The B-52's - Funplex
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Free Music Review: Funplex indeed!
Hit: 4 Stars
These guys and gals haven't lost a step despite the years of inactivity. The girls' harmonies and Fred Schneider's loopy shouting that passes for singing still sound great over danceable beats. This album is one you can put on at a party and let it play. Has anyone less talented than Fred every been a mainstay of a popular band? Yet it works.Free Music Review: Bs R Back In Town!
Hit: 5 Stars
Yes!!! The Bs are back in town!!!... It seems a very long lifetime, but this could be either the 1993 release or the other way around... The sound it's like if they have been playing all the time, the voices sound like always... The sound that make them famous and unbeatables. Funplex is a masterpiece for these 21st century and believe me, it will set a new high for the B-52's and for the music of the century, too. Have Fun!!!Free Music Review: Funky is Ageless
Hit: 5 Stars
For me, Jane Austen and the B-52s are equally important. Austen wrote only six novels; luckily they are rich enough to sustain me for a lifetime. The B-52s oeuvre is, for me, equally rich, but it's been difficult to reconcile myself to the ostensible fact that the B-52s, like Austen, were forever done.
Funplex proves that they aren't finished yet. The previous albums explore the impacts that we humans have on the natural world, hope that we will learn to co-exist with fellow earth creatures (as well as beings from other dimensions), our incredible egotism despite our tiny place in the cosmos, and express exuberent joyfulness in being an embodied human.
Funplex explores the evolution of human sexuality as we age in body if not in spirit, but also hints at the dangers of becoming "fully eroticized beings" who conspicuously consume at the Funplex as our non-erotic ties grow weaker and weaker. Funplex pokes fun at the cult of the individual and points darkly to the culmination of individualism. I love it!
Thanks B-52s for proving that we can still be funky, gorgeous, and get our groove on even as we grow older and wiser.
Free Music Review: Hello, 1987
Hit: 4 Stars
Well, it's 20 or so years on, but the B-52s are still ready to party all night. That's a good thing. Sort of. Personally, I would have liked a little more diversity in these songs and, especially, a sound somewhat more distinct from all that has gone before in their history. But they are what they are and on whatever terms, it's good to have them back. Juliet of the Spirits is sublime and the party peaks at the end with three great tracks, Too Much to Think About, Dancing Now and Keep the Party Going. Let's keep those beehives in place for another couple decades! Free Music Review: Better than expected
Hit: 3 Stars
After 16 years between albums, I really didn't expect this to be very good. I was pleasantly surprised. This is a solid, fun album that sounds like it could have come out one year after Good Stuff. In terms of B-52's albums, I'd put this on par with Whammy. Better than Good Stuff or Bouncing Off The Satellites. Not quite up to par with their debut or Cosmic Thing. If you are a fan, you'll enjoy this.