The B-52's - 53 Miles West of Venus

The B-52's - 53 Miles West of Venus - Wild Planet(1980)

[@donnasmith9579]

I have loved the B52s since I was twelve. I’m in my fifties now and they still rock. Classic.

[@kaneda015]

they are THE most underrated band of the world

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

no way they have a huge respect from everybody and they sold millions of records and they came up with Punk Rock started and many Punks like me still see the Punk vibes still love and play their songs since 76 ---- have fun stay healthy ☠️💣☠️

[@mantia39]

They're pretty well known and respected.

[@geremiajonathan1814]

Pure i pluto

[@pheffrey9446]

I see this same comment on dozens of different artists videos lol

[@edbrown8254]

4:10. Ricky's guitar playing right here is superb. He would take strings off his guitar and use weird, oddball tunings to get just the sound he wanted. Genius.

[@the4bidden142]

I've always told people he is a very underrated guitarist, R.I.P Ricky Wilson 😎👌👍

[@rjtas]

personally, I think a musician who wants to create something full of life and energy can find no finer influence than this era of post-punk/new-wave from the 70s and 80s. I grew up on on 80s/90s/00s 'punk rock' etc etc and it wasn't until post-punk that my own playing had any expression. While the vast majority of a lot of this earlier stuff lacks the tempo of the stuff that used to get me going, it more than makes up for that with feeling and uninhibited artistic, emotional and political expression.

[@the4bidden142]

@@rjtas Ricky was awesome 😎👍

[@fantomas3066]

Efficace le jeu de guitare, simple et génial. très bon groupe.

[@joachimpeiper8076]

Sound doesn’t rely on oddball tuning “, Ricky’s tuning was proper, he used a Fender Telecaster which made a little more different tone than other guitars, plus he used exact Oldschool 70’s guitar pedals which made a big difference than current distortion or buzz or any other Current rock guitar pedal. All those bands in late 70s, used old machinery as for Amplifiers or pedals from 60s/70s, which produced a sound that cannot be found today. In addition, the record productions those days were pretty good. Apart from that, B 52s teached post punk and indie rock in 1978-1980

[@coldacre]

the guitar playing is GENIUS. it’s Sonic Youth before there was Sonic Youth. brilliant

[@KrampusDerWilde]

I thought the same but with Pixies haha

[@michaelhansen7516]

Personally, Ricky Wilson is one of those zero recognition guitarists that's one of the greats. So many rock and blues guys are copying each other. No thanks. Ricky is an original. Band wasn't the same after he passed. Good, but missing those quirky riffs.

[@goldenagenut]

I'd really like to hear a 15 minute dance version of this song, it just ends entirely to soon!

[@alanstrom2221]

This is one of my fave songs in the Universe. Keith's Drumming is awesome!!! This is Cosmic. 1980!

[@SoapinTrucker]

I was 17 and living in Long Beach when it was still a GREAT town to live in, lots of surfer girls, and beach front parties!!!!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@williebowen2965]

Long Beach, California Oceanfront Townhouses in Naples Island. BELMONT SHORE & ALAMITOS BEACH IS ARE BEAUTIFUL.

[@russellgoulding4263]

I always heard "pretty pretty mouth mashed potatoes." Superb song.

[@anthonyp6823]

Where the fuck have I been? Wow what a gem.

[@Kelly14UK]

Discovered them just last year.

[@readmedottext]

If I ever take a space tourism flight, this will be playing in my headphones on the way up.

[@MrSpikebender]

B52s and Devo both were a little early. I am lucky enough to have seen them both. I'm old.

[@ricoz2016]

GOOD & OLD, bro. I saw them both too.

[@malbuff]

When this came out I was convinced they were singing, "53 miles to West Covina" and nobody could tell me otherwise until we actually got the album and looked at the jacket. Now, try it yourself... Great, you'll never hear it the right way again.

[@transneural]

Me too!...

[@hEV6060842]

I heard it as West Virginia

[@iancurd4437]

I think "do you know what's for dinner? " fits quite well. Or perhaps it's just me.

[@free322001]

I could hear "West Covina," but no "to"

[@malbuff]

@THOTASIA O. SCREEM Excellent! That fits right in with the B-52's alternate universe. However, I heard "53 miles TO West Covina," so you could be coming from any direction.

[@johnnyloaps5034]

good soundtrack to the movies that play inside my eyelids...love the B-52's!

[@peterehmann4417]

so i do

[@PunishedFelix]

Fuck yeah, the B-52's are the shit.

[@henryluis3111]

"PREACH"✌✌✌

[@angel1329us]

I am on a total B-52s jag lately, and since 1979.

[@johnhenderson3646]

Whilst the majority of my classmates were listening to Van Halen...this was my music.

[@Kelly14UK]

Maybe the best near 3 minutes of "intro", you'll ever hear

[@purplemascara99]

Definitely in my top 5 albums when I was a kid. I was the coolest 10 year old ever!

