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re: Is it an unpopular music opinion to say the B-52’s suck?
Posted on 11/18/22 at 10:11 am to rebelrouser
Posted on 11/18/22 at 10:11 am to rebelrouser
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Posted on 11/18/22 at 10:12 am to JumpingTheShark
I thought they had a few good tunes.
I wouldn't say they "suck".
I wouldn't say they "suck".
Posted on 11/18/22 at 12:40 pm to JumpingTheShark
The B-52s don’t suck. Now Fred Schneider solo? He sucks.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 1:13 pm to auggie
quote:
I've got a Plymouth as big as a whale
Isn’t it Chrysler?
Posted on 11/18/22 at 1:16 pm to High C
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Isn’t it Chrysler?
Might have been..same thang.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 2:46 pm to JumpingTheShark
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Because they fricking suck
probably becuase you're an old fart in the year 2022
The B-52s, in my opinion, were very much a "time and place" kinda thing. If you were young and carefree and partying it up in the 1980s there was practically no one better. You're obviously going to look at them in a different lens than you would nearly 40 years later.
I'm sure in 2070 people are going to look back at poppy top 40 radio people from now and be like "holy shite that music sucks".
This post was edited on 11/18/22 at 3:22 pm
Posted on 11/18/22 at 3:23 pm to WG_Dawg
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If you were young and carefree and partying it up in the 1980s there was practically no one better.
Naw, I was young and carefree back then and in to alternative music but never loved the B52s. They were fun when they were played at a party and that is probably what their main purpose was. But I never wanted to listen to their stuff otherwise. But they don't suck.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 4:01 pm to rebelrouser
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Listen to 52 Girls please
I did. Not bad at all. Not enough to make me dive into their catalog, but much better than Love Shack.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 4:13 pm to auggie
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I just know their radio stuff
What songs of theirs got airplay? I really only remember "Love Shack" and "Roam". I just turned 40, so I may have missed most of their airtime
Posted on 11/18/22 at 5:45 pm to AlxTgr
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it would make me want to discount their tastes, in basically everything
Geddy Lee
Posted on 11/18/22 at 5:49 pm to JumpingTheShark
Early 52s and REM were both far superior to the later top 40 versions.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 7:23 pm to JumpingTheShark
Awful take
Posted on 11/18/22 at 8:42 pm to JumpingTheShark
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Because they fricking suck
GTFO!!…
Posted on 11/18/22 at 10:09 pm to Kafka
quote:Two words that make most here think you're a clown.
Geddy Lee
Posted on 11/18/22 at 10:26 pm to auggie
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I think The B-52s tried to be exactly the opposite of R.E.M.
I thank them for that. There's nothing wrong with music that tries to be fun...except Shiny Happy People.
Posted on 11/18/22 at 10:28 pm to WG_Dawg
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I'm sure in 2070 people are going to look back at poppy top 40 radio people from now and be like "holy shite that music sucks".
2070? I've been saying it since the late 90s.
Posted on 11/19/22 at 5:36 am to DaleGribble
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2070? I've been saying it since the late 90s.
I mean, outside of Taylor Swift and Beyonce, can anyone even name the stars of the 2000's?
Absolutely the worst time for music in the modern era.
Posted on 11/19/22 at 6:48 am to AUCom96
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I mean, outside of Taylor Swift and Beyonce, can anyone even name the stars of the 2000's?
Absolutely the worst time for music in the modern era.
The best opportunity ever. GET GOING.
Posted on 11/19/22 at 7:01 am to JumpingTheShark
Good at what they did
Strobe light was rocking and quirky
Strobe light was rocking and quirky
Posted on 11/19/22 at 8:23 am to JumpingTheShark
They are/were a college-town frat party dance band. Seen in that light, they are among the best ever.
When all you hear from them on the radio is "Love Shack", of course we'll grow to hate them.
When we go to see them in concert with 1,000 other people, it might not be great, because they are a Frat Party band designed to play at a Frat Party, not an auditorium. So, in concert with 1,000 people - that's just not their element.
It's understandable why, after all of these decades, young people would say that "they suck." They have no idea of what it would be like to be at a College student party where The B-52's are live and in person.
When all you hear from them on the radio is "Love Shack", of course we'll grow to hate them.
When we go to see them in concert with 1,000 other people, it might not be great, because they are a Frat Party band designed to play at a Frat Party, not an auditorium. So, in concert with 1,000 people - that's just not their element.
It's understandable why, after all of these decades, young people would say that "they suck." They have no idea of what it would be like to be at a College student party where The B-52's are live and in person.
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