About The B-52's
One of the first American new wave acts to fuse retro-styled rock & roll with dance-friendly rhythms, and the first of many acts to cement the college town of Athens, Georgia, as a hotbed of alternative music, the B-52s took their name from the Southern slang for the mile-high bouffant wigs sported by singers Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson, a look emblematic of the band's campy, thrift-store aesthetic. The five-piece group, which also included vocalist Fred Schneider, guitarist Ricky Wilson (Cindy's older brother), and drummer Keith Strickland, formed in 1976 after a drunken evening at a Chinese restaurant; the bandmembers had little or no previous musical experience, and performed most of their earliest shows with taped guitar and percussion accompaniment.
In 1978, after gaining enough confidence to venture into a recording studio, the B-52s pressed up a few thousand copies of the single "Rock Lobster," which became a modest hit on the nascent alternative rock circuit. The B-52s soon traveled to New York City, playing their first paying gig at the famed rock club Max's Kansas City. Subsequent appearances at CBGB brought the group to the attention of the New York press, and in 1979 the B-52s signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. for the United States and Island for the U.K. and Europe; Island founder Chris Blackwell flew the band to the Bahamas, where they quickly recorded their self-titled debut album, a collection of manic, bizarre, and eminently danceable songs that scored an underground club hit with a reworked version of "Rock Lobster." The following year, they issued Wild Planet, which reached the Top 20 on the U.S. album charts; Party Mix!, an EP's worth of reworked material from the band's first two proper outings, appeared in 1981.

Albums list:
The B-52's - Bouncing Off the Satellites
The B-52's - Cosmic Thing
The B-52's - Funplex (Bonus Track Version)
The B-52's - Good Stuff
The B-52's - Live in London 2013
The B-52's - Nude On the Moon - The B-52's Anthology
The B-52's - Party Mix Mesopotamia
The B-52's - The B-52's
The B-52's - Time Capsule
The B-52's - Time Capsule The Mixes - Hallucinating Pluto
The B-52's - Whammy!
The B-52's - Wild Planet
The B-52's - With The Wild Crowd! – Live in Athens, GA

EPs & Singles list:
The B-52's - Funplex (Remix) - EP
The B-52's - Juliet of the Spirits - EP
The B-52's - Juliet of the Spirits (Remixes) - EP
The B-52's - Roam (Edit) Bushfire [Digital 45]
The B-52's - Rock Lobster 6060-842 [Digital 45]
The B-52's - Love Shack (Edit) Channel Z [Digital 45]
The B-52's - Time Capsule The Mixes - Summer of Love '98 - EP
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