The B-52′s “Wild Planet” released on this date August 27th, 1980. Their second studio album, “Wild Planet” charted at #18 on both the UK and US charts. Surfy American campy/quirky new wave with some of the most distinctive vocals of all time: the crystal-clear girly voices of Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson punctuated by Fred Schneider’s “Sprechgesang” – German for the style of delivery that is the expressionist vocal technique between singing and speaking.

My favorite tracks are “Give Me Back My Man” (“I’ll give you fish, I’ll give you candy, I’ll give you everything I have ever had!”), “Strobe Light,” “Quiche Lorraine” and, of course, “Private Idaho,” which always filled the floor at teen dances in the 80′s.