The B-52's - Rock Lobster (Official Music Video)
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- You're watching the official music video for The B-52's - "Rock Lobster" from their self-titled debut album. "Rock Lobster" is on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
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Who ever filmed and saved this, deserves some kind of award. One of the great live videos of the 1980's. What an amazing version of this classic.
Maybe the best muziek ,was 16 first listen B52
B-52 first album
Cindy looks demonically beautiful here
ted ritola And 80s, 90s too. I didn’t hear them until the year 1980. Not yet 20, the first listen/dance. It was THIS song, too!
I LOVE ❤️ Fred!!! And,...is it Cindy with the red hair? Aw he’ll!!! All of them were perfect in this. Just like all of us were at that age.
42 years later, this song still has an infectious groove to it.
I totally agree with that statement 👍😋😁
Especially when we are on lockdown too!..
holy FUCK! 42 YEARS?!? god DAMN I'm old!
@@jackroark6928 X2
Love this song. Weird fun.
1980's is just 20 years ago.
Don’t boil me!
I’m still alive!
Iraq lobster!
Death to America. And butter sauce.
I was expecting this loll
@@Flixxy0 Family guy
@@sudokisara dont boil me, im still alive
This song kicks ass. Just a bunch of cool people hanging out making wacky songs that slap.
You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like Rock Lobster 🙂🙂
very that!
Those were the days when acid was good
@@BradleyJames-w5kacid’s the same, coke and heroin is what’s changed.
The pride of Athens, GA. Home of the University of Georgia and where they went to college and met.
Not only did they write great songs. They were killer live. And they didn’t care what anyone thought. They didn’t follow trends. They did their own thing.
Actually, they followed Yoko Ono's trends.
She was their influence.
They are AMAZING 😊
@@grinninmoon3956really?
@@grinninmoon3956 But they sin gin tune instead of atonally screaming.
I saw them live at my hometown Alive at 5 concert in downtown Stamford about 15 years ago for only $10!. Awesome!
You can clearly see that Fred is a perfectionist & knows how to entertain well, The B52's are nothing short of brilliant.
Agreed! They are before my time but I grew up listening to their music.
N
@@elisebond
I always thought they sucked and still do.
@@tonyrock5313 So you wasted your own time in the comment section complaining about it lmao such a goober
They're America's favorite party band. You @@tonyrock5313?
I literally just cannot ever get over how hard this song slaps. Like I lie awake in bed at night thinking about how awesome this song is.
It really is just right in the pocket, like a metronome.
Back in 1980, John Lennon said Rock Lobster was inspirational for him in bringing about Double Fantasy.
@@TheShotenZenjin Apparently it reminded him of Yoko’s music
@@TimmyTickle 😄
There are so many points during this song that I think "it can't get any better" and it does.
I'm 64 now and I remember when he said Down we all went. DOWN SOME PEOPLE WOULD ACTUALLY LAY ON THE DANCE FLOOR AND PRETEND TO BE HAVING convulsions. It was a great time be young and have the b 52s and missing persons. Rock on. The Latina❤peace and love and always Jesus. 🎉❤
Nobody walks in la!
I’m 62 I was down on the floor for sure😊
What are words for? Nobody walks in LA
@@villedocvalle I walked in LA. It sucked, but I walked. lol.
fr❤
This is what I mean when I say “ I can’t explain my type of music “
Edit: came back to this 2 years later and wow did it make a lot of ppl mad for no reason 😭😭😭 I was simply stating it would be hard to explain this song to someone who has never heard it before or to someone who has never listened to this type of music before you guys are so quick to drag someone 😭
ROCK LOBSTER!
Love the comment 😊
Surf Rock
New wave
The Avalanches are like this.
Just imagine a 13 years-old girl with her sister of 8 years-old dancing on the top of their beds with this song that came on one of the cassetes of their dad. That's me and my sister a long time ago. Pure life, pure crazyness and full of joy.
This has valuable memories for me as a mini Blair too!! I have passed this awesomeness onto my kids too!! They shock out harder than I ever could!! Rock on likkle lobsters!!
An Octopuses garden in the shade. My sisters jumping around..? Ringo Lives.
Me antojaste un buen gallo
How old is this song
@@priteeshgarg1511 It came out in 1978
Ricky Helton Wilson would have turned 68 today, born March 19, 1953. Ricky died from AIDS. It's truly sad that so many gifted, talented artist' lost their precious life to this rarely talked about past global epidemic that has claimed 32.7 million beautiful souls. We miss you Ricky.
