One of the best pop songs of the 80s. It might even be the B-52's greatest single. "Love Shack" is a bit overplayed, but this one remains fresh. Both of these songs are, of course, from the Cosmic Thing album. And I mention this because that album also includes one of their most underrated and ignored deep cuts, "Topaz". I think that song is as good as anything they ever did. Check it out!
I believe it's Kate singing the 1st verse and Cindy the 2nd. Quite amazing that their voices sound so similar that they create a modulation effect when they sing the same melody together 🤩 And I hadn't liked the B-52's at all at first, with 'Rock Lobster' and 'Planet Claire' as my first impression in the late 80's, until I finally realised years later that they're all about Fun and not to be taken too seriously 😅 I love them now 😊
@@foxandscout I remember the first time I heard Candy on the radio, I knew nothing about it and I thought "Damn, Fred sounds good in this B-52s song!" 🤣
@@illegal_space_alien Haha no way. More Iggy: Well Did You Evah (w Debbie Harry), Nightclubbing, Lust For Life, Cry For Love, Real Wild Child, I Got A Right, Passenger, 1970, 1969 (yes those are titles 😝), Wild America and Beside You (w Lisa Germano)
@@mattjohn4731 Like I said, it was before I knew anything about the song. I heard Kate's voice and immediately thought it was the B-52s. The heaviness of the guitars didn't clue me in either. Never claimed to be a smart jr high kid.
Their first album after Ricky's death (RIP), it's a little more "commercial" than their usual stuff, but it's really freakin' good. "Dead Beat Club" is my favorite track from the album, but it was "Love Shack" that really vaulted them into the stratosphere.
this is my fav b-52s super-catchy pop song. my fav not-as-pop-y is "girl from ipanema goes to greenland". i also love kate pierson's duet with r.e.m. - "shiny happy people". her vocals on all these just hit me in the gut ❤
A great track on a fantastic album, and worth going the distance with this LP. More straight pop than their more 'quirky' sound this one, but that's in no way a bad thing as it's catchy as fud. Their video for this is also worth seeing, it's a fun watch.
@@jaybird4093 Haha nope... no brain damage, or hacking were involved in the typing of my comment. My likes are diverse, and i've always had time for these guys 🙂
One of the greatest sounds in the history of music is that of Kate and Cindy harmonizing. There are some more songs on this album where the harmonies are just as gorgeous, such as “Deadbeat Club” and “Topaz.”
One of those bands guaranteed to lift your mood - the Go! Team are another and I can't recommend them highly enough. Recently I discovered the B52s album Bouncing Off The Satellites, put together by Tony Mansfield of New Musik fame from bits and pieces the band had recorded before the untimely death of their guitarist, and it is stunning.
Sarah Lee (Gang of Four, Robyn Hitchcock, Ani DiFranco, Thompson Twins, and one of Fripp's League of Gentlemen), just a fantastic bass player. Also, Cosmic Thing is one of those rare things, a perfect pop album that elevated a great indie band to further heights of greatness. Nile Rodgers' production all over this one. '89 was a great year for music.
Great tee-shirt first of all, Justin! Glad to see you return to the B-52s. This is a great track, always puts me in a good mood too. The rest of the album's fantastic - have you listened to 'Love Shack' yet? That was the other huge hit. This was a bit of a comeback album for the band, the first since the death of guitarist Ricky Wilson. The band's drummer Keith Strickland stepped up and took over guitar duties from here on - and does a really fine job in my view. Keith told Rolling Stone that he wanted to keep some connection with what Ricky had done. "He was a very key ingredient in our sound, and I just didn't want that to disappear. I knew that once we started playing live, there'd be older material to play, and if we got somebody else, I'd have to be there giving them a lot of hints, like the tunings and everything. So I figured I'd just do it myself. I knew enough that I thought I could do it. Well, I was hoping I could do it."
Watch the video for this (because at adds some fun to the fun). I'd say it's a kind of B52 recurrent theme of something like, "Mock Ignorance", where they play at having e.g. no geographic knowledge. (The song Mesopotamia plays at the "ignorance of history" angle - which is also fun - who needs history, really). I don't want to say too much about it. More B52's now is easy now? Just spin up Rock Lobster again, and maybe hop around the garden on one leg at the same time.
A smoother sound than their earlier records. There was a slight hint of that eighties production that I dislike, but not enough to spoil my listening enjoyment.
