IMO, love shack is just what Amber said, a party place to laugh, dance, drink, and well if you hook up with someone, so be it, simple as that. I lived thru those times, where having a great time was priority one.
So true, I've been to so-called love shacks..great parties, so diverse, everybody welcomed. Fun times and yes, people hooked up for later but not there.
Oh-my-gosh! I have no reason to comment, I literally promise, I wasn't gonna comment but when thinking about it, that was it.... like verbadim ( I never know if I'm spelling that right!) But, that blew my mind! 🤯😮great song too🥳 they're having a blast!
Top 3 B-52's suggestions; "Rock Lobster," "Private Idaho," and "Give Back My Man." My favorite is "Planet Claire" but it's too weird for most people. Lots of people think that the band name is a reference to the airplane, but it's only indirectly connected. In the 70's, a B-52 was the southern nickname for a beehive hairdo, which is what Cindy and Kate originally wore on stage.
The band originated in Athens Georgia, but the blonde girl Cindy Wilson is the only one actually from Georgia. She's the one that yelled the part, "Tin Roof rust" when the music paused.
This is my teenage years right here. I think I might be one of your biggest fans. I'm SO HAPPY that you both have a great, wonderful, successful youtube channel! LOVE IT!
Some cool facts about this: 1) This and the LP *Cosmic Thing* were the group’s comeback, after a hiatus following their original guitarist Ricky Wilson’s death. 2) The story goes that the group (with full rhythm section) attempted a few takes of the song at one studio session, weren’t satisfied and decided to call it a night. They came back the following day, recorded it “live off the floor”, and nailed it on the first take. THAT’S that energy we feel!🤩
I love y’all! New sub. I’m 61 years young and y’all are so young… I love your reactions to my era’s music. You’re both adorable! You popped my bubble! It is a place to go dance and hang out.… LOL!
I love your reactions Jay and Amber! This song is just an absolute party! If you haven't checked it out, you should listen to "Rock Lobster.". That song song was a huge underground club hit in the late '70s, and it is too bizarre, but in a good way!
If you notice the black chick with the big fro, this is RuPaul's debut! Also this song was written because their guitarist Ricky Wilson died from HIV, about two years later they wrote this song they finally got back together and it was remembering a place that they used to go and party that was kind of out in the country and it was literally a shack that served liquor had a jukebox etc., practically the whole album that they wrote was their memories of being together back in Georgia
Getting down meant dancing back then. Clubs were everywhere with DJs and live music. We went to bars and danced around juke boxes too. This was a song about hitting a private after hours club. We went out at 10 pm and rolled in around 8am. Lol
New details I just noticed- Lady in the bubble bath looks out on a guy pissing against an outbuilding, while someone ladles themselves a glass of her bathwater. Kind of sets a mood...
Near the end of this video for many years I had no idea what the one girl says - "Tin Roof Rusted"!!!! This is a FUN song. I think it means whatever you want it to... God bless you all...
This is a song that immediately makes me automatically makes me happy. When this song came out I was an adult and I was thought it was about an amazing place to party. Maybe you'd meet someone but you don't need money for the jukebox for that. Also, most people didn't dress like the B-52s in 1989.
"Love Shack" has different meaning to different listeners. Fred, Cindy, and Kate all said it was a song about having fun and being with friends and the interpretation was at the discretion of the listeners.
"Rock Lobster" is a crazy fun B-52's song. Gotta hit that one up. Rock Lobster and Love Shack are two songs that always made people hit the dance floor at parties.
'52 Girls' from The B-52s' first album is also fire. The B-52s really do have some claim to be the world's greatest party band. 100 million college kids over several generations can't be wrong!
"bring your juke box money" so you can dance. I say it's a dance club. "wearin' next to nothin' 'cause it's hot as an oven" Yeah, it's summer in Atlanta and they're dancin' it's hot. Just sayin' Love you, Paul
It was a house in the woods that had a real tin roof, just like in the song, about ten miles outside Athens, Georgia. It hasn't existed since the 80s. It was not in atlanta. There was lots of dancing and just about every other kind of fun time. But no, it wasn't specifically a "dance club". Think of it more like a party house.
@@xoxxobob61 However, in the beginning of the song, they spoke of "headin' down the Atlanta Highway". Makes me think they were either headed towards Atlanta or they passed NEAR Atlanta.
The Love Shack is an actual place that members of the B52s used to hang out at near their homes in Georgia. It was a hangout with music and groove, it was not a “hook-up” place.
I love the pre-famous Ru Paul in this! I still say it’s just a song about a party place. Yes, maybe to make a love connection, too. But “bring your jukebox money”. Don’t need that to hook up.
Shhh, let her think that everyone in the eighties dressed like this!! If we are able to perpetuate this fallacy, we could easily be the coolest generation ever!! I love Jay's idea of "bring it back then"!
This song gives me "Rockabilly" vibes. Another 'retro' sounding group is Stray Cats. Their song "Stray Cat Strut" has this same type of vibe. And the video is fun too!
Seconding Stray Cats! And to kind of crank up the weirdness a notch, I recommend The Cramps. Kind of like the B52s on acid maybe? Definitely a fun, funky, weird vibe. More psychobilly than rockabilly, but so so so good.
Amber, you got it right. The love shack here is all about partying, having fund, music and dancing - like, an attitude for that. We called it "getting down" back when. Also, since you're interested, these ladies are in costume for the video, wearing clothes/hair from the early 60's, but the song esd recorded in 1989. (Sorry Rob - ha)
According to Kate Pierson (the red headed singer) "The Love Shack is a mythical place. It's not based on a specific place but rather a series of down-home, throw-down, disco juke joints that you would find in the rural south. The shack on Jefferson Road was an inspiration for the song, though."
Interesting, I recently saw an interview with Cindy Wilson. She said the love shack is loosely based on the home of Kate Pierson just out of town Athens GA. Well, maybe it was for Cindy.
The B-52s were a badly needed, refreshingly jarring, new-wave antidote to disco in the early ‘80s. Still love this whole Cosmic Thing album from later, though.
That's what the New Wave was all about!. It was supposed to be a revolt against heavy duty studio produced sound like much of the disco was, and much of the pop/rock of the day.
