POLL if you want to...POLL around the world: The B-52's Cosmic Thing

is deadbeat club as good as i sort of think it is?

Yes it is, and it's only one of several great songs ("Cosmic Thing," "Junebug," "Channel Z"). I still haven't gotten tired of "Roam."

I was going to poll this a couple of weeks ago.

after loving the singles most of my life i finally got this album last year -- been really obsessed with "Dry County" lately

got to do a quick phone interview with Fred last week <3

this is kind of a sweet album. my wife has it on tape, and it has soundtracked many a road trip. Is "Topaz" the instrumental? Obviously instrumentals are not really the point of the B52s but I dig it.

I voted Deadbeat Club, but I could Love Shack another 5,000 times (on top of the million I've already heard it) and never want to turn it off.

I could hear Love Shack...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtHinwT2iSE

The instrumental is "Follow Your Bliss" and it is awesome

ah, Follow Your Bliss -- yeah I love that.

At the time it was hard to separate the great record from the "this is our wink wink lol Joshua Tree watch us get paid" aspect of the B-fuckin'-52s breaking big. But this is a great record.

Roam. So joyful. So much goddamn gusto. Suddenly seems like the template for about half of the New Pornographers' first couple of records, or at least "Mass Romantic" and "From Blown Speakers"...

good analogy!

This is a great and extremely underrated album, maybe the best ever in the "looking back happily on our well-spent youth from the vantage of our 30s" genre. The loss of Ricky Wilson is really felt here but it's sort of worked through in a kind of joy for the times they would have shared with him at the Love Shack or dancing in the garden in torn sheets in the rain (in the RAAAAIN!). Maybe that sensibility is only explicit in a couple of places but I feel like it suffuses this record with an extra layer of warmth. Hard to pick a favorite - - "Bushfire" is the only thing that I could cut from the record with no second thought...but then it's "Roam" vs "Deadbeat Club" vs "Love Shack" vs the title track vs "Junebug."

"Deadbeat Club."

I won't disagree, but Bouncing Off the Satellites projects this vibe too: "Ain't It a Shame," "Summer of Love."

This was the first CD I ever owned.

"Roam" will never, ever, ever get old. That song is timeless to me, the way Kate and Cindy absolutely DEVOUR the melody from the very first notes of their respective verses. And not even just on this song, really -- the whole band and the hired hands bring their absolute A-game on every track. Nothing feels lazy or phoned in. It was like, "Yeah, yeah, we're this idiosyncratic pop novelty, now a casualty of the end of New Wave. But check it, we can SING and we can PLAY, motherfuckers. Better than anybody."

A thousand house and R&B acts should have sampled that guitar riff by now.

Nile Rodgers doesn't get enough credit for producing his share of the album – maybe his best post-diana.

wtf "Bushfire" is fucking excellent

the song on here that I never really "got" was "Deadbeat Club" but not so much because I disliked it, more because I liked everything else so much more

I think I voted "Junebug" but really the best song on here is "Channel Z"

i never would've thought to compare this album to Joshua Tree, although in my mind it's kind of twinned with stuff like Pump and Full Moon Fever, big '89 late-career blockbusters that are actually awesome albums.

Yeah – the Billboard top ten album chart remained static for most of '89 in that pre-Soundscan way, but most of the albums were terrific: those you mentioned, plus FYC's The Raw and The Cooked, Don't Be Cruel, Like a Prayer, the Wilburys record, etc.

It might be fun to poll random week from '89.

"Deadbeat Club" is the only one I dislike - the rest of this is outstanding. Thought I might have warmed to that track at some point in 20+ years, but I hate it as much now as I did then.

Voted "Roam," because that's the song I want to hear right now.

http://www.youtube.com/v/_mzWFt5e1mk&fs=1&hl=en

too bad, you are getting "Channel Z"

"Roam" is great because how do you follow a strong single like "Love Shack" ? With "Roam", that's how!

channel z is like the worst thing on here, this is all about roam, topaz, deadbeat club & follow yr bliss.

Channel Z is good fun and it's always nice to just let Fred do his thing for a while ("BOMMMB!!!") but I was never able to muster a really personal relationship with it.

One vote for 'Bushfire'! This is one of the great 'against all odds'-type of albums, really great.

