Planet Claire

An examination of gender roles in science fiction

[@samarundel2234]

One of the best songs ever.

[@pch2230]

Quite a few years ago I went to see them in Birmingham (UK) at a small club. It was such a great night everyone ended up forgetting about all the big hits you'd normally be waiting for, then this intro started and the whole place erupted. An absolutely brilliant live band.

[@CitiesTurnedToDust]

Props to poster for thumbnail from "Rocket Men From the Moon" one of unintentionally funniest old serials ever made

[@Kyavata]

Is this commando Cody..?!

[@theunknowngamer5477]

Almost five minutes of my life and it still feels like fifteen....good show!

[@mikesmith5778]

best audio and visual on planet claire ever!!! 6 thumbs up

[@jmhs681]

This is my favorite song with a terrific edition!!

[@david6384]

The B-52's !! Rock puro, el.mejor rock !! Me encanta hasta los tuétanos!! Desde hace décadas!!

[@Bramblebee-vw7vm]

Metropolis is stunning and just fun!! Beautiful film. You can view it a lot of places.

[@maxauburn]

This was the very first song I ever heard by The B-52s. It was summer of 1980.
Loved it after the first 10 seconds! Love the video- terrific editing!

[@SteveHolst]

In the late '70s a friend that had moved to NYC came to visit. He brought me three albums he said I had to have. This was one of then.

[@maxauburn]

Steve Holst
That is what friends do: they turn you on to great music. :)

[@Icybearg]

my good 80's I was only a child...loved Legal tender so much...B52's

[@badgerdawson]

My brother played the album for me in 1980, first time I'd heard science fiction put to music, just brilliant.

[@crocodilepeter]

yep..took me about 4 seconds to absolutely be mesmerised by it too...Adelaide Australia, summer party

[@JuntexProductions]

The visuals come from the 1922 silent film Metropolis. It was a film way ahead of its time!

[@eddiedantes2059]

Thank you there Mr. Encylopedia, very kind of you to share!

[@miguelcarranza4812]

JUNTEX
Actually Metropolis is from 1927

[@donuthole7236]

One of the best music videos I've ever seen! Great job

[@michaeldickman1460]

Maybe some day pop music will catch up to the B52"s . But I doubt it

[@rolfrattay2458]

Lll
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[@theronbowers4066]

@@rolfrattay2458 I o

[@silverblack5475]

when the dj played this song at the club , everyone would lose there minds. great times .

[@iahelcathartesaura3887]

Amazing collection of old images & good job of putting them together!!

[@JockularK]

Please NEVER delete this vid from YT....

[@ambercrombie789]

You just did such a great job with the pics. So much work. So well done!

[@moneywelder]

2019................ Still jamming

[@johnlightholder6798]

Well done in every way! This IS planet Claire!!

[@DEK33019]

@milesprunier. My friend you have done an excellent job here! You brought back great memories for me. When I was an NYU college student in the 80s I would go to this club at the time called The Ritz in the East Village of New York. This club was groundbreaking in that it featured these huge video screens. So in the early 80s when New Wave/Alternative music was getting recognition the video screens would have a montage sequences similar to what you put together here. Thank You.

[@arklat]

Fred makes the "hooo hooo" sound at the start of the song by blowing over the top of a beer bottle. Pretty cool, huh?

[@theloonybird7420]

Love the song, very cool video idea and editing, thanks!

[@garydalie1715]

l swear when this came out my mom drove a Plymouth satellite and her name is Claire!

[@tfries1607]

Gary Da Lie your making that up right ?

[@jdolew]

so before it came out she was named Bianca and drove a Rambler?

[@tfries1607]

this song always made me feel like chillin at home on a Saturday in my jams watching Action Theater & Twilight Zone marathons

[@danielrodriguez3289]

brings back memories of the future

[@Vivzid]

My favorite B52s song!

[@13Videos]

Thanks for sharing the link to this with me, Planet Beck. Great theme - and quite close to heart - especially of late.
Rise up Rock Lobsters!

