As the Field of Dreams quote goes: “If you build it, they will come.” ;)

The song wern´t simpler, They were palyed,, Not maschine music, ,, Rhythms and beats from the human soul.. They work .

It’s a very wise comment. People need to chill. Why spend life angry and worrying about what others are doing that doesn’t affect you? Of course, some people are filling their pockets by making people angry.

Plenty to be angry about. Anxieties from Climate Change and how fucked we are. The fact that the working class is struggling. Over 60% of Americans live pay check to pay check. Everything goes up in price besides are wages and salaries. Predatory private healthcare and the State actively passing hostile legislation against trans people. The SC controlling women's bodies. It just keeps getting worse for soooo many people. Besides the rich, they've never been richer...

After living My Youth at 90's, it's Beatyfull to see Younger People to get that. Gives me hope to get back to those days. Lets just love each other!

I always thought the "tin roof rusted" meant you had achieved the perfect peak of your buzz for the evening, but I have had people tell me it does indeed mean an unplanned pregnancy in Georgia. I have read that the "love shack" that specifically inspired this song was decorated liberally with glitter, and that people had actually gone to the trouble to paint "glitter on the highway" so people driving in wouldn't miss the exit, as the turnoff was from some little farm to market road onto a dirt road...

@@jonathanlocke6404 Oh there were 'love shacks' all over GA during that time. I remember partying at a house way back on Christmas tree farm, another was barn, another was an abandoned house down a gravel road...Anywhere you could escape the adults to party & not risk drawing the cops, basically 😂

Yep pretty sure that’s spot on! Have also been told that tin roof rusted is in reference to pregnancy. Think it was way back in the day when I was a kid and the song came out that I pondered the same meaning and asked my parents or something haha.

70’s too

I always thought the "Love shack" was a bordello. Even if it wasn't meant like that it would be a great name for one.

Lot less division then, it seemed.

"Division"'s not the problem. Bigotry is. And if you're not divided from bigots and morons, you should be real fuckin' worried about why. Love is great. But love starts with respect. And respect starts with respecting people's right to exist. It's really not a lot to ask. The B-52s were always an overtly political group, especially around AIDS, environmental, and animal-rights causes. Ricky Wilson, Cindy's older brother and the source of the unique guitar stylings of the band, was gay in the American South in a time when even "tolerance" was a long way off. He died of AIDS in 1985 at age 32, when Ronald Reagan and American conservatives were refusing to even acknowledge the epidemic, let alone do anything to assist (or even simply stop abusing) the people suffering from it, because conservatives felt those people deserved death and suffering for daring to defy what conservatives felt entitled to order them to do (sound familiar?). The B-52s are about love. But not comfortable, "don't offend anyone" faux "love". Instead, it's "be yourself, let your freak flag fly, and anyone who can't fucking deal with that is not welcome" love. Love is, first and foremost, a dedication to defend what you hold dear. It is never a passive act, and it cannot and should not co-exist with stupid hate.

@@michaelccozens - regarding bigotry I agree there is only right and wrong. No space for devision. I would however warn against making blanket statements regarding Regan and conservatives. That can breed devision. My dad always used the quote “the broader the statement the narrower the mind.” If you do a little research on Regan’s reaction to the aid’s epidemic, you’ll find much of it to be untrue and fanatical. The whole “Regan refused to commit resources” to helping aids victims loses a lot of steam when you look at the actual records. They say Regan never mentioned aids for the first seven years of his presidency. While it’s is easy to disprove, the narrative finds a foothold and grows from there. Regan, in working with democrats agreed when they asked for more money to go towards fighting aids. He increased the funding trifold in ‘83 and the number doubled every year of his presidency. In 1978, two years before he became president he publicly opposed Proposition 6 which was policy aimed at barring gays and lesbians (which Regan had many friends who were gay that he made when he was in Hollywood) from teaching. The bill was gaining serious traction until he spoke out against it at which point it lost handily. He listened to his republican friends that were gay and friends who were gay that were democrats. He never spoke with disdain about people with aids. But it’s easy to believe he was a horrible person when you only listen to those who paint that picture. And I didn’t even vote for him! I was a democrat then and eventually an independent. Of course he could’ve done more, perhaps much more, but sometimes it’s like damn, this isn’t right.

@@michaelccozens the AIDS epidemic when Fraudci said people could get it from cereal boxes and Neil Young said he didn’t want f*got grocery clerks to handle his groceries? Should we say ALL Democrats are bigots and homophobes bc those two liberals/Democrats made those homophobic comments during that time? We can play this game ALLLLLL day. You’re the one causing division. You are the part of the problem when you demonize and generalize about a group of people.

Yes private Idaho

I was thinking ‘79 seemed awfully early. Thank You for mentioning that!

HE "dancing around"

You think you had fun in the 80's? You should of done the 70's, now that was the max party decade, especially from 74-80 wth the Disco Era!

@@felixkmgalanti9064 I was born in 67 so doubtful I could be partying in 74 - 80 but I did start in about 83 or 84 LOLLLL I remember disco balls LOLL at the roller rink lmaoooooo

It think it really depends on your own experience of the times. Alot of what is going on today existed then too. I will agree that the music was better and good music helps get through rough times. The music of 70's-90's were the best eras to me. 😄

Ever hear of The Smiths?

