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B-52's — Planet Claire
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Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Jun 10, 2013 - 22:06
 

Shazam!  Love it!  Amen!  (We still miss you, Ricky...)
 

chris_the_man
(amsterdam netherlands)
Posted: May 10, 2013 - 02:12
 
how much fun and joy can man put in a song,sooo good for your mood! This makes me happy:-)
suesblues
(Sydney, Australia)
Posted: May 10, 2013 - 02:06
 
needs to be really loud...

coloradojohn
(A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver)
Posted: Apr 08, 2013 - 22:12
 
Still easily by far one of the best beginnings of any song to come along...love all the ZINGERS Fred throws in this one...and the wickedly perfect guitar work!  I still get the chills at all the same parts.  How cool is that?!  Truly, a rock-solid one for the Ages!

Zep
Posted: Mar 10, 2013 - 07:53
 
30 years on and it's still fun.





blueice7
(NYC)
Posted: Mar 08, 2013 - 10:34
 
Don't get much better than this!!!

jimbrown
Posted: Mar 08, 2013 - 10:33
 
This is the best - Thank you.

dirtbagpook
Posted: Mar 08, 2013 - 10:33
 
My wife introduced me to this song back in the 80's!! Rock on!! {#Dancingbanana}

Kaisersosay
(Mighty Mighty Bostown)
Posted: Mar 08, 2013 - 10:31
 
Yeah,,,nnow we are talking

ycb661
Posted: Jan 04, 2013 - 18:41
 
Was something in the water down in Athens, GA? Toxins from the kudzu? I give this a 7 for their audacity to be so weird. 

Stranglersfan
(Revelstoke, B.C.)
Posted: Jan 04, 2013 - 18:38
 
My day is now complete!
Thanks RP!

Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Jan 04, 2013 - 18:36
 

Everybody in my church loves this song...
 

willmcnaught
(Eugene Oregon)
Posted: Dec 04, 2012 - 09:38
 
Jam{#Dancingbanana}ming  saw them open up for  The Talking Heads in 80— it was a magical night! lol

Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Dec 04, 2012 - 09:37
 
 JoepKoperdraat wrote:
Beside Planet Claire there is "a moon in the sky called the moon"!!!
 

I love that one.

Keef
(Confluence of the American River)
Posted: Oct 02, 2012 - 15:32
 
Love It{#Bananajumprope}

ottovonb
Posted: Jul 31, 2012 - 16:56
 
B-52's at the old Armadillo in Austin a really long time ago - funniest and most fun concert EVER.
There is no second place.
 

RickyBobby
(Oxford Mills, Ontario - We have a Wal-Mart you know)
Posted: Jul 31, 2012 - 16:41
 
Never heard this on headphones.  A lot nicer than speakers.  And takes me back to the 80's. A place wehre I should really not go back to if I know what's good for me....

tutakea
Posted: Jun 30, 2012 - 06:30
 
i want to live on this planet!!

photolew
Posted: Jun 30, 2012 - 06:25
 
Ah the memories....LOVE IT!!

tania300
(Brighton England)
Posted: Jun 30, 2012 - 06:24
 
love it love it love it........

tuttle99
Posted: May 29, 2012 - 09:01
 
 Tippster wrote:
Just so much fun! Is this the way the girls are dancing in your hotel room, Romeotuma?


 

Do the Hippy-Hippy Shake!

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: May 29, 2012 - 09:00
 


This is a fantastic song...  I heard it several times live all those years ago...

John Lennon said that the B-52's were the inspiration for his comeback...  Yoko's stuff on Double Fantasy sounds a lot like the B-52's...



gemtag
(Texas)
Posted: May 29, 2012 - 08:57
 
 MartinN wrote:
Doesn't really work for me. It's like a sub-standard version of Peter Gunn theme  {#Snooty}

 
I truly feel sorry for you. This song is pure fun, as the B-52's are in general. Simply look at it in that light. This band doesn't take itself too serious. You shouldn't either.  

johnjconn
(chicago land)
Posted: May 29, 2012 - 08:56
 
Odd
Does Eddie Munster appear somewhere on this song?

LongGoneDaddy
Posted: May 29, 2012 - 08:54
 

faster than the speed of light... 

msymmes
(Toronto, CA)
Posted: May 29, 2012 - 08:54
 
Nothing like a 2.5 minute intro to get you tuned up for the rest...

Tippster
(Washington, DC)
Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 15:35
 
Just so much fun! Is this the way the girls are dancing in your hotel room, Romeotuma?





LPCity
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 15:29
 
Love the B-52's!

