#B 52's

[dms-a-jem]

🏳️‍🌈’80s Pride🏳️‍🌈

[bitter69uk]

“Later we [Culture Club] played with them a few times and they had the most unique, hypnotic sound. It’s trashy Americana, John Waters, Divine, the Shangri-La’s, high camp and bubblegum punk. The beat is everything. Fred always reminded me of Dr Zachary Smith from Lost in Space. I never thought about whether the B-52’s had a gay angle. They were just against rules in general – taking classic American kitsch and giving it a punk, space-age irreverence, like a beautiful car crash with pop surrealism. They were very camp but very funky: always on it, melodic but effortlessly free. It’s the sort of pop music that I want to hear.”

/ Boy George reflecting on the B-52’s in The Guardian /

Born on this day: happy 76th birthday to the sublime Kate Pierson (née Catherine Elizabeth Pierson, 27 April 1948) - singer, multi-instrumentalist, bouffant wig enthusiast and one of the founding members of Athens, Georgia’s essential post-punk party band the B-52’s! For me, Pierson’s spine-tingling dissonant science fiction anti-harmonies with co-vocalist Cindy Wilson are one of the defining sounds of American New Wave music. Pictured: Pierson captured by Lynn Goldsmith in the early 1980s.

[gacougnol]

Cindy Wilson (B 52's)

[possible-streetwear]

The B-52’s

[cosmonautroger]

B-52's - Give Me Back My Man (1980)

[louie4711]

Some good, underrated, late-period new-wavey albums.

[mayamistake]

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

“Hop in my Chrysler, it’s as big as a whale ...”

Shiny Happy Birthday to the wonderful Kate Pierson, singer, songwriter and musician, long time member of the B-52's, and collaborator with Iggy Pop, R.E.M., Debbie Harry/Blondie, The Ramones and many more.

[xabiramone]

Polaroid of Cindy Wilson and Kate Pierson of The B-52’s, 1983.

[myost]

[now-playing] - b-52's - cosmic thing - 1989

[byler-alarmist]

Iconic

[sempredomingo]

[drmonkeysetroscans]

Cosmic Thing.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Cindy Wilson and Kate Pierson of the B-52's - 1980s Polaroids

[calp0sa]

youre livin in your own private idaho

[cosmonautroger]

Fred Schneider, The B-52's