I really love this album. Deadbeat Club and Roam are brilliant but Topaz is my favorite song they've ever done. It's such a beautiful song and that stop at the 3 minute mark just gets me every time.

I still have the promo poster (same photo that's on the Topaz link upthread.) It was tacked on my bathroom door for YEARS, and it always made me happy to see it and think, a dozen years after the birth of punk/new wave, the band survived Ricky's death -- survived and PROSPERED!

Love this album to pieces; one of the first CDs I ever bought to replace my original vinyl.

Channel Z, but not by much.

Space junk! laser bombs! ozone holes!
Better put up my umbrella!
Giant stacks, blowin smoke
Politicrits, pushin dope!

Channel Z.

I always think I hate this album until i look at the track list and realize that i just need to not remember that love shack is on there and then i really like it.

am I mistaken as remembering Channel Z being the first single?

I think you're right, though I wanna say the title track was featured in the Wayans movie Earth Girls are Easy...from the previous summer?

"Channel Z" WAS the first single; it hit #1 on the college charts that summer.

lol @ ILM ignoring "Love Shack"

I mean I love this band but seriously that is their biggest, signature hit for a reason

why not? Top 40 radio never has!

Biggest hit, yes. But "Rock Lobster" still has "signature" dibs.

i think it's a case of it being over-familiar rather than anything contrarian

fuck Love Shack it is evil

worse than Piano Man, almost worse than We Didn't Start the Fire

i get to ignore love shack because i did my time in the trenches doing sound for highly paid shitty variety cover bands, so ive earned the right

"Roam" >>>> >>> "Channel Z" >>> "Deadbeat Club" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Love Shack"

Love Shack is pretty fun, guys.

I don't listen to cover bands or the radio so overexposure is not really an issue for me

Love Shack is pretty fun, guys

xpost: if by fun you mean obnoxious, i concur.
sorry

does anyone remember doogie howser going into depression and listening to channel z on repeat?

yeah i prefer all those B-52s songs that aren't obnoxious

vinnie had to snap him out of it

"Love Shack"'s great and all but obv is way overplayed. "Roam" for the riff alone

xpost i mean, it's doofy and obnoxious, but as far as doofy and obnoxious songs go, it's pretty good.

ILM contrarianism at its bets keep it up guys

best

does anyone remember doogie howser going into depression and listening to channel z on repeat?

Yesssssss. First time I heard it. He just stared at the record spinning on the turntable.

doogie had a record player? weird.

Doogie was ten years ahead of the vinyl fetishists. Cool dude.

Love Shack is pretty great, though I liked Roam more even back in 1990....

Doogie was ten years ahead of the vinyl fetishists. Cool dude.

it was the 80s. lots of people still had turntables.

I don't listen to cover bands or the radio so overexposure is not really an issue for me

― Whats with all the littering? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:31 PM (22 minutes ago)

do you live in a world where sounds are emitted from TVs movies and stores?

yeah i was abt to say, '89 was only the first year CDs outsold vinyl

it was the 80s. lots of people still had turntables.
yeah, but doogie was kind of ahead of his time, wasn't he? Seems like he'd at least have a discman or something.
what else did the doog have in his record collection do you think?

Doogie was ten years ahead of the vinyl fetishists. Cool dude.

it was the 80s. lots of people still had turntables.

That was part of my joke.

what a horribly formed etc

do you live in a world where sounds are emitted from TVs movies and stores?

not really

what movies was Love Shack used in?

simmer down shakey love shack is great but roam is more great

that "glove slap" song from the Simpsons (to the tune of Love Shack) is funny.

Roam is allright but it doesn't feature Fred, who is hands-down the best feature of any B-52s song

The best feature: the girls' harmonies. The second best: the guitars (Ricky's or Keith's).

nothing wrong with LS, but to my mind it is the fourth best single from this album (tho all four are admittedly brilliant). <3<3<3 the guitar solo in it.

I need to listen to the other album trax some more. it's been too long & I'm really liking the sound of "topaz."