Please please please do a review on their second album’Wild Planet’!! Easily my favourite from them and one of my favourite albums ever, it’s so bloody underrated 🤘🏻
I love that instrumental as well. Could never figure out if Keith Strickland was using a six-string bass or if he pitch-shifted the guitar down to get those deep bendy notes. Kate and Cindy's background vox really shine on that track.
Geeezzz.. C'mon! This was in the back of my memory. Don't know how many times I have heard this one, I believe I did, even if I don't remember any of it. Guess I must have heard it by the radio back then. Way back. I'm a few years older than you, Justin, so it could possibly have happened. Now all those days are gone. But it's so good. Yeah, it's a kind of energizing sunshine pop. Does it rain in Athens (the US, not the Greek one)? 😅😊
This album was a comeback of sorts for them. It's not as good as their first two albums but still a good album. It was a huge hit and very popular with younger folks that weren't familiar with their first 2 albums.
Probably their most accessible song. Channel Z is a great song from this album too, and even more relevant now than when it came out in 89. They were my first concert without a parent guardian on the Cosmic Thing tour, 4th row, right in front of Cindy.
I get fatigued listening to most of the B52s albums, but this one is FANTASTIC. Not a bad track, I hope you’ll explore more of it. You must be about the same age as my daughter as she was born right after this came out as well. Another really good track from a previous album is “Legal Tender”, fun and poppy just like this one.
This may literally be their catchiest song, and I think a lot of people sleep on how unique the guitar parts are from the B-52’s in this era. I think they lost their guitars soon after this album, which was tragic, because it seemed like he was just hitting his stride.
Cosmic Thing is a great album. I actually prefer some of the non-singles to Roam and Love Shack (though I think they're very good too). Favourites from the album are Bushfire, Junebug, Topaz and the dreamy instrumental closer, Follow Your Bliss, but there isn't a dull track on it.
Something about the main guitar riff reminds me of another song… maybe the Temples- Shelter Song but could be something else. Anyway, I enjoy me some B52s periodically. Good choice.
try the red lp wild panet that will fry your brain private idaho or mesopotamia lp ,whammy all good right up to funplex ,bouncing of the satalights lp, cosmic thing lp good stuff lp channel Z i was 20 and now 63 still love them i play my lps and have a blast, love to see on the record label it say play loud and it sounds great loud hahaha
This whole album is great! Was blessed to see them live. Something kind of blech about someone who doesn’t like The B52’s. Dry County is my favorite song on this album.
Many B52 fans thing this album is to tame. I thing they just grew up a bit. Love Shack may have been the big hit on this album but most certainly isn’t the best song on it. Love this album as a unit!!!!
Amazing song from one their best stuff. The promo video should be checked too. It's even more uplifting. As others said, this track is more straightforward than their early stuff, but it's equally captivating and entertaining. And the album production is by the great Nile Rodgers!
Like a hell of a lot of B52s songs, this is something pretty smart and subversive pretending to be dumb. 'Roam around the world' 'hip to hip' and other lyrics are all gay slang for sex acts. It's a tribute to band mate and Cindy's brother, Ricky who died from AIDS in 1985. On the top level, its a fun song about going around the world, on another level it's a load of filthy references cleverly snuck into a mainstream song, on a third level, it's actually about death and rather poignant.
It leaves me cold😒. It's The B-52's past their prime as far as I'm concerned😉. You could at least have listened to their great second album Wild Planet before tackling their lesser stuff !🙄
@@ijustneedmyself Yes! it sounds like generic 80s music (the kind I couldn't even hear back then, and which still repels me to this day). As far as I'm concerned, The B-52's are best remembered for their first two albums (The B-52's and Wild Planet), their compilation Party Mix! offering nothing at the time and their EP Mesopotamia, produced by David Byrne, finally convincing me that The B-52's had nothing original left to offer.
This song always annoyed the crap out of me; the chords seemed disjointed and thrown together. It gets very repetitive and grating, and is almost painful to listen to. This is from someone the loves this band. There is something quite disturbing about this melody and I try to avoid it whenever it comes on.
Sorry, I actually really really hate this one. I do not dislike the B52s, in fact i love the group. There is something extremely repetitive and annoying about this awful song.
I do need a regular dosage of B-52's, as well. Thanks JP! "Devil In My Car", is Fun x10.. from Wild Planet LP. Has never been reacted to, I don't think. 🫤
Kate and Cindy are just GRINDING their vocals on this one. LOVE IT!