...Rest In LOVE, Mr. Wilson!!...
@Ughra Yuvakov it’s rarely talked about recently but it was back then
@@soph-7404 um YEAH, cause covid duh
"...past global epidemic..."? I don't think so.
Over 5,000 people get infected every day. Nearly 2 million still die of it every year.
You can think it's in the past in America, but not where we live and work: Just over 50% people in their 30s are HIV+. That's why Young Heroes has 17,000 orphans and the grandmothers caring for them in our programs.
Make no mistake: AIDS is still a global epidemic. We're still fighting it in memory of Ricky and so many others.
He shouldn’t had went chocolate diving
If you were born in 1926 and listened to this in 1978, you'd B-52.
😂
I had to read this twice & think about it, g00d 1
Haha.
Wow grandma was born ‘26. Would tell her this joke if she was still here.
@@RockyHoarderPictureShows4:40
I saw this group twice, once in the 80's and the other in the 90's. The first time I was so drunk I barely remember and the second I stayed sober because I wanted to experience every bit of it. They're great.
I saw them play the Bay Area in the 80's😍 They are amazing
@PoeticJustice it happens, and you might even get old one day
I bet we would have been besties if we would have met.
@Rain・レイゾ right that's so rad, we've been listening to them longer than we knew.
Are you druggy?
I saw these when they first came out in the 1970s. It's worth being old now to have been young then.
Another old fart here, thankful to be still alive.
Let's hope Covid19 don't shorten the small rest of years that we can spend on this planet ...
@@chadthundercocksexhaver3959 Maybe. When you're lucky enough to have a good health.
Not all are so lucky ...
A great phrase, I’d remember it.
Yes it IS.. and it WAS.. we had ALL OF THE BEST MUSIC.. ALL AT THE SAME TIME.. FOR YEARS AND YEARS.....
That’s a nice thought.I am 64 and I am happy that I did not grow up now.
Nobody ever needed to tell Fred Schneider they “gotta have more cowbell!” The man killed it in this video. Love this song!
they played a corporate conference I went to about 5 or 6 years ago. Most of the audience was just DEAD, but I was standing in front of Fred (there was no riser for the band) and dancing like a f'n maniac. Sometime towards the last part of the show he walks over to me and handed me his drumstick and grabbed another to keep banging away. You bet I will never part with it. :)
@@kevbob that is an awesome story! Thanks for sharing!!!!
He went apeshit on that poor cowbell, he beat it like a raped ape.
My thoughts exactly! lol ....and his timinig??? Man, that dude can keep precise time.
It's where Will got the idea from, right here.
This is the pinnacle of western civilization. Everything else was just leading up to this.
yeah, it was so cutting edge I had no idea how to dance to it. So I pogoed.
And Sparks too, of course.
The problem is this would just be a meme, now. No one would bother to make a whole song and make it good.
@@TwisterTornado or it would be AI
You're almost right. The pinnacle was actually reached when this song got a Bill McClintock mashup with Reign in Blood by Slayer. Now, finally, the West can proudly decline and fall.
Wow… I had NO idea that this was a one-take live performance. Nailed it. Right out of the park. The last 100 seconds are some hard drivin rock, man… bold, eclectic talent.
A lot of it was due to the legendary guitar play of Rickey Wilson, the late brother of band member Cindy Wilson. He passed away of AIDS in 1985. All the good ones always taken away from us so young. Long live the Rock Lobster 🦞
"there goes a catfish! chased by a dogfish.
😂😂😂😂😂
4 strings on his guitar, a cow bell, two hot chicks doing weird sea creature sounds and a song about a lobster...........priceless.
I thought Ricky played with 9 or 11 strings. He was the only guitartist in this song live. Regardless, a hit song and, to me, the first Alternative band ever. Really good music. I think they put out really original, really good stuff.
sometimes you don't have to make sense to be good.. it's about if it gets your fuckin feet out on the floor.. and it's weird.. that makes it ok with me! now if i had a beer that would be perfect now!
Caroline Miller Sea critters gets me thinking more tropical island beach party. Bonfires in the sand......how about a Mi Tie or some kind of rum punch instead?
lol
First time I heard this was my freshman year in college. Crap I'm old.
in my opinion, this was a true piece of musical art that was created by the B-52,s
you're right. it was art and music combined. If you went to a concert you could see/hear that.
Damn Straight Bro !!!!
Thanks, I agree with you!
