Kate Pierson's voice takes me on a wonderful trip.

20+ years later and im still jamming to this song

Feets are dancin' but heart is cryin' Long live B-52's !

0:00 Summer of Love 4:05 Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland 8:30 Housework 12:38 Detour Thru Your Mind 17:46 Wig 22:07 Theme for a Nude Beach 27:00 Ain't It a Shame 32:33 Juicy Jungle 37:25 Communicate 41:33 She Brakes for Rainbows

I haven't listened to this album in about 15 years...I forgot how much I loved it!

This album deserves more credit.

Cindy is my favorite.

Rest In Peace, Ricky! We break for rainbows...

everyone has their own opinion of course. this was my first B's introduction when i graduated in 86' . drank alot of beer....smoked alot of weed...rocking this LOUD on a beautiful sound system. i own everything they have done now. this will always have a place on top of my list!!!! still listening..... hope you are too...

wow! never even heard of this record. What a trip.

This band is so beautiful, so goofy, profound, fun. They fell out of some other universe. They put me in a trance.

Great stuff from one of America's best .. .. .. timeless.

I am hard core and this is my favorite album

Wild Planet and B-52's are their best 2 albums, followed by Boucing Off The Satellites ! The 3 best albums from them ...

I truly appreciate artists who never try to be someone else.

LOVE THE B-52'S!!!! Best songs on this album are juicy jungle, wig, communicate, and my all time favorite, detour through your mind!!! Saw them a few years ago at Universal Studios. It was awesome!!!!!!!!!

J’ai toujours écouté B52’s depuis 1981 c’est vraiment indémodable ..... Bises et longue vie ..... Fred 😘🤙💐

I had a crush on my art teacher in 9th grade. Her name was Mrs Caswell. She was a shapely brunette. I told her I liked the B52s and she said she listened to them in college. We got to talking and she told me about this album. "Can you make a copy for me?" I asked her. She ended up giving me the cassette she bought. I will remember her.

This is by far one of my favorite B's albums.... I discovered it after buying the Nude on the Moon anthology and the rest is history! Love "Ain't it A Shame and She Breaks for Rainbows", and despite the melancholy feeling of the music, still is a great album! 🌼RIP Ricky🌼

Thank you! Thank You , Thank you!!!!!! If only a handful of brats are enlightened with this truly beautiful music and it gives their lives and their musical taste some depth, then you shall be rewarded in full......

Wore out two cassettes of this album when it came out-What an incredible but so underrated album!

On of the favorite album of my childhood

No words can capture how much I love the B52s and in particular this album. 'Ain't it a shame' still makes me cry, 30-something years later!

What a great album. Underated..thanks for post. SUMMER OF LIVE brings back good melow memories of beach parties at dusk wearing pastels..ha ha

BOTS is almost like the exact opposite (in terms of popularity) of Cosmic Thing: It's the album you'll most often hear hardcore fans naming as their favorite--simply knowing about it goes a long way to establishing one's fan cred...This was Ricky Wilson's final album, and even the band themselves rarely play songs from it, so painful are the memories it elicits. Indeed, the melancholy seems to have infused the music itself, which ironically makes the B's finest album also their least known... On the other hand, if you were alive in the 1990s, you know at least one song off Cosmic Thing (probably Love Shack--but possibly Roam). It was the megahit album that brought the band back to life--like a phoenix rising from the ashes of tragedy...And it was and remains fantastic, one of the defining albums of the late 80s and early 90s--but it was also overplayed and overexposed. It's sad--these are probably the B-52's two best albums: One will always be associated with tragedy, and thus remain obscure and underrated....The other is brilliant, but dismissed as Top 40 fluff.

Most underrated album ever.

I've always loved this album. It's sublime, so creative, really wistful and inventive use of keyboard sounds of the time. Probably my favourite of all of them.

I started listening to these guys when I was a young teen and they were not very popular, lol. I love them!!

I enjoyed this one on vinyl countless times while stationed in Germany in the late 80's. It still holds up to this day.

Takes me back instantly to the eighties, loved them. Not so much their music after this album

I just became a B52s fan and I have been listening to their full catalogue for the first time. This one has three gems : Girl from Ipanema, it’s a shame ( Cindy Wilson sounds her best) and Nude Beach theme. And it sounds so 1986!! The sound of the time.

I should be ashame of myself, I just discovered this fantastic album, man! where have I been?

Work it like a washing machine..........Good Album................................

imo best b52's

My favourite songs on this album are the first, seventh and last.

Just got here to this channel ,will read comments later. Right off the bat.....Like.

Great to find this album after so long ,wow it takes me back

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Some how reminds me of the time I was selling selling balloons on rush street and got me an ice cream. summer of love. Love Energy.

"Theme for a nude beach" is the one song I listen to most. Seriously. The guitar hook with the bass line is awesome.

Simply impecable!!!...

I love this album!!!!

Elegantly appointed Doctors office! lolLove it!

This one was my first 52's album. Then I bought every one else as they came out.. and first 3 too. Seen them in concert 3 times. awesome

"this place is so remote, everything is revealed, it's so mysterious, here i must stay, forever"

Love this album. Very lighthearted in its energy.

agreed possibly their best!

b52s, best dance muzic orange pops n lemonade

was a thousand light years from home, when I heard this.

I've been a B's fan for 25 years and strangely this album seems to stand the test of time more than the others. This was their first "serious" album (relative speaking of course). It's probably because this is not the sound they are remembered for. Just my opinion anyway. "She Brakes for Rainbows" is a beautiful track.

