Biography

The first act to cement Athens, Georgia, as a hotbed of alternative music, the B-52's 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. In 1979, they issued their self-titled debut album, a collection of manic, bizarre, and eminently danceable songs. The band became increasingly popular with their releases of Wild Planet (1980), Mesopotamia (1982), Whammy! (1983), and Bouncing Off the Satellites (1986). After the death of guitarist Ricky Wilson, the band spent several years in seclusion but returned in 1989 with Cosmic Thing, their most commercially successful effort. Good Stuff (1992) and Funplex (2008) followed. ~ Jason Ankeny

Top Tracks

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• 52 Girls

• Channel Z

• Dance This Mess Around

• Deadbeat Club

• Funplex

• Good Stuff

• Hot Corner

• Is That You Mo-dean?

• Juliet Of The Spirits

• Love Shack

• Planet Claire

• Private Idaho

• Pump

• Roam

• Rock Lobster

• Runnin' Around

• Song For A Future Generation

• Strobe Light

• Summer Of Love

• Wig

• Work That Skirt

Discography

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• With the Wild Crowd!: Live in Athens, GA

  Eagle Records

  2011

• Funplex

  Astralwerks

  2008

• Good Stuff

  Reprise

  1992

• Cosmic Thing

  Reprise

  1989

• Bouncing Off the Satellites

  Warner Bros.

  1986

• Whammy!

  Warner Bros.

  1983

• Wild Planet

  Warner Bros.

  1980

• The B-52's

  Warner Bros.

  1979