The B-52's - Good Stuff

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Free Music Review: Good Stuff? Great or Cosmic Stuff is more like it
Hit: 5 Stars

"Tell It Like It T-I-Is" shows that Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, and Keith Strickland have not lost their touch. It's one of their environmental songs, as they tell people to maintain the balance of nature, and ask them, "Can you feel the movement/Hear the untamed melody/Tell it like it is and was and.Always should be-yeah!"

"Hot Pants Explosion" is a mischievous jamming dance song about a girl's hot pants, Check out these lyrics: "You burned a hole in my mind/When I saw your cute behind/Wearin' those hot pants." And how's this for a request: "If you would be so kind
Put on those red hot pants and take a stroll through my mind."

The title track is about a guy who's "got sincerity that's bonifide/And a heart so fine it's certified". That's the good stuff referred to. He even tells the girl "The big dipper sure ain't big enough/To hold all of your dang good stuff."

"Is That You Mo-Dean?" is a quirky story about a guy who gets kidnapped by a UFO and is returned to earth 987 years later, by which times all his friends have died.

"The Earth's Green Laughter" is a cool instrumental with jungle sounds, mostly birds, woodpeckers, thunder, native South Americans, and rain falling infused within, and could be another in their pro-environmental songs like "Juicy Jungle." Another wordless wonder in the tradition of "Follow Your Bliss."

The mid-paced "Breezin'" with Fred and Katie, is another one of their positive affirming songs. They're working on a positive vibe.

The message about "Vision Of A Kiss" doesn't require much thought. However, how's this line: "Every time you speak/A pearl falls in my cup/You turn away, the pearl melts before I drink it up"?

Big towns, narrow minds, wide mouths, and open season on new ideas are the "Bad Influence"s mentioned. "Free mind, free soul/It's time for liberation to flow/Free mind, free soul/It's time so let your future unfold" as Katie sings. "If love's a grenade, I'll pull the pin" is a telling and explosive, pardon the pun, lyric. Another jamming song.

So is this follow-up to Cosmic Thing cosmic or just a "Good Thing"? Well, engaging tracks such as "Tell It", "Hot Pants", and "Is That You Mo-Dean?" definitely place this over their duff album Bouncing Off The Satellites or weaker efforts like Whammy! Why not Great Stuff instead of Good Stuff for the B-52's final stab at greatness? I rank this in between Cosmic Thing and their first album.

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