Thank you, that's the truth!
Absolutely!!!!
The B-52's were unique; -a chance gathering of personalities, who worked well together, shared a taste for fun wacky combos of things, and who were all very good at being creative with such combos, and at making it all work. Forty plus years later, it still works, and is such fun to listen to!
This is some of the most original music you will ever see.
The B-52's deserve a ton of credit for being truly excellent live. Especially at a time when so many bands were too heavily produced in studio, they couldn't replicate that live and sounded like crap. It's obvious the B-52's were born live as a party band, at their best, and should be live!
So true
My uncle has seen every band you can imagine live in the 70s and 80s, he told me most of them sucked while the best live he ever heard was...Santana.
@@ΑναστάσιοςΠαπαζαχαρίου Yep, that was the age of overproduction producers having fun. Basically there were tens of thousands of "garage blue oyster more cowbell cult" bands, if they wrote one song, got press from a local gig, looked ok doing that, one would get plucked out they'd get signed. You can take band out of the garage, but you can't take the garage out of the band. The greatest live (and arguably greatest bands in general) sounded amazing in that garage or basement. They are fundamentally the kind of talent that does not need 35 takes and tons of studio polish to sound great. Want some other examples? Pixies, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, a smattering of 70's bands. It's a short list with a few surprises. Few bands heavily produced could make that kind of energy live...not many.
@@daspacechoechechoz9028 especially nowadays it is worse, they have to sample replace everything and get rid of every percieved imperfection, not realizing that those things that make someone them are what breathe life into a track. tracks sound lifeless, dull, hollowed out, soulless, generic overproduced crap. I'm surprised this is such a solid and almost identical live perfrormance, that's true talent right there. not needing a ton of studio fluff to make a good song and sound good live.
@@candideggplant1575 Exactly! This is so inherent in modern production, that the latest tools/software basically dump you off at default sterile to mask your humanity. Have to really dig in and subtly mess with all that to get human righteous tones back...or easier...turn it all off. Just record, best you can do, in a decent room, handcuff yourself to a chair and listen for an hour before even touching that with anything. You'll start to appreciate how crappy and neutered your mix can sound in seconds flat, by applying too much stuff over it, sampling, looping, mixing the life out of it. My favorite recordings of bands I've been in always go back to the stereo recording of just the band in a small room, you here the players say something way back there when you nail that amazing note during a solo or cry out in joy. To the point you don't ever want to hear the song again without those ghostly emotive sounds, warbles, thumps, birds outside, a dog, bouncing around the sound, and "happy accidents" contributing to the performance swirling about it. Because the song is good organic, just as it is, there's no signal processing on that cowbell, just like when it was created, the performance was all. It was done then. Perfect. And should ever be duplicated and left alone forever more as it was! There it breaths. There it has a beating heart.
This footage is truly stunning, not just by the way it was remastered but because of all the energy this band delivered in just one song. We need to see the rest 🙏🏼
This concert must have been unreal
You should see them in concert! One of the best IMHO 🥰
Irak lobster
i've said it before and i'll say it again, whoever had the idea to put 3 such wonderful voices together in one band was a genius. it is sad the guitar player gets overlooked much of the time as he is so much a part of the 52's sound, and does a great job as the only guitar, he carries all the rhythm for all those wonderful voices to work around.
The drummer is relentless
Ricky was the primary guitarist, but not always the only one. Kate had guitar parts for 2 songs, and Cindy had some for 2. But they're all minor "lead" parts, while Ricky was the rhythm player.
(Edit) After the reply by VinceTomJones below: as it turns out, Cindy also played a 2nd guitar for "Nip It In the Bud" which I didn't know when I first wrote this comment.
(Edit 2) Keith also had some guitar parts later on, in Whammy and Bouncing off the Satellites.
yES HE DOES,, Well said,..
One of the most original bands of all time....in their own league. Live was incredible.
Unfortunately I never saw the band " Live"
It's impossible to convey just how different this was from everything else at the time. I was experiencing my first battle with depression when I saw the B-52's on Saturday Night Live performing this song. I also saw Bowie performing TVC-15. These songs made me feel like even if things were bad where I was, somewhere out there, things were better. It was enough to get me through, and I am forever in their debt... :)
It’s a real fun song!
Que maravilloso leer lo que escribiste!!!😃👍👏👏👏🤗
wasnt the specials and madness around that time
@@batmanb8194 The Specials and Madness, both great bands, had a very different styles to the B52's, they were influenced by the Ska music from the 50's and 60's, the B52's seemed to be influenced from outerspace.