Kate and Cindy are just wonderful singers
The B-52s are just FUN
Thats for sure!
It's always sunny when B-52's are playing.
One of the best pop songs of the 80s. It might even be the B-52's greatest single. "Love Shack" is a bit overplayed, but this one remains fresh.
Both of these songs are, of course, from the Cosmic Thing album. And I mention this because that album also includes one of their most
underrated and ignored deep cuts, "Topaz". I think that song is as good as anything they ever did. Check it out!
And the Dead Beat Club
You could name anything on their Time Capsule CD as their best and I wouldn't argue.
And I love "Topaz" too, as well as "Follow Your Bliss".
100% agree about this song, which I much prefer to Love Shack, which I loved at first, but sadly can't stand now, so overplayed did it become.
I believe it's Kate singing the 1st verse and Cindy the 2nd. Quite amazing that their voices sound so similar that they create a modulation effect when they sing the same melody together 🤩
And I hadn't liked the B-52's at all at first, with 'Rock Lobster' and 'Planet Claire' as my first impression in the late 80's, until I finally realised years later that they're all about Fun and not to be taken too seriously 😅
I love them now 😊
I was very lucky to see them live in London years ago and let me tell you their voices were like angels!
I saw them in London 1989....your right....angelic voice👏👏
I don’t miss this sound because it’s on my playlist and I hear it regularly.
So, you should definitely try “Candy” sung together by Iggy Pop and Kate Pierson. It’s from the same era and it’s stunning 😊
+1
Oh yeah like 1990 or 91, a classic! 🎤💥
I LOVE that song!!!!!
Kate Pierson great vox. Dig her collab with Iggy Pop (Candy), REM (Shiny Happy People, Me In Honey) etc.
Love Candy -the video is great! My favorite song is still the first one I heard: Dance This Mess Around
@@foxandscout I remember the first time I heard Candy on the radio, I knew nothing about it and I thought "Damn, Fred sounds good in this B-52s song!" 🤣
@@illegal_space_alien Haha no way. More Iggy: Well Did You Evah (w Debbie Harry), Nightclubbing, Lust For Life, Cry For Love, Real Wild Child, I Got A Right, Passenger, 1970, 1969 (yes those are titles 😝), Wild America and Beside You (w Lisa Germano)
@@mattjohn4731 Like I said, it was before I knew anything about the song. I heard Kate's voice and immediately thought it was the B-52s. The heaviness of the guitars didn't clue me in either. Never claimed to be a smart jr high kid.
have you listened to their song "give me back my man" yet?. cindy wilson at her best.
Their first album after Ricky's death (RIP), it's a little more "commercial" than their usual stuff, but it's really freakin' good. "Dead Beat Club" is my favorite track from the album, but it was "Love Shack" that really vaulted them into the stratosphere.
The harmonies in "Dead Beat Club" are really something, hey?
this is my fav b-52s super-catchy pop song. my fav not-as-pop-y is "girl from ipanema goes to greenland". i also love kate pierson's duet with r.e.m. - "shiny happy people". her vocals on all these just hit me in the gut ❤
A great track on a fantastic album, and worth going the distance with this LP. More straight pop than their more 'quirky' sound this one, but that's in no way a bad thing as it's catchy as fud. Their video for this is also worth seeing, it's a fun watch.
Did you hit your head or have your account hacked??? 😁
@@jaybird4093 Haha nope... no brain damage, or hacking were involved in the typing of my comment. My likes are diverse, and i've always had time for these guys 🙂
@@jaybird4093 😆
One of the greatest sounds in the history of music is that of Kate and Cindy harmonizing. There are some more songs on this album where the harmonies are just as gorgeous, such as “Deadbeat Club” and “Topaz.”
One of those bands guaranteed to lift your mood - the Go! Team are another and I can't recommend them highly enough. Recently I discovered the B52s album Bouncing Off The Satellites, put together by Tony Mansfield of New Musik fame from bits and pieces the band had recorded before the untimely death of their guitarist, and it is stunning.
Sarah Lee (Gang of Four, Robyn Hitchcock, Ani DiFranco, Thompson Twins, and one of Fripp's League of Gentlemen), just a fantastic bass player. Also, Cosmic Thing is one of those rare things, a perfect pop album that elevated a great indie band to further heights of greatness. Nile Rodgers' production all over this one. '89 was a great year for music.
