ROCK LOBSTER vs. LOVE SHACK

Rock Lobster

its just funnier

Rock Lobster

Rock lobster but they've got lots of better songs

is "legal tender" the only top 40 song abt counterfeiting?

http://loveshack.ytmnd.com/

they've got tons of great songs. but i think it's for the best that these 2 face off, and then maybe we can do a poll of their other ones after this thread.

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Lobster Shack

Love Shack gets way more requests at weddings but the rock lobster people seem to dance their asses off a little harder, at least they did last weekend

Lobstah.

can we do "dance this mess around" vs. "deadbeat club" next

it's a free country

but no

I cannot imagine a hell worse than these two songs on an endless loop.

Haters...

The phoenix-like rebirth of The B's after Ricky's death, and the massive mainstream success of the Cosmic Thing album, is heartwarming and wonderful to me. And I still love Love Shack.

But it is nowhere near the beach party/bad sci-fi/camp/kitsch monument that is Rock Lobster. I've posted this elsewhere, but the riff when they hit the "Boys in bikinis" segment is one of my favorite moments in all of recorded music.

I was going to do "52 Girls" vs "Roam"

"Girl From Ipanema Goes to Greenland" vs "Channel Z"

"Whammy Kiss" vs "Junebug"

my personal favorite is the wig song. Also the one where listeners are admonished to "Do The Aqua Velva"

OK, so this thread proves that every B-52 song recorded is better than "Love Shack."

I submit that "Tell It Like It T-I-S" is not better than "Love Shack".

No contest. "Rock Lobster" every time.

Although "Private Idaho" shits on both of them.

that's just pique, Alfred. Pique!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdu8ZCPxCyk

TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN ROOF

RUSTED!

rock lobster is such a rad song but im surprised at all the people who thinks it wins so easily!

I submit that "Tell It Like It T-I-S" is not better than "Love Shack".

OH YES IT IS

No wedding dance or karaoke experience will make me hate on "Love Shack," but yeah I prefer "Rock Lobster."

Love Shack is great fun, nothing wrong with it at all, but the guitar riff of Rock Lobster (plus the sound of it) belongs in a museum or something.

I'm surprised that people don't kill themselves when they hear Love Shack.

is there a Cosmic Thing poll?

"Love Shack" is one of my favorite B-52's songs.

"Rock Lobster" is one of my favorite songs.

(Alex OTM re: "Private Idaho", though)

My favorite songs on Cosmic Thing are "Junebug" and "Bushfire"!

"Rock Lobster" for sure but hating "Love Shack"...do you hate "Celebration" and "Copacabana" too? I draw the line at "Cheeseburger in Paradise" though.

I can understand hating "Copacabana", is the thing.

Oh man "Rock Lobster." Harder would be "Rock Lobster" vs. "52 Girls," the epic vs. short and simple.

"Celebration" - UGH

Celebration - yeah, pretty much. Copacabana no because it's awesome.

There should be a Worst Eighties Kool and the Gang Song.

The B-52's covering "Celebration" would be pretty awesome, though.

HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU HATE KOOL AND THE GANG AND CONSIDER YOURSELF A HUMAN BEING

I AM HUMAN AND I NEED TO BE LOVED NOT CELEBRATED

I don't hate Kool and the Gang. I hate Celebration - there's a difference.

rock lobster. no contest.

If "Get Down On It," "Joanna," and "Cherish" disappeared with "Celebration," I'd have no trouble loving Kool.

"Celebration" vs. "Crispy Nuggets" (the ad version of "Celebration" at the time for KFC that I sing like 10 times a day to the consternation of my family)

pre-JT Taylor era Kool and the Gang is the shit. Stuff afterwards is pretty execrable.

I am kinda down with Celebration though, come on, do you hate fun?

If "Get Down On It," "Joanna," and "Cherish" disappeared with "Celebration," I'd have no trouble loving Kool.

Alfred, Supreme Dalek

I adore "Misled," though ("she's as heavy as a Chevy").

"Rock Lobster"

I think this would be closer if not for the aforementioned "boys in bikinis" part where the guitar gets so awesomely sinister.

