We are all so damn OLD -- the B-52's "Love Shack" came out SIXTEEN years ago!

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And I've had grey hairs since i was 22! ow, my back!

Still, admit it: you are AGING.

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

yeah but i'm way cooler now i'm old

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

i'm not quite twice as old as love shack yet then

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

I am, plus 12. Only two actual grey hairs though.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:31 (twenty years ago)

I will soon be two love shacks old.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking about this other day: the Breakfast Club reunited. Then I saw the picture of Judd Nelson and felt better. ;)

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

yeah, well Blue Monday is 22 years old. 22 years before blue monday came out the beatles had yet to record owt etc

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:57 (twenty years ago)

For the sake of nought save random nostalgia, here's what the UK singles chart looked like when "Love Shack" was at its peak (week of the Poll Tax riots, fact fans):

1 Beats International featuring Lindy Layton Dub Be Good To Me
2 B-52s Love Shack
3 Various Artists The Brits 1990 (Megamix)
4 Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers That Sounds Good To Me
5 Michael Bolton How Am I Supposed To Live Without You
6 Erasure Blue Savannah
7 Guru Josh Infinity [1990s - Time For The Guru)
8 New Kids On The Block I'll Be Loving You (Forever)
9 David A Stewart featuring Candy Dulfer Lily Was Here
10 JT & The Big Family Moments in Soul
11 Candy Flip Strawberry Fields Forever
12 Sinead O'Connor Nothing Compares 2 U
13 Depeche Mode Enjoy The Silence
14 Black Box I Don't Know Anybody Else
15 Innocence Natural Thing
16 Inspiral Carpets This Is How It Feels
17 49ers Don't You Love Me
18 Technotronic featuring Ya Kid K Get Up (Before The Night Is Over)
19 Primal Scream Loaded
20 Bros Madly in Love
21 Ram Jam Black Betty (Ben Liebrand Remix)
22 Shakin' Stevens I Might
23 Stone Roses Made Of Stone
24 Snap! The Power
25 They Might Be Giants Birdhouse In Your Soul
26 Big Fun Handful of Promises
27 Rod Stewart Downtown Train
28 E-Zee Posse Everything Starts With An 'E'
29 Gloria Estefan Here We Are
30 Mission Deliverance
31 Stone Roses Elephant Stone
32 Fish A Gentleman's Excuse Me
33 Wet Wet Wet Hold Back The River
34 Jimmy Somerville Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough)
35 Adam Ant Room At The Top
36 Orbital Chime
37 Aerosmith Dude (Looks Like A Lady)
38 Electribe 101 Talking With Myself
39 Heart All I Wanna Do is Make Love To You
40 Queen Latifah & De La Soul Mamma Gave Birth To The Soul Children

Not a bad chart, as it happens.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:58 (twenty years ago)

nb: March 1990.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:58 (twenty years ago)

That chart > every NOW album.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:01 (twenty years ago)

i'm 2 love shacks and 3 months old.

i get told i don't look it though, thank god.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:01 (twenty years ago)

"1 Beats International featuring Lindy Layton Dub Be Good To Me"

Probably one of the few Norman singles I love. I still think it's a classique single.

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

But featured highly on a pub-based "worst spoken intro of all time" poll.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)

The great thing is, Love Shack is as fresh today as the day it weas recorded. And released.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

Two "good to me" singles in the top five!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and the second of time Dave "A" Stewart had his name in the top ten!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:21 (twenty years ago)

Two "megamixes" in the top five as well.

I thought it quite sweet how good old Shaky was clinging on at #22 in the brave new world of the '90s ("I Might" was the one with the Viz-drawn cover).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

the intro to 'dub be good to me' is fantastisch.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

Megamixes? 1990? Hi dere.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

JT & The Big Family Moments in Soul

Even cheekier than 'Dub Be Good To Me' this one, as it doesn't even feature an vocalist - just chucks Soul II Soul and Art Of Noise and a bit of The O Jays together for an early 'mash up'.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

an original vocalist, that was meant to say.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:33 (twenty years ago)

Ah it all comes back to me now. My parents were about to get divorced.

Except this:
3 Various Artists The Brits 1990 (Megamix)

WTF? I can't remember/conceive of what this was AT ALL.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:33 (twenty years ago)

What's the other Dave Stewart track?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

i was nine and although i know most of these songs, it doesn't make me feel old, no.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

IIRC the Brits 1990 Megamix was a kind of dance-orientated promo thing for the event, a cut-and-paste of things like Voodoo Ray, Pacific State, etc.

I hope Mark is not confusing David A Stewart of the Eurythmics with Dave Stewart formerly of Hatfield and the North who went to number one with Barbara Gaskin about a decade previously.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

Ugggh, I love the Electribe 101 and Orbital tracks, but Jesus, take the rest of those tunes down to the dungeons and flog them someone.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

thats a pretty good chart. pretty good. fuck i am old.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

fyi :: Kate Pierson from B52s has a hotel

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

Oh and c'mon Marcello, I'm not that bad.