Not saying you’re wrong, but....as a South Carolina boy, i can tell you “wearing next to nothing” at one of the dance joints in the South is basically a life-saving PSA
I agree with Jay, especially when the name of the song is taken into consideration, but I'm from SC too so I totally understand this comment and how it can go both ways depending on your innocence and where you live. :)
I'm a Georgia girl who lives close to Athens. We Southerners have to dress for the heat and grueling humidity all summer long (and into the fall). It's tough, but I wouldn't live anywhere else.
Give Amber back her childhood. As a 20 something when this came out and a club enthusiast - it's about dancing. You could dance or show out depending on if you hit the beat or the off beat. And north or south it was all about what you were wearing at the club. "Next to nothing" is a good description of my clubbing clothes. ^-^
The B 52's and Devo were always fun to listen to. Good party music. We called our parents cars "boats" back then. A Chrysler Imperial *is* as big as a whale. :D
I worked with a guy who, in the 90's drove around in an early 70's Chrysler Imperial, and we used to tease him about it being as big as a whale. He never got it, until one day I played him this song. From that day forward, his rebuttal would be that he was going home, to the Love Shack. 😁 Good times, I miss that guy!
@@CondescendingOaf my dad had a conversion van he used to take to NASCAR races and bluegrass festivals. I called it the "Land Yacht" and with his Naval background, he put it on the front of the van with an anchor on either side. 😁
"Get down" was not a sexual connotation then. It meant to become more frenzied or energized in your dance. "Hook up" meant to meet someone later. You have to know the times. Not today's slang. John Travolta dancing in Saturday night Fever was an example of someone getting down on the dance floor. He took it over. It was amazing. He had the moves. The rest of the movie was not really very good. We couldn't believe that Vinnie Barbarino (Travolta's character from "Welcome Back Kotter") was going to be this awesome dancer. Wow! Were we wrong. He owned the floor. He got down!
The song is 60s themed, the birth of the sexual revolution, feminism etc. The looks the girls are rocking is the 60s mini skirts etc the parents were scandalised by the new 60s fashion of their daughters 'wearing next to nothing' . When they say 'get down' it's 60s slang for dancing. Love Shack is a club, where the 'folks line up outside just to get down'.
@@marcieharreld286 Especially my sisters custom-made ones on the school bus every morning. She was a very popular "gangbang in the field" kind of girl.
"Folks lining up outside just to get down" means exactly that. "Getting down" in 70's and 80's means dancing. Nothing sexual at all. BTW, they are from The ATL. It's hot in Atlanta, Really hot.
He didn't say it was a whorehouse. He said it was a hook up joint. I worked clubs in the early 90s. You went there, you got drunk, got sweaty, got close to naked and if you were lucky, you had sex with a stranger in the shadows, behind a wall, in the VIP area or behind the bins if you had to. Being sober and working those rooms was like being a guard at a roman orgy if you picked the right night.
Rob is 100% WRONG. "Wearing next to nothing cause it's hot as an oven" many times you would go to a place where the guys were wearing shorts and girls were wearing bikinis. "Get down" in the 1980's also would refer to dancing, not just sex.
As someone that has been to Jack's Shack (the real Love Shack) its was a place to party and dance. That being said, there was quite a bit of "hookin up' as well.
"Glitter on the front porch, glitter in the hallway, glitter on the mattress, glitter on the highway." Yes people are going there to hook up. When he scream, "YOU'RE WHAT?" And she responds, " Tin Roof rusted." She is saying she is pregnant. You don't get pregnant from dancing
@@michaelsteiner7588 Cindy Wilson (the singer) said that her ad-lib ("Tin roof...rusted") had no intentional meaning; she was picturing a little shack she knew that had closed down, and it had a rusted tin roof.
Glitter in the 80s was starting to reference bisexual subculture, but I think the double meaning was interntional (dance joint with ambiguous hooking up)
I don't know if it's really true that the eighties are any more innocent than today. They are certainly more subtle! Even if the meaning is ambiguous here, I think the music is so highly sexualized that it almost doesn't matter what they are saying
It wasn't about a palce to hook up ... B-52s singer Cindy Wilson, she explained: "When you're jamming, everybody is conjuring up their own images. Sometimes we're all singing at the same time and later you go back and you hear what you're doing. I personally was thinking about this bar that was out in the country [the Hawaiian Ha-Le]. It was a really cool place - a run-down love shack kind of thing, but it was a disco. It was a really interesting place."
Yea, but that's one of the best things about The B-52's music. All of it is just outlandish and fun, with so much meaning while still being absolutely silly... as I said above, my favorites are Rock Lobster and Quiche Lorraine.
Try out shiny happy people, it was collaboration between the b-52’s and REM, another fun song from 2 groups both from Athens Georgia, that high school must’ve had incredible talent shows
A few of them are Athens locals but mostly it’s people that went to Athens to go to the University of Georgia. REM B-52s Widespread panic Matthew Sweet Drive-by truckers Athens got hot as a breeding ground for bands in the late 70s and 80s the way Seattle was in the 90s with grunge. In Athens it was about alternative and modern music coming out of the 70s as well as Southern rock and jam band. Most of those Athens bands got started on College radio.
Bill Berry and Mike Mills went to my high school in Macon, Georgia, though it was years before I was there. Our mascot was a cavalier. One of our mottoes or sayings was "No Fear Cavalier", which you might recognize from "It's the End of the World as We Know It".
The B52's were renowned for their big bee hive hairdoo's and hoop skirts, sort of a flash to the past, mixed with sort of new wave progressive party music (it might be called old school now, but this was really different when it came out.) It sort of reminds me of Ska and Beach Band music, progressive music, and even Punk. But really they invented a genre all their own. Their songs are pretty much all party and dancing type music tho. All something you would hear in a college dorm of the time. The guy, who almost talks over the gals singing annoyed me at first, but I've learned to appreciate it more over the years. Some of their songs are really fun to WATCH as well as listen to in their live performances. Songs like "Rock Lobster" come to mind. This one is sort of a POP Dance tune, but some of their other sings are even more unusual and interesting. Also I disagree that the shack is just a flop house for sex. It is a dance party, and yeah, people COULD hook up, but the song isn't really about sex. It is about Dancing and moving and partying. The car is about to set sail, it holds about 20. Bring your juke box money. That is a party, not a brothel. Getting down is not just a sexual reference. In this era it literally mean letting loose and having fun, and it was innocent, and this was a fairly innocent upbeat band. I mean that's not to say that sex isn't part of the appeal. There is guys and gals dancing together and flirting, and maybe the hint of sex, but there really is no hidden meaning here. This is the party shack just out of the city limits in the woods, where they can serve alcohol and party loud and dance without a visit from the Police. There used to be lots of these for real, and a lot of these old Country Counties used to be dry counties back in the day, and people had their clubs and bars back in the woods. This is kinda like that. I get more of a modern speakeasy vibe. Databyter
The B52's were still making music as recent as 2019 and all are now in their 70s and still sound great. To get down and boogie also means to dance like crazy and maybe go further. 🤗👍🤪
This song is about partying. “Get down”means to have fun, dance and party. The line about the clothes is just about how hot it is. After all, Georgia is hot during the summer months.