Love this song! The B-52s always made creative and fun music. Nice reaction.
The video to this is a must
Just so much fun! Party music and top down summer road trip sing alongs but with musical integrity built in. Next up ‘Channel Z’?
Love Roam. Kate and Cindy harmonize so well. This is one of their straighter songs, which they do really well too. So fun!
Great tee-shirt first of all, Justin! Glad to see you return to the B-52s. This is a great track, always puts me in a good mood too. The rest of the album's fantastic - have you listened to 'Love Shack' yet? That was the other huge hit. This was a bit of a comeback album for the band, the first since the death of guitarist Ricky Wilson. The band's drummer Keith Strickland stepped up and took over guitar duties from here on - and does a really fine job in my view.
Keith told Rolling Stone that he wanted to keep some connection with what Ricky had done. "He was a very key ingredient in our sound, and I just didn't want that to disappear. I knew that once we started playing live, there'd be older material to play, and if we got somebody else, I'd have to be there giving them a lot of hints, like the tunings and everything. So I figured I'd just do it myself. I knew enough that I thought I could do it. Well, I was hoping I could do it."
Watch the video for this (because at adds some fun to the fun). I'd say it's a kind of B52 recurrent theme of something like, "Mock Ignorance", where they play at having e.g. no geographic knowledge. (The song Mesopotamia plays at the "ignorance of history" angle - which is also fun - who needs history, really). I don't want to say too much about it.
More B52's now is easy now? Just spin up Rock Lobster again, and maybe hop around the garden on one leg at the same time.
They were sooo good. This takes me back to a very special time ❤
A smoother sound than their earlier records. There was a slight hint of that eighties production that I dislike, but not enough to spoil my listening enjoyment.
Please please please do a review on their second album’Wild Planet’!! Easily my favourite from them and one of my favourite albums ever, it’s so bloody underrated 🤘🏻
Great track! The chorus is really fun to sing along with, and I especially enjoy the harmonies in the outro.
One of my favorites is an instrumental "Follow your Bliss".
I love that instrumental as well. Could never figure out if Keith Strickland was using a six-string bass or if he pitch-shifted the guitar down to get those deep bendy notes. Kate and Cindy's background vox really shine on that track.
I knew it. I KNEW IT!
You like it!
YOU LOVE IT!!!
Dirty back roads & Private Idaho. Luv it
You need to check out the official music video for this song for the fun, quirky visuals.
Love this album (and the next album) so much.
Geeezzz.. C'mon! This was in the back of my memory. Don't know how many times I have heard this one, I believe I did, even if I don't remember any of it.
Guess I must have heard it by the radio back then. Way back.
I'm a few years older than you, Justin, so it could possibly have happened.
Now all those days are gone. But it's so good. Yeah, it's a kind of energizing sunshine pop.
Does it rain in Athens (the US, not the Greek one)? 😅😊
I know everyone knows, but I don’t think people understand that Kate and Cindy are legends. Their harmonies are GOAT level.
Yup, always love the energy that they bring to their songs.
Another upbeat party band was the Hoodoo Gurus. Hell for Leather is a great upbeat song.
Even though Fred Schneider doesn't sing on this one, rest assured he's still being his usual, hammy self in the music video.
Every song on this album is amazing. I recommend June Bug from this album.
One of my favorites from them, iconic and lovely.
A Nile Rodgers production (the track not the whole album) so his magic being sprinkled along with the band's.
Kate is doing the high harmony above Cindy in the hook
Rock n roam!
B-52's = FUN. You are absolutely right.
Their live shows are so much fun! We DO dance this mess around!
Got to see them at our BRITT FESTIVAL In Jacksonville, Oregon. DO FUN!!!!
This album was a comeback of sorts for them. It's not as good as their first two albums but still a good album. It was a huge hit and very popular with younger folks that weren't familiar with their first 2 albums.
Probably their most accessible song. Channel Z is a great song from this album too, and even more relevant now than when it came out in 89. They were my first concert without a parent guardian on the Cosmic Thing tour, 4th row, right in front of Cindy.
I get fatigued listening to most of the B52s albums, but this one is FANTASTIC. Not a bad track, I hope you’ll explore more of it.
You must be about the same age as my daughter as she was born right after this came out as well.
