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Who remembers The B-52s...

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26-08-2022 1:03am

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Laphroaig52

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Thanks to YouTube, I've recently rediscovered them.
But weren't they great? Great fun and great energy...
And the two girls with their wigs and wiggles (in their seventies now. FFS) were great little movers.
"Hot Pants".....JM&J....Impure thoughts!

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#2 26-08-2022 1:18am
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🦐🦐🦐

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#3 26-08-2022 1:20am
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Do you want a slap?

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#4 26-08-2022 6:33pm
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Yipes!.... 😬
I read something about them a few months back, and something else about Katie Pierson feeling old and getting a replacement, I think that was earlier.
-Here is the first article mentioned, from late May, but no idea where I read the other. It may not have said she would be replaced, but more about her feeling old. Can't imagine the tour being anything without her. They already played Europe (or some of) IIRC just before lockdown.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/b52s-kate-pierson-farewell-tour-interview-1357754/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEIvE434kS0

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#5 26-08-2022 6:49pm
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I'm disappointed. Thought it was going to be about the Boeing bombers.

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#6 26-08-2022 8:10pm
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Well it kind of is.....I think group was called after the aircraft. And then the cocktail was named for them....Or was it the other way round.
It's hard to believe that some of those planes are still in service.....a bit like the group members!

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#7 26-08-2022 8:13pm
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On their farewall tour now or soon, US only though.

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#8 26-08-2022 8:15pm
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They still sound great. Roam was a great song too.

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#9 26-08-2022 8:17pm
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Red-headed female singers always look awesome. The aforementioned Kate, Shirley Manson, Tori Amos and Miki Berenyi (of '90s indie band Lush).

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The B-52s were best known for their party, fun image, but they recorded a bunch of really great new wave/rock songs.

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#11 26-08-2022 9:52pm
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I remember their songs like Love Shack and Rock Lobster (down, down, down...) back in maybe 1991 or so?
They were a good enough band I thought at the time. Never really got into their style though. But they've been around since '76.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_B-52%27s

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#12 21-09-2022 8:56am
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Roam is a bloody great song !!

"Bright lights and Thunder .................... "

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#13 21-09-2022 9:06am
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To complement that fun image they also changed their name to the "BC-52's" for the 1994 Flintstones movie as they had a song on the soundtrack.

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#14 21-09-2022 9:13am
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Other great songs - Private Idaho and Party out of bounds
I saw them many years ago in the point

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#15 23-09-2022 10:24pm
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Roam is a dirty song!
"Hip to Hip....Rocket through the wilderness...."
Nice one but how did they get away with that.....? 😮

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#16 27-09-2022 7:19pm
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They were supposed to play Vicar Street around the time of Funplex but it was cancelled.
Great band. Peaked with Wild Planet and Mesopotamia.
I hate when Love Shack is included on 80s compilations on this side of the world.

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#17 27-09-2022 7:28pm
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https://youtu.be/VvCng7-za1Y
songs for a future generation

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#18 29-09-2022 6:59am
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Me too... Bye!

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#19 30-09-2022 11:06am
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I remember when Kate Piersen performed Shiny Happy People with REM

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