― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― dude fresdertre, Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― DOQQUN (donut), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:48 (eighteen 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
That's the line I use on OKCupid.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
Is it really that scarce, though? I mean, it's less than ten years old!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
Things can be scarce the second they’re released, if there are few of them and any demand exists. That release is out of print, and one single customer decided $46 was a price he was willing to pay one single seller that was asking it. These are the facts we have, do with them what you will!
― Betting Eighty Hams (sic), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART-Y!
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 27 September 2018 01:34 (five years ago) link
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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), Thursday, 27 September 2018 03:19 (five years ago) link
Nothing against the B-52’s, but I can’t imagine “getting intimate” to any part of any their songs!
― growing up in publix (morrisp), Thursday, 27 September 2018 03:43 (five years ago) link
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 - Loveland7:45 vs. 5:48 - Cake5:46 vs. 4:30 - Throw That Beat In The Garbage Can
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 27 September 2018 03:49 (five years ago) link
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles),
I imagine Schneider breaking through the door like the Kool-Aid guy, holding a dead cat.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 September 2018 10:41 (five years ago) link
thread delivers
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 September 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
I don't know about 'getting intimate', but come on, 'WHERE'S MY TELEPHONE?!'
― campreverb, Thursday, 27 September 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
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
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 8 October 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-b-52s-the-b-52s/
― piscesx, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
The rains have stopped, the stream out back is rushing past the cabin, and Kate Pierson is on my deck filming and calling the wild turkeys, who are gathered under the trees being courted… https://t.co/1OqqTfzbL6— Laura Levine (@LauraLevinePix) April 20, 2019
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 April 2019 09:40 (five 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