Sitting in a car in 1979 *edit* eating pizza with my buddies and this came on the radio. We all looked at each other in amazement and never looked back. Time had literally shifted into a new era.
Correct, he broke a string early on and was never replaced. He played 5 string electric guitar from then on, said it was crucial to the unique sound. He was one of the girl’s brothers I think and he later died of HIV, Sad, B-52s rock. See ‘Athens GA Inside Out’ film for more on Athens quirky music scene in 1980s.
Ok, I'll add another comment: when listening to this tune, take a sec and listen to the sounds churned out by Ricky (high and low guitar) and Keith (drums). These two guys pretty much propel this song into hyper speed, as they did so many others. A two-man wrecking crew - such good sierra!
As a guitarist who started playing with the influences of AC/DC Led Zeppelin et al... The B52's were the 1st band I heard that had me listening to the guitar.
Yet Another 7 inch 45 record I used to own back in the late 70's. I miss those olden days!! $3.00 Concert tickets, and $1.00 Beers... Where is my TARDIS now that I need to escape From the Madness that Is the year 2021 A.D.??🎩😇💥🔥💜❄🆗🌀🚀🚩👅
@@indiatastic yep in the early 90s bar called connections Clifton New Jersey in the back room 50 cent tap beers all night long while we listened and watched metal videos on the screen any and every single Thursday night 😁
One of the greatest bands of all time... I wanted to live in a world created by their first three albums, party mix being third by the way - I basically still do...
i was 11 years old in 79 i lent the tape of b52s (+devo, iggy pop) at the public library just because i liked the covers, been a fan since then...what you like as a kid you'll never forget
Saw them in 1979. Opening act was Robert Fripp on guitar, Deborah Harry on drums, Arto Lindsay on guitar. Headliner was, ahem, Suicide. They played one hour, with Devil in My Car, Rock Lobster and this song. One of my favorite discoveries, and I never looked back. CAN'T BELIEVE THEY ARE DOING A FAREWELL TOUR.
What are they rated at? Maybe we could get their rating adjusted? But I suppose if we did that we would have to say “wow the B52s are sooo correctly rated!” That would be different from every other “underrated” band on UA-cam.
A new, highly creative dimension of musical contribution to the rock scene at the time of their arrival. Amazingly talented, energetic & fun innovators. As others have stated, should really be considered for induction to the rock & roll hall of fame. I hope this will happen.
Me 2. I just saw them in concert, a few weeks back, on their farewell tour and I swear there's no band that can match what The B-52's bring to pop culture. I hate to say farewell to them, but I get it. And yes, I pray to God I live to see them inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's long overdue 👊
I agree, but I fear that their "Flintstone" years may hurt their chances with the snobbish Hall. Meanwhile, they were so much more innovative than so many of the bands that have been inducted into the HoF since (I mean bands that came along later...some much later).
I was the import/indies single buyer at Tower Records in Campbell CA when this came out. I knew about them from my friends in the Hairstylist Mafia and got 3 copies and ended up buying all 3 to give to my mates. I would have slit open every vein in my body to spend 20 minutes playing bass with them but then they never needed one anyway. Liquid silk pours from these women’s mouths…sigh. 3:25
This is the song that got me interested in the band. I heard it on student radio here in Auckland NZ. I was slowly giving up on guitar heroism, and this helped. If there is one thing this is not, it is blues-based rock.
@@curly_wyn Now that's going a bit far. Solos can still be tasteful and non-blues-based. As per my handle, have a listen to some Sabicas, Niño Ricardo, or the great Paco de Lucía.
Dancing to B-52's, Devo, Elvis Costello and so many other great bands at various Lock Haven State College house parties and PMD in PA. So thankful my world collided with that musical era.
Different version than the one on the Yellow Album for sure. Always loved this guitar riff / beat. Some real hard Punk influence from these guys. Love this band....
Yup. Ricky plays the rhythm parts, with Cindy playing a single-note lead overtop. Now, if you really wanna hear one guitarist sounding like two, listen to Jim Duckworth's work with the Gun Club. There's a video of them at the Hacienda on YT where he manages to churn an ungodly amount of sound out of a mere six strings.
Remember 8-tracks?Rickyand Keith got my attention.I enjoyed their success as if I had discovered them myself.The cutting mark on whether you were with it or not Lost my virginity to the B-52s. Great times.
