The B-52's - Rock Lobster (Official Music Video)

You're watching the official music video for The B-52's - "Rock Lobster" from their self-titled debut album. "Rock Lobster" is on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
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[@themikeygshow1271]

Don’t boil me! I’m still alive!

[@Flixxy0]

Iraq lobster!

[@sudokisara]

Death to America. And butter sauce.

[@Stimulated_miind]

I was expecting this loll

[@mandalorianwiththemandarin4339]

@@Flixxy0 Family guy

[@jutlan854]

@@sudokisara dont boil me, im still alive

[@11matt11]

Who ever filmed and saved this, deserves some kind of award. One of the great live videos of the 1980's. What an amazing version of this classic.

[@ariari4133]

Maybe the best muziek ,was 16 first listen B52

[@michaelsorrells4649]

B-52 first album

[@Kelly14UK]

Cindy looks demonically beautiful here

[@traekas7228]

ted ritola And 80s, 90s too. I didn’t hear them until the year 1980. Not yet 20, the first listen/dance. It was THIS song, too!

[@traekas7228]

I LOVE ❤️ Fred!!! And,...is it Cindy with the red hair? Aw he’ll!!! All of them were perfect in this. Just like all of us were at that age.

[@donalddade5643]

42 years later, this song still has an infectious groove to it.

[@joejava3000]

I totally agree with that statement 👍😋😁 Especially when we are on lockdown too!..

[@jackroark6928]

holy FUCK! 42 YEARS?!? god DAMN I'm old!

[@pablofernandez4441]

@@jackroark6928 X2

[@nikkijayjay1074]

Love this song. Weird fun.

[@eltonjohntubola3212]

1980's is just 20 years ago.

[@jamesthompson2757]

This song kicks ass. Just a bunch of cool people hanging out making wacky songs that slap.

[@funlittlefish]

You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like Rock Lobster 🙂🙂

[@MickeyUhl]

very that!

[@BradleyJames-w5k]

Those were the days when acid was good

[@pat_n_black7563]

@@BradleyJames-w5kacid’s the same, coke and heroin is what’s changed.

[@ghulsey45]

The pride of Athens, GA. Home of the University of Georgia and where they went to college and met.

[@joeprimal2044]

4 strings on his guitar, a cow bell, two hot chicks doing weird sea creature sounds and a song about a lobster...........priceless.

[@crossbones80]

I thought Ricky played with 9 or 11 strings. He was the only guitartist in this song live. Regardless, a hit song and, to me, the first Alternative band ever. Really good music. I think they put out really original, really good stuff.

[@notebook116]

sometimes you don't have to make sense to be good.. it's about if it gets your fuckin feet out on the floor.. and it's weird.. that makes it ok with me! now if i had a beer that would be perfect now!

[@joeprimal2044]

Caroline Miller Sea critters gets me thinking more tropical island beach party. Bonfires in the sand......how about a Mi Tie or some kind of rum punch instead?

[@notebook116]

lol

[@suz1962]

First time I heard this was my freshman year in college. Crap I'm old.

[@neverminditsjustava]

This is what I mean when I say “ I can’t explain my type of music “ Edit: came back to this 2 years later and wow did it make a lot of ppl mad for no reason 😭😭😭 I was simply stating it would be hard to explain this song to someone who has never heard it before or to someone who has never listened to this type of music before you guys are so quick to drag someone 😭

[@rickblaine5429]

ROCK LOBSTER!

[@RamonGarcia-ld4dw]

Love the comment 😊

[@lurmandurman8408]

Surf Rock

[@jackgray3190]

New wave

[@jakemallory4239]

The Avalanches are like this.

[@Gentlegroove71]

Not only did they write great songs. They were killer live. And they didn’t care what anyone thought. They didn’t follow trends. They did their own thing.

[@grinninmoon3956]

Actually, they followed Yoko Ono's trends. She was their influence.

[@SHHISHHIE]

They are AMAZING 😊

[@zoren1900]

​@@grinninmoon3956really?

[@theeater1756]

@@grinninmoon3956 But they sin gin tune instead of atonally screaming.

[@genecasciari748]

I saw them live at my hometown Alive at 5 concert in downtown Stamford about 15 years ago for only $10!. Awesome!

[@christopherwest4580]

Let’s give some love to the drummer,it takes some effort to keep going at the frenetic pace of this song.👍👏👏😍😍

[@exclamationpointman3852]

All facts

[@judgeholden849]

If you like frenetic drumming you should listen to black metal. Search MGLA

[@666LonesomeSailor]

And what about the four string guitarre?!

[@anodyne57]

And when the guitarist died, the drummer moved into that role, as guitarist. Amazing.

[@101Volts]

@@666LonesomeSailor It's tuned to CFxxFF. x = no string in that slot. The string gauges are weirdly uneven on the bottom end, and weirdly placed and with a chorus effect on the top end, similar to a mandolin; .058, .056, empty, empty, .018p, .018p. The lowest string isn't weird as it's just a thick Low E from a pack of 13s. But the next string is almost the same gauge, and since it's higher pitched, it has much more tension instead of being more evenly balanced in tension. The F notes on the top end are weird because they're 2 notes below a regular G note on a G string, and the G string would normally be in the 4th slot, like 1-2-3-(4)-5-6, if you're counting from the Low E up. Play it with that string and tuning setup on a 1966 Mosrite Ventures Mark V model through a Fender Twin Reverb amp with the right settings (I'm not sure of what settings were used here,) and you got this tone down. Not that this exact performance is my favorite of it, though. I prefer the more overdriven guitar tone of the album version, and also of subsequent live versions in 1979. This other version's a bit too quiet and clean for me. Also, the album version is not in 440 hz, it's in 444 or 445. So it's slightly sharper than the standard of 440 hz. Disclaimer: when I'm saying something is "weird" here, that's not me mocking at all. I've studied this song a lot, guitar-wise, to the point of writing the 4th guitar tab for it over at Ultimate Guitar.

[@francissanchez6345]

The showmanship of this band was pretty amazing. The way Fred dance and with a cow bell was outstanding. Kate and Cindy sung harmoniously and with great timing. What great band.