[@CLAIREAVENUEBLOCK]

When I wouldn't be hanging out on my street back then, I would be on the next street were my best friends lived at. We grew up there & so did many others who hung out till late night just partying. That street was names Claire Avenue in Reseda, CA. We called ourselves the CLAIRE STREET LOCOS one night in 2007 & stuck too it ever since hahaha! All of us moved away or grew apart, which really sucks. But those were Great times. This song is now one of my MOST favorites EVER!!! Thanks B-52's!!!!!! BEWARE..ENTER PLANET CLAIRE IF YOU DARE!!! CSLS 818

[@jamesskid231]

Movie nostalgia makes this better THAN THEIR OWN VIDEO! Out fricking standing!

[@milesprunier]

@64roo Thanks very much. I'm glad that you enjoyed it. I've always loved retro sci-fi and the B-52's Planet Claire seemed like the perfect accompanimentt to these images.

[@danbrennan7348]

Metropolis

[@milesprunier]

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it.

[@garydunncolumbus]

Perfect presentation! This is what a Planet Claire Video should look like!

[@davidkoester258]

How can u not like this group?

[@HiroNguy]

Best video for this song. Period.

[@adamdeville6408]

Oh how I miss the 1980"s

[@joeyocom5087]

meeeeee toooo

[@martinhall932]

I'd take any decade if I could be in my 20s again... it just happened to occur in the 80s :D

[@joeyocom5087]

Martin Hall Yeah, most things could be cured with Penicillin.......LOL

[@fluxdust]

track was released in 79 but it and early MTV is still cool

[@joeyocom5087]

fluxdust decades always spill over to the next and visa versa

[@Lisajayneb]

Still loving it in 2019 🎶

[@adelahermosillofelix8657]

Still 23

[@computerblue84]

this is one of the sexiest videos ive seen. robots, pin-up girls, sci-fi, best new wave band of the era...YUMMY!

[@Warjacki]

Metropolis had all those futuristic buildings and roadways, but the airplanes look like they're from the First World War.

[@gragor11]

I was thinking Bruce Willis and The 5th Element.

[@elroyfudge8729]

fricking awesome!!!

[@magofre28]

Great , classic movie and music ... good job!!

[@diamonddog257]

....this is maybe the greatest video ever......

[@darlenepence5282]

Cool Tune and the video put me into a trance a half-conscious state characterized by an absence of response to external stimuli, typically as induced by hypnosis or entered by a medium.

[@BMC1100]

Excellent clip, Love your work.

[@jacquelineviana4106]

This is so freakin cool!

[@milesprunier]

Yes, the clips at the start and at the end are from Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927).

[@ASecondOpinion]

a brave new world. thanks for the video!! On to my favorites

[@payvibaby]

Fast Forward to 2023

[@413xxx86]

B52s. Mom listened to them a lot on cassette when I was growing up. Not bad music.

[@marcilioarnold1784]

This is a best music.....B 52....Planet Claire

[@Sharperthanu1]

What satellite dishes used to look like: Huge and picking up signals from aliens from outerspace.

[@chriscrawford2401]

GREAT video to go with this great song!

[@milesprunier]

The movie is EVERGREEN [1934], a musical made in the UK.

[@trentxiiib8756]

Their best album!!!!

[@brandonjames2368]

Holy CRAP!!! I totally forgot about this one! Great job on reminding me that this exists.

[@ArizonaWillful]

This is excellent work!!! I came across a funny picture via google recently. There is the typical 1950's robot-from-space. It is holding a scantilly clothed guy! In the background, there is the typical hot 1950's babe in a bikini with her hands on her hips, obviously very annoyed that the robot preferred a human guy over her! Very funny.

[@whiterabbit75]

The image at 2:56 has got to be the funniest of the whole video.

[@RIXRADvidz]

how many bottles of poppers did I empty into my head to this song....dozens I"m sure.....

[@doyleperkins4916]

My favourite song by the B52S

[@blackgoat6666]

METROPOLIS WORLD IS
... PLANET CLAIR ?
Great video indeed

[@chibulski]

Cooles Video !!! Song ist mein Favorit :)

[@ubik8]

she drove a planet satellite into my mind !?*
Awesome dancey wowness

[@michaelscody]

Great stuff - I especially loved the Forbidden Planet cuts.