NO JOKE. I was LATE to the B52's party... They were played in Chicago by Herb Kent, a Black DJ who caught flak in circles for playin' stuff like this back then.
I am a drummer and DEVOUT SOUL music fan, up until I heard THIS SONG as a teenager.
ROCKED MY VERY SOUL.
Fred hits the cowbell like it’s nobody’s business.
@Daniel Downs I would of loved to be a fly on the wall for that intervention
@Daniel Downs I meant that meeting up of the minds ,or the hand of god , intervening to put you two together smoking weed , it’s rad !
YES!
That is the awesome power of the “GREEN “ party 💡!
What I need is more Cowbell....
This song really has so much going on: A surreal premise. A cowbell player really exploring the space. The vocal harmonies. The weird voice effects for each of the fish. The relentless guitar. Some nice synth work from Cindy.
Kate is playing the keyboards. Cindy is in the pink dress and black wig with the tambourine
"A cowbell player really exploring the space. " needs more cowbell
@@davebarclay4429 My mistake - when I look at the B-52's, I usually think blonde=Cindy, brunette=Kate.
Fred Schneider had a fever......
You can never have enough Cowbell!
This song has all the energy of "Wait the song was due TODAY??"
😂😂😂😂
So, that’s what Uncle Rico was doing in that house?🤔
Lmao!! 🤣
😂😂😂facts!!!
😂😂😂😂😃😂
My friends don't understand why I love this song. And I don't understand why they don't haha
No sense of Humor!
No sensce of humor!
Maybe they just don't like fish ha ha ha!
They have no sence of humor! I do.
Idiots
Fred Schneider really "explores the space" with that cowbell.
"More cowbell." - as only christopher walken can say.
fred had the fever and we all know the prescription- MORE COWBELL!!!!
Yes!
He was in a zone to hiself!
I gotta be honest...I coulda used more cowbell.
I was living in Redondo Beach in 1985 and trying to get some sleep in my cheap apartment on a work night but folks were partying in the vicinity. The music wasn't super loud but loud enough to keep me awake. I was irritated because I had to get up early. But, they put Rock Lobster on and I had to laugh. Every time I hear this song, I think of that time and place. The 1980s in Southern California were a blast...unless you were up late on a work night... Lol
I was living in southern Morocco for moths on a beautiful endlessly long deserted beach surfing good waves and reading Nietzsche and Quantum Mechanics and World History, etc., no radio, no TV, nothing electronic, and this German couple showed up and the guy put Sony Walkman speakers on my ears and played this full blast. Rock my world! Every time I hear it, I'm taken back. It was paradise. A wadi with birds from Europe and Africa.1981.
❤
Southern California is a beautiful place, just too expensive now. I moved to Torrance in 1987 when I was 10, I lived there and in Carson until 2004 then I moved to Texas. I've been in Texas since. I do miss Cali, Redondo Beach was always a hot spot to go. Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach were also great spots. Always enjoyed going to San Pedro as well. Yeah I have lots of great memories in Southern California as well 😊😊😊.
My mother grew up in California & she went back to visit recently & she bought me a shirt from Redondo beach. even tho I’ve never been there lol. But I’d love to visit someday
Every person in that room just experienced the best seven minutes of their lives.
In a way, I almost feel sorry for them. To have peaked so young in life...
And I envy them
Damn
Lol then they woke up
That's for sure! Now bow down to praise the lobster! Down Down!
OMG these musicians had chemistry, creativity, energy and were an enigma of talent.
I broke my foot dancing to this in 1979 at a New Wave club in Houston. I told people it was a sky-diving accident.
You just made my day! Thanks!
hide your fears brother
You Sir... Deserve More Cowbell.
😂😂😂😂 My fucking god
Was it #'s night club? lol... I still go there ;) - Amanda
They were putting forth maximum effort. Performing for their LIVES. You can FEEL it.
That's what you call seven minutes of pure harmony.
We had so much fun dancing to this song in college in the early 80"s. It would always fill the floor immediately. So original and energetic! I still love it.
I saw them in 1978, with the Talking Heads, at the Armadillo World Headquarters, in Austin ,TX. This venue is a renovated National Guard armory, if you can imagine that, a drillshed, with a stage at the far back end, with bars and food vendors lining the left and right sides, and metal folding chairs for seating. Well, we, the audience, folded up all those chairs, put them on those rolling carts they go on, and danced the night away.
