what is your favorite song by the B52s?
Also, did you love the Bangles insane song "Walk Like an Egyptian"?
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The head cook told me that I was only one on station that hadn't signed up for the lip sync contest.
She assigned me to 3 other people and told us our song was Love Shack.
When the 4 of us got together to practice, it became apparent that she was telling this lie to everyone - she was so bad!
It turned out that my partner was a theater choreographer in her non-science life and she walked us and the other couple through the moves.
It was a pretty good show - my tech did a killer drag rendition of 'Barbie Girl' with our very talented gal diesel engineer - and we thought we would lose.
But we killed - and won.
I feel like to survive these times, I am living in my own "Private Idaho" these days...
I was living in Athens when they first got together.
Kate and Cindy were my servers at the El Dorado on many a weekend morning.
On my way home from campus, I used to hang out in the alley by the Morton Theater and listen to them write songs and practice.
Only saw them once before they left Athens for NYC - at the Georgia Theater in 1979 with the Razor Boys and the Tone Tones - dancing in the aisles it was a riot.
They met my second aunt at a party in NYC. She was heavily into the Occult and read them their Tarot Cards. She predicted their next album would have a big hit about world travel. That song turned to to be Roam and that is the reason the album was called "Cosmic Thing". My aunt is listed in the album's credits and Kate came up to Maine and presented her with a gold album.
Saw them at Legion Field at UGA in the mid 80's and were quite annoyed that nobody crouched to the ground during the "Down Down" verse of Rock Lobster - kid these days.
on edit - I still have a copy of their first 45...Rock Lobster and 52 Girls
