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About This Track
“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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funkquanaut1 wrote:
THIS IS MY MIXED HERITAGE COMIN OUT! I LOVE THE B52S!! MY WHYTE BOY DAVE PUT ME ON EM AND I LOVE ALL THEIR SHIT ITS FIRE YA HEAR ME!!! - THE ORIGINAL PARTY BAND!!! -funkquanaut1
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skiieur wrote:
fucking asome
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skiieur wrote:
ha ha ha
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b060113last wrote:
Is this the original version??
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b060113last wrote:
nice one, Dandy-Jon!
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Dandy-Jon wrote:
such a classic, and also, FUCK FAMILY GUY.
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mrfootball70 wrote:
rock laaaaahhbstaaaa
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HarryFearless wrote:
ROCK LABSTA!!!!! x
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Sonicjr01 wrote:
Halloween playlist for sure ! LOL
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GreggWH wrote:
This live version is good but play the original!
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jennica_med_c wrote:
IRAQ LOBSTER [3] Death to America, with buttersauce!
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Ghost_Buster wrote:
It has to be said. Rock Lobster >>>>>> Love Shack
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bobbylegs37 wrote:
MOAR COWBELL
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ninethpower wrote:
never heard this version nice mannnnn!
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Marekexp wrote:
IRAQ LOBSTER [2]
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CarlitoBMW wrote:
IRAQ LOBSTER
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megarad wrote:
ultimate party band
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daveandi wrote:
this is a bejiggedy version by the way, not crazy about that...
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daveandi wrote:
Love this AND love Family Guy, that was hilarious!
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inhmn wrote:
very obscure text :D
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