The Love Shack is an actual place that members of the B52s used to hang out at near their homes in Georgia. It was a hangout with music and groove, it was not a “hook-up” place.

Imagine being in the club when everyone stops dancing to yell out “Tin roof- rusted!!” What a blast!

This wasn't the fashion at the time, they had their own retro style.

If you don't groove to this song, you're dead inside. This is everyone's vibes.

IMO, love shack is just what Amber said, a party place to laugh, dance, drink, and well if you hook up with someone, so be it, simple as that. I lived thru those times, where having a great time was priority one.

Really, this song is about all of that combined: dancing, partying, making out, the whole party scene.

These ladies had voices that meshed like the ABBA ladies...amazing group.

"Get down" is a phrase from back in the day meaning ( to start jammin, dancin, grovin). Amber's childhood remains in tact,

"Rock Lobster" is a crazy fun B-52's song. Gotta hit that one up. Rock Lobster and Love Shack are two songs that always made people hit the dance floor at parties.

Kate and Cindy have two of the best voices of all time, and their harmonies are incredible.

"Love Shack" has different meaning to different listeners. Fred, Cindy, and Kate all said it was a song about having fun and being with friends and the interpretation was at the discretion of the listeners.

After a crappy day at work, this song could completely change my attitude. Still love it after all these years.

I love the pre-famous Ru Paul in this! I still say it’s just a song about a party place. Yes, maybe to make a love connection, too. But “bring your jukebox money”. Don’t need that to hook up.

"Get down" was not a sexual connotation then. It meant to become more frenzied or energized in your dance. "Hook up" meant to meet someone later. You have to know the times. Not today's slang. John Travolta dancing in Saturday night Fever was an example of someone getting down on the dance floor. He took it over. It was amazing. He had the moves. The rest of the movie was not really very good. We couldn't believe that Vinnie Barbarino (Travolta's character from "Welcome Back Kotter") was going to be this awesome dancer. Wow! Were we wrong. He owned the floor. He got down!

Amber is right, it really was about a little party spot in the woods the band members and their friends would go to dance, hangout, and have fun. And "get down" back in the 70s and 80s meant getting down to dancing and partying.

Amber, you got it right. The love shack here is all about partying, having fund, music and dancing - like, an attitude for that. We called it "getting down" back when. Also, since you're interested, these ladies are in costume for the video, wearing clothes/hair from the early 60's, but the song esd recorded in 1989. (Sorry Rob - ha)

"bring your juke box money" so you can dance. I say it's a dance club. "wearin' next to nothin' 'cause it's hot as an oven" Yeah, it's summer in Atlanta and they're dancin' it's hot. Just sayin' Love you, Paul

The song is 60s themed, the birth of the sexual revolution, feminism etc. The looks the girls are rocking is the 60s mini skirts etc the parents were scandalised by the new 60s fashion of their daughters 'wearing next to nothing' . When they say 'get down' it's 60s slang for dancing. Love Shack is a club, where the 'folks line up outside just to get down'.

The B52's were still making music as recent as 2019 and all are now in their 70s and still sound great. To get down and boogie also means to dance like crazy and maybe go further. 🤗👍🤪

The B-52s were a badly needed, refreshingly jarring, new-wave antidote to disco in the early ‘80s. Still love this whole Cosmic Thing album from later, though.

This song gives me "Rockabilly" vibes. Another 'retro' sounding group is Stray Cats. Their song "Stray Cat Strut" has this same type of vibe. And the video is fun too!

"I got me car, it's as big as a whale," "I got me a Chrysler, it seats about 20." That's just fantastic!

The "Love Shack" is in many ways a state of mind; a place where people of all stripes come for a groovy good time. The band drew inspiration from the club in the movie The Color Purple, and also from a real club outside of Athens, Georgia, called the Hawaiian Ha-Le, where they would hang out. This place drew a multifarious crowd of hippies, scenesters, and lots of students from the nearby University of Georgia. Drummer Keith Strickland has also mentioned keg parties out in the country as another inspiration.