[@ricoz2016]

I bet!

[@coastallad1010]

Kates base synth and voice,along with Ricky's guitar are amazing!!

[@drmr4hm]

fred shnieder was ahead of his time. he seamlessly blended his shouting/talking/singing vocals with the harmonies of kate pierson and cindy Wilson. guitarist ricky Wilson sadly died before he was able to reach his full potential.

[@toyoscio]

drmr4hm Ricky was a great one,right up there with the guitar greats. A shame he has never been received the recognition of other great guitar players.

[@101Volts]

It only took 24-30 years after he died before I started seeing people talk about his playing (however, I wasn't born for nearly 6 years after his death.) Check out some of the guitar tabs on Ultimate Guitar, they're not all accurate but I have one of Private Idaho on there that I updated. There's more going on in it than you can hear on the first (or even first couple dozen) listens if you don't know they're in there or aren't looking, it gives me inspiration.

[@coastallad1010]

This track is Ricky and Kate's baby.

[@zacharymorin5696]

drmr4hm Give Keith some love!

[@53mileswestofvenus39]

gROOOOOOOOOOOVEY! Surfer music... Stoner music.... Maui Wowie Life... 98 Rock, Honolulu's only rock!!! 🍍 🐍

[@101Volts]

Ricky Wilson is my favorite guitarist, His style is showing up in my own style of playing guitar much more now too!

[@philippeoger4133]

J'adore les OVNIS comme les B-52's

[@fizgig2016]

I saw this performed live when it was new. I'm going to go see them in September - with my grown daughter, who wasn't going to be born for 10 years when I saw this first. Gawds. I'm still gonna be dancing though!

[@the4bidden142]

@KAMANTHA Q. KLYMAXX ....or Ricky.

[@mykeymay]

Don't think so in this Corona-crisis..

[@mattscheibert2715]

dark crystsl?

[@ItsNachoShrimple]

Why does this not have 20 000 000 000 views :(

[@maxauburn]

Loving this song!

[@SoapinTrucker]

Jack Wells Yes, remember the parties in 1980/81 to this song? ;)

[@maxauburn]

I sure do!

[@SoapinTrucker]

:)

[@kylabotting]

Ah, one of the BEST party songs ever!

[@earnestmartin4305]

New Wave at the time what a wild time I had partying in the dorms

[@Discrimination_is_not_a_right]

"So how long did it take you to write the song?" "Four minutes and fifty-three seconds."

[@MrTaurus48228]

One of my favorite song and band

[@verginithe]

this guitar player in the B52s made their songs so good

[@coastallad1010]

Ricky legend!!!!

[@johnking3341]

Genius!!

[@thecapricorn11]

their first two albums were their best

[@ricoz2016]

This was the band's apex, no shame in that either.

[@thecapricorn11]

@@ricoz2016 whammy had some slappers

[@michaelshindle4006]

Sounds even better today…

[@rolandst.pierre4275]

best live band ever!

[@colibri1]

As teenagers around the time this song came out, we used to watch films of people doing 60s dances like the Jerk, the Pony, the Frug, the Watusi, etc and then do 60s dances to the B52s and a few other 60s-influenced bands of the era. This song was great for that.

[@ricmondragon]

This is one of my fav. B-songs! I'll never forget when they closed the show with this on the Wild Planet Tour way back when... Wish someone would post live footage of it! Kate and Cindy were AWESOME!!!

[@coastallad1010]

ricmondragon There is live footage from Capitol theatre Sydney 1980 on youtube

[@henryluis3111]

THEY HAD TO BE HIGH ASS HELL THANK YA!✌✌✌

[@kennethbrown4474]

2022, still loving this song.

[@nathankortleitner]

These Songs make America great (again?)

[@h.chappelle2720]

This was a cool dance tune when it came out, still entertaining.

[@shadovanish7435]

If I was an astronaut, & was the first to travel to Venus I would listen to this song at a loud volume while entering orbit, & make sure Mission Control heard it too! Mission Control be like, "Ok, that's very lively music, thanks, but let's see if we can concentrate on the mission profile, over."

[@ellococt]

Dat beat though!!!!!!

[@doobeedoo58]

53 miles west if Venus would put you right outside Stephenville! About 90 minutes outside of Fort Worth

[@SaintVodou]

Would this be considered a semi-instrumental? It’s like a lot of my favorite Bs songs, perfect combination of vocals and all that nouveau-retro sound…RIP, Ricky Wilson…

[@JonMatt62]

WHAT a f*cking song.

[@laurentjamert]

Ça déchire !

[@dimitrisk02]

I didn't know any song of the B52s, until I came across an old cassette tape of my mom's, which was purchased in May of 1981, from the McKenzie's music shop in Whangarei, NZ. This song is my jam.

[@JB-ju4ev]

i just realized that their singing reminds me of the offspring in a way, I like this song

[@randyallen1264]

seen 4 times awsome.

