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Only assholes don’t like The B-52s (Part 2)
08.25.2015
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Only assholes don’t like The B-52s (Part 2)


 
As promised last month before my long vacation, here’s a second chunk of utterly delightful B-52s multi-media for your listening, viewing and frooging pleasure. This selection covers songs from their second album, 1980’s Wild Planet, which picks up right where their debut left off with more tales of parties going off the rails, trips to Venus, speed demons, “dirty back roads,” and private Idahos.

Part 1 of “Only Assholes Don’t Like the B-52s” is here.

“Private Idaho”—“Get out of the state, out of the state you’re in!”
 

 
“SURPRISE!” Insanely great live versions of “Rock Lobster” and “Party Out of Bounds” from Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany, 1983:
 

 
“Give Me Back My Man” a key Cindy Wilson number from the early years: “I’ll give you fish, I’ll give you candy, I’ll give you-hoo everything that I’ve ever had.” This is my kinda torch singer! From Dutch television’s long running TopPop show:
 

 
“Dirty Back Road,” a rather sweet-sounding paen to anal sex…
 

 
“Devil in My Car,” from Capitol Theatre - Passaic, NJ, 1980:
 

 

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Only assholes don’t like The B-52s (Part 1)

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