{"id":1410,"date":"2022-05-02T19:13:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T02:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2022-05-02T19:48:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T02:48:43","slug":"music-the-b-52s-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/music-the-b-52s-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"music: the B-52&#8217;s loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I forgot how great the B-52&#8217;s briefly were and what an excellent album <em>Cosmic Thing<\/em> is. Beyond the smash &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9SOryJvTAGs\">Love Shack<\/a>&#8221; (produced by Don Was) with Cindy Wilson&#8217;s immortal &#8220;Tin roof, rusted!&#8221; are several more great songs, including the eco-optimistic &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B_Xy1eyOh5o\">Topaz<\/a>&#8221; with Nile Rodgers playing <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t21\/1\/16\/1f3b8.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udfb8\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t2\/1\/16\/1f60d.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude0d\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\"> as well as producing, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iNwC0sp-uA4\">Roam<\/a>&#8221; with more sensational vocals (Kate Pierson&#8217;s &#8220;Oh girRRl dancing down those dirty and dusSsty trails&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t7e\/1\/16\/1f3a4.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udfa4\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\">), and this near-perfect pop song:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The B-52&#039;s - Deadbeat Club (Official Music Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JXy0XnzTQuc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the YouTube comments fans mention how it brings then to tears, apparently without knowing that the band wrote it in remembrance of guitarist Ricky Wilson (<a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/The-b-52s-deadbeat-club-lyrics\">read<\/a> the lovely &#8220;About&#8221; note on the Genius lyrics site), whose death from AIDS after <em>Bouncing Off the Satellites<\/em> forced the group into a three-year hiatus <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/te\/1\/16\/1f622.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude22\">. It shows how music can communicate a mood beyond and below words. The words themselves are simple and direct, but the shifting tenses \u2013 &#8220;I was good, We&#8217;re gonna find something, We&#8217;ll dance in the garden, Let&#8217;s go&#8221; \u2013 replace mere nostalgic reverie with present sentiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot how great the B-52&#8217;s briefly were and what an excellent album Cosmic Thing is. Beyond the smash &#8220;Love Shack&#8221; (produced by Don Was) with Cindy Wilson&#8217;s immortal &#8220;Tin roof, rusted!&#8221; are several more great songs, including the eco-optimistic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/music-the-b-52s-loss\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}