It's 1980. I'm in my first apartment. I have a rockin stereo with 4 speakers that can make the walls shake. Two apartments in the building and it's 11:30 at night and the neighbors are being loud and I can't sleep. So......I crank Planet Clair to the max. When the bass came in at 1:16 it was epic. When the song ended, there was dead silence. No more noise from the neighbors. I cannot listen to this song and not remember that night, so long ago.
I had a neighbour who thought she was the next Joan Baez….she wasn’t. Every Friday night, after smoking a bag of skunk weed that smelt like melting plastic, she’d pick up her 12 string and let loose. One night, I’d had enough. I put my speakers against her wall and played Ride Of The Valkyries featuring Birgit Nilsson. She kept going for a minute before the shrieks of Fuck you echoed through my wall. It was the end of Friday Night Live.
@@weswolever7477 Even the word "walkie-talkie" has a cool ring to it. I received some kick ass walkie-talkies in about 1970-71 when I was 4 or 5. Too young to really appreciate them, but ended up having fun with them for years. They were a gift from an older cousin, and I still remind him about those to this day! Walkie-talkie. Walkie-talkie. Walkie-talkie!
Right after this album came out I had moved to NYC. I went to a party that first week in a meandering house in the village and they were there in full beehive. They did not look out of place. I was in heaven. Every time this song came on I'd lose control
Suddenly, I'm 22 again. There will never be a decade in music like the 80s New Wave, Electronica, Industrial, Punk, Goth, and New Romantics. It was so refreshing after a decade of album rock.
B52s Planet Claire FULL HQ Restored best version!! 1214pm 13.4.23 i know, right... must be hispanic....... the riffs are pretty cool if you can appreciate old rock n roll riffage.. they could steal a load off of these guys re: musical composition. play around with it, eff up the sound a bit and create a decent psyched rock band... this is pure power pop and we like it..... is the maize god on bongos?
Comments on ‘B52s Planet Claire FULL HQ Restored best version!!’ 20.4.23 0457am Wandering Son replied: "Steady today that someone that was complaining about the sixties the same way congratulations you've turned into your parents... There's is good today and there.... i replied: everyone's biggest fear comes to them, sooner or later, that they're some weird effed up admixture of sloth rebellion and their parents...
@mikewerner4076 dumbass. I was a college radio DJ in the 80s. Punk began in the 70s, industrial began in the 80s with groups like Wire and Cabaret Voltaire. Electronica started in the 70s with groups like Neu, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. How do I know? I was broadcasting all of these groups and many more in 1982, so you can fuck right off.
I bought this album when it first came out. I was 22 I think. Never heard anything off of it before. I just love the cover. A couple of my friends and I got together at the one friends house who had a killer stereo system. We got a real nice buzz and put this record on (room darkened) with the sound reasonably cranked. Planet Claire was the first song on the first side. We weren’t prepared for what we were about to hear with the song starting out by slowly fading into this eventual huge crescendo. We were blown away. We were thinking it can’t get any better than this. Needless to say we were wrong. From start to finish this album is a artistic tour de force. The planets must have been perfectly aligned for this group of people to come together and create this original and timeless music. HOF or bust. RIP Ricky.
Such an amazingly eccentric and phenomenally experimental group of artists and musicians! My autistic son just can’t get enough of them. He says they “help him keep his mind energy happy”😂. Love that kid soooo much! He’s so genuine.
I am a 63-y-old lady from Germany and also loved this band when i was a young student. Discovered their youtube videos only now by chance! It is true what all here say, they were far ahead of their times and had a very special style and groove. Amazing their driving rythm, and combined with the show now I see for the first time !
The B52s were such a creative band their videos were fun to watch and their music 🎶 was so catchy glad to see they were enjoyed world wide from one American to one German lady you have great taste in music 🎶 take care of yourself 🦅🇺🇸🤗❤️🎵🎶💖🌞
Here's another to get you moving around again like your 30 plus younger self, Mike! Hope you enjoy, brotha! ✌️😎 th-cam.com/video/2n_Tg8iHwZ8/w-d-xo.html
Happy 74th Birthday Kate Pierson April 27, 1948 Weehawken, NJ. 74 is a good year for a farwell tour. You have entertained us forever. Thanks for the memories.. We love you..
Yea... She was ACTUALLY Singing IN KEY NOTE for NOTE With the Keyboard! THAT is NOT EASY! SO FREAKIN' COOL! Like DEVO they were WAY Ahead of their time! Like Punk/New Wave 50's/60's Music!
I heard this one night at summer camp and it changed the course of my life. I began to look for this feeling in music and then in art and films. I escaped my tiny town in the middle of nowhere and found the kind of people that made up this band, among others. The key to happiness in this life is to find your people. Find work with people who encourage you and who are living their own kind of life. Good luck.
Surround yourself with people who encourage you without being yes men and who aren't afraid to live their own life while they support you, and the support should be mutual. True happiness is not far away then.
When people talk to me about the B 52's, they start with Love shack. That's when I break out the red and yellow albums and say, "I think you need to hear this".
My uncle introduced me to this album when I was a kid, had to order my own copy from a mall record store who thought I was nuts. My parents thought it was silly. I shared it with my schoolmates who belittled me for liking it. Then Love Shack came out and all those same kids were all into it. When I pointed out it was the same band I showed them just weeks before, they derisively said "Yeah but that music was old." Interpret perspective from that as you wish. Fun fact, "smoke detector" is listed as one of the instruments they used.
Shows how pathetic mainstream teeny boppers are. "If it's not popular then it's wack"...hilarious mentality. Good on you for having open mindedness about not needing the radio to decide your musical tastes for you👍
The original video they lip-synced to the record studio version on a kids show which cut out at 3:06 - I re-used footage from the first 3 minutes to edit approximately and if you didn't know it's hard to detect. Once again, no banners during the recording like others do, my credits are at the end. Hope all fans of B52s enjoy this classic!
Good job man thanks. I was blown away by this chick mixing her voice with the keyboard and was really getting into it then it cuts away to this stupid announcer selling crap! It was extremely annoying!
I brought the B52's way back in 1979 I was 19. I'm 60 y/o now and it still gets a spin a few times a year when I'm fully loaded. Planet Claire was always the standout track for me and still sounds as good if not better 42 years later Ricky Wilson such underrated rated guitarist never heard anyone cover him note for note awesome tone great timing and extraordinary talent.
I looked it up and, sure enough, these were not exactly vocals. He voice, somehow, mixed with a farfiza organ to create that sound. She has a fine voice, but, if you ask me, the sound they got was sensational.
@@Kermit_T_Frog She didn't like the way her voice was mixed with it to make it sound like a synth. She liked the live versions with her voice forward and more raw.
"Some say she's from Mars, or one of the seven stars that shine after 3:30 in the morning - WELL SHE ISN'T" Fred Schneider's voice is brilliant. Bought this album when it first came out and never stopped listening to them. Incredible band
That was part of the point, at least for the first 1.5 albums they were enjoying it; they didn't even think anyone really _wanted_ to buy music if they made a record. They wouldn't have even had a record if someone didn't ask "Hey, you wanna have the band back for a second night?" after their very first show in New York City.
Sometimes, when you've had a few drinks, you go back to the music you loved as a kid and you realise that the beauty and wonder that was contained in a minor pop hit 40 years ago isn't part of what your kids and grandkids and growing up with and it kind of breaks your heart
Underappreciated in their early years aside from those in Athens, GA in their early years. Better? Living in that city, so many obscure bands blew the roof off makeshift abandoned warehouse venues, no one ever really knew what they were listening to.
