (!)
― Drunk Charles Nelson Reily violating Paul Lynn at a toga party (Dan Peterson), Monday, 12 November 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CQDyGQh.jpg35. Whammy Kiss 107 points, 6 votes. Highest position on ballot: 6 Whammy!Live 1983
― Karl Malone, Monday, 12 November 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
I always have this song stuck in my head, thought it would be higher
― Bee OK, Monday, 12 November 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
tie for 33rd!
https://i.imgur.com/xVWekjo.jpg33. (tie) There’s A Moon In The Sky (Called The Moon) 108 points, 6 votes. Highest position on ballot: 9 The B-52’sLive in Rio, 1985, with Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz
https://i.imgur.com/YbwpQhR.jpg33. (tie) Theme For A Nude Beach 108 points, 6 votes. Highest position on ballot: 5 Bouncing Off The Satellites
― Karl Malone, Monday, 12 November 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
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.
― verhexen, Monday, 12 November 2018 22:49 (five years ago) link
first Bouncing of the Satellites track!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 12 November 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/QX6lVZg.jpg
― Karl Malone, Monday, 12 November 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
32. Nip It In The Bud 115 points, 5 votes. 1 first place vote. MesopotamiaLive 1983 (audio only)
― Karl Malone, Monday, 12 November 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
You have done an amazing job today, so glad this ended up in your hands.
― Bee OK, Monday, 12 November 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
thanks Bee, it's been fun!
― Karl Malone, Monday, 12 November 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/GGYNyqS.jpg31. Dry County 121 points, 6 votes. Highest position on ballot: 8 Cosmic ThingLive 1990 MTV Clip, 1989 (B-52's give tour of Athens)
― Karl Malone, Monday, 12 November 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
last one for today! we'll do #30-16 tomorrow, then the final 15 on wednesday.
and i'll post the spotify playlist, one more time:
https://open.spotify.com/user/weinventyou/playlist/6I6dvoE1Vd3qOKe8fvRZRD?si=2NW2gSvzTOa1it-AGiv3mg
― Karl Malone, Monday, 12 November 2018 23:25 (five years ago) link
in that tour of Athens clip you can tell they've been out of town for most of the 1980s
― Brad C., Monday, 12 November 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
"Nip It in the Bud" is wonderful.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
karl the b-52's need to hire you to do all their typography and layouts. love these.
"dry county" is underrated but i can understand it placing here, it's definitely got that "album track" vibe. the backing track always gives me a STRONG whiff of Sonic the Hedgehog music.
but it's an important part of the album i think, and a perfect tee-up to "deadbeat club" which is also about young people killing time and being grateful for having friends in an often-dumb, conservative town. here though we're getting the mostly happy, lazy, daytime version of that memory: there are blues, but they're as easily canceled as the heat of the day: the blues may kick you in the head, but they require no more drastic remedy than lazing around on the porch and wait for some of the people who live your same lifestyle to come ambling up the road, laughing and grumbling about how they can't get their hands on any booze. some of my love of this is ineffable and idiosyncratic, as this whole porch-bumming thing resembles very much the athens i knew in the early 2000s and is a huge part of what us athens expats tend to reminisce about and miss now that we live differently. my porch didn't have a swing, and i wasn't drinking yet, but i remember friends struggling to scrounge up drinks, or anything much to do, on some lazy sundays of summer. it was good.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:10 (five years ago) link
just checking in, amazing rollout.happy for the Whammy! and Queen of Las Vegas showings.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:17 (five years ago) link
seeing this on a computer for the first time and not my phone, i'm even more impressed. listened to the Spotify on the way home from work tonight, i feel like i don't even know these songs.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
is that Julian Casablancas in photo 35?
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link
The quiet triumph of the B-52's is how Keith Strickland adapted to the death of their primary songwriter: he taught himself to play guitar something fierce.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:36 (five years ago) link
Good, er, stuff so far. I almost voted for "Deep Sleep" - I quite like that one. Only a couple from my ballot have placed yet.
Not much of a shock with the album rankings. In retrospect, I should probably have voted for Party Mix/Mesopotamia instead of Mesopotamia itself - the CD remix is better than the original EP.
― lingereffect (Kent Burt), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
xpthat is julian, yep. it was a last minute re-do. before that it was a really intense close-up shot of a dog making out with its owner, tongue waaay out there.
i've got the final top 40 on a separate playlist and this may shock you all, but...there are some really good jams on there. it makes for a fine listen
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
Really enjoying the rollout. The images all look great.
No real big shocks so far, although I was expecting/hoping that Cosmic Thing would be in the top two albums.
I regret leaving Dry County off my list, but I already had six Cosmic Thing tracks on there.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 02:56 (five years ago) link
these images are superb!
― nxd, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 09:27 (five years ago) link
SUPRIIIIIIIIIIIIIZE! PAAAAAARTY!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
where's the icebox?
― sleeve, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
and where's the punch?
:/
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
Ewww, BALLOT-osis!
― jmm, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
^^YES^^
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/6hH6vCd.jpg30. Is That You Mo-Dean? 122 points, 7 votes. Highest position on ballot: 7 Good StuffMusic video
Up and running again, yay!
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
LOL love the graphic! On the bus, to the plane, to the UFO, and to outer space baby!
― Drunk Charles Nelson Reily violating Paul Lynn at a toga party (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
ON A UFOOOO
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
B-52's fact i didn't know before starting all of this:
In late 1990 Cindy Wilson took time off from the band, with Julee Cruise filling in for her on tour. The B-52's released Good Stuff in 1992 as a trio (Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, Keith Strickland).
there are some vids floating out there on youtube with Cruise, not just in the early 90s, but also some clips from 1998 and beyond.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
Hm, I'm not really digging this on first listen.
― jmm, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
yeah...it's not my fave. i like the little pre-chorus where kate's sings "on the bus, on the plane, to the ufo and to outer space baby". but then it continues for 5 and a half minutes.
i can imagine a good version of this song, though, sped up considerably (making it shorter), with cindy on board
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/dFmryGD.jpg28 (tie). Quiche Lorraine 128 points, 7 votes. Highest position on ballot: 10 Wild Planetlive 1980
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
The first one that made my ballot.
― Drunk Charles Nelson Reily violating Paul Lynn at a toga party (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link