[@Redandranger]

Still trying to dance like Fred did, 40+ yrs later. Exhausting.

[@oakchar]

I agree 100% !

[@davidg.9932]

Ricky Helton Wilson would have turned 68 today, born March 19, 1953. Ricky died from AIDS. It's truly sad that so many gifted, talented artist' lost their precious life to this rarely talked about past global epidemic that has claimed 32.7 million beautiful souls. We miss you Ricky.

[@solinpookie69]

...Rest In LOVE, Mr. Wilson!!...

[@soph-7404]

@Ughra Yuvakov it’s rarely talked about recently but it was back then

[@jake-y]

@@soph-7404 um YEAH, cause covid duh

[@stevekallaugher2325]

"...past global epidemic..."? I don't think so. Over 5,000 people get infected every day. Nearly 2 million still die of it every year. You can think it's in the past in America, but not where we live and work: Just over 50% people in their 30s are HIV+. That's why Young Heroes has 17,000 orphans and the grandmothers caring for them in our programs. Make no mistake: AIDS is still a global epidemic. We're still fighting it in memory of Ricky and so many others.

[@rickhernandez4269]

He shouldn’t had went chocolate diving

[@andrewmerklinghaus6316]

I literally just cannot ever get over how hard this song slaps. Like I lie awake in bed at night thinking about how awesome this song is.

[@happyfrancis]

It really is just right in the pocket, like a metronome.

[@TheShotenZenjin]

Back in 1980, John Lennon said Rock Lobster was inspirational for him in bringing about Double Fantasy.

[@TimmyTickle]

@@TheShotenZenjin Apparently it reminded him of Yoko’s music

[@OrdinaryG33K-SF]

@@TimmyTickle 😄

[@LtScheisskopf]

There are so many points during this song that I think "it can't get any better" and it does.

[@Dharmon1]

If you were born in 1926 and listened to this in 1978, you'd B-52.

[@EndeyF9]

😂

[@mexicant407]

I had to read this twice & think about it, g00d 1

[@RockyHoarderPictureShows]

Haha.

[@_-_Michael_-_]

Wow grandma was born ‘26. Would tell her this joke if she was still here.

[@EdgarAndahua]

​@@RockyHoarderPictureShows4:40

[@blariadnebl]

Just imagine a 13 years-old girl with her sister of 8 years-old dancing on the top of their beds with this song that came on one of the cassetes of their dad. That's me and my sister a long time ago. Pure life, pure crazyness and full of joy.

[@ianblair5032]

This has valuable memories for me as a mini Blair too!! I have passed this awesomeness onto my kids too!! They shock out harder than I ever could!! Rock on likkle lobsters!!

[@finddeniro]

An Octopuses garden in the shade. My sisters jumping around..? Ringo Lives.

[@luisgarza2799]

Me antojaste un buen gallo

[@priteeshgarg1511]

How old is this song

[@fanlybutter2971]

@@priteeshgarg1511 It came out in 1978

[@lyndonbushnell8080]

You can clearly see that Fred is a perfectionist & knows how to entertain well, The B52's are nothing short of brilliant.

[@elisebond]

Agreed! They are before my time but I grew up listening to their music.

[@melvindickens6846]

N @@elisebond

[@tonyrock5313]

I always thought they sucked and still do.

[@lindemann5936]

@@tonyrock5313 So you wasted your own time in the comment section complaining about it lmao such a goober

[@zombywoof1015]

They're America's favorite party band. You @@tonyrock5313?

[@noncreativearts5360]

What kind of drug do you want? The B-52's: *Yes*

[@dbieganski]

yes

[@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn]

What do you mean? I don't see any drug references! We were at a party His earlobe fell in the deep Someone reached in and grabbed it It was a rock lobster Rock lobster Rock lobster We were at the beach Everybody had matching towels Somebody went under a dock And there they saw a rock It wasn't a rock It was a rock lobster Rock lobster Rock lobster Rock lobster Rock lobster Motion in the ocean His air hose broke Lots of trouble Lots of bubble He was in a jam S'in a giant clam Rock rock Rock lobster Down, down Lobster rock Lobster rock Let's rock! Boy's in bikinis Girls in surfboards Everybody's rockin' Everybody's fruggin' Twistin' 'round the fire Havin' fun Bakin' potatoes Bakin' in the sun Put on your noseguard Put on the Lifeguard Pass the tanning butter Here comes a stingray There goes a manta-ray In walked a jelly fish There goes a dog-fish Chased by a cat-fish In flew a sea robin Watch out for that piranha There goes a narwhal Here comes a bikini whale! Rock lobster Rock lobster Rock lobster Rock lobster Nope, just normal stuff, no drugs here.

[@noncreativearts5360]

@@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn I was talking about their demeanor

[@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn]

@@noncreativearts5360 I was making a joke too, you'd have to be on drugs to write those lyrics! 🙂

[@nosferatu2]

@@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn no they def did drugs

[@NeanillaCastaneda]

I'm 64 now and I remember when he said Down we all went. DOWN SOME PEOPLE WOULD ACTUALLY LAY ON THE DANCE FLOOR AND PRETEND TO BE HAVING convulsions. It was a great time be young and have the b 52s and missing persons. Rock on. The Latina❤peace and love and always Jesus. 🎉❤

[@JTKAMI]

Nobody walks in la!

[@deborahserdy4151]

I’m 62 I was down on the floor for sure😊

[@villedocvalle]

What are words for? Nobody walks in LA

[@JTKAMI]

@@villedocvalle I walked in LA. It sucked, but I walked. lol.

[@resurection96]

fr❤

[@floretionguru2977]

This is the song I would give to aliens to tell them exactly what it's like living on planet Earth.

[@ozzy1887]

The Rick & Morty episode of (Show me what you got.) This is what you would want to show them.

[@paulrosenberger3612]

The aliens from planet Claire?

[@floretionguru2977]

@@paulrosenberger3612 Exactly!

[@aunch3]

*when humans do drugs

[@victoriavaughan3964]

Hell yeah

[@Panzerlaw11]

Nobody ever needed to tell Fred Schneider they “gotta have more cowbell!” The man killed it in this video. Love this song!