Fred Schneider is an icon w his inimitable talk- singing style. Kate, if she's on the right, has those stunning green eyes and both women make incredible harmonies. AWESOME SONG--ONE OF MY FAVORITE B-52'S CLASSICS EVER! 👄
Those bands got me through a 9 month Western Pacific/Arabian Sea cruise in the Navy!! Romeo Void, Human League, Oingo Boingo, Wall of Voodoo, Souxie and the Banshees still love 'en to this day and I'm almost 57!!!!!
Coming from a guy that never was able to fit in the regular crowd ,even today, I got my first 45 which had this song. It was just starting to play on the charts. It was on my birthday and I was hooked. Here was a group that NO ONE had ever heard in my area and if they did, I got the obligatory "Rolling of the eyes" attitude. So I would just never mention them but oh how many times I played that little 45RPM. I knew all the words in the same tone as Fred. Wasn't hard cause Fred is not the best singer ever out there but man, I love his voice . The B-side was "There's A Moon In The Sky (and it's called the Moon)." I also knew those words by heart. Far from being rich, I never went any further than knowing The B-52's other than these 2 songs. Then we moved from a town to a village and they were even LESS know. But that was alright. The local DJ had gotten the yellow album "The B-52's" and didn't like it at all. She asked me if I wanted it. DO I WANT IT? Does the Pope stink when he shits? What type of question was that???!!! Cool as a cucumber, I said yes. I don't think I even touched the ground as I ran home to listen to 7 other songs from this group I so loved their sound and rhythm. Although many loved Rock Lobster on that album, for me I would say it was a tie between 3 songs. The first 2 above (for obvious reasons) and "Dance This Mess Around." The way Katie sings it, sounds like she was pissed off and had enough. Even today I still sing it aggressively like she did. Then one album after another, then cassettes, it didn't stop. I had to get my B-52's fix. I just dreamt of seeing them in a concert. Anyone can dream I guess. Than I met someone that loved them as much as I did. I found out I had missed a few albums and vice versa. Together we had all albums, cassettes, and CD's ever made by B-52's. It was a match made in heaven. Last year, we had the awesome chance of seeing them live in concert. What a show. Fred with his still terrible but fun singing scheme, was just an out of this world experience. The place was very small and very packed. We were maybe 25 feet from the stage and could see the white of their eyes pretty good. And what about Katie? My gosh. That woman hasn't aged in years. She was always hot looking and even hotter today. Of course, I am not young either, so it fits my agenda perfectly. I even told my wife and she agreed with me. Thank you B-52's for all these years of great music and fun videos. Unlike many bands nowadays, you have never disappeared. You always stayed fresh and on top of times. Same sound, different ideas. Loved it.
I went through something similar. In the US South, all the "rock" radio stations were hooked on the Allman Brothers, Lynard Skynard, and the like- you NEVER heard them play things like this. Same for the music stores- nobody had a clue that there was something else, something different, something WAY bigger and better.... But I knew about radio and antennas and I was listening to a distant 100 watt FM college station who had all the latest cutting-edge music which my cassette recorder dutifully kept for me so I could play it in my car. I introduced many people to the sounds of punk, the B52's, and new-wave and met a few cutting-edge people like me who had heard some of it from the big cities they visited. Discovering great new bands was a weekly thing for us, and finally one music store hired some of the friends I'd met who brought it all to the local masses long before MTV killed the radio stars.... different times and a different world but never has there been so much great music constantly emerging and never will there be a time like that again. Even the country music crowd knows who the B52's were and there's almost always one of their songs which everybody likes- they defined the era and changed the world. And they changed me too.
I´m also a Metalhead, and so really interested on rock evolution. This band appears on those years of Punk and New Wave, getting sounds and look from Surf and Bubblegum rock, in a similar manner to the Ramones, or the Psychobilly sound from The Cramps. A lot of influence from 60´s pop culture.
My fave B-52 tune. Cindy wore that wig get-up the first time I saw the band at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston in 1982. I had balcony seats. The balcony was bouncing up and down. Seen them six times. Even got to shake Kate's hand before a show 20 odd years later
@@infiniteuniverse9528 You're being awkward... why invent a disingenuous criteria to cover the fact that you didn't know they were around since 1976. Rock Lobster was a massive hit in 1978, and even if a band can only exist after they release an LP (because reasons,) July of 1979 is still not the 80s. There is no reason to get defensive just because I pointed out they existed in the 70s.
I'd like to think so but thank god they came out of an era when music was still full of great musicans and songwriters & originality still existed and had'nt disapeared into what we have today. Something tells me they would be just another manufactured X Factor clone band with Cowell steering there banal careers until his next manufactured creation was discovered on the hell that we call X Factor
This song/video literally changed my life. I first heard it at a teen High School party, in between Van Halen, Foreigner and other top groups of the time. My friend Sam was holding a Yellow album with some wack band picture on the cover. "The B-52's". He said "You've gotta hear this" and put it on. Planet Claire started things off and freaked the hell out of everyone at the party...bewildered. But for me, from that moment on, it all made sense. I was an aspiring bass player at the time these songs shook the foundation of my musical ideals. Fun. That was what was missing in music....serious faced hard ass bands or weepy ballad songs were drenching the FM radio airwaves, but this group screamed FUN. From that point on, I went into fun bands (that were quirky as well!) and got a lot more out of music. What amazes me is that the B-52's were so far outside of the 1979 norms that they became instantly cult-cool. The vintage Vox/Farfisa organ and Mosrite guitar sound (RIP Ricky!) were relics of the past that now sounded futuristic. The B's are still cult-cool, 40 years later! My thanks to them for being bizarre, absurd, wild, wacky, imaginative and talented in ways that nobody before in music had imagined. Although "Cosmic Thing" is a great album, it was "The B-52's" album that defined and foreshadowed a lot of the fun that the 1980's would put into music. No wonder John Lennon loved them the moment he heard them!
If they were "ahead of their time", and yet no one has ever produced "music" like this again, what time is it that you are speaking of? By definition "ahead of their time" means they did it first and others followed. I'm unaware of who has chosen to replicate this dreck.
Check out a Japanese band called The Plastics. Interestingly enough, David Byrne of The Talking Heads heard the Plastics play, and got them. In touch with the B-52's management. They released 2 albums in the US, in 1980 and 1981, with help from Byrne and the B-52's. Very similar sounds,
I saw the B-52's in concert in 1988 in my hometown of Santa Barbara, California, and now, 30 years later they return, and I've already got my ticket to see them at the Santa Barbara Bowl on Sept 23 2018!!!
@@Aurora-uq5hm The album dropped in 1980, the year I graduated from high school. I bought the 45 single "Planet Claire" first and then compact cassette album when it 1st dropped. Their self title album "The B52s” dropped in 1979. It is you who should check the prescription on your reading glasses. May I suggest a diopter strength of at least +3.50? And also, get a brighter "Aurora" borealis light. Yours presents as very dim. The defense rests. Your witness.
Gotta give props to B-52's! A real, original, self-created band that actually wrote and performed live. Check out some of the old live performances here on YT. They were not just some thrown together kitsch act.
@@martinblondel1531 Some, but not this band. The look of the B52's came along because they didn't have a promoter with money for costumes and they were as broke as the other College kids, so they went to the resale shops and bought what they could afford. Nobody wanted the old 60's stuff back then so they got it for nearly nothing and they made it work. Had they bought the latest styles of the times nobody would have given them a second look in the music industry and we wouldn't be here commenting on therm now.