# "Cold Case" (1 episode, 2006)
- Lonely Hearts (2006) TV episode (performer: "Love Shack")
# SingStar Rocks! (2006) (VG) (performer: "Love Shack")
# Cathouse 2: Back in the Saddle (2003) (TV) (performer: "Love Shack")
# "The Simpsons" (1 episode, 1999)
- E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) (1999) TV episode (performer: "Glove Slap")
# Rising Sun (1993) (performer: "LOVE SHACK")
# Frankie and Johnny (1991) (performer: "LOVE SHACK")
... aka "Frankie & Johnny" - USA (poster title)
# "Ferris Bueller" (1 episode, 1990)
- Grace Under Pressure (1990) TV episode (performer: "Love Shack")
# "Full House" (1 episode, 1990)
- Our Very First Telethon (1990) TV episode (performer: "Love Shack")

nothing since 2006, Roam is preferred from then on TELLINGLY

That was part of my joke.

that's as may be, but tv's doogie howser listened to college radio & played vinyl, it was very much a character decision. tv's doogie howser could listen on anything he liked & he listened on vinyl TELLINGLY

still love Love Shack but yeah probably a bit overplayed to talk much about. Channel Z seems like such a weird choice for a 1st single given the monster hits that would come next (admittedly I've always hated that song)

come aaaawn this shit is unstoppable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWEfmCvu8R8

LOOK: there is a awesome riff

BEHOLD: verses! so much shorter than the chorus!

WITNESS: dope-ass hand clappin!

GET A LOAD OF: Kate Pierson absolutely is just 100% singing her fucking balls off on that second verse!

^this shit right here

also video features fred and it is, like, the video era? so.

is that kate or cindy singing the second verse?

xpost oops shame on me iirc that's cindy wilson rocking the fuck out of the verses

i haven't heard this in so long i got all excited

saul wright, roger, here is a great kate song, from the (admittedly weaker) follow-up, Good Stuff: Revolution Earth

(could only find the live version sorry foax)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXnmzVqA40o

Good Stuff is totally Cosmic Thing Pt. II, down to the producers and mix. Songwriting isn't as good, but still worth owning -- and you can pick up a used copy easily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KyhesAa-DA

there's something about this video...it's nothing spectacular but it captures that vibe that's been kind of pointed out...the whole end-of-the-New-Wave thing, as well as the whole smiling-through-the-tears thing...it's really great

as a kid i loved the Cosmic Thing singles but Good Stuff was the first one they put out after I started buying CDs, so for years that was the only B-52s album I had. haven't put it on in a long while but I'd probably still like it.

I'd forgotten there was a Stipe cameo in that video.

I remember thinking that "Tell It Like It T-I-S" was such a profound shark jump that I almost completely disowned their entire back catalog. I'm glad I didn't, as that would have been really silly, but still: not a fan of that song/era.

Good Stuff is totally Cosmic Thing Pt. II

MINUS Cindy Wilson, though, which makes as big a difference as Ricky Wilson not being there.

"Is That You Mo-Dean?" is pretty good.

(xpost) ^I wz just about to post this but then accidentally demolished my browser window somehow...

(about Cindy Wilson's absence making Good Stuff seem weaker)

meanwhile, I'm listening to "Love Shack" right now, and as far as overplayed songs go, this is about the cream of the crop...

pretty sure that people who hate "love Shack" eat live kittens

NOM NOM

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/2/24/49_Eat_Kittens.jpg

oh how good is roam !
completely forgot about that song.

damn these kittens are tasty

well I already KNEW you guys ate kittens, that's what led me to form the hypothesis in the first place

oh and btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leohcvmf8kM

That video reminds me of the huge adolescent crush I had on Kate P (& also Cindy, but to a slightly lesser extent).

I still have crushes on both of them right now.

oh Cindy looks totally doable in the Deadbeat Club video...

Supercalifragiwhata outfit you got on!

Good Stuff is totally Cosmic Thing Pt. II, down to the producers and mix. Songwriting isn't as good, but still worth owning -- and you can pick up a used copy easily.

Good Stuff is for sure worth owning if you're a B's fan (1 cent on amazon,) but I don't think it hits any of the highs of Cosmic Thing, and some of the lows (The World's Green Laughter, Bad Influence) are pretty low.

Maybe I'm alone, but "Good Stuff" is at least as good as "Deadbeat Club."

Yeah, I'm not feeling that, but I do have an extended mix of Good Stuff with added horns that's really good.