Another really good track from a previous album is “Legal Tender”, fun and poppy just like this one.
How one band managed to get both Kate and Cindy together?? Amazing!
This may literally be their catchiest song, and I think a lot of people sleep on how unique the guitar parts are from the B-52’s in this era. I think they lost their guitars soon after this album, which was tragic, because it seemed like he was just hitting his stride.
Cosmic Thing is a great album. I actually prefer some of the non-singles to Roam and Love Shack (though I think they're very good too). Favourites from the album are Bushfire, Junebug, Topaz and the dreamy instrumental closer, Follow Your Bliss, but there isn't a dull track on it.
The B52s is about one thing: Fun!
summer of love is great
Pretty much perfect
Something about the main guitar riff reminds me of another song… maybe the Temples- Shelter Song but could be something else. Anyway, I enjoy me some B52s periodically. Good choice.
brilliant - Love your shirt- Oxygene is great
Ty Greg :)
Fun happy rocky ❤
I think this was the best album the B-52’s put out where every song was fun to listen to. Roam onJP
This entire album is worth a listen. The title track will remind you a tiny bit of Rock Lobster. ;-)
A great party/dance band, imo. Love the B-52s! Cosmic Thing is a GREAT album and needs to be checked out. Every song is a hit!
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Don’t forget to react to their best tune (imo) Good Stuff.
Impossible to keep still to that banger.
try the red lp wild panet that will fry your brain private idaho or mesopotamia lp ,whammy all good right up to funplex ,bouncing of the satalights lp, cosmic thing lp good stuff lp channel Z i was 20 and now 63 still love them i play my lps and have a blast, love to see on the record label it say play loud and it sounds great loud hahaha
Check out the official video for this.
The B-52s have a very large discography - you should also dive into some of their older stuff.
Maybe my favorite album of 1989. Top 5 anyway
Nobody sounds like that chick in the B-52's but that other chick in the B-52's
This whole album is great! Was blessed to see them live. Something kind of blech about someone who doesn’t like The B52’s. Dry County is my favorite song on this album.
Musical Berocca. Wonderful song.
U gotta give a listen to B52s "Legal Tender" and "Mesopotamia"
Many B52 fans thing this album is to tame. I thing they just grew up a bit. Love Shack may have been the big hit on this album but most certainly isn’t the best song on it. Love this album as a unit!!!!
play some more b52 s you will have a blast
Amazing song from one their best stuff. The promo video should be checked too. It's even more uplifting. As others said, this track is more straightforward than their early stuff, but it's equally captivating and entertaining. And the album production is by the great Nile Rodgers!
One of the funnest bands ever. Their catalog of music is very underrated.
CHANNEL Z next!
Like a hell of a lot of B52s songs, this is something pretty smart and subversive pretending to be dumb. 'Roam around the world' 'hip to hip' and other lyrics are all gay slang for sex acts. It's a tribute to band mate and Cindy's brother, Ricky who died from AIDS in 1985. On the top level, its a fun song about going around the world, on another level it's a load of filthy references cleverly snuck into a mainstream song, on a third level, it's actually about death and rather poignant.
Hey Justin! Great pick me up song to start the day. Check out the vid.🎵🎼🎶🔈🔉🔊👍😎
It leaves me cold😒. It's The B-52's past their prime as far as I'm concerned😉. You could at least have listened to their great second album Wild Planet before tackling their lesser stuff !🙄
This is one of those 80s songs that made me think in my teens that I hated 80s music 😅
@@ijustneedmyself Yes! it sounds like generic 80s music (the kind I couldn't even hear back then, and which still repels me to this day).
As far as I'm concerned, The B-52's are best remembered for their first two albums (The B-52's and Wild Planet), their compilation Party Mix! offering nothing at the time and their EP Mesopotamia, produced by David Byrne, finally convincing me that The B-52's had nothing original left to offer.
This song always annoyed the crap out of me; the chords seemed disjointed and thrown together. It gets very repetitive and grating, and is almost painful to listen to. This is from someone the loves this band. There is something quite disturbing about this melody and I try to avoid it whenever it comes on.
Sorry, I actually really really hate this one. I do not dislike the B52s, in fact i love the group. There is something extremely repetitive and annoying about this awful song.
I do need a regular dosage of B-52's, as well. Thanks JP! "Devil In My Car", is Fun x10.. from Wild Planet LP. Has never been reacted to, I don't think. 🫤