Going to be seeing them this summer on a double bill with Squeeze.

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 15:24
 
From AMG: One of the great album openers of the new wave era, "Planet Claire" tells the listener almost everything they need to know about the B-52's in its two-and-a-half minute instrumental intro: space sounds blend into a jumpy, speeded-up version of Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme mixed with sounds that could have been lifted from one of Joe Meek's "Telstar" follow-ups, followed by a lengthy wordless vocal and organ section that recalls the theme from Star Trek. The group's blend of kicky pop culture references, a mix and match aesthetic and an appreciation of the then-forgotten heroes of pop music past is perfectly introduced, and that's even before Fred Schneider speeds in with his surreal depiction of life on the titular planet. ("No one ever dies there/no one has a head," one of many great silly throwaway lines on this album.) And then, less than two minutes later, the whole thing is neatly wrapped up with the dead-stop precision of a razor slicing a master tape. It's all rather brilliant, and a perfect start to one of the defining albums of the American new wave.

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 15:21
 
Always loved this tune.  Don't recall the first part until the big strong keyboard line.
  Used to sing it out loud at the clubs.

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Mar 26, 2012 - 22:02
 

This song is soooo good it puts a spring in my step this spring night...

this song is the first song on the B-52's eponymous debut album in 1979...  the song that follows this one on the album is one of my absolute favorites called "52 Girls" and it fracking rocks...  every song on the debut album is fantastic...





lshinkawa
(Berkeley, CA)
Posted: Mar 26, 2012 - 21:54
 
Classic B-52s. Love it!

Tagish_girl
(found my hammock! Helsingborg, SE)
Posted: Feb 24, 2012 - 05:32
 
Now, where did I leave my white vinyl knee-boots????

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Feb 24, 2012 - 05:32
 
 MartinN wrote:
Doesn't really work for me. It's like a sub-standard version of Peter Gunn theme  {#Snooty}

 
It plainly uses the Peter Gunn theme, but that works wonders for me as I'm a fan of the Peter Gunn song in all its covers. This song is fun, as was the band - you could put a swarm of bees in those beehives. Anybody know what the morse code in the intro says? 9 from the toe-tappin' Nottingham jury.


Glencoe_JC
(GlasVegas)
Posted: Feb 24, 2012 - 05:31
 
floor filler!!!
{#Bananajam}

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jan 23, 2012 - 12:43
 
 romeotuma wrote:


When John Lennon heard the B-52's, the band inspired Lennon for Yoko Ono's music on their album Double Fantasy...

we miss you, Ricky...
 

Love this song...  this is for you, Ricky—

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
—James Joyce, "The Dead" in Dubliners (1914) 

 

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Dec 22, 2011 - 19:07
 
 Groogrux69 wrote:

Yes!
 

Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...
 

MartinN
Posted: Oct 20, 2011 - 11:21
 
Doesn't really work for me. It's like a sub-standard version of Peter Gunn theme  {#Snooty}


keepitgoing
(Victoria)
Posted: Oct 20, 2011 - 11:18
 
Aswesome! Haven't heard this in ages....Makes me want to "Dance this Mess Around!"

bluecshells
(EARTH)
Posted: Oct 20, 2011 - 11:17
 
Darn good keyboard

aaronm
(Eugene, Oregon)
Posted: Oct 20, 2011 - 11:15
 
It gets better once the vocals start, but I really, really hate the instrumental intro.

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Oct 20, 2011 - 11:15
 
Great song from a great album!

msymmes
(Toronto, CA)
Posted: Oct 20, 2011 - 11:14
 
Quite possibly the best song of all the 52's work.
 

Groogrux69
(Auburn, CA)
Posted: Oct 20, 2011 - 11:14
 
 romeotuma wrote:


absolutely awesome...  love it...

 
 
Yes!

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Sep 18, 2011 - 19:42
 


This song is from their first album, called the B-52s, which was released in 1979...  "Planet Claire" is the opening song on the album—  the next song is called "52 Girls", and it rocks...  we miss you, Ricky...


WayUpNorth
Posted: Aug 18, 2011 - 10:34
 
dancing fruit

to_the_eleven
(the groove)
Posted: Aug 18, 2011 - 10:33
 
ok now I see what Dengue Fever were going for.

rahkinrah
Posted: Aug 18, 2011 - 10:31
 
oh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh......ditto ditto....

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jun 16, 2011 - 09:21
 


absolutely awesome...  love it...

 

JoepKoperdraat
Posted: Jun 16, 2011 - 09:19
 
Beside Planet Claire there is "a moon in the sky called the moon"!!!