I think the first four songs on the album, plus Mo-Dean, are pretty good, but second half really trails off.

Oh, but is Mo-dean the one that ends repeating "Astral Projector" ad infinitum? That's kind of annoying.

Maybe I'm alone, but "Good Stuff" is at least as good as "Deadbeat Club."

I sort of agree with this but I am not really a fan of "Deadbeat Club".

"Good Stuff" is much, much better than "Deadbeat Club." Nobody's dangin' on the Deadbeats.

Oh, but is Mo-dean the one that ends repeating "Astral Projector" ad infinitum? That's kind of annoying.

Maybe, but I like the massed vocals that join in along the way.

Funplex is better than Good Stuff.

Agreed.

Okay, I relistened to Good Stufflast night, and some of the stuff I thought I didn't like much was better than I remembered. I STILL don't own Funplex and need to get.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

so am i like the only person who thinks "Dry County" is a standout?

should probly relisten to this, but hate hate the sound of it so much (in comparison to my great love for anything whammy or earlier- or even the first schneider album)

Dry County is pretty great, though I wouldn't exactly call it a standout...I love the way those little exhortations all the way through the song remind me of Prince, and the punchline is great...a really cool, bluesy (in tone not sound) song...

when I was nine I thought this song wz about living in the desert...

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

After listening to the album once more today, "Follow Your Bliss" really stood out.

Unfuckingbelievable rating Roam over Love Shack.

missed this poll, would have voted with the majority (Love Shack a close second). forgot how lovely Topaz is

When I was 11 I borrowed this tape from my local library and it made a big impression. I wrote out all the lyrics from the inlay in my school exercise book (including copying the zany lettering and doodles).

Unfuckingbelievable rating Roam over Love Shack.

yay!

I saw the original LS 7" single in a charity shop. The sleeve was a folder thing which you could assemble into your very own love shack!

"Dry County" maybe the real overlooked gem here. But what a great record.

When the blues whomp you up on the side of the head
Throw em to the floor and kick em out the door
WHENNNNNN the BLUES kick you in the HEAD

yeah Dry County is awesome.

still in love with Topaz though...

(still in love with this thread too)

haha i seriously opened this thread thinking "maybe someone else will finally show some love for Dry County"

"Topaz" is so beautiful. I love this record.

Add me to the list of people for whom 'Roam' is their favourite track on this album. It's not a track that I listen to often, but it's nothing but sheer joy when I do.

I would love to do "Roam" at karaoke.

Of all the albums I've had since childhood, this is easily my favorite.

was about to revive this thread and say basically what I said a year ago so let me just go ahead and retract my earlier shot against "Bushfire" - it's a little overlong but the harmonies are gorgeous, as they are basically across the whole record. Never fails to make me feel good.

I have a hard time imagining many people who could hate this album

Would have undoubtedly voted for 'Roam', and am absolutely delighted that it topped this poll. Every time I listen to this track I think to myself "man, this really could NOT get any better".

SMOKE IN YOUR EYES

otm

that stuttering rhythm guitar lick on "Topaz" -- god, I love this record.

Topaz has been one of my go-to tracks ever since I started this poll: I never seem to tire of it

basically every song on this album is fantastic, except for "Deadbeat Club" which is merely good

TAKE IT HIP TO HIP

I always remember Cosmic Thing as part of the year a lot of the original "alternative" or "college rock" bands made it big on the Billboard Hot 100 with the second single from their album.

There was The B-52's who released "Channel Z" (didn't chart) and then had a huge hit with "Loveshack" (#3).
The Cure did the same with "Fascination Street" (#46) followed by "Lovesong" which hit #2.
Love And Rockets came back with "Motorcycle" (didn't chart) and then had a hit with "So Alive" (#3).
REM released "Orange Crush" (didn't chart) and then "Stand" went on to become their biggest hit at the time (#6).
Depeche Mode had a minor hit with "Personal Jesus" (#28), then had their biggest chart hit with "Enjoy The Silence" (#8).

wow, pretty fascinating

Weird to me that Enjoy the Silence was such a bigger hit than PJ tbh

LoveSong was a single after Fascination Street and Lullaby in the States?

"Lullaby" was third in North America.