So happy to see B-52s! Glitter on the highway, love shack baaaaaby! Get down means dancing! And wearing next to nothing because they’re dancing in a hot shack. Check out how B-52s started. It’s a being at the right place at the right time.

Not saying you’re wrong, but....as a South Carolina boy, i can tell you “wearing next to nothing” at one of the dance joints in the South is basically a life-saving PSA

The B 52's and Devo were always fun to listen to. Good party music. We called our parents cars "boats" back then. A Chrysler Imperial *is* as big as a whale. :D

The band originated in Athens Georgia, but the blonde girl Cindy Wilson is the only one actually from Georgia. She's the one that yelled the part, "Tin Roof rust" when the music paused.

80s high school party/dance music! I danced to this at a 11th grade school dance in the gym. Great times! My kids love to listen to the B-52s, your kids would them too.

This wasn't the fashion of the time. It was part of the 60s revival that happened in late 80s-early 90s

According to Kate Pierson (the red headed singer) "The Love Shack is a mythical place. It's not based on a specific place but rather a series of down-home, throw-down, disco juke joints that you would find in the rural south. The shack on Jefferson Road was an inspiration for the song, though."

This song once got me on the dance floor with a badly twisted ankle. Cindy & Kate's harmonies are just fantastic! Zachary Alford on drums went on to work with David Bowie a few years after this. You may also notice a certain Drag Queen - THE Queen of Drag, Ru Paul getting down.

I agree with Amber! Back in the day, and I go back quite a ways, getting down meant dancing!!

"Rock Lobster" is my favorite B-52 song 🥰☮️✌️

Loveshack one of the most catchy songs of all time

The B-52s are a University of Atlanta Group, so much good music out of UOA! They have never changed their style, and have always been fabulous

also really love the B-52's music video

YES!!! This is the only song that could get me up dancing!!! Absolutely LOVE this song. My favorite line: TIN ROOF RUSTED!!!!

The best party song, love this song. Still want some Santana

I have always enjoyed the B-52's. Glad you are enjoying it too.

They are doing a farewell tour...I remember them vividly from SNL. AWESOMENESS!!!!!!

It wasn't about a palce to hook up ... B-52s singer Cindy Wilson, she explained: "When you're jamming, everybody is conjuring up their own images. Sometimes we're all singing at the same time and later you go back and you hear what you're doing. I personally was thinking about this bar that was out in the country [the Hawaiian Ha-Le]. It was a really cool place - a run-down love shack kind of thing, but it was a disco. It was a really interesting place."

"Folks lining up outside just to get down" means exactly that. "Getting down" in 70's and 80's means dancing. Nothing sexual at all. BTW, they are from The ATL. It's hot in Atlanta, Really hot.

B-52’s “Rock Lobster” need I say more? Please, PLEASE!! Love all your reactions.

Thanks so much! LOVE THE B-52"s 💘

Rock Lobster is another one of the B-52's bigger songs.

J, get down in this song means to dance. Clearly times have changed, lol.

Love "Love Shack", it brings me back to my 20's!!

Every walk of life loved this song.

The “Love Shack” is any place, pasture, backyard or hangout where you gather with friends and cut loose with music, dancing, drinking, laughter and just having fun.

LOVE SHACK! When this song came out, I was driving our Chevy wagon, which I could get at least 10 friends in and we used to blast this song. Great memories.

In 2000, I went to a concert in Oakland, CA where the B52's opened for The Go Go's! We danced for hours and it was one of my best experiences ever!

The B-52's fashion was a look from the 50's and 60's brought back into the 70's and 80'. A very unique group.

I've always described B-52s as "space-age beach music". Smash Mouth also fits this mold. B-52s were pioneers in new wave in the early 80s, behind vocalists Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, and Cindy Wilson. Some of their other fantastic songs are "Rock Lobster" (make this your next one!), "Roam", "Channel Z", "Private Idaho", and my personal fave, "Good Stuff".

Yes.. Finally! Love this song… Still a Hit after all these yrs

Quirky rock. Love it.

