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Free Music Review: Irreverent fun
Hit: 5 Stars
Looking for something fun? Look no further - the whole point of the B-52's is fun with a grove, something that will make you smile as you sing along, and make you just wanna dance! :-)Free Music Review: their first is their best!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
in the performing arts, originality is key, and the b-52's are that in spades. there can never be another. thats it, end of story. while i have enjoyed certain songs from later releases, this entry release has proven impossible to beat. masterful in the way they straddled the line between camp and serious rocking grooves. if they were too campy they wouldnt have been taken seriously. they were just too cool. how hypnotic and driving is planet clare??? very!!! deep pulsating bass, bongo rhythm in the background. there is some amazing grinding guitar work on this album. the rock lobster climax is exhillarating. i wont go on as i could easily ramble. so enough said. i do trade cd's in every so often. this is one i will NEVER trade!!!Free Music Review: their first is their best!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
in the performing arts, originality is key, and the b-52's arethat in spades. there can neverbe another. thats it, end of story. while i have enjoyed certain songs from later releases, this entry release has provenimpossible to beat. masterful inthe way they straddled the linebetween camp and serious rockinggrooves. if they were too campythey wouldnt have been taken seriously. they were just too cool.how hypnotic and driving is planet clare??? very!!! deep pulsating bass, bongo rhythm in thebackground. there is some amazinggrinding guitar work here. therock lobster climax is exhillarating. i wont go on as i couldeasily ramble. so enough said.i do trade cd's in every so often. this is one i will NEVERtrade.Free Music Review: The debut album from the manic mavens of kitsch
Hit: 5 Stars
R.E.M. might be the most famous musical act to come out of the supposedly sleepy college town of Athens, Georgia, with the Indigo Girls being a close second, but the B-52's were the first group to come out of that now infamous hotbed of alternative music. Next month I get to see the B-52's in concert, so I am trotting out their albums and getting ready. If you do not know that the group took their name from the Southern slag for the big buouffant wigs sported by signers Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson, then you probably have not checked out the Broadway cast album for "Hairspray" (but you should). I remember once hearing the group's look described as "campy, thrift-store aesthetic" and I certainly could not improve on that appellation. This 1979 self-titled debut album remains their best, harkening back to the day when the group was a quintet: add to the mix Fred Schneider, guitarist Ricky Wilson, and drummer Keith Strickland. Using their first single "Rock Lobster" as the springboard to success, this album offers up songs that are first and foremost quite danceable. Of course, if you listen to the lyrics you will find the songs somewhat bizarre, but that is half the fun. Nobody is more manic than the B-52's, and this album proves the truth of that statement from day one.Do not try to put the B-52's into the categories of either post-punk of new wave, because they were over in the category of silly fun all by them selves. Who else could match Schneider's flamboyantly campy vocals or the quirky harmonies of Pierson and Wilson? But this album works because the songs are pretty good, especially the first four tracks: "Planet Claire," "52 Girls," "Dance This Mess Around," and, of course, "Rock Lobster." Every student of American Popular Culture has to fall in love with "Planet Claire" with its bizarre blend of the themes from "Star Trek" and "Peter Gunn," while Schneider sings about a planet where no one ever dies and no one has a head (makes you wonder if there is a link between the two). "52 Girls" has Pierson and Wilson chanting the names of 24 girls in what it probably the catchiest dance tune on the album. "Dance This Mess Around" is another Pop Culture tour, with its references to various dances nobody remembers the names for, let alone the moves. Then there is "Rock Lobster," the glorious ode of communal towel coordination. This remains the best B-52's album simply because most fun things are most fun the first time around.
Free Music Review: Defining An Era
Hit: 5 Stars
It was 1979 and the B-52s were on Saturday Night Live. I was in AWE. Yes they did "Rock Lobster" and "Dance This Mess Around". When they were doing the latter, my parents walked in from a night out and my mother said "what is THIS???" Of course, the very next day I got the album. "Planet Claire", "There's a Moon In The Sky (Called the Moon)" are all great. The B-52s have better songs on later albums ("Housework", "Wig", "Song for a Future Generation", "Mesopotamia"), but this overall defined an era in my life that I still love.