B-52s Music

In fact, the title track of their forthcoming album is demonstrably better than "oh, that's cool, I can't believe they're still around." Moments that make me, almost in direct hostility to my better judgment, anticipate the new album: --The song seems to be about a romantic mishap at the mall. The leap from comparing sex to the bubbling contents of a volcano to "broke my heart at the Funplex" is not as Beamonian as you may suspect. --The chorus alone is better than anything that appeared... Read Full Story

The B-52's are a band whose music transports me to specific childhood moments. I grew up the youngest of seven children, with all six siblings significantly older, so the house was a sonic jungle, vinyl and tapes scattered and stacked and shelved in various rooms, a multitude of genres represented. It was Brenda who had the taste for the so-called "80s new wave": Talking Heads, Devo, The Cars, Oingo Boingo, The B-52's. For whatever reason, only the B's captured my pre-teen imagination... Read Full Story

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