"Enjoy The Silence" was much more radio friendly, compared to PJ which was harder and darker. (x-post)

yah but Personal Jesus seems way more iconic, whereas I always remember Enjoy the Silence as the other (great) single from that album

and not just because M Manson's cover either

This was right around when I first started paying attention to pop music - I'd be shocked if "personal jesus" hadn't gone top 40 at all, heard it plenty on the radio, but I can believe "Enjoy The Silence" was even bigger.

with "orange crush," "fascination street" "motorcycle" and "channel z" it looks like the traditional "first single ropes in the people who already like the act on modern/rock radio, second single goes for crossover" roll-out for a career act. I guess you could say that for Depeche too, as "Personal Jesus" is definitely the more "rock" song, even if such a rock song was atypical for them.

"Enjoy the Silence" took off summer '90. It sounded great rubbing up against industrial strength Janet Jackson LET ME TELL YOU.

it really was a great time to be a little nerd listening to radio - a lot of "weird" acts were having their bubblegum crossover, so later when I started reading Rolling Stone I learned the historical reasons to like these bands besides that they were funny lookin' and catchy, and could tell people i'd been into college rock since 3rd grade.

"rubbing up against industrial strength Janet Jackson"

alfred didn't mean to turn me on

tbh this alterna crossover is one of the reasons I loved that era so much; I really felt like all of the bands I was listening to were pop bands that could totally have mainstream success if people would only just pay attention (and Depeche Mode and REM had already had one big pop moment apiece with "People Are People" and "The One I Love") and that year and a half felt like a rolling wave of vindication

iirc Personal Jesus wasn't advertised as 'coming from an album' or anything. Violator was still being finished, didn't have a title yet. people weren't sure (at least in the UK) if it would be on the album. album was out like.. a full year after? or near as dammit.

LOL I always felt that Cosmic Thing kinda predetermined for me a fascination with post punk, ie early Fall, Slits etc

xp to croup

yeah basically i went from goofy "college rock" videos to rolling stone to album guides saying shit like "oh hey if you like REM, you'll like the velvet underground, and if you like the velvet underground you'll like the feelies." It wasn't until years later I remembered that what originally grabbed me was people dancing goofy to "Stand"

i have a fond memories of seeing a team of classic cars stroll down the street to "So Alive" during a 4th of July parade in Greeley, CO. From Bauhaus to that within a decade, not bad guys.

fortunately college rock has never lacked for goofy dancing

Prior to its release, advertisements were placed in the personal columns of regional newspapers in the UK with the words "Your own personal Jesus." Later, the ads included a phone number one could dial to hear the song.[7] The ensuing controversy helped propel the single to No. 13 on the UK charts, becoming one of Depeche Mode’s biggest sellers. The single was particularly successful commercially thanks to the fact that it was released six months prior to the album it would later appear on. Up to that point, it was the best selling 12" single in Warner Brothers history.[8]

between this period and the ability of everybody from the Meat Puppets to the Butthole Surfers getting hits through the 90s, I can't help but be bummed that our current crop of college faves have uniformly failed to make that total crossover. Though the success of shit like the Lumineers and Of Monsters and Men suggests the Arcade Fire would have had several hit singles by now if they'd jumped to a major.

no need to crossover when in the bands' minds they've got a niche perfectly happy to keep'em in clover with publishing rights; and, hey, they can always sell their songs to Volkswagen.

who are the current college darlings who aren't completely terrible

MIA one of the last I remember crossing over the traditional way.

oh right, ha

everyone can ignore my last post, was being dumb

"Hi guys!"

http://i.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/aaohio__oPt.jpg

uh

shake your honeybuns!

http://b-52s.blogspot.com/2008/07/fake-nude-photo-of-kate-pierson.html

Hehehehe... it's so obvious where the face has been cropped... different colour hair was a bit of a giveaway :P

MIA one of the last I remember crossing over the traditional way.

― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), mardi 13 août 2013 21:32 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Daft Punk ?

ROLLING THROUGH A FIELD OF MOLTEN FLOWERS

in the reeeeeeeeed muuuud!

Song For The Future Generation is better than anything on this album IMO.

