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Funplex

The B-52's

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  Name Artist Time Price  
1 Pump The B-52's 4:53 Album Only View In iTunes
2 Hot Corner The B-52's 3:24 Album Only View In iTunes
3 Ultraviolet The B-52's 4:25 Album Only View In iTunes
4 Juliet of the Spirits The B-52's 4:22 Album Only View In iTunes
5 Funplex The B-52's 4:07 Album Only View In iTunes
6 Eyes Wide Open The B-52's 5:35 Album Only View In iTunes
7 Love In the Year 3000 The B-52's 4:14 Album Only View In iTunes
8 Deviant Ingredient The B-52's 4:50 Album Only View In iTunes
9 Too Much to Think About The B-52's 3:47 Album Only View In iTunes
10 Dancing Now The B-52's 4:02 Album Only View In iTunes
11 Keep This Party Going The B-52's 4:31 Album Only View In iTunes
12 Privat Idaho (Live At the Roxy) The B-52's 4:00 Album Only View In iTunes
13 Planet Claire (Live At the Roxy) The B-52's 5:28 Album Only View In iTunes
Booklet Digital Booklet - Funplex The B-52's Album Only View In iTunes
Total: 14 Items

iTunes Review

If you have a hard time believing it was way back in the late ‘70s when the B52’s exploded out of Athens, GA, making whacked-out, New Wave dance rock with a principle focus on F-U-N, try wrapping your mind around this:  nearly 30 years later (gulp) they are at it again, sounding nearly as fresh, cheeky, clever, and rockin’ as they did then. The title track’s handclaps, jittery tempo, rubbery, distorted guitar, and trademark vocal and lyrical interplay is only a tease for more to come. “Pump” jumps out of your speakers, with the best guitar sound the band has come up with yet, begging for a volume boost and some wild go-go dance moves. “Hot Corner” barely slows the pace —allowing your shimmy to downshift to a more sinewy shake —  and keeps the gloriously fuzzy guitar in the mix as Fred shouts and hoots up a storm, while the hooky chorus is chanted by Cindy and Kate like schoolgirls on the playground. Tracks like “Deviant Ingredient” and “Keep this Party Going” continue waving the band’s party-rock banner, but they also venture — albeit a bit timidly — into more electronic sounds on songs like “Love in the Year 3000” and the slinky “Eyes Wide Open.”

Recent Customer Reviews

Back and in top form!!
     
by dpcole72

When this album came out, I was thoroughly impressed with the quality of the vocals, the strength of the music (it's formidable, and would be even if most of the competition didn't rely on simple synth beeps and voice modulators), and the overall style. I did feel many of the lyrics were a bit too "sexualized", but then, on reflection, earlier albums weren't any worse and, in the history of the last 40 years, I've listened to stuff that's actually vulgar. The B-52s are still tame by comparison, mostly because (in most of their songs), they don't try to sound cheap. That's one of many reasons why they work so well as a band. Not to mention, one is as old as one feels. The B-52s can put out music that would make people think they're 20 - but with talent and style. Real art.

Tracks to be on the lookout for are:
* Pump (this one is the first track and it's easy to understand WHY. It is strong, solid, and powerful.)
* Funplex (this one eschews the concept of buying things in favor of true love (even though we all bought the albums anyway)
* Love in the Year 3000 (it's so WEIRD but the vocals and music make it hang together. And it's got enough beep synth noises to still compete with those who think beeps are sophisticated tones... yes, this one incorporates a voice synthesizer but there's kind of a proper reason for doing so -- they're camping up the future and with this context, it's perfect. This is art. Not manufactured treacle.)
* Deviant Ingredient (another song that gels together with such strength)
* Too Much to Think About (especially the vocals, but most of these songs are all winners with the tonal quality and musical depth)

The only clunkers are:
* Ultraviolet (as this album came out shortly after a political scandal involving something akin to a rest stop, this one is a bit of a downer in what it glorifies... and it's the only one that I can't sit through)
* Keep This Party Going (it feels like a "goodbye" song, and I really don't want "Funplex" to be their swansong)

This really is the comeback album of all comeback albums, of any bad, EVER. It has the style and feel the B-52s always had, with a little updating as needed, but it never loses what it's always been about: Party songs with a strong, real rhythm (no pun intended).

Rock on, B-52s, we need you more than ever in an industry full of dreary, vapid, repetitive beeps posing as music, with phonies needing voice modulators to mask inferior talent.

Music is awesome, forced to buy the whole album not so much
     
by RussWesty

The music on Funplex is great, and rates a 4.5 stars in my book. I bought their first album when I was in high school, and Rock Lobster took about 2 days to become a party fav. Over the years I've purchased most (not all) of their albums and been to two of their shows, so I'm fan, but not a fanboy. Part of the reason I'm I purchase through iTunes is flexibility to buy what I want. I'm sure this has about 90% to do with the B-52's... so all I can say is "Wake up 52's, its the digital age." So, now I'll head to the rain forest place (ama... something) and buy the songs I want there with no restrictions, so to that I say "Wake up Apple" .

Amazing!
     
by nineinchnails_goldfrapp_bjork

This is the best album from The B-52's since Whammy! I cannot BELIEVE how underrated this is!

Biography

Formed: October, 1976 in Athens, GA

Genre: Pop

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s

The first of many acts to cement the college town of Athens, GA, as a hotbed of alternative music, the B-52's took their name from the Southern slang for the mile-high bouffant wigs sported by singers Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson, a look emblematic of the band's campy, thrift-store aesthetic. The five-piece...
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