― 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
tank top aggro boy band choreography vs. uniformed be-headset-ed lawnmowers in sunglasses
― Da Na Not! (donut), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Da Na Not! (donut), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:37 (eighteen years ago) link
it has guitar almost immediately, then vocals, so I guess not
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 6 March 2006 06:37 (eighteen years ago) link
fortunatehazel, you have solved the riddle of why I don't like Stereolab anywhere near as much as I expect I should.
― scriblerus (mike lynch), Monday, 6 March 2006 07:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― archipelago (archipelago), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bashful (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 6 March 2006 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 6 March 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
And I love the line in rock Lobster that goes 'everybody had matching towels!'
― Mestema (davidcorp), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Da Na Not! (donut), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shelly Winters Death Clip (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
AND, i think the hypnotic throb of "Dirty Back Road" is almost Köln-style minimal techno. just imagine a 10 minute instrumental version!
― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Da Na Not! (donut), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― dude fresdertre, Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:28 (seventeen 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