The B-52s Lyrics
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From the Album
1. Planet Claire
2. 52 Girls
3. Rock Lobster
4. Party Out Of Bounds
5. Strobe Light
6. Private Idaho
7. Quiche Lorraine
8. Mesopotamia
9. Song for a Future Generation
10. Summer of Love
11. Channel Z
12. Deadbeat Club
13. Love Shack
14. Roam
15. Good Stuff
16. Is That You Mo-Dean?
17. Debbie
18. Hallucinating Pluto
From the Album
1. Cosmic Thing
2. Dry County
3. Deadbeat Club
4. Love Shack
5. Junebug
6. Roam
7. Bushfire
8. Channel Z
9. Topaz
10. Follow Your Bliss
From the Single
Love Shack
From the Album
1. Planet Claire
2. 52 Girls
3. Dance This Mess Around
4. Rock Lobster
5. Lava
6. There's a Moon in the Sky (Called the Moon)
7. Hero Worship
8. 6060-842
9. Downtown
Other Songs
Big Bird
Breezin'
Butterbean
Cake
Dancing Now
Deep Sleep
Detour Thru Your Mind
Deviant Ingredient
Eyes Wide Open
Funplex
Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland
Give Me Back My Man
Hot Corner
Housework
Juicy Jungle
Keep This Party Going
Legal Tender
Love in the Year 3000
Love Me When Im Gone
Loveland
(Meet) The Flintstones
Modean
Moon 83
Nip It In The Bud
Planet Claire song
Planet Clare
Queen Of Las Vegas [Mesopotamia Outtake Version]
The Chosen One
Theme for a Nude Beach
Theres a Moon in the Sky
Throw That Beat in the Garbage Can
Too Much to Think About
Trism
Whammy Kiss
Wig
From the Album
The B-52s, originally presented as the B-52's (with an errant apostrophe; used until 2008), are an American new wave band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1976. The original lineup consisted of Fred Schneider (vocals, percussion), Kate Pierson (vocals, keyboards, synth bass), Cindy Wilson (vocals, percussion), Ricky Wilson (guitar, vocals), and Keith Strickland (drums, guitar, keyboards, vocals). Ricky Wilson died of AIDS-related illness in 1985, and Strickland permanently switched from drums to lead guitar. The band has also added various members for albums and live performances.
The B-52s have had many hits, including "Rock Lobster", "Planet Claire", "Party Out of Bounds", "Private Idaho", "Whammy Kiss", "Summer of Love", "Wig", "Love Shack", "Roam", "Funplex" and "(Meet) The Flintstones". They have been nominated for three Grammy Awards: twice for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group in 1990 and 1991, and for Best Alternative Music Album in 1992. In April 2022, the group announced they were retiring from touring. A 2023 Las Vegas residency was announced in November 2022.
The group evoked a "thrift shop aesthetic", in Bernard Gendron's words, by drawing from 1950s and 1960s pop sources, trash culture, and rock and roll. Schneider, Pierson, and Wilson sometimes use call-and-response-style vocals (Schneider's often humorous Sprechgesang contrasting with Wilson's and Pierson's melodic harmonies), and their guitar- and keyboard-driven instrumentation is their trademark sound, which was also set apart from their contemporaries by the unusual guitar tunings Ricky Wilson used on their earlier albums.
Members:
The B-52s have had many hits, including "Rock Lobster", "Planet Claire", "Party Out of Bounds", "Private Idaho", "Whammy Kiss", "Summer of Love", "Wig", "Love Shack", "Roam", "Funplex" and "(Meet) The Flintstones". They have been nominated for three Grammy Awards: twice for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group in 1990 and 1991, and for Best Alternative Music Album in 1992. In April 2022, the group announced they were retiring from touring. A 2023 Las Vegas residency was announced in November 2022.
The group evoked a "thrift shop aesthetic", in Bernard Gendron's words, by drawing from 1950s and 1960s pop sources, trash culture, and rock and roll. Schneider, Pierson, and Wilson sometimes use call-and-response-style vocals (Schneider's often humorous Sprechgesang contrasting with Wilson's and Pierson's melodic harmonies), and their guitar- and keyboard-driven instrumentation is their trademark sound, which was also set apart from their contemporaries by the unusual guitar tunings Ricky Wilson used on their earlier albums.
Fred Schneider - vocals, percussion (1976-present)
Kate Pierson - vocals, percussion (1976-present) keyboards, bass (1976-1989)
Keith Strickland - bass, keyboards, programming, backing vocals (1976-present; not touring since 2013) drums (1976-1985) guitar (1985-present)
Cindy Wilson - vocals, percussion (1976-1990, 1996-present)
Former members:
Ricky Wilson - guitars, bass, keyboards, backing vocals (1976-1985; his death)
From: Athens, Georgia, U.S.
Genre(s): New wave, dance-rock, post-punk, art pop
Active From: 1976-present