Yeah, Eurythmics Dave, seemed to be around all the time, but one actual hit with his name on it. And he had to eventually add Candy Dulfer's, begrudgingly.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

Even though it was Candy's "sexy" sax which actually sold the record.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

What became of the Spiritual Cowboys? Oh who cares.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

fyi :: Kate Pierson from B52s has a hotel

-> someone's been reading Popbitch. ;)

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

Marcello, that must have been the first time I ever took interest in the charts. I was nine years old at the time and had received my first radio at Christmas time. I remember being really really angry when Snap knocked Beats International off the top slot.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 9 June 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

and IMAGINE, IT'S STILL REALLY GOT IT GOING ON!

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

i am impressed with how many of those songs i can still remember well.

but really. technotronic. primal scream. the mission. shakin' stevens. is this the craziest chart of all time?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

I am 90% sure I remember listening to that chart.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

i challenge anyone to find a better week of the top 40, frankly

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

i was impressed by that too! having to share a boarding house with a bunch of other yr 9s probably meant i had to listen to them all ad nauseam on 'hottest hits out' tapes though. i was already too cool for those tapes by yr 9 obviously.

i still love dub be good to me though.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

wow there's actually a bunch of songs on there i still love. made of stone (though i also love mick thomas's version now), and loaded. and the sinead o'connor song and enjoy the silence would definitely have me still singing along vigorously.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

Brits 1990 was the one that went "Yunyunyunyunyunyunyunyun Aciiiiieeed Aciiiieeeed!" and used lots of other songs in it.

Surprising that Adam Ant and Shakey were still in the charts back then, yes.

Dave Stewart with Candy Dulfer was not the same Dave Stewart in Eurythmics apparently. Or am I wrong?

I remember watching JT & The Big Family on TOTP and it was just these Italian guys who looked like James Eldritch and a foxy chick MIMING to the Art of Noise samples. Great track too.

Take flight, boss-walk, JAM nitty-gritty, you're listening to the boys from the big bad city, this is jam hot. This is jam hot.

Mmmm... hot jam.

Everything Starts With An E was nothing but drug references but sung by a girl who sounded like Mark E Smith on speed and helium so no-one understood them.

It's a fucking rocking Top40.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

this is jaaaaaaaam hot.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

the above dave stewart is the eurythmics tosser that allegedly has 'anhedonia'

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

and candy sold that record through and through

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

'Everything Starts With An E' is a great track - preposterous guitar intro, fabulous MC Kinki (I've managed to figure out most of what she was saying as a result of putting together that 1990 mix and playing it constantly over and over again...works brilliantly with Nightmares On Wax 'Aftermath' too i reckon), cheesy speech samples (INSUFFICIENT DATA), good ol' Jeremy Healy.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

Ah, where is the Bros love?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

That's gotta be one of Bros's weakest singles. 1990 was their lowest ebb/death throes.

The worst song in that chart is probably the Wet Wet Wet one. Was it a cover?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

I can't remember "Madly In Love" at all.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

ok Michael Bolt-on is the worst. The hair alone.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

Is it ok to say that NOW 17 is the best Now evah? Or is it just because that was my first ever pop record?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

nah wasn't the wet wet wet cover the song out of four weddings?

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

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Search: Guru Josh's 'cover' of 'Popcorn'!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

The Troggs did "Love Is All Around" originally. Top five at the tip end of '67.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

It was, I think, The Troggs.

(OK, so Marcello beat me to it. But I want you all to know that I knew.)

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

You UK people's charts are all completely wack. You can't have things like "Chime" next to "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)" that's fucking completely nonsense.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

the english are wonderfully indiscriminate when it comes to pop.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

33 Wet Wet Wet Hold Back The River
34 Jimmy Somerville Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough)
35 Adam Ant Room At The Top
36 Orbital Chime
37 Aerosmith Dude (Looks Like A Lady)
38 Electribe 101 Talking With Myself
39 Heart All I Wanna Do is Make Love To You
40 Queen Latifah & De La Soul Mamma Gave Birth To The Soul Children

This kind of reads like one of my mix CDs.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

worst opening ever.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

the english are wonderfully indiscriminate when it comes to pop.

hmmm, not sure about today.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

Reg Presley of the Troggs reputedly spent everything he earned from his version and WWW's version of Love Is All Around on UFO hunting and crop circle research.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

THE UK CHART IS NONSENSE

It's been eight years since The Fat of the Land came out and eleven years since that first Bush album. Even that scares me, and I'm only 1.12 Love Shacks old!

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

worst opening ever.

Replace that with "Sugar Free" by Wa Wa Nee.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

hey, where'd that technotronic/ya kid k groupie wander off to? they should be in here, slathering over the chart...

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

How I know I'm old: saw something in the paper about TiVO this morning and thought "I've already got something that entertains me, lets me see what I want when I want, skip back and forth to the parts I want to see, and pause whenever I want - it's called a BOOK!"