[@kevbob]

they played a corporate conference I went to about 5 or 6 years ago. Most of the audience was just DEAD, but I was standing in front of Fred (there was no riser for the band) and dancing like a f'n maniac. Sometime towards the last part of the show he walks over to me and handed me his drumstick and grabbed another to keep banging away. You bet I will never part with it. :)

[@lisawilliams2013]

@@kevbob that is an awesome story! Thanks for sharing!!!!

[@bigsky3072]

He went apeshit on that poor cowbell, he beat it like a raped ape.

[@le_th_]

My thoughts exactly! lol ....and his timinig??? Man, that dude can keep precise time.

[@paulsherman51]

It's where Will got the idea from, right here.

[@blee4583]

This is some of the most original music you will ever see.

[@nullvoid244]

This is the pinnacle of western civilization. Everything else was just leading up to this.

[@donaldist7321]

yeah, it was so cutting edge I had no idea how to dance to it. So I pogoed.

[@ingwarmagn3393]

And Sparks too, of course.

[@TwisterTornado]

The problem is this would just be a meme, now. No one would bother to make a whole song and make it good.

[@nullvoid244]

@@TwisterTornado or it would be AI

[@davidhoracek6758]

You're almost right. The pinnacle was actually reached when this song got a Bill McClintock mashup with Reign in Blood by Slayer. Now, finally, the West can proudly decline and fall.

[@KTJMProductions]

This song has all the energy of "Wait the song was due TODAY??"

[@sarahrubinstein69]

😂😂😂😂

[@the2ndcoming135]

So, that’s what Uncle Rico was doing in that house?🤔

[@questionblock8949]

Lmao!! 🤣

[@MrCoollogic88]

😂😂😂facts!!!

[@raldux9153]

😂😂😂😂😃😂

[@RyderSpearmann]

Wow… I had NO idea that this was a one-take live performance. Nailed it. Right out of the park. The last 100 seconds are some hard drivin rock, man… bold, eclectic talent.

[@CarlosMendez003]

A lot of it was due to the legendary guitar play of Rickey Wilson, the late brother of band member Cindy Wilson. He passed away of AIDS in 1985. All the good ones always taken away from us so young. Long live the Rock Lobster 🦞

[@kjherrera1289]

"there goes a catfish! chased by a dogfish.

[@brittanywilliamson1709]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@alepal98]

This footage is truly stunning, not just by the way it was remastered but because of all the energy this band delivered in just one song. We need to see the rest 🙏🏼

[@jeans.plante512]

This concert must have been unreal

[@christinehartley2026]

You should see them in concert! One of the best IMHO 🥰

[@lazarpejic6415]

Irak lobster

[@supafrogg258]

The B-52's were unique; -a chance gathering of personalities, who worked well together, shared a taste for fun wacky combos of things, and who were all very good at being creative with such combos, and at making it all work. Forty plus years later, it still works, and is such fun to listen to!

[@marklholloway]

Fred hits the cowbell like it’s nobody’s business.

[@LordKreiden]

@Daniel Downs I would of loved to be a fly on the wall for that intervention

[@LordKreiden]

@Daniel Downs I meant that meeting up of the minds ,or the hand of god , intervening to put you two together smoking weed , it’s rad !

[@bobcarter4763]

YES!

[@LordKreiden]

That is the awesome power of the “GREEN “ party 💡!

[@martinsnow8614]

What I need is more Cowbell....

[@madnessbydesign1415]

It's impossible to convey just how different this was from everything else at the time. I was experiencing my first battle with depression when I saw the B-52's on Saturday Night Live performing this song. I also saw Bowie performing TVC-15. These songs made me feel like even if things were bad where I was, somewhere out there, things were better. It was enough to get me through, and I am forever in their debt... :)

[@D5quared91]

It’s a real fun song!

[@joakenny]

Que maravilloso leer lo que escribiste!!!😃👍👏👏👏🤗

[@batmanb8194]

wasnt the specials and madness around that time

[@medler2110]

@@batmanb8194 The Specials and Madness, both great bands, had a very different styles to the B52's, they were influenced by the Ska music from the 50's and 60's, the B52's seemed to be influenced from outerspace.

[@GeoffTEEVEE]

NO JOKE. I was LATE to the B52's party... They were played in Chicago by Herb Kent, a Black DJ who caught flak in circles for playin' stuff like this back then. I am a drummer and DEVOUT SOUL music fan, up until I heard THIS SONG as a teenager. ROCKED MY VERY SOUL.

[@Lockole]

My friends don't understand why I love this song. And I don't understand why they don't haha

[@RedZoneCLF]

No sense of Humor!

[@RedZoneCLF]

No sensce of humor!

[@RedZoneCLF]

Maybe they just don't like fish ha ha ha!

[@RedZoneCLF]

They have no sence of humor! I do.

[@Diablo-gq7ro]

Idiots

[@thexalon]

This song really has so much going on: A surreal premise. A cowbell player really exploring the space. The vocal harmonies. The weird voice effects for each of the fish. The relentless guitar. Some nice synth work from Cindy.

[@davebarclay4429]

Kate is playing the keyboards. Cindy is in the pink dress and black wig with the tambourine

[@roderickramsay8538]

"A cowbell player really exploring the space. " needs more cowbell

[@thexalon]

@@davebarclay4429 My mistake - when I look at the B-52's, I usually think blonde=Cindy, brunette=Kate.

[@JulezWinnfield]

Fred Schneider had a fever......

[@danielcarpenter7108]

You can never have enough Cowbell!

[@johnfeatherman4942]

I saw these when they first came out in the 1970s. It's worth being old now to have been young then.

[@Rippenhengst]

Another old fart here, thankful to be still alive. Let's hope Covid19 don't shorten the small rest of years that we can spend on this planet ...

[@Rippenhengst]

@@chadthundercocksexhaver3959 Maybe. When you're lucky enough to have a good health. Not all are so lucky ...

[@tutov1k]

A great phrase, I’d remember it.

[@VinceTomJones]

Yes it IS.. and it WAS.. we had ALL OF THE BEST MUSIC.. ALL AT THE SAME TIME.. FOR YEARS AND YEARS.....

