Is this New Wave? I seemed to pick up a lot of this so-called new wave stuff. Like Adam And The Ants and Devo, there was a certain electronic understatement with The B-52’s. It almost sounds amateurish compared to the likes of Kansas or Styx. Still the music was infectious.
I wonder if a group like The B-52’s would get any attention from a record company today. It seems that the era of the garage band working hard and making it big are gone. Music acts appear to be carefully crafted products of record companies. Kind of like The Monkees back in the 60’s. Guy’s like Justin Beiber don’t spend years playing bars, honing the craft and developing chops working towards that big break. He was probably picked out of a lineup at the local mall at an open casting call.
How do you even begin to write a song like Rock Lobster? I tried to get my sisters to listen to The B-52’s when I was home for the summer. They hated it. I made sure to bring that up again 10 years later when my sisters were singing Love Shack. Yeah, these are the Rock Lobster guys.
Planet Clair
Dance This Mess Around
Rock Lobster
There’s A Moon In The Sky (Called The Moon)
Downtown
I still prefer the original but this is interesting.