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Post by singingsparrow on Apr 22, 2004 16:58:24 GMT -5
The B-52's are one of the most funnest and original bands in recent memory, to me.
This was the hit that made the B-52's a happening favorite. Released off their self-titled debut, it would grow to become a Alternative favorite and up to today is also a beloved beach club jingle.
With surf-tide guitar licks, Fred Schneider's famous quirky cowbell voice, and colorful lyrics spewing from the inner-child in each of them, "Rock Lobster" remains a treasured summertime anthem.
Sincerely, Noah Eaton
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Post by Ragin on Apr 22, 2004 18:04:51 GMT -5
I remember camping out with my senior class and a couple friends started singing this. They knew the whole thing beginning to end. It was great.
Loved the B-52's back then.
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Post by stevie nice on Apr 22, 2004 21:24:35 GMT -5
Yeah this whole first album and the followup, "Wild Planet" are both great listens all the way through. A bunch of us got tickets to see them at the Dr. Pepper summer series in Central Park in 1980 and they previewed tracks from WP at the show, well actually many of the songs were already getting heavy airplay on then modern rock WLIR as imports.
Great band, really can't stand their late 80s breakthrough hits though.
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Post by jimmy74747 on Apr 22, 2004 21:27:24 GMT -5
Absolute rubbish
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Post by halo19 on Apr 22, 2004 21:55:36 GMT -5
I love this song. I think it's one of the most memorable of theirs. Not a grating first listen like "Dance This Mess Around".
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Post by Hervard on Apr 22, 2004 22:25:07 GMT -5
The first song I ever heard by this group was the song that Rick Dees would ALWAYS play on his summer hit specials in the late 1980s, "Summer Of Love", which Rick said charted in 1986. But it never did for real.
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Post by singingsparrow on Apr 23, 2004 8:18:43 GMT -5
I know very little about their Alternative chart history, but indeed nearly a decade after "Rock Lobster" made them a cult success, "Love Shack" would make them superstars off the "Cosmic Thing" release.
I may be wrong here, but I think "Roam" is their only career Top 10 Pop hit, yes?
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Post by Ragin on Apr 23, 2004 9:21:50 GMT -5
I know Roam was bigger at pop, but Love Shack didn't make the top10? If not Roam was definitely their only top10. Deadbeat Club didn't fare as well, and Cosmic Thing was their peak commercially anyway.
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Post by Hervard on Apr 23, 2004 9:56:36 GMT -5
Who says "Love Shack" didn't hit the Top Ten? It peaked at number five in late 1989.
It is true that "Roam" did peak higher (#2), but the song that the B-52's are more famous for is "Love Shack"
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Post by singingsparrow on Apr 23, 2004 10:06:07 GMT -5
This is the list of all of the B-52's singles:
"Rock Lobster" (1979) "Planet Claire" (1979) "6060-842" (1979) "Dance this Mess Around" (1979) "52 Girls" (1979) "Lava" (1979) "Private Idaho" (1980) "Give Me Back My Man" (1980) "Dirty Back Road" (1980) "Strobe Light" (1982) "Mesopotamia" (1982) "Deep Sleep" (1982) "Song For a Future Generation" (1983) "Legal Tender" (1983) "Summer of Love" (1986) "Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland" (1986) "Wig" (1986) "Channel Z" (1989) "Deadbeat Club" (1989) "Roam" (1989) "Love Shack" (1989) "Good Stuff" (1992) "Revolution Earth" (1992) "Is That You Mo-Dean?" (1992) "Tell It Like It T-I-Is" (1992) "Hot Pants Explosion" (1993) "Meet the Flintstones" (1994)
Most of these never charted on Pop, but Alternative was always the B-52's chief format.
"Deadbeat Club" also charted Pop I'm sure, and I'm not sure if "Private Idaho" did or not, possibly "Meet The Flintstones" did also. Other than that I don't think any other single charted there.
Anyone have a chart history for Alternative?
Sincerely, Noah Eaton
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Post by halo19 on Apr 23, 2004 10:38:25 GMT -5
Every song before the Cosmic Thing era preceded the alternative chart on even Billboard, so I'll just post you what I know (not in order 'cos I can't remember the order):
Cosmic Thing -- #1 Love Shack -- #1 Channel Z -- #7 Roam -- #6 Good Stuff -- #1 Tell It Like It T-I-I-Is -- #13 Debbie -- #35
Several tracks made the Club Play chart prior to that though. I know that "Good Stuff" had a 3-week stay at the top, but don't remember how the others did.
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Post by Hervard on Apr 23, 2004 11:22:08 GMT -5
This is the list of all of the B-52's singles: "Deadbeat Club" also charted Pop I'm sure, and I'm not sure if "Private Idaho" did or not, possibly "Meet The Flintstones" did also. Other than that I don't think any other single charted there. I believe that "Deadbeat Club" only got as high as number 23 in the summer of 1990 (Third single syndrome), and "(Meet) The Flintstones" peaked somewhere around there too. Other than that, I don't believe the B-52s had any other hits. Everytime Dees played "Summer Of Love" on his summertime special, he said that it charted on the Weekly Top 40 in 1986 , but he never said what position. He just kicked the show off with that, since it mentioned the word "Summer" in its title (by the time 1991's summer special came on, they replaced the song with "Summertime" by DJ Jazzy Jeff. Of course, now, they just throw a meaningless list together, basically just rearranging the current chart instead of playing songs of the past five summers (of course, they did something like that in 2002, when they had two specials in a row to prevent having to play "Without Me" and "Hot In Herre" as number one songs (of course the latter they had to play, since it stayed up there for two weeks).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2004 14:00:42 GMT -5
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Post by reception on Apr 23, 2004 16:22:00 GMT -5
I hate it.
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Post by mst3k on Apr 23, 2004 17:18:51 GMT -5
"Good Stuff" was a fast rise/fast fall pop hit in 1992 (adding to ulij20's post above).
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Post by Hervard on Apr 23, 2004 20:45:10 GMT -5
Shoot, I knew there was one I'd forgotten! And guess what - THIS ONE HIT THE TOP TEN!!
No, seriously, its chart run went like so: 32-21-17-14-11-10-12-23-34-off.
A very brief chart run for a top ten song and not even quite enough points to register on the Top 100 of 1992, but it was indeed a Top Ten hit, so they've had three top tens, two more than a few people originally thought.
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Post by cartman2002 on Nov 15, 2006 21:03:52 GMT -5
Rock Lobester got to #56 on the Hot 100 in 1980 and it was the group's biggest pop hit until "Love Shack was released in 1989
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Post by joker on Nov 16, 2006 14:12:45 GMT -5
I like it.
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Post by tortuga on Nov 16, 2006 14:29:45 GMT -5
I only listen to like the first minute. The song is too long!
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Apr 19, 2007 10:12:39 GMT -5
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Post by disman00911 on Jun 8, 2021 12:39:44 GMT -5
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