@@Y_.R I said almost.

Yes. My favorite movie! The Love Shack back in the woods is just a modern ' Juke Joint' !!

Roam🤗

Hell yeah, the parties were a blast! Having fun, getting along. But it’s not like everyone was welcome at every party. We all partied with our own crowds (as people have always done). I was young and enjoying life. But that doesn’t mean the 80s were a decade of peace, love and understanding. Things are bad out there right now. But we’re really being unfair to today’s young people when we act like life was idyllic when we were young. As I recall, our parents and grandparents told us in the 80s that the world had gone to hell in a hand basket since they were young. 🤔 In the words of Billy Joel: Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan "Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law Rock and roller, cola wars, I can't take it anymore.

Glad you said something about RuPaul, I was gonna add that bit if no one had said it.

@@ashleydixon4613 it's my go to when I watch people do this song.have you seen Elton John and rupaul doing don't go breaking my heart? The original was with Kiki dee.i don't know if your from the UK but we have a programme on sat called any and Dec's Saturday night takeaway every week they have a celeb announcer and an end of the show show.this sat rupaul was the announcer and for the end of the show show there were the 3 winners of UK drag race and the presenters ant and Dec dressed in full drag and performed everyone lost their s**t when they saw it! I wonder if it's on KZfaq?

@@ashleydixon4613 it is yeah just put in ant and Dec in drag.

I think you're confusing the 80s with the 90s. People stood in front on mirrors putting 5 lbs of hairspray on and we're obsessed with money so how were they not hung up on themselves? The 80s were the hung up on myself decade. Whenever I tell some woke dope about actual racism I say " the last time I remember blatant racism is the 80s". Yall just lie about the 80s.

So right you are and God I miss it.

@@FURTHER_ADO I feel sad for you. You needed a better friends group in the 80's because none of my friends cared about themselves or money, just where the party was.

@@vaskylark Clearly you didn't suffer anything in the 80's as a straight white person so please...The only people you should feel sorry for are the ones who you called disgusting names at & put others down for what they couldn't change and let others do the same. The 80's weren't as special as you like to claim with some of you other rose colored eye glass wearing fools. The 80's were literally about excess and ME ME ME and plagued with homophobia and racism ESPECIALLY with AIDS being a plague and the cold war feeling never ending.. Of course you wouldn't know that and everyone else who thinks the same. You all also think like every other generation that your generation is better than the newer ones. It wasn't and isn't unless you were a straight white male / female in your case so don't dare push any of that aside. I and many others lived through it too. Many people had it good & easy, just as many didn't. Like in Sydney, Australia, gay men were thrown off of cliffs by gangs and so called "straight" men because they thought it was fun and was "doing everyone a favour by getting rid of those Fags". Every day people on TV would admit to happily kill a gay man if they found one and were called pedophiles in the process. That is just ONE example of your "better in the 80's than now" preciousness. There are many many more examples we can give of the not-so-better decade called the 80's. The only bright spot? Music. A safe space for many people.

@@Rage_Harder_Then_Relax Preach! But some of the music really sucked.

Yes! That is one of RuPaul's earliest appearances. RuPaul was also a GA resident at the time.

Multiple people have called reacted to Rock Lobster. Why wouldn't you check the search bar before posting that?

@@FURTHER_ADO I see that all the time, "Nobody has reacted to X" when I've seen dozens of them. I can't tell if it's laziness, smoothbrain or an attempt to trick the channel owners into thinking "Oh hey, I can get in first" just to hurry their requests along.

Try "Private Idaho".

I'm sorry but 80's music was way too corny and had no meaning behind it. It was just nothing

Usa lives off the cheap labour of others You can afford to be apolitical lol

@@penderyn8794 did you post this under the wrong comment? It doesn't make sense otherwise.

@@penderyn8794 problem is you as an American live off the fruits of that labor.I am not apolitical,I just don't need some dumb kid to sing to me about his views of our country,or hear the whine of the millennial about their feelings.

Quoting the great philosopher from Clueless - Cher: “He listens to complaint rock.” 🤣🤣. By the way, I was in high school and college in the 80’s. But I love me some 90’s complaint rock! Great musical decade!

It’s a great song! But it’s actually called “Roam” not “Rome” and it’s definitely NOT about Georgia. It’s their most overtly sexual song. Cracks me up every time I hear it. 🤣

@@Y_.R Oh okay my bad. Thanks for your reply, greetings from Chicago, Il. USA.

This was in Georgia in the mid-70s. Guessing you're white and straight. Ricky Wilson wasn't. I imagine he'd have rather a different take on the "innocence" of that time than you do.

You want to "have fun and be human" with the self-proclaimed fascist insurrectionists who just held your capital city violently hostage for 3 weeks in an attempt to overthrow your democracy? The ones who were proudly and openly waving Nazi flags? Does the phrase "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing" mean anything to you?

@@michaelccozensDude, you okay? Do you need a hug? Or maybe you just need to take your anger and your politics to a more appropriate forum lol.