The B52's Toured with the The Go-Go's one year... it was EPIC!!!!

"Get down" can mean "dance" too!!! 🤣 The B-52s are an amazing oddball band. "Roam" and "Deadbeat Club" both have lovely vocals from Kate and Cindy.

Give Amber back her childhood. As a 20 something when this came out and a club enthusiast - it's about dancing. You could dance or show out depending on if you hit the beat or the off beat. And north or south it was all about what you were wearing at the club. "Next to nothing" is a good description of my clubbing clothes. ^-^

This song was THEEE song st the club 🎉 one of the best ever! My friends and I went crazy dancing in the clubs to this. The whole club on the dance floor letting it all loose was quite the site

“Yes honey!” My favorite part of this video 😄

This song came out summer of 1989. When school started it was played at every dance that year. It was awesome The inspiration for the song was "a cabin around Athens, Georgia," with a tin roof, where the band conceived "Rock Lobster", a single from their debut album. The cabin was said to have been located off the Atlanta Highway near Athens. B-52's singer Kate Pierson lived in the cabin in the 1970s, and it burned down in December 2004. Cindy Wilson's line "tin roof rusted" was originally an outtake from a jamming session, where Wilson continued her line while the tape had stopped.

52s (plural). The pride of Athens, Georgia! They are so fun in concert. *ROCK LOBSTER* was their breakthrough hit, and it is 🔥

Right Amber, Get Down....get dancing!

When this came out, omg! It was just a hit. Super iconic. I swear i hear it played at every sports game.

You'll love their "Roam", "Private Idaho" and "Rock Lobster". Kate, Cindy and Fred all sing in many of their songs.

Top 3 B-52's suggestions; "Rock Lobster," "Private Idaho," and "Give Back My Man." My favorite is "Planet Claire" but it's too weird for most people. Lots of people think that the band name is a reference to the airplane, but it's only indirectly connected. In the 70's, a B-52 was the southern nickname for a beehive hairdo, which is what Cindy and Kate originally wore on stage.

Lol!!! I heard this for the first time as a kid watching full house!!! Stephanie was dancing to it!! I thought it was such a cool song!!

Anyone notice who the drag quean in the dance line was? It was the now famous RuPaul.

I think Jay's reading more into it than what's there. Just keep your ideas on it Amber! A fun place to go have a blast!

My roomate was their stage manager back in the early 80's....spent lots of fun times with them!

It was a dancing Era and we all went out at least twice a week to dance all the energy out!

I am sure that happened in the 70's, but it came out in 1989. I remember jamming out to this when it came on the radio. I thought the same thing as a kid.😊😊

Could I just point out to you 2 that Parties and Clubs are ALWAYS places people go to hook up! Your comments are priceless sometimes!

Just can't enough of Fred Schneider's voice and "Sprechgesang" style of singing! Hard to resist vibing to this B-52 track!

To "get down" is to dance. You put more.into it than there is. Just fun, party, music, dance.

The B52's were always a great time, so much fun!

This song is about partying. “Get down”means to have fun, dance and party. The line about the clothes is just about how hot it is. After all, Georgia is hot during the summer months.

Try out shiny happy people, it was collaboration between the b-52’s and REM, another fun song from 2 groups both from Athens Georgia, that high school must’ve had incredible talent shows

HAHA Amber! Don't be jealous of the linebacker shoulderpads we were stuck with!!! The B52s were a required music at our college parties!

The B52's always make me think of The Manhattan Transfer, an excellent group. Boy from New York City was probably their biggest hit.

This was from the 80s when vintage clothes and hairstyles were a thing for a subculture. I still have a men's suit I bought from a vintage store then, and it was already 30 years old then. I was in college and could wear a size 30 waistband. so long ago, haha.