Yes! Class of 1984!!!
Those were the days my friend. Remember holding your nose and twisting down to the ground shouting rock lobster?😅😅😅down down down!
@@kaila62kaila 1983 here...rock lobster!
Yes, we did. All kinds of kids, just having fun.
Second half of this song is one of the rockinest grooves ever.
One of the all time best songs in history
You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like Rock Lobster 🙂🙂
totalmente de acuerdo , no es para cualquiera, saludos 😁🕺👻
It's a 1950's sound, but so Futuristic all at once.
They are influenced by 60's Surf Music and the current punk scene happening in the late 70's. Their fashion style is 100% 60's space age, so good!
Its 1960s ...not 1950s.
60's surf
Great admirers of YOKO ONO.... After listening their music, John told Yoko: World is now ready for your music. ... a few months later, STARTING OVER was born.
There’s no 1950s sound to it, coming from someone who knows 1950s music best than any other decades music,that’s all 60s sound. Like someone commented before that’s definitely some surf and punk influences
The fact that this video exists is PRICELESS !!
Scooby gang on speed ,freaking superb.
Damn right Jay!
Which one is Scooby?
Ha ha! A great comparison 😁😁
Not speed, just an unlimited supply of Scooby snacks.
Made me laugh
He's beating that cowbell as if it owes him money.
Will Ferrell has nothing on him.
You made me laugh so freaking hard!!!😂
Cindy and Kate! Love their voices together!! 😍
xDiamondDoll702x yeah it is awesome :D
threesome yes please
reddrizzt clasicpop
xDiamondDoll702x me too I love the way they harmonize
xDiamondDoll702x the girls beautifull
The amount of LSD that went into this song and this performance must have been substantial.
I was juuust thinking how fun it would to be trippin and in the crowd or playing
I like how they always look and sound lile they're from the 1950 80s, both at the same times
More likely, cocaine. That was the drug of choice in the late 70's and early 80's.
@@tdsims1963 Maybe, but this all strikes me more as a wild acid trip.
Probably more like crystal.
when you watch this you realize these guys never got the credit they deserved
I agree. if you hear something like "Love Shack" you think, oh they are a good party band. But if you really understand this song and "Private Idaho" and "Planet Claire". Then you will see there was a lot more to them.
True that..this was theor coming out party..they had a few hits biggest probly loveshack-" tin roof - rusted!"
@@michaelotten2724 There goes a narwhal!
I don't understand how they're not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
@S.M.C. Kennels or maybe you just don't get it.
Hard to believe they’re coming up on 50 years together as a band. They definitely did their own thing and had success with it .
Nothing before, or after, ever, ever sounded like this...their place in history is well and truly cemented...
To me, this is as punk rock as Anarchy in the UK or Holiday in Cambodia
Did someone noticed a time travel Apple iPod Touch at 4:06
@@TheHelensp I agree. This is straight punk. This shouldn't even be up for debate. But apparently it is debated.
greatsea New Wave / Punk
@greatsea The hardcore punks started that BS in the late 70s. Purists are the worst kind of fans.
To this day, this song still gets to me. Practically bringing tears to my eyes. Perhaps it’s the time it came out, and all the memories associated with that time. It’s is such a great jam! To say this song is so original, it’s such an understatement. I’ve always loved this song, and this band.
..another RUclips commenter with tears!!
Oh come on. They're good... but they're not Abba.
Tears 😆😆😆
Cry for Ricky, if you wanna cry., Ricky Wilson unique fantastic 4 open tuned string guitarist died young and at his best.
@@IronHorse1722 True, but B52s music was tight. The girls off singing grows on you and goes with the band image, at mere mortal level, I playem over and over.
Those harmonies with Kate and Cindy, some of the best ever.
They are! No one had done it like this before this song. And from this song on they were amazing
Ooooooh wah...
I would have liked to have been the meat to their sandwich, great songs and singing aside.👍
The Best live version of Rock Lobster!
Frrrr
nah "don't threaten me with a good time" is better
@@curse5697absolutely not lol and i love p!atd
@@doomgang2541 i disagree with you disagreement
Don't think you can start listening this song without going all the way and even more so for this video. The guitar and drums are locked in so tight they force everyone to groove like crazy, and still it is a jam for the entire second half, no one can keep from moving. The parts together lift it up into a synergistic heightened level of groove that massages the mind, body and soul.
Итижи-пассатижи! Во загнул то!