They were trying to copy the ¨Beat Generation¨ of the 50s and 60s 20 years later back then and it still never gets old. itś timeless. even for them and their then retro creative experimental rock, it is still great sounding to this day.
Now you mention it, they look like how I imagined the characters of 'On The road' would look when I read the book 35 years ago. Wow. You dredged up something that wasn't a memory, but just a 'sense' if you know what I mean.......nice one, that never happened before.
@@simonascough4898 I just looked it up on Wiki. Might I mention, one of the characters in the book is named Ricky, just the same as Ricky Wilson here? *AND* that Sal met "On The Road Ricky" in Sabinal after Sal went through Bakersfield, which is where Mosrite Guitars were built, which is the brand that Ricky Wilson played a lot early on? Furthermore, after realizing cotton picking's not for Sal, he goes back to Pittsburgh. *I lived near Pittsburgh once.* Grated sometimes a coincidence is not a whole lot, but this is a bit on the nose here.
never heard this either...love it!! takes me back to a cookout with a garage band...smiling. great memories with this band as a soundtrack. thanks guys.
Ricky Wilson died in 1985 of aids. He had not told anyone of his illness, not even his younger sister Cindy, one of the singers in the band, who did not have a chance to say goodbye to him. Bouncing off the Satellites (released in 1986) is the last album which featured Ricky. The band took a hiatus from recording until 1989. The drummer switched to guitar and learned all of Ricky's parts of the older songs. The original line-up remained unchanged to this day, apart from added musicians. Cindy only took a hiatus from the recording of Good Stuff (1992) and the Flintstone movie soundtrack to take care of her family, although she did soon after join the band again for touring.
I was around 11 at the time and people were listening to Imagination and Earth Wind and Fire and a friend s sister made us listen to that one song ….. révélation is the word
Cosmic Thing propelled them into popularity, but I was listening to them when people thought I was a weirdo for it and wearing two different color custom made vans (shoes) on different feet. And wearing Vuarnet wraparound sunglasses with leather side covers with neck string. 1979, skateboarding and riding BMX bikes in empty swimming pools, making snowboards and sneaking in the backside of a ski resort (Illegal at the time) and getting in 2-3 runs in cause you had to hike to the top.. Made scurfboards out of old surfboards, shorten them and glassed a skag in it ,and then being towed by a truck down a ditch with a one handle ski rope. Also made BMX Cruiser bikes before you could buy them from bike shop..then started racing Dirtbikes... I wasn't a weirdo, I was jus ahead of my time...like the B 52'S... We both were RADICAL!! The Fresno Rads!.. My teenage gang...
It's hard for me to think about the B-52s without remembering the Athens scene that they kick-started. In particular, I think of R.E.M., one of my favorite bands back in the 80s. And it's hard not to notice that the B-52s' music has, for the most part, held up better over time.
This is what happens musically when talent and creativity meld perfectly..... The B-52s are an iconic one of kind band who came about organically from the sleepy college town of Athens, GA..... Who woulda thunk it?
Except the Cuyahoga River, the Love Canal, Three Mile Island, the South China Sea, Times Square.... Cuz those all kinda sucked. But the music was good. :-)
Came back here because there's nothing just worth listening to in 2024
How dare you insult TAYLOR SWIFT, the Greatest musician of all times! Her fans are even saying that she's greater than Michael Jackson!...
Sitting in a car in 1979 *edit* eating pizza with my buddies and this came on the radio. We all looked at each other in amazement and never looked back. Time had literally shifted into a new era.
I still remember where I was when I heard Rock Lobster
Exactly! somewhere between Foreigner and Fleetwood Mac they slipped it Planet Claire. Wait, What? The world was never the same.
@@FlamesCagney in between Sara and Long Run I heard Rock Lobster in November of 79 and it blew my mind. Such a great first album. ❤️🇨🇦✌️
Exactly. Private Idaho did it for me.
Similar experience man.
Most underrrated guitar. Ricky was one of a kind. An original.
everyone is underrated these days
They certainly were not an "underrated band" by any stretch of the imagination.
And the drumming! Those two just so great together. Always makes the DJ set.
Have to agree. As unmistakeably unique as the Edge or Van halen.