She came from Planet Claire I knew she came from there She drove a Plymouth Satellite A-faster than the speed of light Planet Claire has pink air All the trees are red No one ever dies there No one has a head Some say she's from Mars Or one of the seven stars that shine after three-thirty in the morning Well, she isn't! She came from Planet Claire She came from Planet Claire She came from Planet ClaireShe came from Planet Claire I knew she came from there She drove a Plymouth Satellite A-faster than the speed of light Planet Claire has pink air All the trees are red No one ever dies there No one has a head Some say she's from Mars Or one of the seven stars that shine after three-thirty in the morning Well, she isn't! She came from Planet Claire She came from Planet Claire She came from Planet Claire
This came on the radio right as I hopped into the car to go to work this morning. Never heard it before, was smokin' a stogie and couldn't help but jam out a lil bit.
Yeah, I was in the Navy then. My best friend I shared a house with turned me on to New Wave. Skinny leather ties, blue hair (spray in, of course, Uncle Sam wouldn't go for that) and living in Virginia Beach in the late 70's. It was a great club scene then.
@slaine's axe Punk lasted longer over here, mostly local bands who took on the sound but never made it big. But that didn't stop the people or the parties which made those years awesome.
Thankyou YT algorithm overlord for delivering this gift. They were the best party band ever, full stop. Such a unique combination and structure to their sound that has never been approached since... so they must have come from a different planet.
I think the guitar player in the video is Keith wearing a wig, with some other dude playing drums. I love the removing of strings and the strange tunings (I play guitar), The Presidents of the United States of America owe Ricky some credit.And the guitar in the video has 6 strings.
I had those mini Radio Shack walkie-talkies when I was a kid. I wish I had known you could make that satellite sound with one......I never danced with them either.
Marty Buchanan - I had those too from Radio Shack, they had a little list printed or an actual sticker with the morse code, with dashes and dots, right on the walkie-talkie... they usually came in a two- pack, so you could speak to another person, but the range on those were very limited, unless you went and spent a little more, and upgraded to a better walkie-talkie,... The "Realistic" brand was the Radio Shack's own brand, but they did have much better quality Citizen band radios... that's really what "Radio Shack" was famous for... this is my favorite song of The "B-52s", I do like "Rock Lobster", and I like 'Private Idaho"as well,... the First album is great, the second album is good, but doesn't have a lot of the iconic songs of the first album... who would have ever thought of using the morse code button, on a walkie-talkie, and using that as a musical instrument, because they could have produced the same sound, on a synthesizer, to get the same effect, hitting one of the higher keys on the keyboard to find the right note.... what's genius about it is the Simplicity of it, and also I noticed that, Fred Schneider, has his finger on the button for the Morse code and pulls away from the microphone to create a "fade out" effect, without any more effort, than it took him to come up with the idea, that he could use a walkie-talkie as an instrument...
I still have the first B52's album (vinyl) that I bought sometime in 1980-81. It has the original yellow LP sleeve with song lyrics and a picture of the Space Patrol walkie talkie that Fred presumably used when the group recorded this song.
If all hope seems to be gone, just think about Fred walking around in a circle with his walkie talkie singing, "no-one has a head". Things will pick up.
In 1979 I was fifteen. I heard this song and i knew this band was going to be something I wanted to have all around me. Their music gives me so much joy i could explode. Long live the B-52s music!
Fred's dancing is awesome. Love Shack is all most whipper-snappers know. We old-timers know the beehives were setting the pace back in the late 70's. Awesome stuff right there.
In 1981 The B52's became one of my favorite bands. Now, 40 years later they are on their final tour. I just scored some great tickets for the San Fransisco show. Looking forward to a great final concert.
I’m a little late to this discussion but I have to agree with your post. I have been a B 52 fan from the summer of 1980 but I had never watched this video. I just can’t stop watching it between Freds hypnotic dancing and her singing and dancing to a song I’ve always liked to begin with, This video has added a whole new dimension to this song.
Debbie Harry was Hot! She was the one all the High School boys liked, but I was in Jr. High and she was a little too intimidating. I was attracted to the more goofy, smiley girls. Debbie Harry was the opposite of goofy! Ha ha
Not to be that guy, but it’s actually a Farfisa organ from the 1960’s heard in the music. The Yamaha is just what she’s using in this video where they’re miming along with the song, which looks like it was filmed in the 90’s and not the late 70’s (song is from 1979).
I was 12 when my friend invited us to her house to play pool. She brought out records her older sister had and put on B 52’s. FOURTY FIVE YEARS LATER, I still listen to planet Claire often! And I’m a Van Halen, Zepplin listener. They were unique!👍
When ppl talk to me about the B-52’s I tell them they have no idea the amount of influence this one band from Athens, GA had and still has on American pop music. So underrated and a dismissed.
I worked for a local record store when this album came out. I remember hearing the album play overhead on the store speakers and wondering WTF??? It was a strange, new sound. The album cover perfectly captured the music. At first listen, I wasn't sure I was a fan. But soon I was completely hooked. I bought the album and played it nonstop at full volume in my bedroom, much to my parents' chagrin. Fast forward to my wedding 15 years later... I don't remember the playlist the DJ played during the reception, but I do clearly remember dancing with my dad to Rock Lobster. :-)
@@petertocher6845 Ricky Wilson stole the riff from P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri, but it had made the rounds before Ricky picked it up. It was first popularized by Johnny Rivers in the song "Secret Agent Man", and later DEVO also deconstructed the riff. It was also used as the theme song for a 60's secret agent TV shows in England... Peter Gunn was a US secret agent show, but the music for that was composed by Henry Mancini, and he used the same back beat and riff at a much slower tempo with lots of brass horns.
Brilliant and innovative - a refreshing alternative to the disco crap from that era. Talented girls and Fred made this band work. I'm 67 and still love watching their videos.
The B-52s are the only band who can sing absolutely ridiculous inane songs with a straight face and still pull it off divinely.
if you think they're good, you should check out the B-52s!
@@Disciple_Of_Lerxst Opps
@@hellogoodbye4061 What had you initially called them before the edit? 😎
Rock Lobster simultaneously cracks me up and rocks balls at the same time
They might be a band but they also might be Time Travelers who spend their spare time entertaining themselves on Earth
It's 1980. I'm in my first apartment. I have a rockin stereo with 4 speakers that can make the walls shake. Two apartments in the building and it's 11:30 at night and the neighbors are being loud and I can't sleep. So......I crank Planet Clair to the max. When the bass came in at 1:16 it was epic. When the song ended, there was dead silence. No more noise from the neighbors. I cannot listen to this song and not remember that night, so long ago.
Wtf are you talking about the bass coming in at 1:16? Doesn't even make sense.
I was the loud neighbor, sorry about the noise. But also thank you for introducing me to the B52’s! Been a fan ever since.
(J/k)😉
I had a neighbour who thought she was the next Joan Baez….she wasn’t. Every Friday night, after smoking a bag of skunk weed that smelt like melting plastic, she’d pick up her 12 string and let loose.
One night, I’d had enough. I put my speakers against her wall and played Ride Of The Valkyries featuring Birgit Nilsson. She kept going for a minute before the shrieks of Fuck you echoed through my wall. It was the end of Friday Night Live.
Dude, that is an EPIC story!
There's really nothing else anybody needs to listen to so that's what happened right there
Ricky Wilson's unique guitar styling is so underrated. Dude is legend and left us way too early.
Wasn't he in the kaiser chiefs ?