[@brucezalak3298]

That’s a nice thought.I am 64 and I am happy that I did not grow up now.

[@adrianhayes6175]

Every person in that room just experienced the best seven minutes of their lives.

[@adrianhayes6175]

In a way, I almost feel sorry for them. To have peaked so young in life...

[@Paches92-]

And I envy them

[@joy.panyalai]

Damn

[@turnupde9918]

Lol then they woke up

[@steffenschiller3189]

That's for sure! Now bow down to praise the lobster! Down Down!

[@leeannrorex1509]

We need to start having fun like this again.

[@TheBlewie]

So true.

[@jeans.plante512]

Amen

[@56squadron]

No time for fun in the progressive world order... only countless laws, and the tyrants who enforce them. You kids keep voting left... this is what you get.

[@billythepigeon7345]

@@56squadron yeah, because the B-52s are so Conservative and right wing. (sarcasm)

[@Stephanie-hv3vn]

56squadron eat coochie boomer

[@Batstrings]

i've said it before and i'll say it again, whoever had the idea to put 3 such wonderful voices together in one band was a genius. it is sad the guitar player gets overlooked much of the time as he is so much a part of the 52's sound, and does a great job as the only guitar, he carries all the rhythm for all those wonderful voices to work around.

[@familycardcollectors6519]

The drummer is relentless

[@101Volts]

Ricky was the primary guitarist, but not always the only one. Kate had guitar parts for 2 songs, and Cindy had some for 2. But they're all minor "lead" parts, while Ricky was the rhythm player. (Edit) After the reply by VinceTomJones below: as it turns out, Cindy also played a 2nd guitar for "Nip It In the Bud" which I didn't know when I first wrote this comment. (Edit 2) Keith also had some guitar parts later on, in Whammy and Bouncing off the Satellites.

[@VinceTomJones]

yES HE DOES,, Well said,..

[@daspacechoechechoz9028]

The B-52's deserve a ton of credit for being truly excellent live. Especially at a time when so many bands were too heavily produced in studio, they couldn't replicate that live and sounded like crap. It's obvious the B-52's were born live as a party band, at their best, and should be live!

[@edgardovenegas2939]

So true

[@ΑναστάσιοςΠαπαζαχαρίου]

My uncle has seen every band you can imagine live in the 70s and 80s, he told me most of them sucked while the best live he ever heard was...Santana.

[@daspacechoechechoz9028]

@@ΑναστάσιοςΠαπαζαχαρίου Yep, that was the age of overproduction producers having fun. Basically there were tens of thousands of "garage blue oyster more cowbell cult" bands, if they wrote one song, got press from a local gig, looked ok doing that, one would get plucked out they'd get signed. You can take band out of the garage, but you can't take the garage out of the band. The greatest live (and arguably greatest bands in general) sounded amazing in that garage or basement. They are fundamentally the kind of talent that does not need 35 takes and tons of studio polish to sound great. Want some other examples? Pixies, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, a smattering of 70's bands. It's a short list with a few surprises. Few bands heavily produced could make that kind of energy live...not many.

[@candideggplant1575]

@@daspacechoechechoz9028 especially nowadays it is worse, they have to sample replace everything and get rid of every percieved imperfection, not realizing that those things that make someone them are what breathe life into a track. tracks sound lifeless, dull, hollowed out, soulless, generic overproduced crap. I'm surprised this is such a solid and almost identical live perfrormance, that's true talent right there. not needing a ton of studio fluff to make a good song and sound good live.

[@daspacechoechechoz9028]

@@candideggplant1575 Exactly! This is so inherent in modern production, that the latest tools/software basically dump you off at default sterile to mask your humanity. Have to really dig in and subtly mess with all that to get human righteous tones back...or easier...turn it all off. Just record, best you can do, in a decent room, handcuff yourself to a chair and listen for an hour before even touching that with anything. You'll start to appreciate how crappy and neutered your mix can sound in seconds flat, by applying too much stuff over it, sampling, looping, mixing the life out of it. My favorite recordings of bands I've been in always go back to the stereo recording of just the band in a small room, you here the players say something way back there when you nail that amazing note during a solo or cry out in joy. To the point you don't ever want to hear the song again without those ghostly emotive sounds, warbles, thumps, birds outside, a dog, bouncing around the sound, and "happy accidents" contributing to the performance swirling about it. Because the song is good organic, just as it is, there's no signal processing on that cowbell, just like when it was created, the performance was all. It was done then. Perfect. And should ever be duplicated and left alone forever more as it was! There it breaths. There it has a beating heart.

[@rogerheathcote3062]

That rarest of things, a 7 minute song that keeps on getting better the whole way through - amazing to see it live too, absolutely thrilling energy there!

[@ThePaulv12]

@kingofvintage It's a great live performance. I just love it and wan't the extended dance version lol. it should go for about 20 mins ..

[@johnjames4834]

what about american pie? hey lobster pie

[@fiveowaf454]

It's an incredible song for sure, so different and yet so catchy, I've always wanted to see a live version.

[@doserocful]

Wish i witnessed this performance.

[@psnfangking1049]

7minute songs that get better all the way through arent rare anymore. watch a pre 2012 dragonforce concert then.

[@kristopherdetar4346]

OMG these musicians had chemistry, creativity, energy and were an enigma of talent.

[@clocksurfer]

They were putting forth maximum effort. Performing for their LIVES. You can FEEL it.

[@lupodelupis3672]

At 5:21 The break is incredible!!! That riff of guitar is so raw and aggressive, the screams of The girls are splinters of glass in your ear, Fred's voice is a Thunder!!! What a performance!!

[@thekingsservant1793]

One of the most original bands of all time....in their own league. Live was incredible.

[@robertsears3737]

Unfortunately I never saw the band " Live"

[@MustardSeedish]

I saw this group twice, once in the 80's and the other in the 90's. The first time I was so drunk I barely remember and the second I stayed sober because I wanted to experience every bit of it. They're great.

[@christinehartley2026]

I saw them play the Bay Area in the 80's😍 They are amazing

[@GodWeenSatan]

@PoeticJustice it happens, and you might even get old one day

[@gunnshell]

I bet we would have been besties if we would have met.

