Daily Eighties Flashback: The B-52’s “Channel Z”
The B-52’s hit number one on Billboard‘s Modern Rock Tracks chart three times. Exactly 35 years ago, the first of that trio of hits, “Channel Z,” rose to the top of the chart for...
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Daily Eighties Flashback: The B-52’s “Loveland”
On this date in 1982, The B-52’s released the EP Mesopotamia. The first track on the album is “Loveland.”
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Rocko’s Modern Life
Rocko’s Modern Life originally aired on Nickelodeon from 1993 to 1996. The theme song was performed by The B-52’s.
Music to Help Us Get Through Everything Together: The B-52’s “Rock Lobster”
To commemorate Fred Schneider’s 70th birthday, today’s song to help us get through everything together is “Rock Lobster” from The B-52’s.
Analog Adventures: The B-52’s
The B-52’s The B-52’s (Original release 1979, reprint 2010) The B-52’s make music that is akin to John Waters movies; campy, unpretentious, and fun. Their self-titled debut album set the stage for a career...
25 Years Ago in the Nineties: The B-52’s “Roam”
Athens, Georgia-based band The B-52’s enjoyed their greatest popular music success with their 1989 album Cosmic Thing. The album produced three of the band’s five Top 40 hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, including the band’s...
DEF: The B-52’s “Love Shack”
In the early 1980s, Athens, Georgia-based band The B-52’s placed a few singles on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, perhaps most notably “Rock Lobster” in 1980, though they never hit the Top 40. That changed in...