[@durgadrummond]

Wow! What a great collection!

[@dirkdiggler7924]

Great Video to a great song! Good Job!

[@milesprunier]

The artwork is mostly covers from pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s. The stills are mainly from movies and movie serials.

[@exodiusgames6021]

Primarily Metropolis at the start, if I'm not mistaken.

[@johndough23]

no one ever dies there, no one has a head.

[@annettelouise6781]

Pretty bloody awesome!

[@zachisosum]

how high were the B-52s when they wrote any of their songs?

[@SHSNJROTC]

+Zach Namzoff this made my day

[@danielleking1171]

as high as planet clair

[@JCDealy]

There own private Idaho...

[@clarkliberty1110]

Probably not one bit. What a thought that is!

[@milesprunier]

It looks a little like a young Agnes Moorehead, but it's actually from a 1960 Mexican film called THE SHIP OF MONSTERS.

[@danielrodriguez3289]

great video, brings back memories of the future

[@tfries1607]

Daniel Rodriguez oh! Moses smell the roses

[@DellBattery]

Love Planet Claire :)

[@JWC-AirWalker]

Very nice work. The chick at +3:30 looks like she might have inspired Seven of Nine of the Borg Collective.

[@bahbcat]

Excellent.

[@yoggysothoth]

cool concept. Great song. - always makes me think of Interplanet Janet from Sesame Street..

[@yoggysothoth]

Omg. 😊yep. I love it.

[@danbrennan7348]

Check out the Scppllleeeen intro in Mystery Men movie. Paul Rubens ( P.W. Herman). He talks with a lispsh. Lisp

[@MissHellfire]

very creative, loved the Original by b 52s of course

[@MannyGonzalezReyna]

Yeah superb video thanks for uploading... so many memories!

[@dras1959]

Great track, great video!

[@tfries1607]

dras1959. easy to dislike everything after the first two albums since its all pop shit. first two are new wave gems though

[@PhillipJohnsonZENOPHILE]

An examination of gender roles in science fiction.

[@Dafttar]

+Phillip Johnson You do realize that that makes no sense, right?

[@Galhar]

those old rockets were so phallic...

[@sfrahm1]

Awesome vid! Thank You!

[@negascoot23]

Magnificent! Beautifully edited and wonderfully creative--thank you! :)

[@GoblinXXX]

That was fun. I was surprised there was no clip of the endless dancing to Strangers in Paradise from FIRE MAIDENS OF OUTER SPACE, though.

[@Way2Spirited]

Awesome video! Thanks for uploading the song too!

[@DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc]

Nicely done! One of the few clips I wasn't familiar with was that big "dance number" of mass-produced robot women. That was pretty neat -- what's that from?

[@nickpitruzzello6762]

do you know where the main clip came from? The one that began and ended the video?

[@Alan-kq7rh]

Sounds like it belongs on that 60s show Get Smart

[@louisewhite1576]

such a cool old song man

[@hetjaar]

brilliant film and editing!

[@pyruvicac.id_]

favorite song of both my mom and my bff

[@kanato129]

Great editing! So fun.

[@teainthesahara]

Hey great match-up of music and images.

[@markpotvin7119]

She came from Planet Claire

[@LYNCHLAWRECORDS]

great track !!!

[@clarkemery4952]

Wow. I am very impressed. I am a huge fan of this type or era of SciFi. Looks like other people in here love it too, so good for you. Got any more?

[@fostercathead]

Good job! Fantastic!

[@PanPeter1966]

I love this song

[@necromantikman]

@milesprunier That's Commando Cody from the Radar Men From the Moon movie shorts.

[@richo61]

Love the B52's song.

[@fredkarat]

exsellent ,great and timeless ..oss

[@birdman9780]

Great Photos!!!!!!

[@uguenyouguenyo1425]

groupe complétement déjanté mais au combien génial, et jamais égalé !!!