[@gorelordzskate-racing-videos]

@Rain・レイゾ right that's so rad, we've been listening to them longer than we knew.

[@ezequielcronswell8520]

Are you druggy?

[@majortree]

I was living in Redondo Beach in 1985 and trying to get some sleep in my cheap apartment on a work night but folks were partying in the vicinity. The music wasn't super loud but loud enough to keep me awake. I was irritated because I had to get up early. But, they put Rock Lobster on and I had to laugh. Every time I hear this song, I think of that time and place. The 1980s in Southern California were a blast...unless you were up late on a work night... Lol

[@TorMax9]

I was living in southern Morocco for moths on a beautiful endlessly long deserted beach surfing good waves and reading Nietzsche and Quantum Mechanics and World History, etc., no radio, no TV, nothing electronic, and this German couple showed up and the guy put Sony Walkman speakers on my ears and played this full blast. Rock my world! Every time I hear it, I'm taken back. It was paradise. A wadi with birds from Europe and Africa.1981.

[@resurection96]

❤

[@Astro41876]

Southern California is a beautiful place, just too expensive now. I moved to Torrance in 1987 when I was 10, I lived there and in Carson until 2004 then I moved to Texas. I've been in Texas since. I do miss Cali, Redondo Beach was always a hot spot to go. Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach were also great spots. Always enjoyed going to San Pedro as well. Yeah I have lots of great memories in Southern California as well 😊😊😊.

[@cheyennedevore8381]

My mother grew up in California & she went back to visit recently & she bought me a shirt from Redondo beach. even tho I’ve never been there lol. But I’d love to visit someday

[@CarolineWard-tc1sd]

This performance and footage is unreal. Look how beautifully in sync with each other they all are. And Ricky...😞💙

[@b-d3194]

Wow🤗😁😃😃

[@lisacoggins4541]

Ricky❤❤❤❤❤

[@bigdaddydiesel5520]

The amount of LSD that went into this song and this performance must have been substantial.

[@Abolas452]

I was juuust thinking how fun it would to be trippin and in the crowd or playing

[@lordrathut]

I like how they always look and sound lile they're from the 1950 80s, both at the same times

[@tdsims1963]

More likely, cocaine. That was the drug of choice in the late 70's and early 80's.

[@bigdaddydiesel5520]

@@tdsims1963 Maybe, but this all strikes me more as a wild acid trip.

[@seanmcgivney7631]

Probably more like crystal.

[@WillHal1000]

Fred Schneider really "explores the space" with that cowbell.

[@doserocful]

"More cowbell." - as only christopher walken can say.

[@jimnielsen8030]

fred had the fever and we all know the prescription- MORE COWBELL!!!!

[@hairyfrog429]

Yes!

[@suzannewillis817]

He was in a zone to hiself!

[@ashleylabaki2872]

I gotta be honest...I coulda used more cowbell.

[@crinklecut3790]

Hard to believe they’re coming up on 50 years together as a band. They definitely did their own thing and had success with it .

[@jefffuehr366]

in my opinion, this was a true piece of musical art that was created by the B-52,s

[@tokalanz]

you're right. it was art and music combined. If you went to a concert you could see/hear that.

[@genearbogast7525]

Damn Straight Bro !!!!

[@RedZoneCLF]

Thanks, I agree with you!

[@RedZoneCLF]

Thank you, that's the truth!

[@RedZoneCLF]

Absolutely!!!!

[@Kathylovesart]

Me as a kid: this song sounds weird Me now: *✨R O C K L O B S T E R✨*

[@tanialopez6721]

Hahaha🤣🤣

[@maj.peppers3332]

This song genuinely scared me as a child. The weird shrills, the ominous notes, top it off with those dissonant chords, sent shivers down my spine. Now I think this song fucking S L A P S

[@jessicaherndon41]

😂😂 can relate

[@Jojo-jp4ro]

Rocc loster

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

@@maj.peppers3332 ok

[@nubeingqueen]

As a black teen girl in NYC my Puerto Rican best friend and I used to listen to this non stop. It still rocks ❤

[@smartmoneychicktv9017]

As a black teen from the Southside of Chicago I approve this message 🎉

[@nomadmarauder-dw9re]

As an old white guy in Mississippi I too approve of this message.

[@jejteach1]

As a black man from the hard streets of Fort Lauderdale, FL, I, too, approve👍🏿

[@caraeaton3189]

j

[@LijmPistool]

As a white tall Dutch dude I agree!

[@JiveDadson]

I broke my foot dancing to this in 1979 at a New Wave club in Houston. I told people it was a sky-diving accident.

[@sarah.fernandesss]

You just made my day! Thanks!

[@woodskier]

hide your fears brother

[@b-ranthatway8066]

You Sir... Deserve More Cowbell.

[@dunkies4354]

😂😂😂😂 My fucking god

[@phillipcarsey]

Was it #'s night club? lol... I still go there ;) - Amanda

[@charlesodell804]

Schneider is at his absolute best in this one. Cindy's eyes are glazed with coolness. Kate is beyond praise. "Here comes a catfish - Meow!"

[@equinoxswine9132]

"Followed by a dog fish!" That part really got me, haha

[@KellyClement]

It's a 1950's sound, but so Futuristic all at once.

[@redacted2275]

They are influenced by 60's Surf Music and the current punk scene happening in the late 70's. Their fashion style is 100% 60's space age, so good!

[@bqkmg2037]

Its 1960s ...not 1950s.

[@phillynott2459]

60's surf

[@JM-gb3sq]

Great admirers of YOKO ONO.... After listening their music, John told Yoko: World is now ready for your music. ... a few months later, STARTING OVER was born.

[@Freetown37]

There’s no 1950s sound to it, coming from someone who knows 1950s music best than any other decades music,that’s all 60s sound. Like someone commented before that’s definitely some surf and punk influences

[@malap55]

the moustache, the complete band, the spirit of the band... i love them...

[@victorpinkman6792]

That's what you call seven minutes of pure harmony.

[@lcagee]

Those harmonies with Kate and Cindy, some of the best ever.

[@mikentx57]

They are! No one had done it like this before this song. And from this song on they were amazing

[@Capgpro1]

Ooooooh wah...