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I am Love Shack + 10.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

(Okay, people who are like 5+ years younger than me need to stop with this "boo hoo I'm so old" stuff)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

AGE AIN'T NUTHIN BUT A NUMBER

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

i remember getting request for it in my djsdoesweddingsbithdaysandcorporatedrunkwoos days. dan i am old.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Okay, people who are like 5+ years younger than me need to stop with this "boo hoo I'm so old" stuff

I'm so much older than you I'm younger.

I like the idea that "Chime" is next to "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" though I'd pick another Aerosmith song myself.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

2.6 Love Shacks. Great, wonderful.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

IN THE FUTURE everything will be measured in Love Shacks. Paris is only 0.00006 Love Shacks away!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

(Okay, people who are like 5+ years younger than me need to stop with this "boo hoo I'm so old" stuff)

I'm sorry, I can't HEAR you! my bones are old, my teeth are gray!

― kf, Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

I was born 17 and a half years ago!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Love Shack x 2.375

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

A couple weeks back this became the one and only song I've ever karaoked. An opera singer was Kate; I was Fred, by way of Mark E. Smith; the original was totally PWN3D by our brilliant reinterpretation.

― nabiscothingy, Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

I got me a krysler-ah
's'big as a whale-uh
and it's a BOUT to set sail-uh.

Genius.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm getting hugely old. Earlier in the week, for no real reason, I pulled my pair of black Chuck Taylor high tops out of my closet and put'em on. For some reason, they just didn't look right (and I've been wearing Chucks for nigh on twenty-something years). The wife, sadly, agreed, and off the came. It appears I am now too old to get away with wearing Chuck Taylor high tops without looking wrong/silly/foolish/etc.

I remember the first time I heard "Love Shack" by the B52's, I was in a Manhattan Chili Company towards the west end of Bleeker Street (it's now an haute nouvelle Indian restaurant) with some friends and fellow interns from SPIN. It was Summer `89, I believe, and I remember watching a waitress I had a bit of a thing for shimmying lasciviously to it. Said image remains in my head to this day every time I hear it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

You're not going to start telling us about Lake Woebegone now, are you?

― nabiscothingy, Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Oh snap.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

(Meant totally nicely, Alex -- joke was just too good to pass on.)

― nabiscothingy, Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

I will be enormously sad the day I am too old to pull off Chucks. They're so breezy!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

What the fuck are Chucks High Tops?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

"Perfect Strangers" was only halfway thru its series run when this song was popular!

"Love Shack" is now closer to the Bicentennial than it is to the present day.

I was hanging out at Pizza Hut, scouting out whether to visit my friend at the putt-putt course or head on down to The Cliffs to see if anyone had a made a run to Center Ridge.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

What the fuck are Chucks High Tops?

http://www.martyshoes.com/store/media/con-s049622-9160men500.jpg

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

SHOES OF THE (fallen-arch) GODS

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

I thought this song was awful when I first heard it, mind you I wasn't that big on 'Groove Is In The Heart' initially either.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

SHOES OF THE (fallen-arch) GODS

How anyone ever played basketball in them is one of those questions for the ages.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.chucksconnection.com/history.html

Wow. I did not know this. First produced in 1917. Unchanged since 1923. 60% of all Americans have owned a pair. That's quite the enduring style.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

They're great to wear when running around inside a lake.

(If you have to wear shoes at all...)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

"inside"? Like, underwater?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Picking up an arch-support insole can make them a whole lot more comfortable.

― nabiscothingy, Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, underwater. Maybe I should've said "in and around the lake."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Dude, my *mom* wears Chuck Taylors (red ones!) -- so you can either cast yours aside as feeling like you're too old to wear them or you can go, "Fuck that, I like them and they feel comfortable."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Cheers, Ned, but it wasn't like someone came up to me and said, "hey, Gramps, you need to take those off! They're for the kids!" They just looked....I dunno...wrong on me. It was my own impression. I didn't throw'em out or anything, but it was weird.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

You clearly were not wearing the right pants.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

My cassette copy of Cosmic Thing has the initials T.M. on it because I was called Tony through 5th grade.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

I think "Cosmic Thing" might have been the first album I owned on CD! It was either that or Flood by TMBG.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I was starting to get CDs by that time (Raw & The Cooked, Batman soundtrack, Green, Full Moon Fever, Root Hog Or Die cuz I asked for some Mojo Nixon after seeing "Elvis Is Everywhere" on MTV) but I still got cassettes. My parents actually gave me Hangin' Tough the same xmas I got Cosmic Thing - I believe I handed it to my little sister before I even got all the wrapping off.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

The First album I ever owned on CD was Chris Whitley - Living With The Law, and I think I bought Sticky Fingers at the same time. So it's a tie.

I think "Love Shack" is a totally crap song. Not that I don't like the B-52's!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

I dunno... I always skipped it when I listened to the record. I has such a dull, tuneless chorus.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

You clearly were not wearing the right pants.

This is entirely possible.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

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