I had been a fan since their debut album, when I first heard this release while visiting a friend in southern California. I still associate BOTS with riding around LA, Santa Barbara, and Huntington and Laguna beaches and the whole vibe of the area. It's a shame this album never got the recognition it deserved, but considering what the band was dealing with with the loss of Ricky Wilson to AIDS after completion and with no promotion it's understandable. Otherwise, I think this could have been a huge hit--It's such a great album!

That last song is great. The whole album is just loads of fun

This is their best, though the next one was very popular.

ONE OF THEIR BEST

Thanks for the upload....Haven't heard this for years. Cheers from Australia :)

FRIKIN Orange popsicles and lemonaid!

now that's some real new wave

the b 52 s !!! je vous aime !!!!!!!!!!

Thanks ...

Shep Pettibone!! Its a beautiful thing!!

Thanks for uploading! so hard to get a hold of this!

Athens GA scene at its absolute best

Love Love B52's...!!!

Please put them in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame...#B52sRNRhalloffame....Brings back days of High School and College and going to the beach for the day catching rays. Dancing This Mess Around while Following my Bliss and Breaking For Rainbows because I was a member of The Dead Beat Club playing at The LOVE SHACK...and traveling down Dirty Back Road with a Devil in My Car wanting to make Love Under the Strobe Light after a Whammy Kiss....lol

Underrated.

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MY FAVORITE B52'S ALBUM!

that album is "game over" after best years 1979-83

I firmly believe that it would not kill them to play Housework live sometime.

this has always been my favorite b52's album, bar none, period. i always thought this was the best produced and best sounding one of them all. really like the creativity of the songs. every song on this album is great and i never understood why it didn't get that much airplay. when it first came out, i ran out and bought the cd, sounded great on my home and car system. favorite songs on here are theme for a nude beach, aint it a shame, she brakes for rainbows, summer of love, girl from ipanema, detour thru your mind, then the rest, all in that order. however, i do find whammy a very close second to this album, needless to say, these are my favorite 2 albums by them. i love the rest as well but these 2 stand out the most for me, bouncing and whammy. after cosmic thing i didn't keep up with them as much as i should, had all the albums up to cosmic thing. peace.

Yep, and the inner sleeve of the vinyl has dedicated to the memory of Ricky Wilson on it with a large flower.

lol this would get critical acclaim had they released it today

all the albums Ricky Wilson worked on are great

Every Time I hear Wigs and that really high part where it goes into the stratosphere (21:03) Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire, I get chills, I'm pretty sure it's Kate Pierson singing notes that are really unable to be sung by anyone from any planet ever!

🤔 Recorded in 1985,but released in '86. The shock of Ricky Wilson's death paralyzes the B's. Barely any promotion for this album. 🤔 Wonder what was originally attended for cover art/pic for this album. If any. ♡ "Aint it a Shame".

thanks, i love all the b 52s albums.dont know why this one got bad reviews by critics

Poco valorado por falta de promoción en su momento, igual otra agradable producción musical de la banda.

My podium: "Ain't It A Shame"; "Summer Of Love"; and "She Brakes For Rainbows".

whammy is also one of their greatest

im waking up ive got to run errands today

Very mellow.

the best musique !! machou !!!!!

I lived in the B-52's home town of Athens GA for about 20 years so I have an interesting almost "inside view" of this wonderful group. The local opinion of the B-52's varied considerably. Many of the local musicians opinions of them were not especially good. Basically, the feeling was, if theses guys can be make it, anyone can. Of course, a large amount of envy was in this equation. Also, REM was hot during this time. Athens became a Mecca for musicians of various kinds. It was a great time to be a local. The bar scenes were just amazing

Cosmic Thing was my introduction to the B's in 89 then I started getting all the albums (or cassettes as it were) as I could find them. (Kinda tough pre-internet!) I don't know if I'd call BOTS my favorite B's album. (For me choosing a favorite would be a difficult task anyway as there are very few songs I don't like!) It is special though as there is a different feel it, there is a more prominent bass line and the songs themselves feel "tighter", it is the last one with Ricky and the only one to not include a group photo (or graphical depiction in the case of Mesopotamia) of the band on the cover. It is a bridge from how they sounded on the first three to what they sound like on the last three. (Or hopefully four.) I saw them for the fourth time in my life last night in Madison and it was the first time I heard anything from BOTS live when they played "Wig". (Actually a song late as Fred set up a perfect segue playing with a wig after "Party out of Bounds" but they didn't capitalize on it. (They did play it one song later though.) The only album they skipped last night was Whammy!.

I remember as a teenager going to see the Who. B52's were opening up for them. What a shame, they were booed off and attacked with objects being thrown. B's are excellent, too bad the hillbillies could not appreciate such a wonderful band at that time.

weenie, love it

Always excellent

GREAT GREAT GREAT songs here as on other albums :oD

Such a great album. Shame it didn't do well.

i've left the planet...

Um album mais "moderno", muito bom !!

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Sinead O'Connor [of all people!] does a bang-up cover of "Ain't It A Shame" on 2003's "She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty" [dear Satan, it's as long as a Fionna Apple CD title!]. Her production team VASTLY improves on the draggy original song, percolating it with a faster tempo and swirling, swoopy synths that connotate the sounds of a spaceship soaring-- aurally illustrating the lyric, "Flying saucers could land/And it wouldn't make much difference to my man."

Beg my pardon, thank-you , strange euphoria.

I buried my parakeet in the back yard.

amazing album, first heard it in 1994 & still liking it! check out the SugarCubes if u like this.

Video commercials takes the fun away....

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this album and whammy were always my fav's. (mesopotamia came in 3rd.)