What kind of drug do you want?
The B-52's: *Yes*
yes
What do you mean? I don't see any drug references!
We were at a party
His earlobe fell in the deep
Someone reached in and grabbed it
It was a rock lobster
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
We were at the beach
Everybody had matching towels
Somebody went under a dock
And there they saw a rock
It wasn't a rock
It was a rock lobster
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
Motion in the ocean
His air hose broke
Lots of trouble
Lots of bubble
He was in a jam
S'in a giant clam
Rock rock
Rock lobster
Down, down
Lobster rock
Lobster rock
Let's rock!
Boy's in bikinis
Girls in surfboards
Everybody's rockin'
Everybody's fruggin'
Twistin' 'round the fire
Havin' fun
Bakin' potatoes
Bakin' in the sun
Put on your noseguard
Put on the Lifeguard
Pass the tanning butter
Here comes a stingray
There goes a manta-ray
In walked a jelly fish
There goes a dog-fish
Chased by a cat-fish
In flew a sea robin
Watch out for that piranha
There goes a narwhal
Here comes a bikini whale!
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
Rock lobster
Nope, just normal stuff, no drugs here.
@@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn I was talking about their demeanor
@@noncreativearts5360 I was making a joke too, you'd have to be on drugs to write those lyrics! 🙂
@@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn no they def did drugs
How can anyone not like this song?
It's a Featured Episode of Family Guy
As a black teen girl in NYC my Puerto Rican best friend and I used to listen to this non stop. It still rocks ❤
As a black teen from the Southside of Chicago I approve this message 🎉
As an old white guy in Mississippi I too approve of this message.
As a black man from the hard streets of Fort Lauderdale, FL, I, too, approve👍🏿
j
As a white tall Dutch dude I agree!
I’m 64 , loved all types of music all my life , but I think this is the best song ever made . Just seen this video for the first time , awesome !
very cool
have you heard oscar and the majestic's version of house of the rising sun
@@batmanb8194 No, but I'm going to put it on now! Thanks for the recommendation.
@ray church I happened upon this crazy video, liking the song already. Brilliant, made me laugh and get up and dance around my study! :D
They sound and look like a 60's band, but they're an 80's band. I always loved their music!!!!
That was their schtick. B52’s were connoisseurs and revivalists of 1960s kitsch, which was quite a thing at the dawn of the 1980s.
70’s, 80’s, and 90’s 😺
Eternal band.
Schneider is at his absolute best in this one. Cindy's eyes are glazed with coolness. Kate is beyond praise. "Here comes a catfish - Meow!"
"Followed by a dog fish!" That part really got me, haha
Pure musical genius.
Rock Lobster is a classic.. so original..
Robert Chauval chido wan the rocklobster mix 60's
Yeah nobody could even emagine!
Nothing like it on the planet earth!
Absolutely!
@@RedZoneCLF, spell C-A-T, dunderhead
It does NOT get better than this live. Period
i must say that man plays the cowbell like a god
If Will Ferrell didn't get inspired by Fred's playing the cowbell for the BOC cowbell skit he should have. I can't help but think of him when Fred wails on that cowbell. LOL
Haha like a god I'm laughing so much right now
Krishna?
the moustache, the complete band, the spirit of the band... i love them...
When my kids were little we made it a tradition to dance this song every New Years Eve and with my grand babies we are continuing the tradition. I know I am weird but we love this 🎵 🎶 🎵 song. Thank you B'52
You’re not weird, you’re fun!
That must be the coolest New Years ever
You cant claim weirdness. Its something bestowed on you by others
Maybe coolest tradition ever. Luv luv luv it. Now if you teach them DIO and all this EPIC SONGS W/ALL his bands. Then youd be EPIC
AWESOME.......😎
I’m really starting to arc up when people say this is simply a ‘party song’ or a novelty song. I played this for my 13yr old son last weekend, and I watched in awe as his mind was blown by this tour de force song
It’s a performance piece, an artistic piece of music that I think was grossly under estimated and under appreciated at the time and even now
Yes you are totally right about that indeed
Yeah absolutely let's see them make a better song.
You got that right Eddie J. I was in 8th grade when this hit the airwaves. It was awesome then and over time, I learned to appreciate music (Technically and artistically) and I realized just how utterly fantastic it is. In fact, I have an eclectic “Top 5 of All time” list (pretty hard to do, try it) and RL got in on the first ballot and is by far my number one favorite.
