The B-52′s “Wild Planet”

sfilzen — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:30:16 +0000

The B-52′s “Wild Planet” released 40 years ago today, August 27th, 1980. The B-52′s second album went to #18 in both the US and UK and its new wave good time party dance music is still so much weird fun. My favorite track is also one of their best known singles, “Private Idaho,” which was the lead single from Wild Planet; it went to #74 on the US singles charts but hit #5 on the dance charts. I also really like the other two singles: “Give Me Back My Man” (#5 US dance chart, #61 UK singles chart) with the most excellently bizarre chorus “I’ll give you fish. I’ll give you candy. I’ll give you everything” and “Party Out of Bounds” (also #5 on the dance charts, mainly because the three singles were kind of packaged together for dance clubs), that title basically summing up the B-52′s guiding philosophy. Non-singles that I also dig are “Runnin’ Around” and “Strobe Light.”

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The B-52′s “Wild Planet”

sfilzen — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:33:03 +0000

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.

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The B-52′s “Wild Planet”

The B-52′s “Wild Planet”