Yeh well getting clucked by a dirty aids riddled til tok will do that
U can thank fauci for pushing azt which causes aids
An absolute genius and liked playing with only 4 strings, amazing.
@@doctorgoobie7329 4??? why?
Can we all just take a moment and acknowledge some of the finest walky-talky work ever by Fred? Very consistent tone.
Haha. Only Fred can play the walkie like that.
🤣🤣sho ya' right,!
The Yo Yo Ma of walkie talkie’s
@@weswolever7477 Even the word "walkie-talkie" has a cool ring to it. I received some kick ass walkie-talkies in about 1970-71 when I was 4 or 5. Too young to really appreciate them, but ended up having fun with them for years. They were a gift from an older cousin, and I still remind him about those to this day! Walkie-talkie. Walkie-talkie. Walkie-talkie!
Looks like a vintage Motorola. All Analog. Not like the digital junk that you get today!
Right after this album came out I had moved to NYC. I went to a party that first week in a meandering house in the village and they were there in full beehive. They did not look out of place. I was in heaven.
Every time this song came on I'd lose control
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Suddenly, I'm 22 again. There will never be a decade in music like the 80s New Wave, Electronica, Industrial, Punk, Goth, and New Romantics. It was so refreshing after a decade of album rock.
I totally agree with you there!!
B52s Planet Claire FULL HQ Restored best version!! 1214pm 13.4.23 i know, right... must be hispanic....... the riffs are pretty cool if you can appreciate old rock n roll riffage.. they could steal a load off of these guys re: musical composition. play around with it, eff up the sound a bit and create a decent psyched rock band... this is pure power pop and we like it..... is the maize god on bongos?
Comments on ‘B52s Planet Claire FULL HQ Restored best version!!’ 20.4.23 0457am Wandering Son replied: "Steady today that someone that was complaining about the sixties the same way congratulations you've turned into your parents... There's is good today and there....
i replied: everyone's biggest fear comes to them, sooner or later, that they're some weird effed up admixture of sloth rebellion and their parents...
Ummm it was called the 90’s sorrrryyyyyy. The 80’s gave us aids just saying.
@mikewerner4076 dumbass. I was a college radio DJ in the 80s. Punk began in the 70s, industrial began in the 80s with groups like Wire and Cabaret Voltaire. Electronica started in the 70s with groups like Neu, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. How do I know? I was broadcasting all of these groups and many more in 1982, so you can fuck right off.
Remember this Song in 1980 …
Loved it Then … Love It Now !!
I bought this album when it first came out. I was 22 I think. Never heard anything off of it before. I just love the cover. A couple of my friends and I got together at the one friends house who had a killer stereo system. We got a real nice buzz and put this record on (room darkened) with the sound reasonably cranked. Planet Claire was the first song on the first side. We weren’t prepared for what we were about to hear with the song starting out by slowly fading into this eventual huge crescendo. We were blown away. We were thinking it can’t get any better than this. Needless to say we were wrong. From start to finish this album is a artistic tour de force. The planets must have been perfectly aligned for this group of people to come together and create this original and timeless music. HOF or bust. RIP Ricky.
Nice story, thanks!
Jealous to that experience. We all should be.
Absolutely
This must be cranked to the moon.
It was the first thing I played when I set up a ten speaker two amp system.
Thanks brings back very similar memories blew us away too
can we just acknowledge that Kate is singing, playing a melody line, supporting keyboard chords, and the bass line all at once.
Can we acknowledge its a video ...........ERR miming , there's no power cables for anything dummy .
@@thecovidprisoner dummy?!... Ass.
@@thecovidprisoner
thanks for pointing that out, Einstein. of course it's a video and being mimed. the point was that Kate did in live performance.
It's impossible to play melody, chords, and the bass line all at once. She only has two hands.
And holding that ‘do together nicely
One of the greatest debut albums in history.
One of the few American bands to challenge the UK for originality in the 80's
Talking Heads?
@galaxybeing010 I accept your hypothesis
I nominate Violent Femmes as well.
@@fatbelly27 The main songwriter and lead singer of Talking Heads is British.
@@TheKardiacKid David Byrne. I never knew that but it makes sense
Fred's dancing deserves credit as its own instrument.
Fred was gettn it!
Yes, can hear the moves mixing into the music.
Yessssss
can keep up with Cindy
KUNDALINI BAUBLE
This song had the best walkie-talkie accompaniment I’ve ever heard.
My brother and I had that exact model of walkie-talkie as kids in the 1970's! They were from Radio Shack.
@@glennhecker4422 Me too! Exactly the same.
@@glennallen496 Glenn, this is Glenn. (JEEZ... What are the odds of THIS!?) Congratulations on having your name spelled correctly! 😜😁
Needs more cow... I mean it needs more walkie talkie.
The sound of Sputnik in 1957?
Such an amazingly eccentric and phenomenally experimental group of artists and musicians! My autistic son just can’t get enough of them. He says they “help him keep his mind energy happy”😂. Love that kid soooo much! He’s so genuine.
awww. so cute n sweet the both of u
Give that boy a hug. My autistic son loves Guns and Roses and Linkin Park - we play them constantly on our road trips.
Your son is probably better adjusted than non-autistic kids who don't like the B-52s
They help me keep my mind energy happy too.
Write to the B-52s and tell them how much their music means to your son!
I am a 63-y-old lady from Germany and also loved this band when i was a young student. Discovered their youtube videos only now by chance! It is true what all here say, they were far ahead of their times and had a very special style and groove. Amazing their driving rythm, and combined with the show now I see for the first time !
I'm a 71 year old American and still loving the music of the B52S very underrated but such catchy tunes 😊😅❤
The B52s were such a creative band their videos were fun to watch and their music 🎶 was so catchy glad to see they were enjoyed world wide from one American to one German lady you have great taste in music 🎶 take care of yourself 🦅🇺🇸🤗❤️🎵🎶💖🌞
Du bist 63-Jahre jung! Nicht “alt”. 😂 Ich bin selber 61 und fast noch ein Kind. Viele Grüße aus England! 😊
70yrs old and still moving like I was when I saw them live in Auckland New Zealand ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Here's another to get you moving around again like your 30 plus younger self, Mike!
Hope you enjoy, brotha! ✌️😎
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Never stop moving it keeps you young 🌱
Geez mate I'm sorry...to see someone young creeping around like an old kodger is heart breaking 😁
@@brianstone8719 No time for that: She's still coming
56 and I just got done dancing to this! Such great memories
They should be in the UNESCO world heritage list of cultural significance
Yes!
Yeah!!!!!!!!!!
in agreement
The song “it a beautiful world we live in” is officially recognized bye Congress as the song of the world I believe.
I'd vote for that.
I bought this record when I was about 16 and still love it as a 53 year old
Totally agree! Incredibly talented group!
Same but I am 48
exactly same
Shhh! don't tell anybody.
Love the B52s
Happy 74th Birthday Kate Pierson April 27, 1948 Weehawken, NJ.
74 is a good year for a farwell tour. You have entertained us forever.
Thanks for the memories.. We love you..
She sure lost that Jersey accent.
Yea... She was ACTUALLY Singing IN KEY NOTE for NOTE With the Keyboard! THAT is NOT EASY! SO FREAKIN' COOL!
Like DEVO they were WAY Ahead of their time! Like Punk/New Wave 50's/60's Music!
Plus playing the bass part with her left hand.
Hard to believe Kate was playing and singing note for note. If true, Thats amazing!!