Okay, so Amber's totally right with her take of a party vibe. The b52s were what is known as experimental rock, and a lot of their stuff sounds so bizarre in the best way.but there was definitely a "sound" at the time, so good connection with the gogo's.
In the day it was Punk Rock. They were in there with many others of the day, Blondie, Ramones, The Cars and so many that played at CBGB’s, that was a happening place for the punk rock scene. But, as with all other genre’s there are many facets, experimental rock is a good name for it!
I've always described B-52s as "space-age beach music". Smash Mouth also fits this mold. B-52s were pioneers in new wave in the early 80s, behind vocalists Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, and Cindy Wilson. Some of their other fantastic songs are "Rock Lobster" (make this your next one!), "Roam", "Channel Z", "Private Idaho", and my personal fave, "Good Stuff".
“Space Age Beach Music” may be my favorite description of the B-52’s ever. Now I have to go listen to Private Idaho - such a cool song. “🎶Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo!🎶
@@Pathfinder197 Thanks! I wore out Smash Mouth's "Astro Lounge" CD because it had so many elements that reminded me of the B52s. I'm also going to listen to "Private Idaho".... but not on the patio... ;) I might also throw Bow Wow Wow and The Cramps into the same category.
The “Love Shack” is any place, pasture, backyard or hangout where you gather with friends and cut loose with music, dancing, drinking, laughter and just having fun.
This song came out summer of 1989. When school started it was played at every dance that year. It was awesome The inspiration for the song was "a cabin around Athens, Georgia," with a tin roof, where the band conceived "Rock Lobster", a single from their debut album. The cabin was said to have been located off the Atlanta Highway near Athens. B-52's singer Kate Pierson lived in the cabin in the 1970s, and it burned down in December 2004. Cindy Wilson's line "tin roof rusted" was originally an outtake from a jamming session, where Wilson continued her line while the tape had stopped.
Graduated from high school that summer.... lol. Ironically this was probably their biggest universal radio play song. But they have so many songs that are better. Good call. You two like this time, you need some Depeche and Siouxie and..... They 80's are still my favorite. OMG... Disintegration.... The Cure will take you years to get through. There is so much, good for you.
I graduated high school in 89 and you couldn't get away from this song! It was a fun song and B52's was a fun group! Try "Roam", another really good song!
I love the B-52s. I used to live in Athens, GA. I knew people who used to hang out at the Love Shack. Please check out 10,000 Maniacs "Candy Everybody Wants" (another GA band) perfect for female Fridays!
Because the Night as well. I THINK they did it in an MTV Unplugged? Cover of Patti Smyth by way of Bruce Springsteen. Natalie Merchant has a great voice.
Not really lol, I think the interpretation of the lyrical content is subjective and sex appeal, is and was, always part of it. Sex isn't the focus, but it's the byproduct. ,
Kate Pierson (the red head) has said that this song isn't about one particular club, but a common type of old, ran-down, juke joint (juke box dance club). It's not about some sketchy flop-house in the woods. Don't ask what's going on in the stall of the bathroom, though! :-D
Yeah Roam was my fav B-52's song, whenever B-52's came on the radio, telly, a party, wedding etc u couldn't help but start dancing. I reckon if u put it on during a funeral the cemetery would be rocken
Amber is right, it really was about a little party spot in the woods the band members and their friends would go to dance, hangout, and have fun. And "get down" back in the 70s and 80s meant getting down to dancing and partying.
❤️Ok I’m with Mama on this one - look at it with innocent eyes LOL. Getting down is getting down to the funky beat and partying and love doesn’t have to be the s word LOL 60s lets love each other like Christians and hippies vibe 🥰😘😜😂❤️
Great 80s dance tune! This was an 80s anthem for all the girls. This and the Go Go's Our Lips are Sealed! That would be another good girl band for Friday! Also should do Jewel- Who will save your soul.
Their first hit on the punk scene was the wonderfully minimalist “Dance This Mess Around”, but you’re right, RL was their breakthrough hit. I’ve always been thankful to Athens for the B-52’s and REM. 💕
Being from Athens, as were the B-52s back in the day, I can say that "The Love Shack" was about going to parties, and the B-52s playing at college parties. Some hook-ups did happen -- it was the '70s -- but the party and the dancing and the fun was the real deal. The Love Shack is about the IDEA of some old house somewhere, where the people living there hired a band, and got a few kegs of beer, and threw parties every so often. Might have been out in the countryside, but could just as well be in town. I went to a lot of them, back in the day, LOL!
It really can't be about hook-ups, because just anybody wasn't allowed in. You had to be cool and just different. And yeah, it is a mix of both dancing and "shacking up" but mostly it's about sharing your love for anyone and everyone that was apart of the shack. VERY Hippy. Very Hipster as well. They may have invented what it means to be hipster.
No Jay! Its about cutting loose dancing and having fun. Getting down is dancing! Its about being free, hangin' with cool people, and having fun. Its pretty much the video. A shack in the middle of nowhere where people gather to have a great time.
The redhead in this band also sang on "Shiny Happy People" by REM -- it would be a perfect song for your girls next week. Good luck & happy thoughts for your delivery!
Me, I just love Planet Claire with that Peter Gunn bass vibe. They were a cracking band. Never got to see them live. For me, much like the Rezillos in terms of influences.
