This description is so classic, it hurt my hips.
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My answer is stupid, but: Los Fabulosos Cadillacs.
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― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 18 April 2005 23:51 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh and if I can make anybody feel old here, then :)
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:05 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:19 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
It's really grand. Both albums, actually!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― f-a-b-o-l-o-u-s (adamwest), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 02:04 (eighteen years ago) link
I'd say Good Stuff is not their worst album. That would be Bouncing Off The Satelites.
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― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link
"Planet Claire" and "Rock Lobster" are classic in the extreme. The vocal on "Planet Claire" begins like two or three minutes in, and Fred is such a delightful spaz. It is a deeply weird track.
Hearing the B52s reminds me YET AGAIN about how rampantly eclectic was the mainstream pop music in my youth.
I mean, one still hears people saying that the 80s were a time of cookie-cutter bubblegum; of Reagan-era bright conformity. But right there on the top 40 as beamed by Casey Kasem into the American heartland, there were some strange-ass records being made--records that I doubt you could get in front of the youth of today.
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― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link
DAN OTM!!!! I'm shocked to hear someone else feel that way. Never heard anybody mention it before and its totally a fave.
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― fred schneider's chrysler, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 02:38 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm wondering if that 1989 UK compilation Dance This Mess Around has any tracks from the original Mesopotamia... hmmmm.
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh, and obv. CLASSIC!, at least until Ricky's death. And therever after, presumably. (I've only heard the singles.) My fave: Wild Planet. (Partly out of nostalgia, since "Strobe Light" was playing when I first...nevermind...)
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― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 06:24 (eighteen years ago) link
I like the Good Stuff remix too
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:06 (four days 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 days 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 days 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.
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― Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:40 (four days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days ago) link