As the saying goes:
“If this song doesn’t get your juices going, you don’t have a pulse!” :)
Yeah. Most people and even music critics put The B-52's simply under New Wave at the same time that they put Devo as avantgarde, for example, or mindlessly praise Blondie... all of them deserve their place in the sun.
The B-52's were constantly innovative and on the charts at the same time. I remember being a kid listening to their Flintstones song in the 90's, that was my introduction to the band. Even "Debbie" is a solid, creative pop song two decades after "Rock Lobster".
My four year old loves rocking out to this musical gem.. but his nr. 1 favourite is search and destroy by the Stooges. . 😊
Just celebrated my 60th birthday. Still amazed at how different this sound was when I was 16yrs old. Brilliant, my favourite B52s song. Great seeing a proper live version from back in the day as well.
I saw them, at the Armadillo World Headquarters, in Austin, Texas, with the Talking Heads. Next to seeing Bob Dylan with Eric Clapton, in Nurnberg, Germany, the best shows I've ever seen. Now, the Armadillo is only a renovated brick National Guard armory, the same as you'd find all over the US, in your own hometown. But as a soldier stationed at Fort Hood in the late '70's. and Europe, the Armadillo had the most amazing, top tier lineups.
Happy belated birthday
One of the most brilliant songs ever
EVER
Without a doubt, the craziest song ever made that really, really, rocks!!
And its a 70s song YAAAAAAAAH LOL
They were influenced by Captain Beefheart after all
@@BroForce426 and possibly The Shags lol
It lobsters, too!
Mr. Bungle says hi
I bought this album as a kid based on the cover alone because radio where I live would not play stuff like these guys on the radio, and because I looked at them and just said WTF if these guys sound as great as they look, this is a winner. 😀 I never regretted the purchase. I had never heard anything so interesting and creative. I listened to it all the time and it helped me through a terrible childhood including family break up. thank you so much guys, you belong in the creativity hall of fame.
One of the top five concerts I’ve been to. Saw approx. 10,000 people lay on the ground during this song. The crowd was so into it. It was a blast nobody worried about being cool
Baddass Cowbell!!
Where was this Johnny Thunder?
HMHSrams Irvine, Ca
Yea because as DEVO said... they were "THROUGH being COOL"!!!
Johnny Thunder, That’s because EVERYBODY WAS ALREADY COOL. The band and the song automatically made it so. Must’ve been an awesome concert, man!
Punk rock at it's finest
Cindy and Kate singing.....on the same mike.....OMG I can't stop watching.
2 girls, 1 mike
@@leroylowe5921 and one guy imagining a BJ
Who else is on quarantine & can't sleep at 4:30am so you're watching a bunch of 80's live performances??
Yep
hola, si
Not me, I'm rocking wiv lobstas.....
That's scary how accurate that comment is.
We needed this. F_÷# money. We will be back in the rat race before we know it.
Ricky Wilson what an absolute legend! RIP legend. ❤️
I want this played at my funeral with fog
We
Don't forget to invite me
Good call, this is great, but I want Ty Cobb by Soundgarden at mine
Imma make a will that states that my family will only get my money if they do an exact list of things at my funeral, idc if I’m not there it’ll still be funny to have them play all this kinda up beat music
@@patatedoucebb2919 you do know you don’t have to be a smart ass all the time right?
Me and my friends were stunned by this song. Still incredible to this day.
R.I.P. Rick
Rest in peace, Rick.
Rip rick may
RIP Ricky
One of the greatest songs ever recorded.
Panic! did do a pretty good job with the sampling from this
Dirty back Road by you B-52 dirty back Road by the B-52i'm already here dirty back road
Olaf28 wouldn't go that far but they are very entertaining
Better than the invention of Coka Cola!
I agree!
The song that got John Lennon interested in writing music and recording again. One of the greatest songs ever.
Lennon saw the direction of music and decided he needed to intervene.
@@OtisIsdrunk If this was the direction of music then it's a great thing! Post punk and new wave 🤘🏾🔥
You know your party was RIGHT when this dropped. Holla 80's peeps!
RD Zed you knew everybody had too much to drink when this song was played at any party.
This is the song I would give to aliens to tell them exactly what it's like living on planet Earth.
The Rick & Morty episode of (Show me what you got.) This is what you would want to show them.
The aliens from planet Claire?
@@paulrosenberger3612 Exactly!
*when humans do drugs
Hell yeah
What I love so much about the video is that it looks like a ritual ceremony and not just a rock concert. They just make you believe every word and feel all the rhythm.