I will just let you know "to get down" means to dance in slang when I was growing up. I've never got any double entendre in this song as I have in others.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned an early appearance of the young RuPaul at 10:15 in this video (early in her career). The B-52s live is a great dance party even today. Back in the 80s I used to raid thrift stores and my mom's closet for old 60s clothes for this retro look. Now I can find retro printed fabric to make new fun outfits. Some of my favorite songs are Planet Claire, Mesopotamia, Private Idaho, Roam, Wig, and the best besides Love Shack is Rock Lobster.
IMO, love shack is just what Amber said, a party place to laugh, dance, drink, and well if you hook up with someone, so be it, simple as that. I lived thru those times, where having a great time was priority one.
So true, I've been to so-called love shacks..great parties, so diverse, everybody welcomed. Fun times and yes, people hooked up for later but not there.
And getting down was dancing
I miss the late 80s!
Today stinx
@@andreadeamon6419 Right? Now it's nothing but twerking and simulated sex. Meh.
Oh-my-gosh! I have no reason to comment, I literally promise, I wasn't gonna comment but when thinking about it, that was it.... like verbadim ( I never know if I'm spelling that right!) But, that blew my mind! 🤯😮great song too🥳 they're having a blast!
Top 3 B-52's suggestions; "Rock Lobster," "Private Idaho," and "Give Back My Man."
My favorite is "Planet Claire" but it's too weird for most people.
Lots of people think that the band name is a reference to the airplane, but it's only indirectly connected. In the 70's, a B-52 was the southern nickname for a beehive hairdo, which is what Cindy and Kate originally wore on stage.
Love planet claire...quiche Lorraine... Rock lobster.
Roam is another good one...
So many great ones that never got air time!
Strobe Light, 52 Girls!
ua-cam.com/video/eOjAzI5zALo/v-deo.html restored version here, they reminded me a bit of Talking heads, not sure why.
If you don't groove to this song, you're dead inside. This is everyone's vibes.
YES!!! This is the only song that could get me up dancing!!! Absolutely LOVE this song. My favorite line: TIN ROOF RUSTED!!!!
I never knew what was being said there! 30-some year mystery solved, thank you!!
@@filmsensei You’re welcome!!!
Tin roof rusted is slang for pregnant ...
@@ellavader4411 really???
Which nobody knew until they explained it.
The band originated in Athens Georgia, but the blonde girl Cindy Wilson is the only one actually from Georgia. She's the one that yelled the part, "Tin Roof rust" when the music paused.
In 2000, I went to a concert in Oakland, CA where the B52's opened for The Go Go's! We danced for hours and it was one of my best experiences ever!
No Amber! Your childhood is safe!! "Get Down" means dance! This was a real juke joint outside of Athens,GA out on the Atlanta Highway!! 🙂
Yeah the video is actually filmed in upstate New York where they all lived. It’s actually a Famous ceramics studio that their friends owned.
This is my teenage years right here. I think I might be one of your biggest fans. I'm SO HAPPY that you both have a great, wonderful, successful youtube channel! LOVE IT!
Some cool facts about this:
1) This and the LP *Cosmic Thing* were the group’s comeback, after a hiatus following their original guitarist Ricky Wilson’s death.
2) The story goes that the group (with full rhythm section) attempted a few takes of the song at one studio session, weren’t satisfied and decided to call it a night. They came back the following day, recorded it “live off the floor”, and nailed it on the first take. THAT’S that energy we feel!🤩
Did you find RuPaul in that video? He's the tall chocolate "lady" on the dance floor!!😎😎😎😎
Oh really!!
One of the best dance songs ever!
I love y’all! New sub. I’m 61 years young and y’all are so young… I love your reactions to my era’s music. You’re both adorable! You popped my bubble! It is a place to go dance and hang out.… LOL!
This song reminds me of good times in college in 1989.
I love your reactions Jay and Amber! This song is just an absolute party! If you haven't checked it out, you should listen to "Rock Lobster.". That song song was a huge underground club hit in the late '70s, and it is too bizarre, but in a good way!
I was in 6th grade when this song came out, and 30+ years later, it's still one of my favorite songs ever. Never. Gets. Old.
If you notice the black chick with the big fro, this is RuPaul's debut! Also this song was written because their guitarist Ricky Wilson died from HIV, about two years later they wrote this song they finally got back together and it was remembering a place that they used to go and party that was kind of out in the country and it was literally a shack that served liquor had a jukebox etc., practically the whole album that they wrote was their memories of being together back in Georgia
That Guitar riff is running this groove y’all🎸
A unappreciated band!Love the B-52"s!So much fun and entertaining to listen to. Try "Private Idaho "and "Mesopotamia "and " Rock Lobster "
The ladies always float that boat
Getting down meant dancing back then. Clubs were everywhere with DJs and live music. We went to bars and danced around juke boxes too. This was a song about hitting a private after hours club. We went out at 10 pm and rolled in around 8am. Lol
Def party scene. They started the Thrift store chic look movement in the 70's/80s
The red head, Kate Pierson, she was a hottie back then. Had the look too for that sixties theme.
New details I just noticed- Lady in the bubble bath looks out on a guy pissing against an outbuilding, while someone ladles themselves a glass of her bathwater. Kind of sets a mood...
I just love you two ❤
Rob, at one time "to get Down" meant to dance. When Cool and the Gang sang "Get Down On It" they were talking about dancing.
"Tin roof. Rusted!" Was spontaneous. She just said it. Wasn't written into the song.
Near the beginning of the video the translate Love Shack to Shaque D'amour. That is another name for a bath house.
Love you guys❤
Jay. There is no hidden meaning. They are only singing about dancing and having a good time.
Near the end of this video for many years I had no idea what the one girl says - "Tin Roof Rusted"!!!! This is a FUN song. I think it means whatever you want it to... God bless you all...
Your what "tin roofs irusted" love it.
Well...Kate and Cindy wete retro even then. Totally a groove!
Maybe the Ultimate Party Song.
Hope your day off was great..family time is important
I wonder if they noticed a young Rupaul on the video. And he's right about the meaning.
This is a song that immediately makes me automatically makes me happy.
When this song came out I was an adult and I was thought it was about an amazing place to party. Maybe you'd meet someone but you don't need money for the jukebox for that.
Also, most people didn't dress like the B-52s in 1989.
Ru Paul is a featured dancer in drag in this video, dressed in two piece white outfit
Gotta say I'm surprised yall didn't clock Rupaul right away.
