The B-52's Wild Planet 1980 Warner Bros. Records Original Vinyl LP w/Insert
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Wild Planet Cover art by Lynn Goldsmith Studio album by the B-52's Released August 27, 1980 Recorded April 1980 Studio Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas Genre
- New wave
- post-punk
(1979) Wild Planet
(1980) Party Mix!
(1981) Singles from Wild Planet
- "Private Idaho"
Released: October 1980 - "Give Me Back My Man"
Released: 1980 - "Party Out of Bounds"
Released: 1980
Wild Planet is the second studio album by the B-52's, released in 1980.
As with their first album, the B-52's traveled to Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas to record Wild Planet. Several of the songs from the album had been concert staples since 1978. The band deliberately did not record them for their first album because they had too many tracks and wanted a strong second album, knowing that performing the tracks live would make fans look forward to it. Rhett Davies co-produced the album, and more emphasis was put on production for Wild Planet. Wild Planet was quickly certified gold.
Film director Gus Van Sant thanks the band in the credits of the 1991 film My Own Private Idaho for the use of the song title "Private Idaho". The song itself is not referred to anywhere in the movie.
Critical reception
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic Christgau's Record Guide B+ The Rolling Stone Album Guide Spin Alternative Record Guide 7/10Billboard gave Wild Planet a positive review, calling it an improvement over the band's debut album and "a cinch for hot rotation in rock-oriented discos". On the other hand, Robert Christgau found it less of a danceable success than its predecessor, writing in The Village Voice in March 1981: "'Party Out of Bounds' and 'Quiche Lorraine' are expert entertainments at best and the wacko parochialism of 'Private Idaho' is a positive annoyance. Only on 'Devil in My Car' and 'Give Me Back My Man' do they exploit the potential for meaning—cosmic and emotional, respectively—that accrues to the world's greatest new-wave kiddie-novelty disco-punk band." Rolling Stone magazine's Frank Rose also felt that it "plainly lacks the relentless exuberance of the group's debut disc", which he considered "partly a result of the production: flatter and duller sounding than its predecessor".
Track listing
Side one No. Title Writer(s) Vocals Length 1. "Party Out of Bounds"- Fred Schneider
- Keith Strickland
- Ricky Wilson
- Cindy Wilson
- Kate Pierson
- Schneider
- Pierson
- C. Wilson
- R. Wilson
- Robert Waldrop
- Pierson
- C. Wilson
- Schneider
- Strickland
- R. Wilson
- C. Wilson
- Pierson
- Schneider
- Pierson
- C. Wilson
- Schneider
- Strickland
- R. Wilson
- C. Wilson
- Schneider
- Strickland
- R. Wilson
- C. Wilson
- Pierson
- Schneider
- Pierson
- C. Wilson
- Schneider
- R. Wilson
- C. Wilson
- Pierson
- Pierson
- C. Wilson
- Schneider
- Schneider
- Strickland
- R. Wilson
- Schneider
- Pierson
- C. Wilson
- Schneider
- Strickland
- R. Wilson
- Schneider
- Pierson
- C. Wilson
- Schneider
- R. Wilson
- C. Wilson
- Pierson
- Pierson
- C. Wilson
- Schneider
"Party Out of Bounds" lends its name both to singer Fred Schneider's radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio, and to an annual charity benefit party held in the band's hometown of Athens, Georgia.
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