It took me years and years to like Rock Lobster again after my brother got obsessed with it. I was, like, 14, and he was 11 or so and used to repeat it over and over and over. At that point, I would have considered Love Shack incredibly better (at the time, my favorite song was Roam), but now I can't deny that Rock Lobster's just so much catchier.

i'm not surprised that young persons prefer Love Shack

this old-new thing is very silly, but my version would be "Strobe Light" vs. "Is That You Mo-Dean?"

xp - yeah, this is a band i had to desiblingify a bit before i really got into them

luv dance this mess around

It's not just an old person vs. young person debate, though. There's a glossy sheen to "Love Shack" (which some people, I suppose, might consider part of its appeal) that is gloriously absent from "Rock Lobster." Sure, "Love Shack" is fun, but there's nothing otherworldly about it like "Rock Lobster." The first time my older sister played me her copy of the first B52s record, I was twelve years old and reared on a diet of Kiss, Queen & Pink Floyd, and I believe it was my first utterance of the now well-worn expression What the FUCK? I can't imagine "Love Shack" inspiring such a reaction.

get down on it rules!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Love Shack is good, but the first side of the first album makes me weep tears of liquid gold:

Track listing

Side one

1. "Planet Claire" (Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland) – 4:35
2. "52 Girls" (Joe Ayers, Ricky Wilson) – 3:34
3. "Dance This Mess Around" (Kate Pierson, Schneider, Strickland, Cindy Wilson, R. Wilson) – 4:36
4. "Rock Lobster" (Schneider, R. Wilson) – 6:49

The bass line in Rock Lobster irritates the hell out of me.

haha

this comparison irks

How did Kool & the Gang get invoked here exactly?

Dan likened hating "Love Shack" to hating "Celebration".

Well, "Celebration" is vile, sickly crap. Hating it makes perfect sense. "Love Shack" could be cloying in repeated doses, but I can't imagine hating it.

This is not to say that Kool & the Gang didn't have their moments, it's just that "Celebration" should never be played ever again by anybody on this planet ever again. Ever. Really!

Spending my teenage years going to horrible nightclubs in Worcester turned me off Love Shack forever. I love the B-52's pretty much up until they did that song. It's probably not really the song's fault.

Okay I am not the person who brought up "Celebration"

LOL sorry! I should have checked before making accusations. ;-)

Celebrate good times, c'mon.

is "legal tender" the only top 40 song abt counterfeiting?

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 19:47 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"There goes a tenner", Kate Bush, the only single of hers not to chart. So, not that.

I've posted this elsewhere, but the riff when they hit the "Boys in bikinis" segment is one of my favorite moments in all of recorded music.

― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson),

If DeBarge or Chic or "It's Raining Men" hadn't have existed, it'd probably be mine too. The last two-minute chunk of "Rock Lobster" is the quintessence of camp in English-singing popular music because it recognizes camp as equal parts fun and hanging-on-for-dear-life seriousness, a combination lost at the time (and damn near irretrievable today) after at least a decade of mass camp distortion.

So yeah, "Rock Lobster" despite no hard feelings for the perfectly fine "Love Shack."

Great (relatively) unsung song on side two of the debut: "There's A Moon In The Sky (Called The Moon)"

"Legal Tender" wasn't an American Top 40 hit.

ROCK LOBSTER ROCK LOBSTER ROCK LOBSTER ROCK LOBSTER

Most underrated B-52's song: "Ain't It A Shame." Sinead O'Connor has a nice cover.

man this thread is really making me even more disappointed than i already was that i missed the B-52s show here a few weeks ago

Good to see that ILX and the Ayatollah are on the same side for once.

("for once")

The Ayatollah hates "Celebration", it's true.

http://fouman.com/history/img/Ayatollah_Khamenei_Ashura_Mourning.jpg

Celebration was a cracking good tune when it came out and I was a little kid, but Alex is right, there's no need for it to be played again ever.

I found out the B-52's are playing at the local ZOO here next Wednesday! LOL

^^^^^exactly. The first 39000 playings were just fine, but I can name two dozen other Kool tracks more worth celebrating.

"Love Shack"'s fine, but "Lobster" is epic indeed

This is a dead heat for me, but I think what tips it into "Love Shack"'s favor for me is that I wouldn't lose a single second of it, whereas the radio edit of "Rock Lobster" cuts a repetitive section that I never really miss when it's not there.

both are 2 of my favorite songs of all time, though.

There is not one single element of Love Shack that is not annoying. I hate it more than virtually any other song in the world. Ergo, Rock Lobster.

I found out the B-52's are playing at the local ZOO here next Wednesday! LOL

That's sad.

Why? They're one of the few bands who can credibly claim that they'd be tinkled pink!

It just has that "Puppet Show & Spinal Tap" kinda feel.

They just got rained out at Riverfest in Little Rock

(..he says, making Alex's point.)

"Love Shack"

But "Roam" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> both.

No wedding dance or karaoke experience will make me hate on "Love Shack," but yeah I prefer "Rock Lobster."

This is sort of true. I like "Love Shack" but pretty much only exclusively in a wedding/karaoke setting, whereas I like "Rock Lobster" all the time.

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

Justice.

rusted