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

It made my Top 20.

that AMFAR ad was probably the first time I ever heard of the B-52s, I remember buying multiple albums by them and being like "huh, I guess that song (Summer of Love) isn't on this one"

https://i.imgur.com/2m1WpUx.jpg
19. Girl From Ipanema Goes To Greenland

289 points, 15 votes. Highest position on ballot: 2

Bouncing Off The Satellites
music video

^^^^ love this thing -- a hook monster

I can tell it was assembled around the mixing desk, with those excellent synth whooshes covering for the lack of Ricky.

Are the BotS images in a golden ratio? Took me long enough to see it.

do not sleep on the video

My favorite image so far.

https://i.imgur.com/9zzA5u9.jpg
18. Ain’t It A Shame

294 points, 12 votes. Highest position on ballot: 2

Bouncing Off The Satellites
Cindy Wilson singing this at karaoke in 1989 (this is amazing)

I LOVE THIS SONG. shamefully, i didn't even really know about it when i submitted my ballot. now it would be top 5, i think.

my, uh, second-favorite song by them : )

Missed the results in real time. "Wig" was my first vote to place. Surprised to see it, "Channel Z" and "Girl From Ipanema" so low! All awesome imo. The image for "Girl" is fantastic! (x-post)

"Ain't it a Shame" placed high on my ballot too. Great Cindy performance.

Great video

https://i.imgur.com/DLmc5HS.jpg
17. Lava

295 points, 15 votes. Highest position on ballot: 6

The B-52’s
cool 1978 performance with someone dancing in middle of the band

live 1980

Sinead O'Connor killed "Ain't It a Shame," one of their queerest songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUF5mrKUOVA

Nice to see Bouncing Off The Satellites being represented well. Ain't It A Shame was my number four. One of the most beautiful and heartbreaking songs I know.

That 1978 video fascinates me beyond all comprehension, still performing to recorded backing. As early as it is, you can hear how they have all of their quirky parts and performances cemented.

If I have my B lore straight, that video predates their first trip to NYC to play at Max's Kansas City. The book Party out of Bounds mentions how they had made a video prior to the trip, and took some stills from it to create a press kit to try to land a gig at CBGB, which didn't book them, and Max's, which did.

https://i.imgur.com/0WXmuLR.jpg
16. Love Shack
338 points, 16 votes. Highest position on ballot: 3
Cosmic Thing
music video
Letterman show, 1989
Stephanie Tanner dances to Love Shack
Shaquille O’Neal lip syncs to Love Shack
Mike Yannacone sings and dances to Love Shack while driving

that's the last one for today.

Top 15 tomorrow!

https://i.imgur.com/0WXmuLR.jpg
16. Love Shack

338 points, 16 votes. Highest position on ballot: 3

Cosmic Thing
music video

Letterman show, 1989

Stephanie Tanner dances to Love Shack

Shaquille O’Neal lip syncs to Love Shack

Mike Yannacone sings and dances to Love Shack while driving

goddammit. well, i fucked that one up

I know we're all pretty tired of it by now, but still, too low!

woooow

ILM in eschewing overplayed trax shocka

Another great day. Pacing and rollout has been top notch.

I am glad that Mike Yannacone found good music on the radio.

I still enjoy Love Shack even after hearing it a thousand times, but I didn't even think of voting for it.

Huggin' and a-kissin', dancin' and a-lovin'
Wearin' next to nothing 'cause it's hot as an oven

Zero #1 votes for "Love Shack," wow

the call and response "I'm gonna jump in a crater-See ya later" is so delightful.

I really don't see the mistake with the last image, maybe I will on a computer and not on a phone.

It was posted twice.

‘Jukebox money’ is such a great phrase.

"Ain't It a Shame" is another track that didn't really stand for me until this exercise. Until TODAY, in this instance. Great!

Stand OUT

I still enjoy Love Shack even after hearing it a thousand times, but I didn't even think of voting for it.

I thought about it, but yes. One of those songs like Rock the Casbah or Tainted Love that I can't hate but can't seek out either. Keep it in reserve for something to be a good sport about at wedding receptions.

> 19. Girl From Ipanema Goes To Greenland

Watching the video made me like this one more, where they dose it with more surrealism. The tune stays in one place. It could use a "Tin roof, rusted!" slap of incongruity in there somewhere.

Nah, Ipanema is the vertiginous diva turn, it's all about build

Ain't It a Shame was my #5. Way too low! BotS has such an expansive vision of pop music

I couldn't not vote for "Love Shack", but my love for it diminished a bit over the years from overhearing it. It was the video that introduced little me to RuPaul and shocked my mother, so it still holds a special place in my heart.

“Ain’t it a Shame” really the hidden gem of their catalogue, and reason alone to check out BOTS.

I liked your Chevy Duster
I liked your brand new trailer
I liked your colour TV
But you looked at that colour TV
More than me

I never noticed the error in that first line. Plymouth made Dusters, not Chevy.

and they should know better, having cited the Plymouth Satellite in "Planet Claire"!

Oh it's so hot
Oh, it's burnin' up in here
Oh look out, it's about to erupt
Oh, my body's burning like a lava from a Mauna Loa
Let it flow!

who is ready for the top 15?

yeah!

https://i.imgur.com/MviectO.jpg
15. Dirty Back Road

342 points, 16 votes. Highest position on ballot: 3

Wild Planet
tv performance, early 1980s (anybody know details?)

this song is horny as hell

Good start! It's looking likely that all the songs from Wild Planet will place. I guess, maybe Strobe Light could miss out?