♫ Before I talk, I should read a POLL! ♪ ILM Artist Poll #93 ♪ B-52’s ♫

Still need to hear this. From the discussion in the last thread, I'm surprised it outscored BotS.

Nice touch including the back images.

BotS is better.

for those of you with a printer at home, simply print out the front and back covers, staple them together, and it's like you own the album!

Lol

https://i.imgur.com/M5rDX8C.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/T8iPuyT.jpg
3. Cosmic Thing (1989)

805 points, 24 votes. 4 first place votes.

whaaaaaaaa

was sure that'd be #1 or #2

Huge uptick in points

https://i.imgur.com/LassFXC.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/fDX5CDW.jpg
2. Wild Planet (1980)

943 points, 27 votes. 4 first place votes.

https://i.imgur.com/SSEmaO3.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/XSZ8wcE.jpg
1. The B-52’s (1979)

1012 points, 27 votes. 16 first place votes.

What I was expecting for the Top 5.

interesting bonus consideration, though:



Mesopotamia 
votes
+ Party Mix/Mesopotamia
 votes
————————————

608 (4th place)

if i ever go to a party again, and the topic of the b-52's comes up, i am totally going to be that guy who is like "have you heard mesopotamia, though?"

xp That would have made the list close to chronological, with only Cosmic Thing out of place.

https://i.imgur.com/hIdAZM4.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/uMPNP2H.jpg
40. Butterbean

85 points, 5 votes. Highest position on ballot: 10

Whammy!

Pick 'em, hull 'em, put on the steam
That's how we fix butterbeans

Wow at the images!

Looking forward to this.

OH, i almost forgot! for those who would like to have the spotify playlist handy:

https://open.spotify.com/user/weinventyou/playlist/6I6dvoE1Vd3qOKe8fvRZRD?si=8R9kcvKwSDyimJoEFnvjyw

Yes, love the first of these images!

I play in a band that does mainly blues/roots rock kinda stuff, but I nicked the "pass me a plateful, I'll be grateful" line for a song I wrote.

the Whammy! images have less of a coherent style template than the others - really the only reference is just the colors of the track title. also, some of them i spent a lot of time and i'm pretty happy with how they came out, and others the product of rush-job solo drunkdom. but hopefully the enthusiasm shines through! really had a great weekend jamming all these songs and making weird cutouts

xp thanks dorsalstop!

Don't you wait, don't you linger
Butterbean don't slip through my fingers

BUTTAH BEAN
BUTTAH BEAN

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

aaaaaaaalfreeeeed

hi!

butterbeans are tasty iirc

oh shit, i forgot to include this link for Butterbean:

Live 1983
i'm not linking to the actual songs, because they're all easy enough to find using your favorite streaming service, or by walking over to your cd collection or whatever. but if anyone has any cool videos or performances or whatever, please feel free to link to them (but please don't embed the actual videos in the thread - broken youtube videos will make this thread look like garbage in the future)

butterbean must have been fun as hell to perform

https://i.imgur.com/eRG9ZCp.jpg
39. Throw That Beat In The Garbage Can

92 points, 5 votes. Highest position on ballot: 7

Mesopotamia
Performance on Guiding Light, the soap opera (?!?!)

seriously, check out the guiding light performance, it is amazing. was that a thing on soap operas back in the day, to feature full performances by new wave bands?

no IT WAS NOT

Brilliant image.

it reminds me of that Incredible Hulk episode with Mackenzie Phillips as a Ziggy Stardust-like androgyne...in 1978. These shows were at least four years behind the times.

i mean, it's not even the regular band cameo kind of thing where they occasionally get featured while the camera focuses on the characters, who are usually holding a conversation over the top of the music. it's the opposite - it's just a straight up b-52's music video, with a few occasional shots of the actors. i love it

These images are amazing! So excited for this roll-out

hahaha take that beats!

thanks bunny (and hi bunny!)

OMG that performance! In a soap opera!

https://i.imgur.com/oFMshA8.jpg
38. Queen Of Las Vegas

96 points, 6 votes. Highest position on ballot: 14

Whammy!
alt version (outtake from Mesopotamia sessions)

kind of a weird photo (she kinda looks like tom cruise there), but i liked the reflection

https://i.imgur.com/l1lCDp7.jpg

Haha I hadn't recognized her!

yeah, plus it's possible that britney is the queen of las vegas. it's all very subjective

https://i.imgur.com/5Orcd8C.jpg
37. Runnin’ Around

99 points, 5 votes. Highest position on ballot: 4

Wild Planet
Live 1978

I think you got it right with Céline. Your images are amazing and super fun!

QOLV = as monolithic as I find Whammy I kind of love one of the central ideas, which is to re-imagine "52 Girls" as coldwave and then use that as a template for a few almost singer-songwriter-type songs about counterfeiting and gambling

(& that doesn't even get into the Mesopotamia gersion, which I actually like better. It's so fervorous!)

^ totally dig this notion.

I voted for at least three of this first four!

"Runnin' Around" hadn't really stood out for me before this exercise, oddly.

images are so good i almost can't take in the results, karl you are spoiling us

yeah, plus it's possible that britney is the queen of las vegas. it's all very subjective

Bobbie Gentry is the queen, all others are residents of principalities

https://i.imgur.com/vbapyDE.jpg
36. Deep Sleep

105 points, 5 votes. 1 first place vote.

Mesopotamia
♫ Walking backwards into the sea /
Bodies, angels, like musical peaks♫

I am completely in love with "Song For A New Generation" right now

sorry, Future

how did I completely miss this

― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, September 18, 2020 7:45 AM (five hours ago)

me too as i made the voting thread very loud: Surprise! POLL! Yeah, we just thought we'd drop in! - ILM Artist Poll #93 - The B-52’s (vote until November 10, 2018)

then my dad got sick and i had to postpone the poll, eventually Karl Malone stepped in and took over. so what i'm saying is voting did stay open for longer than normal. hope you have fun reading this poll. i'm going to put on this Spotify right now.

i'm sure this is posted up-thread somewhere but since this bumped today and i'm cursing YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WSenc2Z5OA

For Ruth Bader Ginsburg!

Keith Bennett B-52's Home Movie Collection

Hosted by Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection, UGA Libraries

... On Thursday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m., another Facebook Live event features artist Keith Bennett, who will discuss his B-52s home movie collection from the 1970s and 1980s. In his home movies, Bennett chronicled the early rise of the Athens band on Super 8 camera, as the boyfriend and then husband of singer Cindy Wilson. Viewers will see his footage, now digitized and housed at the Brown Media Archives, featuring a behind-the-scenes look at the band as well as early performances in Central Park in New York and the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, as well as international tours.

https://www.facebook.com/events/793334338150287

won't be attending that e-event, but if anyone else does i'm curious ! too bad super-8 doesn't have sound...

This was... okayish. An hour of grainy, silent home movies grew wearisome.

agreed ... the touristy bits from Japan, Australia, and Paris could have been anyone's home movies

some of the show clips were interesting but the lack of sound was frustrating ... Pylon!

the fun parts for us were Cindy's high school "art films" and the party at the Georgian Hotel, where we recognized a few familiar Athens faces ... also the street scenes where they're loading the car to drive to their first NYC show

bombed, crashers getting bombed