[@cluny]

early 80s Denver, I wasn't cool enough to go to a B-52s party. You had to dress up as something from a B-52s song. If I had the money, I'd be Jackie-O driving a Plymouth Satellite, with Quiche Lorraine on a leash.

[@dmax3270]

The Deadbeat Club on Evans, yo,

[@mikeduff2552]

I was a member of the deadbeat club in San Francisco 1977-1985

[@seansands424]

cant falt the b52s timeless classic, i have got most of there albums

[@carlosclaveria3436]

Música de mi época se baila brincao años 80 únicos en su género nunca volver

[@FM-mj8pr]

Thank ya from Earth 🌏 to 23 miles West of Venues 👨🏼‍🎤

[@willlindsay1866]

Groovy man.

[@ILoveB52s]

Coool song!

[@surearrow]

>>---------------------> This music is so haunting ....yet a sideways twisted kinda fun. Only the coolest of parties play such music!

[@DawnShepardME3]

+surearrow Too true. From the band that brought u Rock Lobster and Strobe Light. One of a kind.

[@teecutie3471]

Awesome

[@booboobay1]

so the Frug is a dance? Because on Rock Lobster, Fred says "Fruggin' round the fire".

[@yourownprivateidaho8262]

this song is so fucking badass

[@peterfrank3365]

I'm writing this just so that there are 53 comments.

[@alanstrom2221]

LOL!!!!!!

[@coastallad1010]

If you can't dance to this,try golf

[@davidsebaoun4637]

Good one 👍👍

[@Kelly14UK]

Lol. Want to belt my guitar out to this.

[@101Volts]

@@Kelly14UK I made a guitar tab to this a while ago. It's tuned to DADxBB (x = no string in that slot.) It's fairly simple, though I tabbed every little variant I could hear in the song. Here's a link: tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/the-b-52s/53-miles-west-of-venus-tabs-2360071

[@Opiemus]

That was brilliant you win the internet! 😜

[@raynickerson2133]

I can do both.

[@VIV292]

this is very cool song

[@dylancorbin8512]

Andy Anderson!!! 😵‍💫

[@walkthnyt2000]

WEST OF!!!!!!

[@booboobay1]

I have private idaho too.

[@Kelly14UK]

Ahead of the mid 80s. Wondering if they inspired The Cult and U2. Nice keyboards. Captain Sensible must've taken note. Just my humble take.

[@ANDOR_1312]

I GOT TO GET HIGH ON THIS

[@coastallad1010]

Andrés cañete just did

[@101Volts]

I listened to this while watching a video similar to the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Does that count? Probably not.

[@MicheleBohmke]

Have been, it's great.

[@carlosmarioanyzewski2669]

Muito bom.

[@colibri1]

The line is "Everybody's rockin'. Everybody's fruggin'" but Fred pronounces it "froog" instead of the way most people pronounced it, "frug" (rhymes with shrug). The other reference to a 60s dance in "Rock Lobster" is "Twistin' round the fire." People have forgotten this now, or aren't aware of it, but in the late 70s the B52s and several other bands were considered to be reviving sounds and styles of the early to mid-60s, a trend at the time. "Rock Lobster" mocks early 60s beach movies.

[@101Volts]

Keith Strickland said this is the last song they wrote for Wild Planet.

[@free322001]

Oh, Kate and Cindy

[@dcxxx6850]

4:54 minutes of brilliance

[@torahislife]

Mysterious, isolated Central Coast of California in early 80s... surf, sun, and nature with sun shining down West of Venus

[@figbat1]

Day 6263. A prime number. All my urine and distilled water til 12.30pm then dried figs and iceberg lettuce and black grapes also at 3.00pm then more urine then fresh fruit and vegetables and other foods at 9.00pm. No change.

[@seansands424]

on record albums as well

[@frank.w.buchanan4076]

👍😎

[@bronicadude]

yup

[@rtosic1]

2020.

[@tommym936]

I used to think it was "53 miles west Virginia" ,maybe it is something to do with Route 53?

[@rvtssrvtss3630]

if you like this listen to thompson twins the gap

[@isabellabloom3915]

¡¿Dónde le doy Me Eeencanta?!

[@myblacklab7]

Wait - which way is "West" on Venus? I'm so confused.

[@coastallad1010]

lets have it

[@tentcitykevin]

That is where most of the girls that I know brains are located at.

[@colibri1]

It is possible that the people I heard say it when I was young were pronouncing it wrong.

[@rockwildeblues]

so how good is that my pal doobeedoo58,, puts us west of portsmouth, ohio i aberdeen, on the river,, so by that i mean, yeah its right but my name is ottl otto getdaphuchoutoftwn. gone now,, (dont look on 41,, i would never be there

[@hamsterstavros]

Psychy Atmosphere

[@diterpitch3697]

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[@BiancaPodaru]

Venus in retrograde.

[@soumarujo]

ma ra vi lho so.....