More B52s. Rock Lobster
Watch it, look again and pay attention you'll see the one and only "Rupaul" before "Drag race" but already on his ay to change the world!
Girls! That's RuPaul!
Imagine being in the club when everyone stops dancing to yell out “Tin roof- rusted!!” What a blast!
We did and it was
I was there. :)
Which means “that girl is pregnant!”
@@ashleydixon4613 It's rhyming slang...“Tin roof- rusted!!” = busted
Didn't know you were all there with me . . . but nice to know all these years later 😁.
"Love Shack" has different meaning to different listeners. Fred, Cindy, and Kate all said it was a song about having fun and being with friends and the interpretation was at the discretion of the listeners.
Definitely a great song to dance 💃 to
"Rock Lobster" is a crazy fun B-52's song. Gotta hit that one up. Rock Lobster and Love Shack are two songs that always made people hit the dance floor at parties.
Love rock lobster
Yeah listen up
'52 Girls' from The B-52s' first album is also fire. The B-52s really do have some claim to be the world's greatest party band. 100 million college kids over several generations can't be wrong!
Unfortunately the video on UA-cam is pretty low quality.
Rock Lobster and Planet Claire!. So many good memories...
"bring your juke box money" so you can dance. I say it's a dance club. "wearin' next to nothin' 'cause it's hot as an oven" Yeah, it's summer in Atlanta and they're dancin' it's hot. Just sayin' Love you, Paul
Well the B-52s are from Athens, GA not the ATL.
Yea back in day Atl without getting shot
It was a house in the woods that had a real tin roof, just like in the song, about ten miles outside Athens, Georgia. It hasn't existed since the 80s. It was not in atlanta. There was lots of dancing and just about every other kind of fun time. But no, it wasn't specifically a "dance club". Think of it more like a party house.
I say it a dive bar not a club back then juke box was the only music in the bars not clubs
@@xoxxobob61 However, in the beginning of the song, they spoke of "headin' down the Atlanta Highway". Makes me think they were either headed towards Atlanta or they passed NEAR Atlanta.
The Love Shack is an actual place that members of the B52s used to hang out at near their homes in Georgia. It was a hangout with music and groove, it was not a “hook-up” place.
True.
Confirmed 😊
I love the pre-famous Ru Paul in this! I still say it’s just a song about a party place. Yes, maybe to make a love connection, too. But “bring your jukebox money”. Don’t need that to hook up.
"Get down" is a phrase from back in the day meaning ( to start jammin, dancin, grovin). Amber's childhood remains in tact,
This wasn't the fashion at the time, they had their own retro style.
Yep, the B-52s were in their own private fashion world/
very 60s orientated
Shhh, let her think that everyone in the eighties dressed like this!! If we are able to perpetuate this fallacy, we could easily be the coolest generation ever!!
I love Jay's idea of "bring it back then"!
Still, I would dress that way.
@@fallenangelart this song was released at the tail end of the 80's- it's really more of the segue into the 90s.
Really, this song is about all of that combined: dancing, partying, making out, the whole party scene.
This song gives me "Rockabilly" vibes. Another 'retro' sounding group is Stray Cats. Their song "Stray Cat Strut" has this same type of vibe. And the video is fun too!
Omg yes. Stray cats strut❤️❤️❤️
Brian Setzer,World class guitarist
Man I haven't thought about them in a long time. Thank you for that. Loved those guys.
Seconding Stray Cats!
And to kind of crank up the weirdness a notch, I recommend The Cramps. Kind of like the B52s on acid maybe? Definitely a fun, funky, weird vibe. More psychobilly than rockabilly, but so so so good.
LOL Retro? Give 'Squirrel Nut Zippers' a try!
Kate and Cindy have two of the best voices of all time, and their harmonies are incredible.
this
My sister and I have great voices and are professional at imitating them. We love singing this song together.😊
Some of the best vocal harmonies in the game!
Absolutely! The harmony is something I could never forget! Something about this turns me on!
My son had the major hot's for Kate Pierson.
Amber, you got it right. The love shack here is all about partying, having fund, music and dancing - like, an attitude for that. We called it "getting down" back when. Also, since you're interested, these ladies are in costume for the video, wearing clothes/hair from the early 60's, but the song esd recorded in 1989. (Sorry Rob - ha)
Exactly, don't think too hard about it. It's just fun!
According to Kate Pierson (the red headed singer)
"The Love Shack is a mythical place. It's not based on a specific place but rather a series of down-home, throw-down, disco juke joints that you would find in the rural south. The shack on Jefferson Road was an inspiration for the song, though."
Interesting, I recently saw an interview with Cindy Wilson. She said the love shack is loosely based on the home of Kate Pierson just out of town Athens GA. Well, maybe it was for Cindy.
The B-52s were a badly needed, refreshingly jarring, new-wave antidote to disco in the early ‘80s. Still love this whole Cosmic Thing album from later, though.
Cosmic Thing is a masterpiece! Along with all their library!
That's what the New Wave was all about!. It was supposed to be a revolt against heavy duty studio produced sound like much of the disco was, and much of the pop/rock of the day.
Not saying you’re wrong, but....as a South Carolina boy, i can tell you “wearing next to nothing” at one of the dance joints in the South is basically a life-saving PSA
I agree with Jay, especially when the name of the song is taken into consideration, but I'm from SC too so I totally understand this comment and how it can go both ways depending on your innocence and where you live. :)
@@brittaniewaldrop9536 Yeah, I grew up near the Gulf Coast. Hot & HUMID A F so clothing was minimized within reason (for the weather).
I'm a Georgia girl who lives close to Athens. We Southerners have to dress for the heat and grueling humidity all summer long (and into the fall). It's tough, but I wouldn't live anywhere else.
😂🎯
Give Amber back her childhood. As a 20 something when this came out and a club enthusiast - it's about dancing. You could dance or show out depending on if you hit the beat or the off beat. And north or south it was all about what you were wearing at the club. "Next to nothing" is a good description of my clubbing clothes. ^-^
The B 52's and Devo were always fun to listen to. Good party music. We called our parents cars "boats" back then. A Chrysler Imperial *is* as big as a whale. :D
I worked with a guy who, in the 90's drove around in an early 70's Chrysler Imperial, and we used to tease him about it being as big as a whale. He never got it, until one day I played him this song. From that day forward, his rebuttal would be that he was going home, to the Love Shack. 😁
Good times, I miss that guy!
