The B-52's - The B-52's
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Free Music Review: Bring back the Beehive Hairdo!
Hit: 5 Stars
My favorite party album! I found out about the B-52's after a friend suggested them, knowing that I'm a huge fan of The Cosmopolitans Wild Moose Party: Pom Pom Girls Gone New Wave NYC 1980-1981 another awesome new wave band. These two bands make you want to get up and dance!Free Music Review: Great Fun Album
Hit: 5 Stars
I was not familiar with the B-52s music until I moved to the beach in the early eighties. People down there just raved about the B's and I was soon recruited. This album is great fun and has an infectious beat. I have seen the group in concert on three occasions. It was impressive how many of the audience, including myself knew each song word for word. It was always like a concert slash party. Buy this album for the unique beat and happy feeling it will give you. Stand out songs are "Dance This Mess Around" and "Heroe Worship" that is about a rock groupie who will do anything for the group. Cindy Wilson is the lead singer on both of these, and there has been nothing else done like this. Buy it.Free Music Review: B-52's defined
Hit: 4 Stars
Recommend this highly to anyone that enjoys their original sound. Sure their commercial music is fine, but this is the music that defined who they are and why I like them.Free Music Review: Party Fun Music
Hit: 5 Stars
The B-52s: quirky, different, difficult to classify musically. Is it pop? Or rock? Or maybe something else?
Who cares! This is fun music! You'll find no serious message here. These songs won't cause the U.S. to sign worldwide accords regulating the production of CFCs; they won't feed a child in Africa; and they won't initiate peace in the Middle East. What they will do is make you forget about a world in which those things are a concern for awhile. The B-52s' world is filled with off-beat characters, including aliens ("Planet Claire"), obssessed girlfriends ("Hero Worship"), and feared crustaceans. Does anyone not love "Rock Lobster"? (Witness Peter Griffen's acoustic version on an episode of TV's "Family Guy.") Yes, there are strong sexual overtones. But, hey, isn't all pop/rock music about that these days? At least the B-52s lyrics are so cached in metaphors, there's no explicity. ("Uh-oh! Lookout! It's about to erupt!... Lava. Hot Lava.") If you have problems with metaphors of "negative" content, I suggest you look up the origins of those nursery rhymes you teach your kids. Gee whiz. It's all in fun.
I keep this debut album (and the B-52s' second one, Wild Planet) in my car and on my iPod at all times. If you want serious music, go listen to Lucia di Lammermoor. If you want fun time, feel good, party music, get the B-52s.
Free Music Review: Wild fun!!!!
Hit: 4 Stars
I bought this record back in 1979 or 1980 and I loved it for it camp sensibility, catchy pop and danceable tracks. This is a FUN album with great songs, especially "Planet Claire" and "Dance This Mess Around". Turn the volume on these tracks and blast back to New Wave interpretations of early 60's pop.