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

"Shimmering sadness" is OTM. It's a somewhat back-loaded album in my mind. Indeed I struggle to remember much about "Cosmic Thing" and "Dry Country" until they're playing, fairly or not. I'm invariably looking forward to that luvly melancholy final act of "Topaz"/"Follow Your Bliss". I've taken to interpreting "FYB" as a wordless tribute to Ricky Wilson, further entrenching the sadness.

overall it does such a great job of folding that sadness into something joyous, or recognizing that sadness and loss, or growing older and inevitably distant from the days of the deadbeat club, don't mean the end of joy, or that those days don't still inform something beautiful and precious about who you are. in that way the whole piece is a tribute. except maybe channel z i guess, but hey.

Expanded Remaster In June: http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2019/05/14/b-52s-cosmic-thing-30th-anniversary-reissue/

anyone want to justify the "roam" music video?

anyone want to justify your mom?

wanting. needing. waiting.

I now like "Deadbeat Club" a lot more than I used to

This album is really, really perfect

I've fallen for 'Deadbeat Club' so hard in recent years that I made it the subject of a Pop Con paper. They release it the same year as Pet Shop Boys' "Being Boring," which covers similar ground.

OH LIGHTNING, STRIKE TWICE
HEY EVERYBODY, BASK IN THE AFTERGLOW

i love that topaz was the #13 b-52's song of ALL TIME on our poll a while back

and actually, since you're both here, i thought this was a nice quote:

DJP's enthusiasm for "Topaz" a decade ago taught me to love it.

Strickland's slink guitar sounds marvelous.

― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),

deadbeat club is amazing. love this album.

Great Moments in Vocals: Cindy exclaiming "I Want The World To Change For Me!" in "Channel Z".

otm

oddly enough i had "Wig" from BOtS stuck in my head an hour ago

there are these commercials for a hotel chain I keep getting which has like an EDM version of "Roam" in it, but it's completely re-recorded and completely replaces the groove, it sounds really weird. I always thought the most distinctive feature of that track was the harmony vocals, now I think it's actually the rhythm