Deadbeat Club is such a jam

that first side is gold

Always been impressed with Keith Strickland's guitar on this - really great rhythm stuff on here, wisely a completely different style to RW

I just noticed how different the first and second verses are melodically, almost as if Cindy and Kate each had a turn to improvise a verse melody and in the end they went with both. The effect is kinda extraordinary: the song is just lobbing new hook after new hook at you as nonchalantly as somebody dealing a hand of cards

Would have voted for 'Topaz.' Such a gorgeous song.

Xp my last post was about Deadbeat Club

SMOKE IN YOUR EYES

Was 'Deadbeat Club' a single? Am I crazy for remembering hearing it on the radio?

Yes. Third one to hit the top forty.

a comparative flop though -- one of those singles though you might remember as bigger than it was thanks to MTV play.

Well I was only 9, I'm surprised I remember it as vividly as I do.

This fucking album.

thank you for this revive, i am now stoked to put this on

Quite worth the listen:

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/hit_parade/2018/07/how_r_e_m_and_the_b_52_s_became_legit_hit_makers_by_the_1990s.html

My go-to summer album. Timeless, and various other cliches.

I realized today that "Deadbeat Club" and Pet Shop Boys' "Being Boring," out within a year of each other, cover similar thematic ground.

They do rather! I've always found both ridiculously affecting. Very surprised to see "DbC = worst track" posts early in the thread.

Still never heard this album (I should) but the lyricless vocalizing they do at the end of Deadbeat Club is gorgeous. Hard to imagine it being the worst song here

The production of this album has aged very well, and 'Roam' remains one of my favourite tracks of all time - it never fails to boost my mood!

i love the sound of cindy and kate's backing harmonies on this. i mean i love it always but there's some pinch of something to the production, maybe just chorusing or a little flange? they get this extra shimmer to them that really fits the tone of the album. overall this record has such an amazing sound, so different from their 'classic' sound with the loss of ricky wilson, but totally distinctive and convincing in its own right. it's like george harrison going from the 12-string to the slide.

"deadbeat club" blows my mind more and more with the passing of the years.

Lately "Bushfire" has been a big jam for me

Topaz is still the most beautiful melody in music I know.

Yeah I wish I would've voted for it. Such a great penultimate track; really encapsulates the utopian gorgeousness and the shimmering sadness of the whole album

"Shimmering sadness" is OTM. It's a somewhat back-loaded album in my mind. Indeed I struggle to remember much about "Cosmic Thing" and "Dry Country" until they're playing, fairly or not. I'm invariably looking forward to that luvly melancholy final act of "Topaz"/"Follow Your Bliss". I've taken to interpreting "FYB" as a wordless tribute to Ricky Wilson, further entrenching the sadness.

overall it does such a great job of folding that sadness into something joyous, or recognizing that sadness and loss, or growing older and inevitably distant from the days of the deadbeat club, don't mean the end of joy, or that those days don't still inform something beautiful and precious about who you are. in that way the whole piece is a tribute. except maybe channel z i guess, but hey.

Expanded Remaster In June: http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2019/05/14/b-52s-cosmic-thing-30th-anniversary-reissue/

anyone want to justify the "roam" music video?

anyone want to justify your mom?

wanting. needing. waiting.

I now like "Deadbeat Club" a lot more than I used to

This album is really, really perfect

I've fallen for 'Deadbeat Club' so hard in recent years that I made it the subject of a Pop Con paper. They release it the same year as Pet Shop Boys' "Being Boring," which covers similar ground.

OH LIGHTNING, STRIKE TWICE
HEY EVERYBODY, BASK IN THE AFTERGLOW

i love that topaz was the #13 b-52's song of ALL TIME on our poll a while back

and actually, since you're both here, i thought this was a nice quote:

DJP's enthusiasm for "Topaz" a decade ago taught me to love it.

Strickland's slink guitar sounds marvelous.

― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),

deadbeat club is amazing. love this album.

Great Moments in Vocals: Cindy exclaiming "I Want The World To Change For Me!" in "Channel Z".

otm

oddly enough i had "Wig" from BOtS stuck in my head an hour ago

there are these commercials for a hotel chain I keep getting which has like an EDM version of "Roam" in it, but it's completely re-recorded and completely replaces the groove, it sounds really weird. I always thought the most distinctive feature of that track was the harmony vocals, now I think it's actually the rhythm