Mine was a "Land Yacht" 👍😁
@@CondescendingOaf my dad had a conversion van he used to take to NASCAR races and bluegrass festivals. I called it the "Land Yacht" and with his Naval background, he put it on the front of the van with an anchor on either side. 😁
Deuce and a quarter.
@Just Me I'm going to see Devo at Radio City Music Hall in NYC on 9/21.
The best party song, love this song. Still want some Santana
Yes!!! Love me some Oye Como Va
Ahhh Santana. A timeless classic.
If Amber likes horns... Try some Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. "A taste of honey" "the lonely bull"
Yes, Santana!!
"Get down" was not a sexual connotation then. It meant to become more frenzied or energized in your dance. "Hook up" meant to meet someone later. You have to know the times. Not today's slang. John Travolta dancing in Saturday night Fever was an example of someone getting down on the dance floor. He took it over. It was amazing. He had the moves. The rest of the movie was not really very good. We couldn't believe that Vinnie Barbarino (Travolta's character from "Welcome Back Kotter") was going to be this awesome dancer. Wow! Were we wrong. He owned the floor. He got down!
After a crappy day at work, this song could completely change my attitude. Still love it after all these years.
The song is 60s themed, the birth of the sexual revolution, feminism etc. The looks the girls are rocking is the 60s mini skirts etc the parents were scandalised by the new 60s fashion of their daughters 'wearing next to nothing' . When they say 'get down' it's 60s slang for dancing. Love Shack is a club, where the 'folks line up outside just to get down'.
Thanks for pointing this out. It saved me a lot of typing, lol! This song was such a bop back in the day! Always brings good vibes!
Mini skirts so short our parents practically fainted!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤘🤘🤘🎵🎼🎶🎧🥁🎸
Not one 60 song is like this.
@@marcieharreld286 Especially my sisters custom-made ones on the school bus every morning. She was a very popular "gangbang in the field" kind of girl.
@@POWER-LINKS 🤣🤣🤣
"Folks lining up outside just to get down" means exactly that. "Getting down" in 70's and 80's means dancing. Nothing sexual at all. BTW, they are from The ATL. It's hot in Atlanta, Really hot.
@Brother Paul I believe your correct. Good call Brother Paul.
Tin roof rusted.
@Brother Paul Yes they are from Athens, GA and they all were College buddies there when they formed the B-52s.
Same difference - they’re like an hour away.
HOT LANTA
Oh please...the whole song is full of sexual innuendos. "Tin Roof..Rusted!" Hellooooooo! That is what makes it a classic!
Rock Lobster is another one of the B-52's bigger songs.
"Roam" too
@@O_Towne_Bear Good call. Can't believe I forgot about that song. DOH!!!
Pass the tanning butter!!!
@@O_Towne_Bear PLANET CLAIRE Is so cool from 1978 ,And Private Idaho From 1978 The Yellow Album ,, It was the 70s BABY
No- it's about a little dance dive .bar in GA - NOT a whorehouse~ They're art students from Athens, GA~( You should always listen to Amber~😉😂💜)
Of course he should.Amber is always right, but I think he knows that 😂😂😂
@@topgazza 😂 They're cute.
@@allisonyoung4007
They really are just a lovely couple.
@@topgazza Yes~ Does anyone know what grades they teach? Just curious~🤷
He didn't say it was a whorehouse. He said it was a hook up joint. I worked clubs in the early 90s. You went there, you got drunk, got sweaty, got close to naked and if you were lucky, you had sex with a stranger in the shadows, behind a wall, in the VIP area or behind the bins if you had to. Being sober and working those rooms was like being a guard at a roman orgy if you picked the right night.
Rob is 100% WRONG. "Wearing next to nothing cause it's hot as an oven" many times you would go to a place where the guys were wearing shorts and girls were wearing bikinis. "Get down" in the 1980's also would refer to dancing, not just sex.
As someone that has been to Jack's Shack (the real Love Shack) its was a place to party and dance. That being said, there was quite a bit of "hookin up' as well.
"Glitter on the front porch, glitter in the hallway, glitter on the mattress, glitter on the highway." Yes people are going there to hook up.
When he scream, "YOU'RE WHAT?" And she responds, " Tin Roof rusted." She is saying she is pregnant. You don't get pregnant from dancing
@@michaelsteiner7588 Cindy Wilson (the singer) said that her ad-lib ("Tin roof...rusted") had no intentional meaning; she was picturing a little shack she knew that had closed down, and it had a rusted tin roof.
Glitter in the 80s was starting to reference bisexual subculture, but I think the double meaning was interntional (dance joint with ambiguous hooking up)
I don't know if it's really true that the eighties are any more innocent than today. They are certainly more subtle! Even if the meaning is ambiguous here, I think the music is so highly sexualized that it almost doesn't matter what they are saying
It wasn't about a palce to hook up ... B-52s singer Cindy Wilson, she explained: "When you're jamming, everybody is conjuring up their own images. Sometimes we're all singing at the same time and later you go back and you hear what you're doing. I personally was thinking about this bar that was out in the country [the Hawaiian Ha-Le]. It was a really cool place - a run-down love shack kind of thing, but it was a disco. It was a really interesting place."
Sure.
Was one of the songs that got everyone out on the dance floor. LOVE the fashion of the 80s. It was fun until fun fun fun.
The lyrics say different. Wilson could have been thinking about cake or puppies, that doesn't change what words she is singing.
Yea, but that's one of the best things about The B-52's music. All of it is just outlandish and fun, with so much meaning while still being absolutely silly... as I said above, my favorites are Rock Lobster and Quiche Lorraine.
Anoneyemouse the song isn’t about sex. You just have a one track mind.
Try out shiny happy people, it was collaboration between the b-52’s and REM, another fun song from 2 groups both from Athens Georgia, that high school must’ve had incredible talent shows
A few of them are Athens locals but mostly it’s people that went to Athens to go to the University of Georgia.
REM
B-52s
Widespread panic
Matthew Sweet
Drive-by truckers
Athens got hot as a breeding ground for bands in the late 70s and 80s the way Seattle was in the 90s with grunge. In Athens it was about alternative and modern music coming out of the 70s as well as Southern rock and jam band. Most of those Athens bands got started on College radio.
