― 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
― DOQQUN (donut), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
http://mobile.theonion.com/articles/honey-im-not-going-to-stand-here-and-debate-the-me,18952/
I love The Onion...
― NYCNative, Friday, 11 February 2011 07:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Ricky Wilson's guitar playing is really unique and has a very minimalist perfection on those first two B-52s albums. The arrangements on the tunes are really clever, mostly just using a simple organ, key bass, the 3 vocals and maybe a guitar over dub. The songs are sparse as there isn't a whole lot of sustained chords, it's all these spikey simple melodies bouncing off each other. Listening to The B-52s now and hearing all of the octave chords playing simple melodies brings out a textural similarity to Sonic Youth and Fugazi, as they use that same type of chording and phrasing all over their tunes.
― earlnash, Saturday, 19 March 2016 04:26 (eight years ago) link
Ricky Wilson's one of my favorite guitarists, period.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 19 March 2016 04:40 (eight years ago) link
Not just some vague "favorite," I'm talking like top 5.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 19 March 2016 04:41 (eight years ago) link
don't know if it is considered a part of their legacy, but to me they are without a shadow of a doubt the funniest band.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 19 March 2016 04:58 (eight years ago) link
this is the thread where i learned about ILM's obsession with the B-52's debut album (the very first Acclaimed Music poll that i ran): ttp://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=92483
― Bee OK, Saturday, 19 March 2016 05:59 (eight years ago) link
try that again: Acclaimed Music Top 25 from 1979 poll
Imperial Teen - "Ivanka," "Baby," "Teacher's Pet" from the album On, but every album has a few.
Check out B-52's contemporaries The Cosmopolitans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skNId-8g17A
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 19 March 2016 06:12 (eight years ago) link
Did the B-52s do any gigs with The Cramps? They would have had to, right?
The Cosmopolitans sound quite a bit like the B-52s, but there is something oddly about the dual female vocals that reminds me of Stereolab. Groovy.
― earlnash, Saturday, 19 March 2016 07:14 (eight years ago) link
Whenever I play early B-52s these days, I'm surprised how much they engender the same response for me as The Fall - jagged twang, bemused alienation, the perfect non sequitur. One spits where the other squeals with delight, but still. I imagine a face swap of "Mesopotamia" and "Bingo Master's Break Out".
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Saturday, 19 March 2016 09:56 (eight years ago) link
Rank if you want to! Rank around the world!
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
Solid list; I disagree with none of it.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
Too harsh on Whammy! More that half of it is excellent, fun jams.
Where would you place Mesopotamia & Party Mix if they were separated? To me Mesopotamia is one of their best, Party Mix a bit of a drag.
― everything, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
SUR-PRIIIIIIIZE
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
^that's one of my all-time favorite album openings.
― how's life, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
slide ct down to 4, move whammy up to 5 and i'm good, but i just can't accept cosmic thing at 1 or 2 or 3. i do like the props to strickland and that's persuasive enough to get me to listen and think again to ct.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
^everything OTM
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
Cosmic Thing is a great, great record, but the debut was a defining moment in my life. And I love Whammy, drum machines and all. I'd probably go debut, Wild Planet, Cosmic Thing, Whammy, and then the rest jockeying around.
― Freddy "Boom Boom" QAnon (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
realized I no longer own a copy of Cosmic Thing (I had it on cassette and never re-bought it cuz it was everywhere for awhile) and yet grabbed all the pre-CT stuff on vinyl for a couple bucks apiece way back when. such a great discography.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
To be clear, I dislike the dull manner in which Wilson and Strickland program the drum machines, not the use of drum machines.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
No I get that. They *are* kind of brittle and chirpy and Casio-like, but I dig 'em. I'm listening to the album today for the first time in a long while.
― Freddy "Boom Boom" QAnon (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
whammy rules
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
Wow, I was about to link Shakey to this, but screw that. What the actual fuck, though? I bought that thing brand new at Barnes + Noble like two or three years ago for $7.99. No idea why it's gotten so expensive in the interim.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
Often when things become unavailable, scarcity drives up price.
― Betting Eighty Hams (sic), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link