last one for today! we'll do #30-16 tomorrow, then the final 15 on wednesday.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 12 November 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
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
that image <3 <3
QUICHE LA POODLE
― sleeve, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
Has anybody seen a dog dyed dark greenAbout two inches tall, with a strawberry blonde fallSunglasses and a bonnetAnd designer jeans with appliques on it?
i just want to say that the b-52's are amazing because they made me consult this meme as a serious reference
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
Ha, where did you find that image?
― jmm, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
i edited this image of doris day
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
Like many Good Stuff tracks, "Is That You Mo-Dean?" is a minute too long.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/zpsaIg2.jpg28 (tie). 53 Miles West Of Venus 128 points, 7 votes. Highest position on ballot: 6 Wild Planetlive 1980
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
If I'd voted, this might have been my #1. xp to Quiche Lorraine
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
the last tie on the rollout
'Quiche La Poodle is her name / And having a good time on a crummy day is our game' is such a great lyric
― soref, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
in 1982 when I was maybe in 10th grade a guy dressed in full on 80s new wave weirdo Square Pegs regalia did a lip-synch version of "Quiche Lorraine" at a talent show, it made a big impression on me
― sleeve, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
Alright, I got something into "Highest position on ballot." I just love the cool simplicity of this song.
― jmm, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
"Is that you Mo-Dean" is based on a bit of call-and-response they used to do in the early days. There's a bit of it on the "Anola Gay" bootleg from '78.
― Drunk Charles Nelson Reily violating Paul Lynn at a toga party (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
I love Mo-Dean and wish I'd had more room for it on the ballot
Certainly not that euphoric last minute though...
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/hbRnc4W.jpg27. Cake 176 points, 8 votes. Highest position on ballot: 3 Mesopotamiafan video
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
this song is horny as hell
The groove on "Cake" is fabulous in its post-Byrne re-mix. This is the B-52's track to which James Muprhy was avidly listening.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
I don't know if Wilson or Byrne handles the guitar, but this is about the only time its thin, hard insistence works.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
27 wtf? i love this thing
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
yeah, cake is super good. it made my ballot, but it was one of those that i wanted to bump up near the top as i listened to it more.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
just ran across this:
FollowMesopotamia - The B-52's - Full third album fan edit Loveland (Byrne mix) Big Bird (Whammy version) - 8:30 Adios Desconocida (extra rare demo) - 12:44 Mesopotamia - 17:02 Deep Sleep - 20:48 Cake (Byrne mix) - 24:20 Throw That Beat In The Garbage Can (Byrne mix) - 32:08 Butterbean (Whammy version) - 37:56 Queen of Las Vegas (Byrne mix) - 42:17 Nip It In The Bud - 48:00 I know that "Mesopotamia" is not the record fans always prefers, but when reading about the story of that record, (David Byrne, the few tracks that never make it and all that stuff...) I was fascinated. Between 2012 and last year, I've searched all the internet to find any of these outtakes and "special long versions" of "Loveland", "Cake" and "Throw That Beat" that didn't make it on the american version of the record. I did find almost all of these. The english version of the record is available on youtube. One outtake, "Queen of Las Vegas", is available on "Nude On The Moon". I even find some kind of a demo of the "Adios Desconocida" song, which is pretty rare. But the "Mesopotamian versions" of "Butterbean" and "Big Bird" are unavailble, or simply don't exist. Anyway, with all the tracks I've found over the years, I made some kind of a "fan edit project" (with all the David Byrne's versions and outtakes) of the original third album from the B-52's. Enjoy !
Loveland (Byrne mix) Big Bird (Whammy version) - 8:30 Adios Desconocida (extra rare demo) - 12:44 Mesopotamia - 17:02 Deep Sleep - 20:48 Cake (Byrne mix) - 24:20 Throw That Beat In The Garbage Can (Byrne mix) - 32:08 Butterbean (Whammy version) - 37:56 Queen of Las Vegas (Byrne mix) - 42:17 Nip It In The Bud - 48:00
I know that "Mesopotamia" is not the record fans always prefers, but when reading about the story of that record, (David Byrne, the few tracks that never make it and all that stuff...) I was fascinated. Between 2012 and last year, I've searched all the internet to find any of these outtakes and "special long versions" of "Loveland", "Cake" and "Throw That Beat" that didn't make it on the american version of the record. I did find almost all of these. The english version of the record is available on youtube. One outtake, "Queen of Las Vegas", is available on "Nude On The Moon". I even find some kind of a demo of the "Adios Desconocida" song, which is pretty rare. But the "Mesopotamian versions" of "Butterbean" and "Big Bird" are unavailble, or simply don't exist. Anyway, with all the tracks I've found over the years, I made some kind of a "fan edit project" (with all the David Byrne's versions and outtakes) of the original third album from the B-52's.
Enjoy !
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3leq9q
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
The groove on "Cake" is fabulous in its post-Byrne re-mix.
the post-byrne, 1991 remix is the only version i've heard, i think! i think that's the version of spotify.
i'm listening to the original now (via the dailymotion upload just above), and yeah, the doubling of the snare hits is annoying the living hell out of me
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
My first vote! Cake was the big revelation for me in the poll, it's really top-tier imo. Byrne, like a total pro, zeroes in on the real source of sexual tension in the band--between Cindy and Kate...
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
but actually, the annoying delay on the snare is mostly confined to the beginning. and i like the way the chorus sounds, without the horns! i like both versions a lot tbh
mesopotamia rules
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link