Bill Berry and Mike Mills went to my high school in Macon, Georgia, though it was years before I was there. Our mascot was a cavalier. One of our mottoes or sayings was "No Fear Cavalier", which you might recognize from "It's the End of the World as We Know It".
@@nedhill1242 I bet you remember Athens, GA Inside/Out. I loved that when I was in high school in the 80s.
Thanks for this info, For years I've been singing Chinese happy people.
"I got me car, it's as big as a whale," "I got me a Chrysler, it seats about 20." That's just fantastic!
Had 20 people in (and on) our '65 Chrysler New Yorker once - I could barely steer and touch the gas pedal! :)
The B52's were renowned for their big bee hive hairdoo's and hoop skirts, sort of a flash to the past, mixed with sort of new wave progressive party music (it might be called old school now, but this was really different when it came out.)
It sort of reminds me of Ska and Beach Band music, progressive music, and even Punk. But really they invented a genre all their own. Their songs are pretty much all party and dancing type music tho. All something you would hear in a college dorm of the time.
The guy, who almost talks over the gals singing annoyed me at first, but I've learned to appreciate it more over the years. Some of their songs are really fun to WATCH as well as listen to in their live performances. Songs like "Rock Lobster" come to mind.
This one is sort of a POP Dance tune, but some of their other sings are even more unusual and interesting.
Also I disagree that the shack is just a flop house for sex. It is a dance party, and yeah, people COULD hook up, but the song isn't really about sex. It is about Dancing and moving and partying. The car is about to set sail, it holds about 20. Bring your juke box money. That is a party, not a brothel. Getting down is not just a sexual reference. In this era it literally mean letting loose and having fun, and it was innocent, and this was a fairly innocent upbeat band. I mean that's not to say that sex isn't part of the appeal. There is guys and gals dancing together and flirting, and maybe the hint of sex, but there really is no hidden meaning here. This is the party shack just out of the city limits in the woods, where they can serve alcohol and party loud and dance without a visit from the Police. There used to be lots of these for real, and a lot of these old Country Counties used to be dry counties back in the day, and people had their clubs and bars back in the woods. This is kinda like that. I get more of a modern speakeasy vibe. Databyter
You know it!
The B52's were still making music as recent as 2019 and all are now in their 70s and still sound great. To get down and boogie also means to dance like crazy and maybe go further. 🤗👍🤪
They just did a concert here in Vancouver like a week ago! Still going.
This song is about partying. “Get down”means to have fun, dance and party. The line about the clothes is just about how hot it is. After all, Georgia is hot during the summer months.
One does not stay innocent hugging and kissing and wearing next-to-nothing at a place called "The Love Shack" for very long...
@@bgaona not when "it's a place for pepole to get together" lol
@@tj_2701 ... or "lining up just to get down."
Okay, so Amber's totally right with her take of a party vibe. The b52s were what is known as experimental rock, and a lot of their stuff sounds so bizarre in the best way.but there was definitely a "sound" at the time, so good connection with the gogo's.
Yep Ambers right.
In the day it was Punk Rock. They were in there with many others of the day, Blondie, Ramones, The Cars and so many that played at CBGB’s, that was a happening place for the punk rock scene. But, as with all other genre’s there are many facets, experimental rock is a good name for it!
I've always described B-52s as "space-age beach music". Smash Mouth also fits this mold. B-52s were pioneers in new wave in the early 80s, behind vocalists Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, and Cindy Wilson. Some of their other fantastic songs are "Rock Lobster" (make this your next one!), "Roam", "Channel Z", "Private Idaho", and my personal fave, "Good Stuff".
For Cindy's vocals I like " dance this mess around" & "give me back my man"
Specially live. From I think 1980. Its kn black and white
“Space Age Beach Music” may be my favorite description of the B-52’s ever. Now I have to go listen to Private Idaho - such a cool song. “🎶Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo!🎶
Roam and Topaz are two of my favorites. Space age beach music is an awesome description.
I like that description.
@@Pathfinder197 Thanks! I wore out Smash Mouth's "Astro Lounge" CD because it had so many elements that reminded me of the B52s. I'm also going to listen to "Private Idaho".... but not on the patio... ;) I might also throw Bow Wow Wow and The Cramps into the same category.
The “Love Shack” is any place, pasture, backyard or hangout where you gather with friends and cut loose with music, dancing, drinking, laughter and just having fun.
Preach !
@Nancy Savage ~ we added wapatooli 😉
Spot on, Nancy!
You’re correct it’s a party place ! Their wearing next to nothing cause it’s hot as an oven….the getting down is dancing
Jordan always over thinking and missing lyrics details.
These ladies had voices that meshed like the ABBA ladies...amazing group.
This song came out summer of 1989. When school started it was played at every dance that year. It was awesome
The inspiration for the song was "a cabin around Athens, Georgia," with a tin roof, where the band conceived "Rock Lobster", a single from their debut album. The cabin was said to have been located off the Atlanta Highway near Athens. B-52's singer Kate Pierson lived in the cabin in the 1970s, and it burned down in December 2004. Cindy Wilson's line "tin roof rusted" was originally an outtake from a jamming session, where Wilson continued her line while the tape had stopped.
Graduated from high school that summer.... lol.
Ironically this was probably their biggest universal radio play song.
But they have so many songs that are better.
Good call.
You two like this time, you need some Depeche and Siouxie and..... They 80's are still my favorite.
OMG... Disintegration.... The Cure will take you years to get through.
There is so much, good for you.
Year I graduated High School and yes this song was played to death, but sooo fun.
@@Theaquaponic12345678 Same, Go Class of 89 . You're so fine......
Love shack is the Ending of the 80s And the begging of the 90s
I graduated high school in 89 and you couldn't get away from this song! It was a fun song and B52's was a fun group! Try "Roam", another really good song!
J, get down in this song means to dance. Clearly times have changed, lol.
I love the B-52s. I used to live in Athens, GA. I knew people who used to hang out at the Love Shack.
Please check out 10,000 Maniacs "Candy Everybody Wants" (another GA band) perfect for female Fridays!
Because the Night as well. I THINK they did it in an MTV Unplugged? Cover of Patti Smyth by way of Bruce Springsteen. Natalie Merchant has a great voice.
I also lived in Athens. While Natalie Merchant spent time in Athens, the 10,000 Maniacs are not a Georgia band.