Nothing. Is. Plugged. In. It's called lip sync! Duh!
So were the Doors.
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I heard this one night at summer camp and it changed the course of my life. I began to look for this feeling in music and then in art and films. I escaped my tiny town in the middle of nowhere and found the kind of people that made up this band, among others. The key to happiness in this life is to find your people. Find work with people who encourage you and who are living their own kind of life. Good luck.
This is great advice, surround yourself with people who lift you up, not bring you down.
WOW! WELL SAID and GREAT "LIFE PHILOSOPHY"!!! :D
You make me happy.
This song absolutely changed everything.
Surround yourself with people who encourage you without being yes men and who aren't afraid to live their own life while they support you, and the support should be mutual. True happiness is not far away then.
I LOVED and still LOVE the B-52's!! I am now 54 years young and totally LOVED and still LOVE the 80's!!
there's still some good original music being made but it's not as abundant as back then, thinking about the queens of the stone age for instance
I hear ya sister. Right there with you. I made sure my kids grew up listening to this stuff.
yes, as long you like those songs you will feel young . such a connection to our teenage years. mmmm also Red lobster!what a silly band ha ha
'm 57 years old and I totally agreed with you, same generation and same memories 👍🙏
Same,,,
When people talk to me about the B 52's, they start with Love shack. That's when I break out the red and yellow albums and say, "I think you need to hear this".
All the earlier stuff is such gold!
Yes--there first two albums were their best.
Exactly! Never cared much for Love Shack.
Absolutely
I remember when the B-52s first hit the scene it was totally different. Everyone was like "wtf is this?!?". Totally NEW wave
I lived in Fred’s neighborhood in NYC and saw him around quite a bit. He still dresses like that. Big flowers in his button hole. Bless his soul.
Vocal entry not until >2 minutes. Brave, and rare in pop. Respect.
Must be especially brave for the singer. Imagine having nothing to do but dance for the first two plus minutes
One of the most incredible intros to a song in history period!
You missed Katie sounding along with the keyboard. The greatest part of the song.
@@paulsinclair3753 Well, dance and play the walkie-talkie.
b52's
This song is madness, completely a unicorn. It is still from another planet. It's a Twilight Zone episode.
My uncle introduced me to this album when I was a kid, had to order my own copy from a mall record store who thought I was nuts. My parents thought it was silly. I shared it with my schoolmates who belittled me for liking it. Then Love Shack came out and all those same kids were all into it. When I pointed out it was the same band I showed them just weeks before, they derisively said "Yeah but that music was old." Interpret perspective from that as you wish.
Fun fact, "smoke detector" is listed as one of the instruments they used.
Nathan fielder would be proud
Shows how pathetic mainstream teeny boppers are. "If it's not popular then it's wack"...hilarious mentality. Good on you for having open mindedness about not needing the radio to decide your musical tastes for you👍
People are sheep.
Love Shack is when B52's became unlistenable. Their earlier stuff was great. Love Shack is,…eeehhh blah.
I know, people are stupid!
I have a neighbour called Claire.
This song sums her up perfectly!
Love to you Lass.
❤
The original video they lip-synced to the record studio version on a kids show which cut out at 3:06 - I re-used footage from the first 3 minutes to edit approximately and if you didn't know it's hard to detect.
Once again, no banners during the recording like others do, my credits are at the end. Hope all fans of B52s enjoy this classic!
Thank you !
merci beaucoup monsieur
That Rocked!!! Thank You so Much!!!!
miss marple b
Good job man thanks. I was blown away by this chick mixing her voice with the keyboard and was really getting into it then it cuts away to this stupid announcer selling crap! It was extremely annoying!
I brought the B52's way back in 1979 I was 19. I'm 60 y/o now and it still gets a spin a few times a year when I'm fully loaded. Planet Claire was always the standout track for me and still sounds as good if not better 42 years later Ricky Wilson such underrated rated guitarist never heard anyone cover him note for note awesome tone great timing and extraordinary talent.
So i was 15 when i bought it, people do not know where i got it or why, but i went for it; it was awesome music , still is.
Me too....l was 13.
@@bingrasm Oh, we know. We just pretend not to know. It's better that way.
😂
@@sarukravitz4981 wow, really?
Exact same story here. Planet Claire is number 2 for me. 53 miles west of venus is my favorite.
I never knew that there was vocals along with keyboards. Her voice has incredible range.
80s kids eat your heart out ,You thought the 52s were a 80s band NOOOOOOT THIS WAS 1978 ,,,,,,,, THEIR 70s baby
I looked it up and, sure enough, these were not exactly vocals. He voice, somehow, mixed with a farfiza organ to create that sound. She has a fine voice, but, if you ask me, the sound they got was sensational.
@@Kermit_T_Frog She didn't like the way her voice was mixed with it to make it sound like a synth. She liked the live versions with her voice forward and more raw.
@@liefjorgen I don't blame her. And she might be right. But it is a very interesting sound they got from that mix.
Makes your hair stand up
"Some say she's from Mars, or one of the seven stars that shine after 3:30 in the morning - WELL SHE ISN'T" Fred Schneider's voice is brilliant. Bought this album when it first came out and never stopped listening to them. Incredible band
I always believed his inflection was straight up Cary Grant. Say it ain't so ;^)
"WELL SHE ISN'T!" - As if it's deeply insulting!
The B-52s had so many great lines that beg to be t-shirts. I'd love to have a shirt that says simply "I do all sixteen dances"
❤
@@vingiecat74and " I dance this mess around" on the back . Now go do the Shy Tuna for old times sake . Cheers !
One of the best intros in the history of rock and roll.
agreed
Agreed,but it’s not rock and roll.
@@borntwice4724 rock and roll is, was, and always has been a euphemism for sex. if this song cant get you laid, then i dont know what to tell you.
The bass line is the theme from Peter Gunn.
Peter Gunn on steroids.
I loved and still love the B52s because they were never afraid of being different and discovering new things in music.
And they looked like they were having fun.
That was part of the point, at least for the first 1.5 albums they were enjoying it; they didn't even think anyone really _wanted_ to buy music if they made a record. They wouldn't have even had a record if someone didn't ask "Hey, you wanna have the band back for a second night?" after their very first show in New York City.
Thank Goodness they did!! Love the B's, speacily Planet Claire and Rock Lobster, O'h!! Can't forget Kate Yumm!!
LearnAmericanEnglishOnline they were too hip
B52’s were, are, will be. Brilliant.
Sometimes, when you've had a few drinks, you go back to the music you loved as a kid and you realise that the beauty and wonder that was contained in a minor pop hit 40 years ago isn't part of what your kids and grandkids and growing up with and it kind of breaks your heart
One of the best instrumental/vocal intros to any song ever. Chills.
yes indeed. It would be my walk up music if I was a Major League baseball player.
Most misunderstood, underated and beyond their time groups ever. Love them
Underrated is the most overrated word on TH-cam. It's used by twits all over the globe who think they know something that nobody else knows.
@Ivan Julian I concur 100% sir. Like "I know the correct rating for this band"!
Underappreciated in their early years aside from those in Athens, GA in their early years. Better? Living in that city, so many obscure bands blew the roof off makeshift abandoned warehouse venues, no one ever really knew what they were listening to.
If anything they were overrated.
The people that got it...GOT it...thats smooth...and all that counts"
Fred Schneider is an icon w his inimitable talk- singing style. Kate, if she's on the right, has those stunning green eyes and both women make incredible harmonies.
