Rock Lobster (6:50)
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“Rock Lobster” is The B-52’s’ first single, released in 1978 and in a longer version placed on the band’s self-titled debut album, The B-52’s, one year later. It has become one of their signature tunes, and it helped launch the band’s success. “Rock Lobster” was the band’s first single to appear on Billboard’s Hot 100. Instruments used in the music include a twangy, baritone surf-style electric guitar (a Mosrite), a Farfisa, Vox or Gibson organ, and drums. Unlike most pop and rock songs, no bass guitar was present. Instead, Kate Pierson played the bass line on keyboards.
The album version of “Rock Lobster” (released in 1979) clocks in at about seven minutes and contains superficially nonsensical lyrics about a beach party and excited rants about real or imagined marine animals (“There goes a dog-fish, chased by a cat-fish, in flew a sea robin, watch out for that piranha, there goes a narwhal, here comes a bikini whale!”), accompanied by absurd, fictional noises attributed to them (provided by Pierson and Cindy Wilson, Pierson provided the higher-pitched noises and Wilson the lower-pitched ones); the chorus consists of the words “Rock lobster!” repeated over and over. The song “Rock Lobster” is part of the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.
The song remains a part of pop culture, with other versions of “Rock Lobster” appearing in a 2005 episode of Family Guy and in The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A Veggie Tales Movie.
“Rock Lobster” appears at number 146 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of greatest songs.
The album version of “Rock Lobster” (released in 1979) clocks in at about seven minutes and contains superficially nonsensical lyrics about a beach party and excited rants about real or imagined marine animals (“There goes a dog-fish, chased by a cat-fish, in flew a sea robin, watch out for that piranha, there goes a narwhal, here comes a bikini whale!”), accompanied by absurd, fictional noises attributed to them (provided by Pierson and Cindy Wilson, Pierson provided the higher-pitched noises and Wilson the lower-pitched ones); the chorus consists of the words “Rock lobster!” repeated over and over. The song “Rock Lobster” is part of the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.
The song remains a part of pop culture, with other versions of “Rock Lobster” appearing in a 2005 episode of Family Guy and in The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A Veggie Tales Movie.
“Rock Lobster” appears at number 146 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of greatest songs.
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From the B-52's induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame ceremony, Sept. 2000. Stay tuned to a new B-52's album coming soon. www.theb52s.com
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inhocvince wrote:
this is a fun song!
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loreto03 wrote:
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Nats1970 wrote:
Fantastic!
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alexia_N wrote:
Family Guy ruins everything. [2]
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Obese wrote:
Scadoobadop!
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pennington_tea wrote:
I have this on 7inch, sadly it's a different version, and yes Bouncingjess- Peter Griffin does sing this on Family Guy, to make Cleaveland happy again...it doesn't work.
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Bayou16 wrote:
al least you can dance on this song without looking stupid
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Bouncingjess wrote:
......Doesn't Peter Griffin sing this in an episode of Family Guy??? Ha ha, it's still a good song even though Family Guy might have taken the mick a little. TAKE THAT SETH MCFARLENE! WE STILL LOVE THE SONG!!!!!
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Mycobill wrote:
The SHIT!......aside from PLANET CLAIRE
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MikeBuGi wrote:
hammer hammer...da werden erinnerungen wach ^^
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Astral_JL wrote:
this is so easy to dance to... just do anything and it looks good. lol
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Jon9000 wrote:
Family Guy ruins everything.
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tightheadennis wrote:
indeed
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davidbowiegirl wrote:
Great song :D
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edwyncollins wrote:
yoko in the chorus
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wolfman563 wrote:
Still a sick song - but I love It *g*
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CrazyEddie69 wrote:
@WyldOats, Peter Griffin's version is hilarious (love Tom Tucker's Fred Scneider voice too), I think Seth McFarlane must be a fan.
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muteoff wrote:
oh this song...lol. the ending is pretty cool.
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Lady__Ana wrote:
This song is excellent
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loraxlover wrote:
doooooownnnnnn doowwwwnnnnn dowwwwwwwwn dowwwwwwwwwwwwn!
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