― Jason, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
(See how I'm baiting a contrarian to come along and disagree?)
― Nitsuh, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Geoff, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
US/UK cultural equivalences: B-52s / Adam And The Ants??
― Tom, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Andy, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Arthur, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
No. I have no problem with the B-52s, but saying that is like saying "A Regular Ass Candy Wrapper / The Candy Wrapper With The Golden Ticket??"
― Ally, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― David Gunnip, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― scott, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nick, Monday, 10 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― palpable, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
In any event, I'm listening to Nude on the Moon right now, so REVIVE!
And look.....even Killing Joke approves! (check out Youth's shirt!)
http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/youth/youth15.JPG
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 20:12 (twenty years ago) link
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― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 20:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 20:41 (twenty years ago) link
CLASSIC
― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 20:47 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:11 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:15 (twenty years ago) link
This description is so classic, it hurt my hips.
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:27 (twenty years ago) link
My answer is stupid, but: Los Fabulosos Cadillacs.
― Cacaman Flores, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 01:49 (twenty years ago) link
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― Shaeky Mo Collier, Monday, 18 April 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 18 April 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Al (sitcom), Monday, 18 April 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Ricky Wilson was essential.
Of course, the story is sad (literally speaking) immediately after, so I can't blame the band for Bouncing.. not being up to par (though I love "Summer Of Love").. but I only like 3 songs from Cosmic Thing and can't stand the rest and what followed.
the Fred Schneider solo record Fred from 1996 is awesome, however. (and I have Martin Mushrush to thank for turning my head to it.)
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 18 April 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh and if I can make anybody feel old here, then :)
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Just Fred is indeed great. letting Fred rage over Albini production with backup from Six Finger Sattelite and Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet was an inspired move.
― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Good to see love for Whammy!, which often seems to be overlooked. But now I'm very worried about my version of Mesopatamia.
xpost: Haha, I just listened to that goofy white funk on Gabriel's So for the first time since I was a child. Woo-hoo!
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
It's really grand. Both albums, actually!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:39 (nineteen 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 (four weeks ago) link
otm
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 March 2024 04:17 (four weeks 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 (four weeks ago) link
Waiting for bus number 99Goin to the store for hot dogs and wine
― brimstead, Sunday, 24 March 2024 15:13 (four weeks 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 (four weeks 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 (four weeks ago) link
yeah, that album was made for cutout bins.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 March 2024 16:48 (four weeks 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 (four weeks 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 (four weeks 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 (four weeks 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 (four weeks ago) link
nice, thanks, I do love extended 80s/90s mixes
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 24 March 2024 19:29 (four weeks ago) link
I like the Good Stuff remix too
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:06 (four weeks 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 (four weeks 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 (four weeks 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 (four weeks 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 (four weeks 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 (four weeks ago) link
Revisiting Whammy a few days ago, I was struck by how tinny and crudely programmed those sequencers and drums are. The songs are okay.
By contrast, Bouncing Off the Satellites bounce off the walls. "Ain't It a Shame" is their Secret Best Song. Sinead O'Connor killed it a decade ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUF5mrKUOVA
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 March 2024 21:08 (four weeks ago) link
can't be doing with any version of that song that doesn't have the Galaga samples
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Sunday, 24 March 2024 21:23 (four weeks ago) link
I totally love Whammy. Alfred, have you heard Plastics? I’ve written this elsewhere but the second time I saw the B-52s Plastics toured with them, and I’ve long thought the “tinny” rhythms on Whammy may have been Plastics-inspired. That period after Wild Planet that yielded Party Mix and Mesopotamia they were obviously casting about for what to do next.
I thought Bouncing off the Satellites was a minor letdown on release, but I’ve come to love that as well. It lacks anything that rocks me like “Trism” or “Queen of Las Vegas” though.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:00 (four weeks ago) link
…which is crazy because Plastics were certainly inspired by the B-52s; Whammy seems to me like returning the favor.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:11 (four weeks ago) link
I think I've said it before, but I love the Mesopotamia outtake version of Queen of Las Vegas (from the Nude on the Moon anthology):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4SAclO9JAE
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:12 (four weeks ago) link
Absolutely, it’s wonderful. I wish there were more outtakes like that, but there really aren’t.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:16 (four weeks ago) link
yo I like The Plastics!! I have their Rough Trade 7"
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:16 (four weeks ago) link
Yay! I often use ilx threads to decide what to play. This afternoon: Good Stuff, Whammy, and Welcome Back Plastics.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:26 (four weeks ago) link
Good Stuff needed to be 20 minutes shorter, resequenced, and preferably done with other producers.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:29 (four weeks ago) link
That "Queen..." outtake is what I heard in my head that the Whammy version doesn't produce.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 March 2024 23:06 (four weeks ago) link
i completely forgot bouncing off the satellites even existed until we were listening to a b-52s mix in the car the other week and Wig came on. What a great song.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 24 March 2024 23:48 (four weeks ago) link