AWESOME SONG--ONE OF MY FAVORITE B-52'S CLASSICS EVER! 👄
The harmonies and sound effects the ladies make is icing on the cake for this band. Elevates the group to another level!
I love my Katie!!! She’s a legend.
Their voices together are amazing
Cindy's dances are so cool.
Devo, B-52's, Talking Heads, The Clash, English Beat
lots of fun music great time to be young
Have you ever seen the concert film called Urgh! A Music War? I think you'd like it =)
That's what I'm talking about!!
Sex Pistols, Iggy, Jam, Dead Boys, Damned, Slaughter & the Dogs...
Yep- Disco was on its way out man
Those bands got me through a 9 month Western Pacific/Arabian Sea cruise in the Navy!! Romeo Void, Human League, Oingo Boingo, Wall of Voodoo, Souxie and the Banshees still love 'en to this day and I'm almost 57!!!!!
Epic creativity and later mainstream success. How are they not inducted into the Rock & roll hall of fame?!🤷♂️🤷♂️
This is probably one of the coolest songs ever!!!
One of the greatest Bands when you talk about Innovative music.. their own distinctive sound...along with The Violent Femmes IMO
Good call on the violent femmes, another great band from that era.
Don't forget Private Idaho 😁
"BUT SHE ISN'T!" is a moment of extreme passion that should be sampled and made into the extended dance remix, repeating the line 52 times.
You’re not kidding! Best delivery of a lyric EVER!👏🏼
I know! That line still makes me laugh all these years later. It's a beautiful thing.
It’s “WELL SHE ISN’T!”
@@ApolloSniperman Not on _this_ planet.
In 50 years we will still be listening to it!
I had this album and hadn’t heard this song in 40 years. What a brilliant song
Coming from a guy that never was able to fit in the regular crowd ,even today, I got my first 45 which had this song. It was just starting to play on the charts. It was on my birthday and I was hooked.
Here was a group that NO ONE had ever heard in my area and if they did, I got the obligatory "Rolling of the eyes" attitude. So I would just never mention them but oh how many times I played that little 45RPM. I knew all the words in the same tone as Fred. Wasn't hard cause Fred is not the best singer ever out there but man, I love his voice .
The B-side was "There's A Moon In The Sky (and it's called the Moon)." I also knew those words by heart. Far from being rich, I never went any further than knowing The B-52's other than these 2 songs.
Then we moved from a town to a village and they were even LESS know. But that was alright. The local DJ had gotten the yellow album "The B-52's" and didn't like it at all. She asked me if I wanted it. DO I WANT IT? Does the Pope stink when he shits? What type of question was that???!!!
Cool as a cucumber, I said yes.
I don't think I even touched the ground as I ran home to listen to 7 other songs from this group I so loved their sound and rhythm. Although many loved Rock Lobster on that album, for me I would say it was a tie between 3 songs. The first 2 above (for obvious reasons) and "Dance This Mess Around." The way Katie sings it, sounds like she was pissed off and had enough. Even today I still sing it aggressively like she did.
Then one album after another, then cassettes, it didn't stop. I had to get my B-52's fix. I just dreamt of seeing them in a concert. Anyone can dream I guess.
Than I met someone that loved them as much as I did. I found out I had missed a few albums and vice versa. Together we had all albums, cassettes, and CD's ever made by B-52's. It was a match made in heaven.
Last year, we had the awesome chance of seeing them live in concert. What a show. Fred with his still terrible but fun singing scheme, was just an out of this world experience. The place was very small and very packed. We were maybe 25 feet from the stage and could see the white of their eyes pretty good. And what about Katie? My gosh. That woman hasn't aged in years. She was always hot looking and even hotter today. Of course, I am not young either, so it fits my agenda perfectly. I even told my wife and she agreed with me.
Thank you B-52's for all these years of great music and fun videos. Unlike many bands nowadays, you have never disappeared. You always stayed fresh and on top of times. Same sound, different ideas. Loved it.
*@Dany F* What an absolutely marvellous tale, brilliantly recounted; most sincerely, thank you for it...!!!
Thank you for sharing this with us!
Wow! ♥️
I went through something similar. In the US South, all the "rock" radio stations were hooked on the Allman Brothers, Lynard Skynard, and the like- you NEVER heard them play things like this. Same for the music stores- nobody had a clue that there was something else, something different, something WAY bigger and better.... But I knew about radio and antennas and I was listening to a distant 100 watt FM college station who had all the latest cutting-edge music which my cassette recorder dutifully kept for me so I could play it in my car. I introduced many people to the sounds of punk, the B52's, and new-wave and met a few cutting-edge people like me who had heard some of it from the big cities they visited. Discovering great new bands was a weekly thing for us, and finally one music store hired some of the friends I'd met who brought it all to the local masses long before MTV killed the radio stars.... different times and a different world but never has there been so much great music constantly emerging and never will there be a time like that again. Even the country music crowd knows who the B52's were and there's almost always one of their songs which everybody likes- they defined the era and changed the world. And they changed me too.
Kate always has this look of inexplicable panic in her eyes.
WELL SHE ISN'T!
How can this band not be recognized as one of the greatest in rock n' roll history, I don't know why.
Never failed to put a smile on my face in all these years. Love love love
I'm a 23 year old metalhead, but holy shit this is majestic!!
See what ya missed? I'm a punker from the Ramones days, New York Dolls, Sex Pistols etc. Loved this shit in the 80s. Still do and I'm 60
@@deanbennett8708 I know right!!
I´m also a Metalhead, and so really interested on rock evolution. This band appears on those years of Punk and New Wave, getting sounds and look from Surf and Bubblegum rock, in a similar manner to the Ramones, or the Psychobilly sound from The Cramps. A lot of influence from 60´s pop culture.
@@nachofernandezcomics5238 Very well said!
Same here metal head, punk, hardcore, new wave, British invasion, Motown, etc. Just no C&W or reggae please.....
My fave B-52 tune. Cindy wore that wig get-up the first time I saw the band at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston in 1982. I had balcony seats. The balcony was bouncing up and down. Seen them six times. Even got to shake Kate's hand before a show 20 odd years later
First heard this in a club on Long Island when it first came out in 1979.... Was totally blown away. Bought the record the next day 😎
Close 1978 But Right Decade lol , 80s kids like to claim it as a 80s song
Clearly one of the funnest bands of the 80's and easily one of the Top 5 new wave bands of all-time.
Indeed it was a post-punk band.
The 70s. 😉
@@Psychol-Snooper The B-52's first album was released in July of 79', which makes them an 80's group.
@@infiniteuniverse9528 You're being awkward... why invent a disingenuous criteria to cover the fact that you didn't know they were around since 1976. Rock Lobster was a massive hit in 1978, and even if a band can only exist after they release an LP (because reasons,) July of 1979 is still not the 80s.
There is no reason to get defensive just because I pointed out they existed in the 70s.
@@Psychol-Snooper You're the one who said they are a 70's band because their 1st album came out in 79'.
The Yellow album and Wild Planet are perfection. I adore this band.
Yes
If the B52's came out today instead of the 70's would they still be a hit today with the same songs.
@Frank1fm, I'd like to live in that world, but I'm not sure that I do.
I'd like to think so but thank god they came out of an era when music was still full of great musicans and songwriters & originality still existed and had'nt disapeared into what we have today.
Something tells me they would be just another manufactured X Factor clone band with Cowell steering there banal careers until his next manufactured creation was discovered on the hell that we call X Factor
@DaFuq Apparently you never heard Rock Lobster lol
These days, they'd probably offend someone.