Correct, he broke a string early on and was never replaced. He played 5 string electric guitar from then on, said it was crucial to the unique sound. He was one of the girl’s brothers I think and he later died of HIV, Sad, B-52s rock. See ‘Athens GA Inside Out’ film for more on Athens quirky music scene in 1980s.
We seriously need more bands like the b-52’s now in 2024 !!
Ok, I'll add another comment: when listening to this tune, take a sec and listen to the sounds churned out by Ricky (high and low guitar) and Keith (drums). These two guys pretty much propel this song into hyper speed, as they did so many others. A two-man wrecking crew - such good sierra!
Ricky was the backbone, he gave birth to the band, the others followed.
Ricky's on rhythm guitar in this one. He probably wrote the lead guitar parts, but Kate played the lead parts while singing.
Going to Vegas to see the B 52's on my 52 birthday, thanks Son
This song sounds fresher the older it gets
They taught me it isn't a bad thing to be different. Thanks B-52's. Life changng lesson.
Yes, they make you feel comfortable with being yourself. Love these guys!
Yep, there's a moon in the sky
Wow, I've never heard this version. It's great.
Where the HELL did this suddenly come from? 52 Girls is this band at their very best. Never tire of this track.
its the B side to the original "Rock Lobster" 7" single. their debut recording
Killer jam , killer band , killer photo .
Great photo. I didn't know that Tom Brady was one of the original members of The B-52s
@@jeffreycafferelli6973 My sides
The look on that girl’s face on the left is hilarious sorry I don’t know her name
@@jrs7082 the one and only Cindy Wilson
@@jeffreycafferelli6973
Thats Kate.
As a guitarist who started playing with the influences of AC/DC Led Zeppelin et al... The B52's were the 1st band I heard that had me listening to the guitar.
And didn’t have any guitar solos at all, which was refreshing!
Right, but listening to Jimmy Page ain't that bad either ...
What an awesome picture that is of the B-52's ....
Yet Another 7 inch 45 record I used to own back in the late 70's. I miss those olden days!!
$3.00 Concert tickets, and $1.00 Beers... Where is my TARDIS now that I need to escape From the Madness that Is the year 2021 A.D.??🎩😇💥🔥💜❄🆗🌀🚀🚩👅
I had $.025 taps night in the 90s!
@@indiatastic yep in the early 90s bar called connections Clifton New Jersey in the back room 50 cent tap beers all night long while we listened and watched metal videos on the screen any and every single Thursday night 😁
Maybe there is an app?
just wait 'til 2024 - you ain't seen nothin' yet
The old day's, young and lost in paradise , hanging around and a student and a little bit Punk generation and little bit in love.This sound is magic.
One of the greatest bands of all time... I wanted to live in a world created by their first three albums, party mix being third by the way - I basically still do...
I still have Party Mix on vinyl-Was the first album I bought by them. May have to dust it off 🙂
Party Mix was not an album. Whammy! was the 3rd album.
i was 11 years old in 79 i lent the tape of b52s (+devo, iggy pop) at the public library just because i liked the covers, been a fan since then...what you like as a kid you'll never forget
Saw them in 1979. Opening act was Robert Fripp on guitar, Deborah Harry on drums, Arto Lindsay on guitar. Headliner was, ahem, Suicide. They played one hour, with Devil in My Car, Rock Lobster and this song. One of my favorite discoveries, and I never looked back. CAN'T BELIEVE THEY ARE DOING A FAREWELL TOUR.
One of the most underrated bands , cool as cool
They're so underrated they had several hits and videos.
@@gogoyubari366 Yeah, exactly, who are these muppets?
What are they rated at? Maybe we could get their rating adjusted?
But I suppose if we did that we would have to say “wow the B52s are sooo correctly rated!” That would be different from every other “underrated” band on UA-cam.
@@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 this comment is correctly rated
@@phlarrdboi finally, a correctly calibrated rating system!
A new, highly creative dimension of musical contribution to the rock scene at the time of their arrival. Amazingly talented, energetic & fun innovators. As others have stated, should really be considered for induction to the rock & roll hall of fame. I hope this will happen.
the rock and roll hall of fame is a con and a ripoff and every single person associated with it should go jump in the lake.
Me 2. I just saw them in concert, a few weeks back, on their farewell tour and I swear there's no band that can match what The B-52's bring to pop culture. I hate to say farewell to them, but I get it. And yes, I pray to God I live to see them inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's long overdue 👊
I agree, but I fear that their "Flintstone" years may hurt their chances with the snobbish Hall. Meanwhile, they were so much more innovative than so many of the bands that have been inducted into the HoF since (I mean bands that came along later...some much later).