The B52's were renowned for their big bee hive hairdoo's and hoop skirts, sort of a flash to the past, mixed with sort of new wave progressive party music (it might be called old school now, but this was really different when it came out.) It sort of reminds me of Ska and Beach Band music, progressive music, and even Punk. But really they invented a genre all their own. Their songs are pretty much all party and dancing type music tho. All something you would hear in a college dorm of the time. The guy, who almost talks over the gals singing annoyed me at first, but I've learned to appreciate it more over the years. Some of their songs are really fun to WATCH as well as listen to in their live performances. Songs like "Rock Lobster" come to mind. This one is sort of a POP Dance tune, but some of their other sings are even more unusual and interesting. Also I disagree that the shack is just a flop house for sex. It is a dance party, and yeah, people COULD hook up, but the song isn't really about sex. It is about Dancing and moving and partying. The car is about to set sail, it holds about 20. Bring your juke box money. That is a party, not a brothel. Getting down is not just a sexual reference. In this era it literally mean letting loose and having fun, and it was innocent, and this was a fairly innocent upbeat band. I mean that's not to say that sex isn't part of the appeal. There is guys and gals dancing together and flirting, and maybe the hint of sex, but there really is no hidden meaning here. This is the party shack just out of the city limits in the woods, where they can serve alcohol and party loud and dance without a visit from the Police. There used to be lots of these for real, and a lot of these old Country Counties used to be dry counties back in the day, and people had their clubs and bars back in the woods. This is kinda like that. I get more of a modern speakeasy vibe. Databyter

Hello J and Amber :) , all I can say is ( about the song ) Glitter :) :) on the mattress , you are right Jordan. Thanks for a great reaction :) Have a great day : We woke up this morning , alive and breathing.

I saw this tour and it was the craziest crowd I have ever seen and I've been to about 150 concerts.

The redhead in this band also sang on "Shiny Happy People" by REM -- it would be a perfect song for your girls next week. Good luck & happy thoughts for your delivery!

Great 80s dance tune! This was an 80s anthem for all the girls. This and the Go Go's Our Lips are Sealed! That would be another good girl band for Friday! Also should do Jewel- Who will save your soul.

Back in the day it was the quintessential dance and party tune. The B-52's were a group of quirky, unconventional musicians who dropped unusual lyrics into their banging tunes. An enjoyable reaction to this blast from the past. They play it occasionally on retro music Adult Skate nights at my local rink.

1989 - This was a very FUN CLUB song .... Great to dance to ahhh the 80's

You can't sit still while listening to love shack lol 😍✌🤘

I love the B-52s. I used to live in Athens, GA. I knew people who used to hang out at the Love Shack. Please check out 10,000 Maniacs "Candy Everybody Wants" (another GA band) perfect for female Fridays!

Roam is a wonderful number. A friend of mine used to sing it with me. Great two part harmony. My friend passed. I miss her so much.

Omgosh ok the hair doos are 50s 60s style done in the late 70s 80s 90s, so the hair was even retro for us old timers

Kate Pierson has such a distinctive voice, and features on a number of other artist hit recordings, such as R.E.M.'s Shiny Happy People, and Iggy Pop's Candy

❤️Ok I’m with Mama on this one - look at it with innocent eyes LOL. Getting down is getting down to the funky beat and partying and love doesn’t have to be the s word LOL 60s lets love each other like Christians and hippies vibe 🥰😘😜😂❤️

Get down is a double entendre, to dance & to get together "Are you DOWN?"

Oh my sweet Lord but you two make a great couple. Can actually SEE the love in your eyes you have for each other.

I was lucky to see them at a local art festival about 8 years ago. They still rocked! They cleared out a huge section in front of the stage for dancing only! No sitting allowed. It was fabulous!

No Jay! Its about cutting loose dancing and having fun. Getting down is dancing! Its about being free, hangin' with cool people, and having fun. Its pretty much the video. A shack in the middle of nowhere where people gather to have a great time.

Get down also uised to mean dancing as well before it was used for meaning get down with someone. Funny! The B-52s wore clothes from the 50s too. and the horn rimmed glasses - especially the girls. Really awesome outfits.

"Roam" is another good one of theirs. Perfect road trip track.