[@glenbellefonte9620]

I would have liked to have been the meat to their sandwich, great songs and singing aside.👍

[@eddiej9733]

I’m really starting to arc up when people say this is simply a ‘party song’ or a novelty song. I played this for my 13yr old son last weekend, and I watched in awe as his mind was blown by this tour de force song It’s a performance piece, an artistic piece of music that I think was grossly under estimated and under appreciated at the time and even now

[@joejava3000]

Yes you are totally right about that indeed

[@chadjcrase]

Yeah absolutely let's see them make a better song.

[@jpgiuliotti]

You got that right Eddie J. I was in 8th grade when this hit the airwaves. It was awesome then and over time, I learned to appreciate music (Technically and artistically) and I realized just how utterly fantastic it is. In fact, I have an eclectic “Top 5 of All time” list (pretty hard to do, try it) and RL got in on the first ballot and is by far my number one favorite. As the saying goes: “If this song doesn’t get your juices going, you don’t have a pulse!” :)

[@redacted2275]

Yeah. Most people and even music critics put The B-52's simply under New Wave at the same time that they put Devo as avantgarde, for example, or mindlessly praise Blondie... all of them deserve their place in the sun. The B-52's were constantly innovative and on the charts at the same time. I remember being a kid listening to their Flintstones song in the 90's, that was my introduction to the band. Even "Debbie" is a solid, creative pop song two decades after "Rock Lobster".

[@Davudization]

My four year old loves rocking out to this musical gem.. but his nr. 1 favourite is search and destroy by the Stooges. . 😊

[@AdamSimon82]

Pure musical genius.

[@Nocatsmusic]

Don't think you can start listening this song without going all the way and even more so for this video. The guitar and drums are locked in so tight they force everyone to groove like crazy, and still it is a jam for the entire second half, no one can keep from moving. The parts together lift it up into a synergistic heightened level of groove that massages the mind, body and soul.

[@ditrihxiv3484]

Итижи-пассатижи! Во загнул то!

[@camarocarl7130]

Cindy and Kate singing.....on the same mike.....OMG I can't stop watching.

[@leroylowe5921]

2 girls, 1 mike

[@johnjames4834]

@@leroylowe5921 and one guy imagining a BJ

[@antoniodominguez3839]

They sound and look like a 60's band, but they're an 80's band. I always loved their music!!!!

[@fuchsiaswing8545]

That was their schtick. B52’s were connoisseurs and revivalists of 1960s kitsch, which was quite a thing at the dawn of the 1980s.

[@ryanulsh1445]

70’s, 80’s, and 90’s 😺

[@aronewoks7857]

Eternal band.

[@ginog9684]

He's beating that cowbell as if it owes him money.

[@JulezWinnfield]

Will Ferrell has nothing on him.

[@jesusherrera6974]

You made me laugh so freaking hard!!!😂

[@jamesblauw6928]

We had so much fun dancing to this song in college in the early 80"s. It would always fill the floor immediately. So original and energetic! I still love it.

[@markcollins2666]

I saw them in 1978, with the Talking Heads, at the Armadillo World Headquarters, in Austin ,TX. This venue is a renovated National Guard armory, if you can imagine that, a drillshed, with a stage at the far back end, with bars and food vendors lining the left and right sides, and metal folding chairs for seating. Well, we, the audience, folded up all those chairs, put them on those rolling carts they go on, and danced the night away.

[@kaila62kaila]

Yes! Class of 1984!!!

[@nancykessler8689]

Those were the days my friend. Remember holding your nose and twisting down to the ground shouting rock lobster?😅😅😅down down down!

[@nancykessler8689]

@@kaila62kaila 1983 here...rock lobster!

[@gymeni]

Yes, we did. All kinds of kids, just having fun.

[@xDiamondDoll702x]

Cindy and Kate! Love their voices together!! 😍

[@DrizztRed]

xDiamondDoll702x yeah it is awesome :D

[@mrnatascorpus]

threesome yes please

[@arturopizarro3084]

reddrizzt clasicpop

[@lizzybethnj617]

xDiamondDoll702x me too I love the way they harmonize

[@checomansergio2142]

xDiamondDoll702x the girls beautifull

[@bobdobalina838]

I bought this album as a kid based on the cover alone because radio where I live would not play stuff like these guys on the radio, and because I looked at them and just said WTF if these guys sound as great as they look, this is a winner. 😀 I never regretted the purchase. I had never heard anything so interesting and creative. I listened to it all the time and it helped me through a terrible childhood including family break up. thank you so much guys, you belong in the creativity hall of fame.

[@OutOnTheTiles]

Ricky Wilson what an absolute legend! RIP legend. ❤️

[@edwardhuber3171]

"We were at the beach, everybody had matching towels". Love it, it's psycho funk. Fred Schneider really "explores the space" with that cowbell. Ricky Wilson was one of the best guitarist from 80's. I still dig his surf twang style.

[@traekas7228]

Edward Huber, It was called New Wave music back in the day.

[@matthatter2849]

He would've made Bruce Dickinson proud....yes, THAT Bruce Dickinson.

[@ryanwormington2281]

This band is VERY underrated

[@dhanvergo2173]

In memory of Ricky Wilson. One of the best new wave band. Rock lobster down! down! down! Miss the 80's new waver forever....

[@jamesmedina2062]

One of the all time best songs in history

[@funlittlefish]

You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like Rock Lobster 🙂🙂

[@patriciamontgomery323]

totalmente de acuerdo , no es para cualquiera, saludos 😁🕺👻

[@ericl.winter3622]

To this day, this song still gets to me. Practically bringing tears to my eyes. Perhaps it’s the time it came out, and all the memories associated with that time. It’s is such a great jam! To say this song is so original, it’s such an understatement. I’ve always loved this song, and this band.

[@CrookedNose2131]

..another KZbin commenter with tears!!

[@IronHorse1722]

Oh come on. They're good... but they're not Abba.

[@joshuawalker4837]

Tears 😆😆😆

[@adrianfewster8391]

Cry for Ricky, if you wanna cry., Ricky Wilson unique fantastic 4 open tuned string guitarist died young and at his best.

