The B-52's: their legacy/influence today

That's the best misinterpretation I've ever heard!

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

..at this point, the line between a B-52s influence and a Yoko Ono influence becomes blurry.

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...

14C 062-64775

This is a Greek pressing. Surely this was pressed in other countries as well, maybe even in the U.S.

Also - dare I mention early Bis has a bunch of the B-52's silliness/energy, although obviously not as guitar-based.

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.

do you believe everything you read?

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...

tank top aggro boy band choreography
vs.
uniformed be-headset-ed lawnmowers in sunglasses

it has guitar almost immediately, then vocals, so I guess not

fortunatehazel, you have solved the riddle of why I don't like Stereolab anywhere near as much as I expect I should.

La Lupita do a song called "Ja Ja Ja" which is a wonderfully shameless B-52s rip, only imagine if the B-52s singing in Spanish.

And I love the line in rock Lobster that goes 'everybody had matching towels!'

Nothing against the B-52’s, but I can’t imagine “getting intimate” to any part of any their songs!

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 - Loveland
7:45 vs. 5:48 - Cake
5:46 vs. 4:30 - Throw That Beat In The Garbage Can

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),

I imagine Schneider breaking through the door like the Kool-Aid guy, holding a dead cat.

thread delivers

I don't know about 'getting intimate', but come on, 'WHERE'S MY TELEPHONE?!'

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

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-b-52s-the-b-52s/

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— Laura Levine (@LauraLevinePix) April 20, 2019

dis is good
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/15/arts/music/b52s-influences-playlist.html

Yeah that is good fun. But no room for Lou Christie & the Tammys?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g0LwVgTiVA

Whiney did that NY Times thing