This song/video literally changed my life. I first heard it at a teen High School party, in between Van Halen, Foreigner and other top groups of the time. My friend Sam was holding a Yellow album with some wack band picture on the cover. "The B-52's". He said "You've gotta hear this" and put it on. Planet Claire started things off and freaked the hell out of everyone at the party...bewildered. But for me, from that moment on, it all made sense. I was an aspiring bass player at the time these songs shook the foundation of my musical ideals. Fun. That was what was missing in music....serious faced hard ass bands or weepy ballad songs were drenching the FM radio airwaves, but this group screamed FUN. From that point on, I went into fun bands (that were quirky as well!) and got a lot more out of music. What amazes me is that the B-52's were so far outside of the 1979 norms that they became instantly cult-cool. The vintage Vox/Farfisa organ and Mosrite guitar sound (RIP Ricky!) were relics of the past that now sounded futuristic. The B's are still cult-cool, 40 years later! My thanks to them for being bizarre, absurd, wild, wacky, imaginative and talented in ways that nobody before in music had imagined. Although "Cosmic Thing" is a great album, it was "The B-52's" album that defined and foreshadowed a lot of the fun that the 1980's would put into music. No wonder John Lennon loved them the moment he heard them!
Well written, you are right. Where was the fun like in 1950's songs? The B-52's were/are both entertaining and creative.
Pure genius
Super genius
One of the greatest bands is all time
Awesome! I still can't figure out why a band as wonderfully strange as the B52s were doing playing in humble old Plymouth? Crazy days...
2019 and i think they're STILL ahead of their time!
yep
They are, 10000% 👍
And back then this was so so so out there.
Hmm, or perhaps are they always right on time ?
No doubt they're from PLANET CLAIRE!
The B52's were way ahead of their time. No band has ever produce music like this again.
EXACTLY.....
Same as DEVO 👍👍👍😎
If they were "ahead of their time", and yet no one has ever produced "music" like this again, what time is it that you are speaking of? By definition "ahead of their time" means they did it first and others followed. I'm unaware of who has chosen to replicate this dreck.
I think they're actually from the future
Check out a Japanese band called The Plastics. Interestingly enough, David Byrne of The Talking Heads heard the Plastics play, and got them. In touch with the B-52's management. They released 2 albums in the US, in 1980 and 1981, with help from Byrne and the B-52's. Very similar sounds,
I saw the B-52's in concert in 1988 in my hometown of Santa Barbara, California, and now, 30 years later they return, and I've already got my ticket to see them at the Santa Barbara Bowl on Sept 23 2018!!!
How was it?
They did a free concert in Macon, Ga...Oh yes I was there! Downtown on Cherry Street for no reason. Just they were there and whoop there they were.
Regret not seeing them on a New Years Eve Cruise around the SF Bay (1980?) must have been LEGENDARY
My hometown too and I missed a chance to see the B-52s open for Talking Heads at the Arlington in 1979! :(
Saw them at U.C.S.B, think the Motels opened for them. Thought the bleachers were going to collapse when everyone started pogoing. Good times.
Just genius. And so much fun! We had a ball partying to this music back in the day. Thank you!
This was the 1st record that I ever purchased by this group, and bought it when it 1st dropped in 1980 as a 45 r.p.m. vinyl record. I still have it !
IT'S A 70S TUNE NOT 80S CHECK THE ALBUM DATE!!🙂
@@Aurora-uq5hm The album dropped in 1980, the year I graduated from high school. I bought the 45 single "Planet Claire" first and then compact cassette album when it 1st dropped. Their self title album "The B52s” dropped in 1979.
It is you who should check the prescription on your reading glasses. May I suggest a diopter strength of at least +3.50? And also, get a brighter "Aurora" borealis light. Yours presents as very dim.
The defense rests. Your witness.
@@virgilwyatt4632 🤣🤣🤣
Fortunately records didn't drop then. They were released. Only fairly recently when the talent in music dropped, so did the music.
@@noneyabusiness4006 "Dropped" is slang for "released." Thanks for your attention to detail.
This is an epic tune has tons of positive energy. Timeless classic
If you don't start dancing when this comes on, something is seriously wrong with you.
I will get up on the floor for "52 Girls" before this one. What a guitar part.
I feel attacked; I assure you there is nothing wrong with me. I'm just dead on the inside, that's all.
No not really
This song is "INFECTIOUS" 😆
Yeah, I’m a double amputee
One of the most original bands of all time, pure genius.
Gotta give props to B-52's! A real, original, self-created band that actually wrote and performed live. Check out some of the old live performances here on YT. They were not just some thrown together kitsch act.
That’s debatable They were some of kitsch bands thrown together at the last minute
Bloody good records I think I need a stiff Pimms
@@martinblondel1531 Some, but not this band. The look of the B52's came along because they didn't have a promoter with money for costumes and they were as broke as the other College kids, so they went to the resale shops and bought what they could afford. Nobody wanted the old 60's stuff back then so they got it for nearly nothing and they made it work. Had they bought the latest styles of the times nobody would have given them a second look in the music industry and we wouldn't be here commenting on therm now.
Dont mess with this. Takes me to another world. You did your job. . awesome classic. Forever. 👀👀👀😺😎😎😎😎
Cheers!
She came from Planet Claire
I knew she came from there
She drove a Plymouth Satellite
A-faster than the speed of light
Planet Claire has pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a head
Some say she's from Mars
Or one of the seven stars that shine after three-thirty in the morning
Well, she isn't!
She came from Planet Claire
She came from Planet Claire
She came from Planet ClaireShe came from Planet Claire
I knew she came from there
She drove a Plymouth Satellite
A-faster than the speed of light
Planet Claire has pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a head
Some say she's from Mars
Or one of the seven stars that shine after three-thirty in the morning
Well, she isn't!
She came from Planet Claire
She came from Planet Claire
She came from Planet Claire
Thanks
Awesome!!! Your the best!!!
I’m 27 my dad showed my this when I was a kid I haven’t heard it since and I fucking love it!! These guys have their own style I like it 🔥🔥🔥
This came on the radio right as I hopped into the car to go to work this morning. Never heard it before, was smokin' a stogie and couldn't help but jam out a lil bit.
I bought this wonderful album when i was 56 back in 1979.
I still dance around the house listening to it.
I envy your youth.
Did you make it to 100?
No way
@@epicpotato8507 yes way
99 and handy with technology, hat's off to you sir.
This takes me back to my college days. This was a perfect fit with the punk music that was disrupting the disco scene.
Yeah, I was in the Navy then. My best friend I shared a house with turned me on to New Wave. Skinny leather ties, blue hair (spray in, of course, Uncle Sam wouldn't go for that) and living in Virginia Beach in the late 70's. It was a great club scene then.
Punk and the 52s go hand in hand. Check out Southern Culture on the Skids. Aka S.C.O.T.S.
@slaine's axe Punk lasted longer over here, mostly local bands who took on the sound but never made it big. But that didn't stop the people or the parties which made those years awesome.
Thankyou YT algorithm overlord for delivering this gift. They were the best party band ever, full stop. Such a unique combination and structure to their sound that has never been approached since... so they must have come from a different planet.
WOW ...It's 2019 and this music still give the energy to get up and do something....These guys were ahead of their time...
Incredible
I never tire of this song.
Featuring Ricky "Rock" Wilson and the delicious stylings (and unusual tunings) of his 4-string guitar. Never duplicated...never replicated! Miss this.