This wasn't the fashion of the time. It was part of the 60s revival that happened in late 80s-early 90s
I think Jay's reading more into it than what's there.
Just keep your ideas on it Amber! A fun place to go have a blast!
Not really lol, I think the interpretation of the lyrical content is subjective and sex appeal, is and was, always part of it. Sex isn't the focus, but it's the byproduct.
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@@keetahbrough
No it's the focus. Jay is dead on.
Kate Pierson (the red head) has said that this song isn't about one particular club, but a common type of old, ran-down, juke joint (juke box dance club). It's not about some sketchy flop-house in the woods. Don't ask what's going on in the stall of the bathroom, though! :-D
I think it's both. "Get down" was a phrase that meant to dance hard.
You'll love their "Roam", "Private Idaho" and "Rock Lobster". Kate, Cindy and Fred all sing in many of their songs.
Yeah Roam was my fav B-52's song, whenever B-52's came on the radio, telly, a party, wedding etc u couldn't help but start dancing. I reckon if u put it on during a funeral the cemetery would be rocken
Freakin family guy ruined rock lobster for me... Ruined is i can't help think of Iraq Lobster and laughing my ads off
Wig is the best song! LOL
Down.... Down....
Rock Lobster
From the the 70s Private Idaho and Rock Lobster .. Love their 70s Songs the most
Amber is right, it really was about a little party spot in the woods the band members and their friends would go to dance, hangout, and have fun. And "get down" back in the 70s and 80s meant getting down to dancing and partying.
❤️Ok I’m with Mama on this one - look at it with innocent eyes LOL. Getting down is getting down to the funky beat and partying and love doesn’t have to be the s word LOL 60s lets love each other like Christians and hippies vibe 🥰😘😜😂❤️
Great 80s dance tune! This was an 80s anthem for all the girls. This and the Go Go's Our Lips are Sealed! That would be another good girl band for Friday! Also should do Jewel- Who will save your soul.
Yes! and Walk Like an Egyptian!
Apparently Jewel will save your soul.
Yes! Jewel was my favorite back in the day! Such a voice!
Jewel…….. foolish Games live is the best.
@@eriqglyptis8816 Yes! This is one you can REAALLLY sing along to.
52s (plural). The pride of Athens, Georgia! They are so fun in concert. *ROCK LOBSTER* was their breakthrough hit, and it is 🔥
I first heard Rock Lobster on Doctor Demento! I've been a life long fan ever since!
Their first hit on the punk scene was the wonderfully minimalist “Dance This Mess Around”, but you’re right, RL was their breakthrough hit. I’ve always been thankful to Athens for the B-52’s and REM. 💕
along with REM from Athens, Georgia!
Yes and ALL SO 70s
Just can't enough of Fred Schneider's voice and "Sprechgesang" style of singing! Hard to resist vibing to this B-52 track!
A rather erudite observation!
Being from Athens, as were the B-52s back in the day, I can say that "The Love Shack" was about going to parties, and the B-52s playing at college parties. Some hook-ups did happen -- it was the '70s -- but the party and the dancing and the fun was the real deal. The Love Shack is about the IDEA of some old house somewhere, where the people living there hired a band, and got a few kegs of beer, and threw parties every so often. Might have been out in the countryside, but could just as well be in town. I went to a lot of them, back in the day, LOL!
"Love Shack" was released on June 20, 1989
"Some" hook-ups....well, that's safe to say!! Rock on all.
It really can't be about hook-ups, because just anybody wasn't allowed in. You had to be cool and just different. And yeah, it is a mix of both dancing and "shacking up" but mostly it's about sharing your love for anyone and everyone that was apart of the shack. VERY Hippy. Very Hipster as well. They may have invented what it means to be hipster.
Being from NZ, thats exactly what we'd do. Party at one house. Hook the band gears up and jam. That was late 70's into the 80's.
The band are Greek?
Loveshack one of the most catchy songs of all time
Could I just point out to you 2 that Parties and Clubs are ALWAYS places people go to hook up! Your comments are priceless sometimes!
We had an old house down this mile long dirt road man the partys we had. I had a 1966 Ford Fairlane. We played the old 8 track till me battery died
That's right. Dancing and hooking up are NOT mutually exclusive. 🙂
No Jay! Its about cutting loose dancing and having fun. Getting down is dancing! Its about being free, hangin' with cool people, and having fun. Its pretty much the video. A shack in the middle of nowhere where people gather to have a great time.
The redhead in this band also sang on "Shiny Happy People" by REM -- it would be a perfect song for your girls next week. Good luck & happy thoughts for your delivery!
Kate Pierson is the name.
You can't sit still while listening to love shack lol 😍✌🤘
“The love shack is where you went to hook up.”
“The love shack is where people go to party and fun.”
Me: “What exactly is the difference here?”
Me, I just love Planet Claire with that Peter Gunn bass vibe. They were a cracking band. Never got to see them live. For me, much like the Rezillos in terms of influences.
I will just let you know "to get down" means to dance in slang when I was growing up. I've never got any double entendre in this song as I have in others.
There may be some hooking up going on in the Love Shack, but it’s definitely a party place. Hence, “bring your jukebox money!”
I'm surprised no one has mentioned an early appearance of the young RuPaul at 10:15 in this video (early in her career).
The B-52s live is a great dance party even today. Back in the 80s I used to raid thrift stores and my mom's closet for old 60s clothes for this retro look. Now I can find retro printed fabric to make new fun outfits. Some of my favorite songs are Planet Claire, Mesopotamia, Private Idaho, Roam, Wig, and the best besides Love Shack is Rock Lobster.
Yes RuPaul... You better work!!! You are the only comment i was able to find that mentioned it...
I hadn't noticed that until I saw this comment! And I have been watching this video since it came out! but it's at 6:12.
I just commented that. I have seen this video so many times and it is the first time I noticed The Queen!
RuPaul wearing afro in this video is a well known fact for decades...
It's funny you mention RuPaul because the lead singer is a dead ringer for Rand Paul.
"Rock Lobster" is my favorite B-52 song 🥰☮️✌️
"Get down" can mean "dance" too!!! 🤣 The B-52s are an amazing oddball band. "Roam" and "Deadbeat Club" both have lovely vocals from Kate and Cindy.