― Da Na Not! (donut), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
I strongly disagree. While I never want to hear "Love Shack" again, there are so many great songs on Cosmic Thing: the title track, "Roam," "Deadbeat Club," "Junebug," etc.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
"leagacy/influence" a blind alley though
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Saturday, 4 March 2006 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Sunday, 5 March 2006 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan ("Junebug"!!!) Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 5 March 2006 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link
And no, I'm not a member of The VCs.
― yer mam! (yer mam!), Sunday, 5 March 2006 00:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 5 March 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Sunday, 5 March 2006 02:08 (eighteen years ago) link
also, re: Love Shack, as a kid I'd hear it on the radio and thought she was saying "Ten months... pregnant!"
― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Sunday, 5 March 2006 02:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Drew Lichtenberg, Sunday, 5 March 2006 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link
That's the best misinterpretation I've ever heard!
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 5 March 2006 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― naus (Robert T), Sunday, 5 March 2006 06:17 (eighteen years ago) link
TR: What is it that you say in "Love Shack?"
CW: Tin roof rusted!
TR: What is that?
CW: It's just a description of the Love Shack, just nonsense that I made up when we were jamming, and the rest of the band thought it was so funny, we stuck it in there. Actually, in the South, they have metal roofs that tend to rust.
-from a 1989 B-52's interview with Tom Rubnitz
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Sunday, 5 March 2006 06:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 5 March 2006 06:39 (eighteen years ago) link
..at this point, the line between a B-52s influence and a Yoko Ono influence becomes blurry.
― Da Na Not! (donut), Sunday, 5 March 2006 08:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― snowballing (snowballing), Sunday, 5 March 2006 09:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Da Na Not! (donut), Sunday, 5 March 2006 09:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― retrogurl, Sunday, 5 March 2006 09:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Da Na Not! (donut), Sunday, 5 March 2006 10:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― grapple (grapple), Sunday, 5 March 2006 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― grapple (grapple), Sunday, 5 March 2006 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― twizzler, Sunday, 5 March 2006 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 5 March 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link
There's a good Lois Maffeo interview in the Angry Women In Rock book where she describes the heavy influence that the early Rough Trade bands had on Olympia. Also note the (Oly-based) Kill Rock Stars reissues of those bands. So while I could see a bit of the B-52's the Liliput/Ess. Logic axis seems like way more of a reference point.
The only thing I've heard lately that reminds me of that great B-52's sound is the Tammys' "Egyptian Shumba", which predates them by quite a bit.
I guess Chicks On Speed might qualify...
― sleeve, away, Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Da Na Not! (donut), Sunday, 5 March 2006 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Da Na Not! (donut), Sunday, 5 March 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 5 March 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 5 March 2006 20:09 (eighteen years ago) link
14C 062-64775
This is a Greek pressing. Surely this was pressed in other countries as well, maybe even in the U.S.
― Da Na Not! (donut), Sunday, 5 March 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Da Na Not! (donut), Sunday, 5 March 2006 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 5 March 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 5 March 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 5 March 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 5 March 2006 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 5 March 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Also - dare I mention early Bis has a bunch of the B-52's silliness/energy, although obviously not as guitar-based.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 5 March 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Aside from "Planet Claire," which is almost in its own category, "Dirty Back Road" is for me the perfect B-52s song.. driving, up-tempo, harmonies that go on and on, gliding over the bumpiness of the beat like they're cushioned with shock absorbers.. and those clean guitars like cool water.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 5 March 2006 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
do you believe everything you read?
― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 5 March 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 5 March 2006 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 5 March 2006 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 5 March 2006 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Moon In the Sky, Party Gone Out of Bounds, Trism, Bushfire, Junebug, Topaz...
Has anyone heard that new song "Pump" they're doing for the L Word? I bet it's not going to be pretty...
― LoneNut, Monday, 6 March 2006 01:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Monday, 6 March 2006 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 6 March 2006 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Da Na Not! (donut), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:32 (eighteen years ago) link
realized I no longer own a copy of Cosmic Thing (I had it on cassette and never re-bought it cuz it was everywhere for awhile) and yet grabbed all the pre-CT stuff on vinyl for a couple bucks apiece way back when. such a great discography.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
To be clear, I dislike the dull manner in which Wilson and Strickland program the drum machines, not the use of drum machines.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
No I get that. They *are* kind of brittle and chirpy and Casio-like, but I dig 'em. I'm listening to the album today for the first time in a long while.
― Freddy "Boom Boom" QAnon (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
whammy rules
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
Wow, I was about to link Shakey to this, but screw that. What the actual fuck, though? I bought that thing brand new at Barnes + Noble like two or three years ago for $7.99. No idea why it's gotten so expensive in the interim.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
Often when things become unavailable, scarcity drives up price.
― Betting Eighty Hams (sic), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
That's the line I use on OKCupid.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
Is it really that scarce, though? I mean, it's less than ten years old!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
Things can be scarce the second they’re released, if there are few of them and any demand exists. That release is out of print, and one single customer decided $46 was a price he was willing to pay one single seller that was asking it. These are the facts we have, do with them what you will!
― Betting Eighty Hams (sic), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART-Y!
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 27 September 2018 01:34 (five years ago) link
SUR-PRIIIIIIIZE
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, September 26, 2018 11:37 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^that's one of my all-time favorite album openings.
― how's life, Wednesday, September 26, 2018 11:44 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I used to date a big B-52's fan who had a bunch of their albums running in her CD changer, and this intro had a knack for popping up awkwardly during intimate moments.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 27 September 2018 03:19 (five years ago) link
Nothing against the B-52’s, but I can’t imagine “getting intimate” to any part of any their songs!
― growing up in publix (morrisp), Thursday, 27 September 2018 03:43 (five years ago) link
Re: The David Byrne mix of "Mesopotamia" discussion from 12 years back, the UK vinyl Byrne mix has longer versions of 3 tracks:
8:33 vs. 5:00 - Loveland7:45 vs. 5:48 - Cake5:46 vs. 4:30 - Throw That Beat In The Garbage Can
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 27 September 2018 03:49 (five years ago) link
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles),
I imagine Schneider breaking through the door like the Kool-Aid guy, holding a dead cat.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 September 2018 10:41 (five years ago) link
thread delivers
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 September 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
I don't know about 'getting intimate', but come on, 'WHERE'S MY TELEPHONE?!'
― campreverb, Thursday, 27 September 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
so since we were talking about doing the sex to B52s - there is a sex scene in the 1990 volleyball movie Sideout scored to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmQYJRNG5bM
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 8 October 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-b-52s-the-b-52s/
― piscesx, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
The rains have stopped, the stream out back is rushing past the cabin, and Kate Pierson is on my deck filming and calling the wild turkeys, who are gathered under the trees being courted… https://t.co/1OqqTfzbL6— Laura Levine (@LauraLevinePix) April 20, 2019
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 April 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
dis is goodhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/15/arts/music/b52s-influences-playlist.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
Yeah that is good fun. But no room for Lou Christie & the Tammys?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g0LwVgTiVA
― everything, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
Whiney did that NY Times thing
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 03:32 (four years ago) link