I think the guitar player in the video is Keith wearing a wig, with some other dude playing drums. I love the removing of strings and the strange tunings (I play guitar), The Presidents of the United States of America owe Ricky some credit.And the guitar in the video has 6 strings.
I had those mini Radio Shack walkie-talkies when I was a kid. I wish I had known you could make that satellite sound with one......I never danced with them either.
Marty Buchanan - I had those too from Radio Shack, they had a little list printed or an actual sticker with the morse code, with dashes and dots, right on the walkie-talkie... they usually came in a two- pack, so you could speak to another person, but the range on those were very limited, unless you went and spent a little more, and upgraded to a better walkie-talkie,... The "Realistic" brand was the Radio Shack's own brand, but they did have much better quality Citizen band radios... that's really what "Radio Shack" was famous for... this is my favorite song of The "B-52s", I do like "Rock Lobster", and I like 'Private Idaho"as well,... the First album is great, the second album is good, but doesn't have a lot of the iconic songs of the first album... who would have ever thought of using the morse code button, on a walkie-talkie, and using that as a musical instrument, because they could have produced the same sound, on a synthesizer, to get the same effect, hitting one of the higher keys on the keyboard to find the right note.... what's genius about it is the Simplicity of it, and also I noticed that, Fred Schneider, has his finger on the button for the Morse code and pulls away from the microphone to create a "fade out" effect, without any more effort, than it took him to come up with the idea, that he could use a walkie-talkie as an instrument...
Archer 'Space Patrol' walkie-talkies.
How boys communicated with their buds after hours or when their sister was hogging the phone!
I still have the first B52's album (vinyl) that I bought sometime in 1980-81. It has the original yellow LP sleeve with song lyrics and a picture of the Space Patrol walkie talkie that Fred presumably used when the group recorded this song.
From Tandy lol
If all hope seems to be gone, just think about Fred walking around in a circle with his walkie talkie singing, "no-one has a head". Things will pick up.
Solid advice
Wisdom reveals itself
Keep wishing!
Great advice!
Amen to that!
In 1979 I was fifteen. I heard this song and i knew this band was going to be something I wanted to have all around me.
Their music gives me so much joy i could explode.
Long live the B-52s music!
When I was 15 I heard “If you wanna be my lover” by the Spice Girls. I knew they were going to do really well.
Your story is better.
This is my favorite song that mentions a Plymouth Satellite.
Faster than the speed of light.
Fred's dancing is awesome. Love Shack is all most whipper-snappers know. We old-timers know the beehives were setting the pace back in the late 70's. Awesome stuff right there.
La perfection absolue,le coup de génie qui n'arrive qu'une fois par siècle...
In 1981 The B52's became one of my favorite bands. Now, 40 years later they are on their final tour. I just scored some great tickets for the San Fransisco show. Looking forward to a great final concert.
Why not in 1978 when this LP Came out ? its 70s Baby
I was at the sunday show here in San Francisco. Loved every second of it!
@@2Howl so was I ....what a great show
Anyome else think Fred's dancing is the best part of this video?
Who else can walk in a circle and make it look awesome?! 🤣
He's totally on it (in both senses ;-) )
Freddy is king
Kiddie ride ponies do a good job of that too. :)
Nope.. Its his linen pants... go buy a some,, come back and tell us the dry cleaner price,,,,;) And yes, I own a bunch of them.... ;)
I’m a little late to this discussion but I have to agree with your post. I have been a B 52 fan from the summer of 1980 but I had never watched this video. I just can’t stop watching it between Freds hypnotic dancing and her singing and dancing to a song I’ve always liked to begin with, This video has added a whole new dimension to this song.
Kate Pierson never looked more adorable!
Or Fred!
Amen! Her and the Belinda Carlyle in the GoGo's where my early teen crushes.
Debbie Harry was Hot! She was the one all the High School boys liked, but I was in Jr. High and she was a little too intimidating. I was attracted to the more goofy, smiley girls. Debbie Harry was the opposite of goofy! Ha ha
She was so gorgeous.
did you know Debbie Harry was a Playboy Bunny??? Yep
The combination of Kate's voice and that Yamaha
Heh!
Yep. Sounds like theramin.
Not to be that guy, but it’s actually a Farfisa organ from the 1960’s heard in the music. The Yamaha is just what she’s using in this video where they’re miming along with the song, which looks like it was filmed in the 90’s and not the late 70’s (song is from 1979).
Thanks for the Farfisa info. I'd been guessing maybe Arp Omni, but wasn't sure it was correct. Excellent.
@@k.c.m232 definitely not filmed in the 90's the guitarist Ricky Wilson passed away in 85.
wow long forgotten classic .... love the memory rush
The B52s - Fun, talented, silly, original and unpretentious. SO AWESOME
well said
Right...What YOU said!
YAASSS
Perfect assessment.
First heard this incredible song in 1979 during my freshman year in college. Just stumbled in this video 43 years later. So good!
So many great songs came out in the late 70s
I'd forgotten how good the B52s were...Fantastic. Kate Pierson...what a performance.
I was 12 when my friend invited us to her house to play pool. She brought out records her older sister had and put on B 52’s. FOURTY FIVE YEARS LATER, I still listen to planet Claire often! And I’m a Van Halen, Zepplin listener. They were unique!👍
I don't know what's more awesome - this video or that they showed in on a KIDS tv show lolz
I'm called Clare, I live in plymouth and I admire the b52s...I'm dumbstruck that they played in my town....made my day, thanks for posting...
Lucky you Clare! :)
Clare Duckett
They often perform in Boston.
CLAIRE! You may be from outer SPACe!
Clare Duckett Did you know about Cindy Wilson tour?
Last week in februari:Londen Manchester- Bristol.and Edinburgh
I think she mean's the Plymouth this was filmed in, the original one in Britain.
When ppl talk to me about the B-52’s I tell them they have no idea the amount of influence this one band from Athens, GA had and still has on American pop music. So underrated and a dismissed.
I worked for a local record store when this album came out. I remember hearing the album play overhead on the store speakers and wondering WTF??? It was a strange, new sound. The album cover perfectly captured the music. At first listen, I wasn't sure I was a fan. But soon I was completely hooked. I bought the album and played it nonstop at full volume in my bedroom, much to my parents' chagrin. Fast forward to my wedding 15 years later... I don't remember the playlist the DJ played during the reception, but I do clearly remember dancing with my dad to Rock Lobster. :-)
That beat is hypnotic, can't stop "drumming" to it
You'll find it elsewhere as the Peter Gunn stomp or similar
@@petertocher6845 Just sped up by 1.25 times! Turn this track down .75 in the playback controls and bingo Peter Gunn Theme!
@@petertocher6845 Ricky Wilson stole the riff from P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri, but it had made the rounds before Ricky picked it up. It was first popularized by Johnny Rivers in the song "Secret Agent Man", and later DEVO also deconstructed the riff. It was also used as the theme song for a 60's secret agent TV shows in England... Peter Gunn was a US secret agent show, but the music for that was composed by Henry Mancini, and he used the same back beat and riff at a much slower tempo with lots of brass horns.
This may be the single greatest recording in musical history...
Brilliant and innovative - a refreshing alternative to the disco crap from that era. Talented girls and Fred made this band work. I'm 67 and still love watching their videos.
Fred is really getting his groove on in the intro !!
Yeah he's a nut! :)
He’s fully committed!
The serious look at 1:01 ... you're almost convinced that he IS communicating with Planet Claire via that walky-talky.
Believe it or not but I never heard this before, man this is soooooo cool. 🎶🎸👏👍
Dude. Google 53 miles west of venus.