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After starting the 80s off with a bang these historic pioneers of New Wave had been through the ringer entering the final year of the decade. The B52s were looking at slumping sales and the tragic loss of their guitarist Ricky Wilson in 1985 Kate Peirson, Cindy Wilson, Fred Schneider and co had been in decline for years. They wrote their biggest hit ever, Love Shack! They would set mainstream radio on fire with one of the most UNLIKELY party hits ever and after 13 years as a band with not one top 40 hit, they had two top 3 hits back to back…Love Shack contained the most mispronounced phrase of the decade. Up Next Cindy Wilson sets the record straight on some long held urban legends behind the one of 1989’s biggest hits and says there’s no way it should’ve been a hit. It’s a celebration of the late 80s classic Cosmic Thing.
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Hey Music Junkies, Professor of Rock Always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the Greatest songs of all time. If as an adult you found out that you’ve been singing the wrong lyrics to a hit song for decades you’ll dig this channel. Actually today’s song fits into that category. make sure to subscribe below and check the box to get the best of the 60s 70s 80s and 90s also Vistit us on Patreon for weekly suprises and insider info.
It’s time for another edition of our series Revelations where artists and band give us the inside details of their best songs and albums.. Details you won’t find anywhere else. We go deep to get you the straight facts and hordes of useless information. Today’s song has a phrase that is one of the most misheard, wrongly sung lyrics of the entire decade. It was also as one of the most unlikely hits ever.. this according to one of the principal members from a band who had been releasing music for 13 years without one top 40 hit.
The B52s burst on to the scene in the late 70s to much fanfare for their thrift shop aesthetic, a melting pot of kitsch and camp from the 50s and 60s, a completely fresh approach to pop and rock that fired up the outcasts and misfits. The band scorched the mainstream with songs like My Own Private Idaho, Rock Lobster, and Dance This Mess around.
With interplay between quirky lead singer Fred Schneider, the perfectly strange and hypnotic vocals of Cindy Wilson and Kate Peirson and unusual guitar tunings of Ricky Wilson: this created a trademark sound that many copied but none could ever equal. As the B52s made their way through the blockbuster 80s, they had a few singles enter the Hot 100 but they never completely crossed over .
in 1985 the band performed in brazil at Rock in Rio, it was their biggest crowd ever and they felt the momentum beginning to build but they struggled to write new material/ The band members were all very close . They all lived together in a house and that closeness seemed to work against them. They began to write separately. Around this time guitarist Ricky Wilson had been suffering from AIDS, none of the other band members were aware of his diagnosis except for drummer Keith Strickland as he didn’t want anyone to worry about him, especially not his sister Cindy.