[@adrianfewster8391]

@@IronHorse1722 True, but B52s music was tight. The girls off singing grows on you and goes with the band image, at mere mortal level, I playem over and over.

[@waltie1000]

The fact that this video exists is PRICELESS !!

[@modernidiot9124]

How can anyone not like this song?

[@robertthomas5736]

It's a Featured Episode of Family Guy

[@LastSerge]

One of the most brilliant songs ever

[@orlandogregory367]

EVER

[@noeljohnson868]

Nothing before, or after, ever, ever sounded like this...their place in history is well and truly cemented...

[@TheHelensp]

To me, this is as punk rock as Anarchy in the UK or Holiday in Cambodia

[@pierosjourneys]

Did someone noticed a time travel Apple iPod Touch at 4:06

[@greatsea]

@@TheHelensp I agree. This is straight punk. This shouldn't even be up for debate. But apparently it is debated.

[@ggallintedtalk]

greatsea New Wave / Punk

[@melodyrichardson5051]

@greatsea The hardcore punks started that BS in the late 70s. Purists are the worst kind of fans.

[@logoschannel23]

What I love so much about the video is that it looks like a ritual ceremony and not just a rock concert. They just make you believe every word and feel all the rhythm.

[@jayhache5609]

Best comment. “We have one that can see."

[@jayjay5640]

Scooby gang on speed ,freaking superb.

[@bigsky3072]

Damn right Jay!

[@mountainman4987]

Which one is Scooby?

[@johnbracher158]

Ha ha! A great comparison 😁😁

[@henrywarden3484]

Not speed, just an unlimited supply of Scooby snacks.

[@robdepolo122]

Made me laugh

[@claygreer6924]

Punk rock at it's finest

[@als7585]

That guitar tone and playing makes this song so awesome. Badass

[@michaelbauers8800]

I love the guitar tone. Sounds a bit 1950s, but it would be hard to find anything as creative from 50s rock bands.

[@jefferyroy2566]

Ricky created his iconic guitar sound by removing the two middle strings for some (the D and G) and just the G for others. His tunings were song-based: CFxxFF for Rock Lobster and Dance this Mess Around, DADxBB for Lava, Moon, Give Me Back My Man, and Strobe Light. Bottom line: that is some weird-ass shit.

[@101Volts]

@@jefferyroy2566 On target, except "Runnin' Around" (not mentioned) is also a CFxxFF tuning (and it's the last one,) and Strobe Light had the bottom 3 strings tuned to D Standard. I'm still not sure what the top 2 strings were tuned to, he didn't use them live in any recording I ever heard. Also (you didn't say,) the CFxxFF Tuning uses .058, .056b, empty, empty, .018p and .018p strings. The guitar's scale length is just shorter than a Gibson's, at 24.50".

[@RCAvhstape]

It's a 1950's style guitar tone, basically electric guitar played through an overdriven amp with very little distortion on it. Violent Femmes have a similar guitar sound.

[@williammartinez1751]

Heavy mid if I am not mistaken.

[@johnpaavo]

Back in the day [81-82], the crowd on the dance floor would actually sink right to ground and squirm around. What fun it was.

[@ashedwards2933]

Had forgotten about that ... we'd squirm around on our backs on the dance floor :)

[@ChronoMune]

Now they just sink to the ground and squirm inside each other. Not too different right?

[@101Volts]

They still did in the footage from September 2 1978, too, when the group was just in a small venue.

[@MudderFukker-m6g]

Second half of this song is one of the rockinest grooves ever.

[@jason.calimbas.71]

The Best live version of Rock Lobster!

[@Nanfeii]

Frrrr

[@curse5697]

nah "don't threaten me with a good time" is better

[@doomgang2541]

@@curse5697absolutely not lol and i love p!atd

[@curse5697]

@@doomgang2541 i disagree with you disagreement

[@dirkusmckirkus]

Just celebrated my 60th birthday. Still amazed at how different this sound was when I was 16yrs old. Brilliant, my favourite B52s song. Great seeing a proper live version from back in the day as well.

[@markcollins2666]

I saw them, at the Armadillo World Headquarters, in Austin, Texas, with the Talking Heads. Next to seeing Bob Dylan with Eric Clapton, in Nurnberg, Germany, the best shows I've ever seen. Now, the Armadillo is only a renovated brick National Guard armory, the same as you'd find all over the US, in your own hometown. But as a soldier stationed at Fort Hood in the late '70's. and Europe, the Armadillo had the most amazing, top tier lineups.

[@Th33M4rksman]

Happy belated birthday

[@NoahFroio]

It does NOT get better than this live. Period

[@alexjbennett1017]

I love how they are all crammed onto this little stage and moving around and dancing like crazy

[@zeitlichkeit5094]

Yes, well they're probably so stoned they actually do not care at all.

[@briancairns3253]

One of the best endings ever to a classic

[@grendelz]

That guitar breakdown at 5:20 is everything.

[@pe012c]

Yep. That's the best part

[@mikecsiki22]

I remember first time I heard this on the radio...and was WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!!?? It still kicks ass today😎👊🏻👊🏻

[@ccshredder9506]

I get chills every time. It's so. Fucking. Heavy.

[@jameslineberger3823]

Fred's vocals were awesome! Saw them in a club when this album came out! It was packed but luckily my friend and I were able to get down to the frontier of the stage and enjoy a great show! Truly unforgettable!🎼🎸🎹

[@bigsky3072]

Those 2 kids headbanging in the front row were really getting into it!!

[@mongerism5272]

when you watch this you realize these guys never got the credit they deserved

[@mikentx57]

I agree. if you hear something like "Love Shack" you think, oh they are a good party band. But if you really understand this song and "Private Idaho" and "Planet Claire". Then you will see there was a lot more to them.

[@michaelotten2724]

True that..this was theor coming out party..they had a few hits biggest probly loveshack-" tin roof - rusted!"

[@fredflintstone2958]

@@michaelotten2724 There goes a narwhal!

[@printthelegends]

I don't understand how they're not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

[@glenbellefonte9620]

@S.M.C. Kennels or maybe you just don't get it.

