POLL if you want to...POLL around the world: The B-52's Cosmic Thing

I don't listen to cover bands or the radio so overexposure is not really an issue for me

― Whats with all the littering? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:31 PM (22 minutes ago)

do you live in a world where sounds are emitted from TVs movies and stores?

yeah i was abt to say, '89 was only the first year CDs outsold vinyl

it was the 80s. lots of people still had turntables.
yeah, but doogie was kind of ahead of his time, wasn't he? Seems like he'd at least have a discman or something.
what else did the doog have in his record collection do you think?

Doogie was ten years ahead of the vinyl fetishists. Cool dude.

it was the 80s. lots of people still had turntables.

That was part of my joke.

what a horribly formed etc

do you live in a world where sounds are emitted from TVs movies and stores?

not really

what movies was Love Shack used in?

simmer down shakey love shack is great but roam is more great

that "glove slap" song from the Simpsons (to the tune of Love Shack) is funny.

Roam is allright but it doesn't feature Fred, who is hands-down the best feature of any B-52s song

The best feature: the girls' harmonies. The second best: the guitars (Ricky's or Keith's).

nothing wrong with LS, but to my mind it is the fourth best single from this album (tho all four are admittedly brilliant). <3<3<3 the guitar solo in it.

I need to listen to the other album trax some more. it's been too long & I'm really liking the sound of "topaz."

# "Cold Case" (1 episode, 2006)
- Lonely Hearts (2006) TV episode (performer: "Love Shack")
# SingStar Rocks! (2006) (VG) (performer: "Love Shack")
# Cathouse 2: Back in the Saddle (2003) (TV) (performer: "Love Shack")
# "The Simpsons" (1 episode, 1999)
- E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) (1999) TV episode (performer: "Glove Slap")
# Rising Sun (1993) (performer: "LOVE SHACK")
# Frankie and Johnny (1991) (performer: "LOVE SHACK")
... aka "Frankie & Johnny" - USA (poster title)
# "Ferris Bueller" (1 episode, 1990)
- Grace Under Pressure (1990) TV episode (performer: "Love Shack")
# "Full House" (1 episode, 1990)
- Our Very First Telethon (1990) TV episode (performer: "Love Shack")

nothing since 2006, Roam is preferred from then on TELLINGLY

That was part of my joke.

that's as may be, but tv's doogie howser listened to college radio & played vinyl, it was very much a character decision. tv's doogie howser could listen on anything he liked & he listened on vinyl TELLINGLY

still love Love Shack but yeah probably a bit overplayed to talk much about. Channel Z seems like such a weird choice for a 1st single given the monster hits that would come next (admittedly I've always hated that song)

come aaaawn this shit is unstoppable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWEfmCvu8R8

LOOK: there is a awesome riff

BEHOLD: verses! so much shorter than the chorus!

WITNESS: dope-ass hand clappin!

GET A LOAD OF: Kate Pierson absolutely is just 100% singing her fucking balls off on that second verse!

^this shit right here

also video features fred and it is, like, the video era? so.

is that kate or cindy singing the second verse?

xpost oops shame on me iirc that's cindy wilson rocking the fuck out of the verses

i haven't heard this in so long i got all excited

saul wright, roger, here is a great kate song, from the (admittedly weaker) follow-up, Good Stuff: Revolution Earth

(could only find the live version sorry foax)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXnmzVqA40o

Good Stuff is totally Cosmic Thing Pt. II, down to the producers and mix. Songwriting isn't as good, but still worth owning -- and you can pick up a used copy easily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KyhesAa-DA

there's something about this video...it's nothing spectacular but it captures that vibe that's been kind of pointed out...the whole end-of-the-New-Wave thing, as well as the whole smiling-through-the-tears thing...it's really great

as a kid i loved the Cosmic Thing singles but Good Stuff was the first one they put out after I started buying CDs, so for years that was the only B-52s album I had. haven't put it on in a long while but I'd probably still like it.

I'd forgotten there was a Stipe cameo in that video.

I remember thinking that "Tell It Like It T-I-S" was such a profound shark jump that I almost completely disowned their entire back catalog. I'm glad I didn't, as that would have been really silly, but still: not a fan of that song/era.

Good Stuff is totally Cosmic Thing Pt. II

MINUS Cindy Wilson, though, which makes as big a difference as Ricky Wilson not being there.

"Is That You Mo-Dean?" is pretty good.

(xpost) ^I wz just about to post this but then accidentally demolished my browser window somehow...

(about Cindy Wilson's absence making Good Stuff seem weaker)

meanwhile, I'm listening to "Love Shack" right now, and as far as overplayed songs go, this is about the cream of the crop...

pretty sure that people who hate "love Shack" eat live kittens

NOM NOM

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/2/24/49_Eat_Kittens.jpg

oh how good is roam !
completely forgot about that song.

damn these kittens are tasty

well I already KNEW you guys ate kittens, that's what led me to form the hypothesis in the first place

oh and btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leohcvmf8kM

That video reminds me of the huge adolescent crush I had on Kate P (& also Cindy, but to a slightly lesser extent).

I still have crushes on both of them right now.

oh Cindy looks totally doable in the Deadbeat Club video...

Supercalifragiwhata outfit you got on!

Good Stuff is totally Cosmic Thing Pt. II, down to the producers and mix. Songwriting isn't as good, but still worth owning -- and you can pick up a used copy easily.

Good Stuff is for sure worth owning if you're a B's fan (1 cent on amazon,) but I don't think it hits any of the highs of Cosmic Thing, and some of the lows (The World's Green Laughter, Bad Influence) are pretty low.

Maybe I'm alone, but "Good Stuff" is at least as good as "Deadbeat Club."

Yeah, I'm not feeling that, but I do have an extended mix of Good Stuff with added horns that's really good.

I think the first four songs on the album, plus Mo-Dean, are pretty good, but second half really trails off.

Oh, but is Mo-dean the one that ends repeating "Astral Projector" ad infinitum? That's kind of annoying.

Maybe I'm alone, but "Good Stuff" is at least as good as "Deadbeat Club."

I sort of agree with this but I am not really a fan of "Deadbeat Club".

"Good Stuff" is much, much better than "Deadbeat Club." Nobody's dangin' on the Deadbeats.

Oh, but is Mo-dean the one that ends repeating "Astral Projector" ad infinitum? That's kind of annoying.

Maybe, but I like the massed vocals that join in along the way.

Funplex is better than Good Stuff.

Agreed.

Okay, I relistened to Good Stufflast night, and some of the stuff I thought I didn't like much was better than I remembered. I STILL don't own Funplex and need to get.