Best comment. “We have one that can see."
One of the best endings ever to a classic
I love how they are all crammed onto this little stage and moving around and dancing like crazy
Yes, well they're probably so stoned they actually do not care at all.
It’s amazing how this song sounds just as good live as it does recorded
That guitar breakdown at 5:20 is everything.
Yep. That's the best part
I remember first time I heard this on the radio...and was WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!!?? It still kicks ass today😎👊🏻👊🏻
I get chills every time. It's so. Fucking. Heavy.
Fred's vocals were awesome! Saw them in a club when this album came out! It was packed but luckily my friend and I were able to get down to the frontier of the stage and enjoy a great show! Truly unforgettable!🎼🎸🎹
Those 2 kids headbanging in the front row were really getting into it!!
If there was any song that need more cowbell, it's this one.
In memory of Ricky Wilson. One of the best new wave band. Rock lobster down! down! down! Miss the 80's new waver forever....
"We were at the beach, everybody had matching towels". Love it, it's psycho funk.
Fred Schneider really "explores the space" with that cowbell.
Ricky Wilson was one of the best guitarist from 80's. I still dig his surf twang style.
Edward Huber, It was called New Wave music back in the day.
He would've made Bruce Dickinson proud....yes, THAT Bruce Dickinson.
I could watch this 100 times and never get tired of it. The energy is amazing. Sad that Ricky Helton Wilson died so young.
ted ritola, Yeah. And I didn’t even know they existed until 1980!
Kevin C, I never followed them past 1980s. “Rock Lobster” and “The Love Shack”, I used to dance to in the one club I could get into back then. Later ‘80s, I bought one album. A bright yellow one. I just don’t remember what was on it, exactly. But, I’ve ALWAYS loved their music!
I didn’t realize that one of them had died. Sad. But I’ve never known their individual names. So, which one is Ricky Helton Wilson? I hope it’s not the lead! Please, if you can and don’t mind, could you please let me know? It makes me so sad that one of the B-52s is gone. I guess I can look it up. The tablet is...perfectly adequate. Thanks for the info.
@@traekas7228 Ricky was the guitarist, I think. I'm new to their music myself so I'm not familiar with who's who atm :P
@@traekas7228 Ricky was the guitarist, he passed from AIDS related illness in 1985. So sad. Too soon.
@@scoutolivera1811 It's sometimes thought provoking when one gets older than another who they looked up to when the other one died. Now I'm older than Ricky was when he passed.
Just when its about to end, it smacks right tf back on.. ❤❤❤
This song randomly gets stuck in my head two or three times a week.
What a funky bunch of awesome people, I will always love the B52's!
3:05 !!!
I don’t know how it’s possible, but I didn’t discover this song until I was 40. Now I’m obsessed. So imaginative and badass. I just listen to it over and over and over again. I’m so disappointed I didn’t get to see them live in their prime. I’m sure their shows were crazy.
I'm 41. Ive been a professional musician for almost 20 years. I still just MARVEL at this music... its so god damn good and weird and amazing.... I truly hold this group and really this live performance at such a gold standard of weird uncompromising perfection....the fact that they did this as a band in the realm of only AandR agents making bands...... and some how we still got this in the world ... they made it... some dude heard this and was like yes...... this is what the world needs right now...... thank you AandR man....SO grateful.
Be inspired :)
Word! It's their vision. It's hard to do something so original that's so good that doesn't follow any formula. You can tell this a song that must have evolved after a lot of playing and tweaking it
Can totally see and hear, as John Lennon said, Yoko's influence.
Yes
İm so surprised at some of the MUSICAL COMPOSING GINUESES that come from us. like who else couldve thought, no, MADE about a song about Lobsters, AND make it sound good?! This is one of the reasons why were the superior species.
This is sooooooo good!
I'm havin this played at my funeral, no way they gonna be sittin still all sad and mopey..😁
At 5:21 The break is incredible!!! That riff of guitar is so raw and aggressive, the screams of The girls are splinters of glass in your ear, Fred's voice is a Thunder!!! What a performance!!
Just saw them in concert and they still sound amazing. Ended the show with this one and it ROCKED!
The b52s really could friggin' rock.
The b-52's are a prime example of how music is limitless you can take it as far out into the Galaxy and explore different sounds and melodies and Time after Time create something so unique and wonderful that it lasts through eternity.. a thousand years from now if this planet survives they will still be singing Rock lobster 😎🤘