[@dcxxx6850]

Who would have ever thought that a band from Georgia would learn how to play surf music so well ??? Great band playing totally different music for their time. Just awesome.

[@howardkrumholtz285]

Georgia has a coast (it's very short, but it exists)

[@scottmcginn2169]

The song that got John Lennon interested in writing music and recording again. One of the greatest songs ever.

[@OtisIsdrunk]

Lennon saw the direction of music and decided he needed to intervene.

[@COOKIEM260]

​@@OtisIsdrunk If this was the direction of music then it's a great thing! Post punk and new wave 🤘🏾🔥

[@debeden444]

The way Fred dances after he screams LETS ROCK I think I pushed the back button about 40 times

[@bradbassett1240]

By far my favorite B-52s video!..So raw and original....I love the girls and how talented the entire band is.. Great!

[@dominicfastbender4029]

How I love them all. This is a thing of beauty. A beautiful masterpiece of crazy ecelectic genius.

[@Themilkmanskid.]

Tons of talent and you make music like this. Thank goodness there are these musicians and music like this!

[@j-svfc]

I just turned 60 & I'm still jamming to this classic B52s "Wave" music! I lived in Northern Virginia's Washington DC suburbs throughout the late 70s & 80s. My college years were basically a live version of the movie Animal House, hahaha! We used to spend weekend nights having a blast at various Georgetown DC nightclubs or Downtown DC clubs like the original 9:30 Club which was on 930 F Street & was a Punk Rock/New Wave specialty club which you could stay at after they closed for entry after 3AM... you could stay until the sun came up the next morning as long as you didn't actually leave... like a private club... unbelievable music! And there was a nightclub called Scandals on Wisconsin Ave in Georgetown just one block up from M Street which was a pure New Wave club & I can't even count how many times I spent dancing with some unknown wild looking chick to this song --- B52s Rock Lobster --- "Down... Down... Down..." !!! The 70s & 80s were the best all around fun times imaginable!!! Every moment of every day was just nothing but FUN! Can anyone say that about any decade before then... sure there's lots of spectacular music but I'm talking about pure straight up fun without a care in the world? Or any times since then that's been the same unmitigated fun times??? There's great music today also but... not like the absolutely pure party music I still hear when listening to the B52s Rock Lobster!!! Now --- on to some Talking Heads "Girlfriend is Better" or how 'bout some Tubes or Root Boy Slim... or... Insect Surfers??? DC rocked Punk & Wave back in the day!!! Sex & drugs & rock'n'roll - is all my brain & body need - sex & drugs & rock'n'roll - are very good indeed!!! HAHAHA!!! Try having a little FUN, all y'all lefties out there nowadays... maybe y'all might learn how to smile, huh? LMFAO!!! Peace, --- J.

[@yadigjamesgang-xs7jj]

Yer still on Epstein's flight log though.

[@Skipsenberg]

Godspeed John, Godspeed.

[@randyowens3419]

I was there when you could drink beer and wine in DC at 18 but Maryland had changed it to 21-well guess where I would go?

[@MyDoctoracorazon]

When my kids were little we made it a tradition to dance this song every New Years Eve and with my grand babies we are continuing the tradition. I know I am weird but we love this 🎵 🎶 🎵 song. Thank you B'52

[@andyjulia]

You’re not weird, you’re fun!

[@dukeorama6729]

That must be the coolest New Years ever

[@xenxebra2559]

You cant claim weirdness. Its something bestowed on you by others

[@chrisdugan8524]

Maybe coolest tradition ever. Luv luv luv it. Now if you teach them DIO and all this EPIC SONGS W/ALL his bands. Then youd be EPIC

[@dr.tamaraworley8451]

AWESOME.......😎

[@tommyrogers6841]

The b-52's are a prime example of how music is limitless you can take it as far out into the Galaxy and explore different sounds and melodies and Time after Time create something so unique and wonderful that it lasts through eternity.. a thousand years from now if this planet survives they will still be singing Rock lobster 😎🤘

[@edwardduarte7393]

my first 45. so i brought it to school when I was 10 years old and the kids played it over and over.

[@SunriseSocialClub]

I'm 41. Ive been a professional musician for almost 20 years. I still just MARVEL at this music... its so god damn good and weird and amazing.... I truly hold this group and really this live performance at such a gold standard of weird uncompromising perfection....the fact that they did this as a band in the realm of only AandR agents making bands...... and some how we still got this in the world ... they made it... some dude heard this and was like yes...... this is what the world needs right now...... thank you AandR man....SO grateful.

[@freedom_323]

Be inspired :)

[@tvtvvtvt8017]

Word! It's their vision. It's hard to do something so original that's so good that doesn't follow any formula. You can tell this a song that must have evolved after a lot of playing and tweaking it

[@lindajo1840]

Can totally see and hear, as John Lennon said, Yoko's influence.

[@miguelangelzegarragarrido7904]

Yes

[@heybak]

İm so surprised at some of the MUSICAL COMPOSING GINUESES that come from us. like who else couldve thought, no, MADE about a song about Lobsters, AND make it sound good?! This is one of the reasons why were the superior species.

[@The_Octopus]

Words cannot describe how much I LOVE the B-52s

[@greezythumb]

Me and my friends were stunned by this song. Still incredible to this day. R.I.P. Rick

[@johnwilkesbooth334]

Rest in peace, Rick.

[@tagreatpapyrus]

Rip rick may

[@KepperKleen]

RIP Ricky

[@Dubbletap187]

That’s what I always loved about them. They didn’t give a damn what anybody thought. They jammed out to whatever they could think of and it worked. Probably even bigger than they ever thought it would.

[@noahcornejo4087]

I want this played at my funeral with fog

[@thekiller-tg7fk]

We

[@ٴٴٴٴ_0]

Don't forget to invite me

[@waysilentbob6976]

Good call, this is great, but I want Ty Cobb by Soundgarden at mine

[@lslice5283]

Imma make a will that states that my family will only get my money if they do an exact list of things at my funeral, idc if I’m not there it’ll still be funny to have them play all this kinda up beat music

[@michaelshved43]

@@patatedoucebb2919 you do know you don’t have to be a smart ass all the time right?