I was the import/indies single buyer at Tower Records in Campbell CA when this came out. I knew about them from my friends in the Hairstylist Mafia and got 3 copies and ended up buying all 3 to give to my mates. I would have slit open every vein in my body to spend 20 minutes playing bass with them but then they never needed one anyway. Liquid silk pours from these women’s mouths…sigh. 3:25
That was the best record store in the South Bay, far as inventory and selection. Spent a large portion of my allowance there in the early 80s.
This is the song that got me interested in the band. I heard it on student radio here in Auckland NZ. I was slowly giving up on guitar heroism, and this helped. If there is one thing this is not, it is blues-based rock.
Bfm
@@mikethebreeze Too right.
For real! Guitar solos are overrated. Rhythm guitar is the only guitar that matters!
@@curly_wyn Now that's going a bit far. Solos can still be tasteful and non-blues-based.
As per my handle, have a listen to some Sabicas, Niño Ricardo, or the great Paco de Lucía.
@@curly_wyn thank you.
Ricky kills it ...Great guitar 🎸
Dancing to B-52's, Devo, Elvis Costello and so many other great bands at various Lock Haven State College house parties and PMD in PA. So thankful my world collided with that musical era.
Me too bud... 🤪🤘
Undoubtedly their best track, genius.
I agree. Ive quit trying to explain it to the squares.
It really is their best song. And they have such a great catalogue to choose from.
This still kicks ass. 🥰
Great version, like it a lot , the sound is "pure" , thank you Moses and The B 52's , makes me happy in dark times.
Such an original sound Then and now
Brilliant in its simplicity.
Can you name, name, name
Name 'em today?
Tight guitar play. Love these guy..
Man...got my groooove back.
Love this version! Always good feel good music with the B-52's!
Different version than the one on the Yellow Album for sure. Always loved this guitar riff / beat. Some real hard Punk influence from these guys. Love this band....
I have had a crush on Kate Piersen since I was 4, great vocalist.
Ricky and Keith were such a great team musically
That guitar playing. Sounds like two instruments. Genius.
Of course it does, there are indeed two differing guitar tracks.
Yup. Ricky plays the rhythm parts, with Cindy playing a single-note lead overtop. Now, if you really wanna hear one guitarist sounding like two, listen to Jim Duckworth's work with the Gun Club. There's a video of them at the Hacienda on YT where he manages to churn an ungodly amount of sound out of a mere six strings.
@@cftvdata Kate plays the guitar on 52 Girls, not Cindy
Remember 8-tracks?Rickyand Keith got my attention.I enjoyed their success as if I had discovered them myself.The cutting mark on whether you were with it or not Lost my virginity to the B-52s. Great times.
The sound of punk parties of my youth.
This is awesome, the music of my youth.
Really great, gang of four like guitar. I love it.
They were trying to copy the ¨Beat Generation¨ of the 50s and 60s 20 years later back then and it still never gets old. itś timeless. even for them and their then retro creative experimental rock, it is still great sounding to this day.
Now you mention it, they look like how I imagined the characters of 'On The road' would look when I read the book 35 years ago. Wow. You dredged up something that wasn't a memory, but just a 'sense' if you know what I mean.......nice one, that never happened before.
@@simonascough4898 I just looked it up on Wiki. Might I mention, one of the characters in the book is named Ricky, just the same as Ricky Wilson here? *AND* that Sal met "On The Road Ricky" in Sabinal after Sal went through Bakersfield, which is where Mosrite Guitars were built, which is the brand that Ricky Wilson played a lot early on?
Furthermore, after realizing cotton picking's not for Sal, he goes back to Pittsburgh. *I lived near Pittsburgh once.*
Grated sometimes a coincidence is not a whole lot, but this is a bit on the nose here.
In the photo above, Ricky looks just as I had imagined Dean Moriarty.
Best new wave act from the golden era.
Great early version of this song! They were SO GREAT!
Such a great song. Just gets you going.
It was cool then, it is an unbelievable classic now! So quintessential 80’s
yeah - try the 1970's
Great song!!! Took me back to high school🙃
Great drumming!
GREAT BAND!!!! 💕 💕 LOVE IT.. MEMORIES
Thank you. I never got the single and didn't realize it was different from the album version. This is much better, fresher I think.
I bought this album on cassette way back when it was first released. Ah the memories!
A great song.
Cannot explain how much I love this band.
Same here. 😊
Me either. I'm a diehard fan. ♥️
Thanks , for this nice original version.
Weeee.B-52's always time less, Thank you and Merry Christmas. Whoof
That cheered me up no end!
never heard this either...love it!! takes me back to a cookout with a garage band...smiling. great memories with this band as a soundtrack. thanks guys.
That's a pretty cool photo & track- know a couple of band members are no longer with us but they should all feel pretty proud of themselves.
I knew the one guy died ( i think of aids ) long ago who was the other?
@@blachloch1 no one else
Ricky Wilson died in 1985 of aids. He had not told anyone of his illness, not even his younger sister Cindy, one of the singers in the band, who did not have a chance to say goodbye to him. Bouncing off the Satellites (released in 1986) is the last album which featured Ricky. The band took a hiatus from recording until 1989. The drummer switched to guitar and learned all of Ricky's parts of the older songs. The original line-up remained unchanged to this day, apart from added musicians. Cindy only took a hiatus from the recording of Good Stuff (1992) and the Flintstone movie soundtrack to take care of her family, although she did soon after join the band again for touring.
Ich liebe sie😍
hands down....their best song!!!
And it sounds fantastic!!!
Never heard this. Amazing!!
I was around 11 at the time and people were listening to Imagination and Earth Wind and Fire and a friend s sister made us listen to that one song ….. révélation is the word
Cosmic Thing propelled them into popularity, but I was listening to them when people thought I was a weirdo for it and wearing two different color custom made vans (shoes) on different feet. And wearing Vuarnet wraparound sunglasses with leather side covers with neck string. 1979, skateboarding and riding BMX bikes in empty swimming pools, making snowboards and sneaking in the backside of a ski resort (Illegal at the time) and getting in 2-3 runs in cause you had to hike to the top.. Made scurfboards out of old surfboards, shorten them and glassed a skag in it ,and then being towed by a truck down a ditch with a one handle ski rope. Also made BMX Cruiser bikes before you could buy them from bike shop..then started racing Dirtbikes... I wasn't a weirdo, I was jus ahead of my time...like the B 52'S... We both were RADICAL!! The Fresno Rads!.. My teenage gang...
Thank you, Moses!❤
Great version with a punk feel.
Imagine knowing the B-52s in college. What a trip.
Perfect post, bro 🤗
LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!
Thanks for posting this!
Ricky playing with a missing string or 2. Awesome!
Awesome!!!❤
1978 Punk attitude = Punk music - Love it...!
this isn't punk.
Raw, bare bones 52's.love it.also cindy,has the prettiest eyes.just sayin.
Her eyes immediately drew me in the first time I saw them. And then with their amazing music...the effect was hypnotic!
woooohoooo great ! thanx ! cheers from my youth and germany :))))
Fantastic,!
Punk rock Bfivetwos
Awesome version. You can really hear their punk roots
Great song, Great group!!!!!
What a great pic!
Oh, my goodness. This is so cool.
Sounds fresh!!
It's hard for me to think about the B-52s without remembering the Athens scene that they kick-started. In particular, I think of R.E.M., one of my favorite bands back in the 80s. And it's hard not to notice that the B-52s' music has, for the most part, held up better over time.
And PYLON!!!🤘 ❤🤘
Awesome!
This is what happens musically when talent and creativity meld perfectly.....
The B-52s are an iconic one of kind band who came about organically from the sleepy college town of Athens, GA.....
Who woulda thunk it?
Great track
A banda da minha época 1980 amoooo
the classics of our time
Extra musicalement et paroles : un groupe en avance sur notre époque : que je dédie à C....C....
great photo
This version is so much better than the album one!
Always fun😊
Love this song
A nice deep cut, and this song really rocks
Class act!
Great band
back EONS ago when everything didn't SUCK
Except the Cuyahoga River, the Love Canal, Three Mile Island, the South China Sea, Times Square.... Cuz those all kinda sucked. But the music was good. :-)
Love it !! ; )
Best song ever!!
Good Times!
this is the best band ever hands down
I totally agree. The B-52's Forever 👊
Greatness