Wild Planet

Tracks:

Party Out Of Bounds
Dirty Back Road
Runnin' Around
Give Me Back My Man
Private Idaho
Devil In My Car
Quiche Lorraine
Strobe Light
53 Miles West Of Venus

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After the likes of "Rock Lobster" and "606-0842," a lot of new wavers were curious about what Athens, Georgia's fun-loving B-52s were going to do for an encore. The answer came with this rollicking second album in 1980, which found flat-toned Fred Schneider and twin bouffant-topped, gogoing chanteuses Cindy Wilson and Kate Pierson nearly equaling the giddy highs of their debut. From the riotous "Party Out of Bounds" and "Devil in My Car" to the ahead-of-the curve couch potato classic, "Private Idaho" to the ever-kitschy "Strobe Light" and the other-worldly "53 Miles West of Venus," this collection proved the B-52s were no flash in the lava lamp. --Billy Altman

Customer Reviews:

Reckless Driving.......2007-05-01

This is my favorite B's "rock" geared album ever! Putting both "Whammy!" and Mesopotamia" aside for the moment (these are my favorite "experimental/electronic" geared B albums ever)no album after "Wild Planet" has remotely come close to the timelessness and overall punch this record has--everytime I play it. Two of my favorite tracks are "Dirty Back Road" and "53 Miles West of Venus".

Ricky Wilson: guitar god.......2007-04-16

The B-52's second album, 1980's "Wild Planet", is thoroughly a blast, and probably the best showcase for the late Ricky Wilson's imaginative, propulsive guitar playing--one listen to the track "Runnin' Around", with its weirdly off-kilter, yet driving riffery, and it's clear that Sonic Youth picked up a thing or two from this guy.

And that's not to take anything away from the rest of the band. Drummer Keith Strickland consistently keeps up a great beat on this mostly uptempo album. The only really laidback tune here, "Dirty Back Road", is fantastic, with a breathtakingly tuneful melody and marvelous unison vocals from Kate Piersen and Ricky's brother Cindy. And the inimitable Fred Schneider, with his enthusiastic-yet-unsettled vocal stylings, gets plenty of room to shine, as on the manic, riff-packed classic hit "Private Idaho", and the wacked-out "Strobe Light". Even the album-closing "53 Miles West Of Venus", an instrumental-plus-title chant, has an irresistibly toe-tapping quality. Things get a hair too silly on "Quiche Lorraine", but that's just a minor quibble. "Wild Planet" is an insanely catchy, joyous album--a definite classic of the so-called New Wave era.

Just As Good As The First.......2007-02-25

This is another super fun and greatly unique album. This and the first album are rock classics with their own special appeal. The B's rock.

B-52's - 'Wild Planet' (Reprise).......2006-09-01

Originally released in 1980, this was the follow-up to their self-titled debut (see my review). Another worthy new wave classic, to say the least. I thought that 'Wild Planet' showcased just how well the band's three vocalists Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson and Meg Ryan-look alike (these days anyway) Cindy Wilson work together as a team. Most notable tracks are "Party Out Of Bounds","Private Idaho" (find me a ANY music fan that doesn't know of this tune right off the bat),"Devil In My Car" and the party favor "Strobe Light". Another absolute must-have.

Gives the party a BANG.......2006-03-20

The B-52's kept the party going with this one, and kept everyone on their feet. A wild ride, fun fun fun till the sun came up. Great dance and party music!

Gamma I Quadrilogy: 60's Italian Cinematic Science

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Gamma I Quadrilogy: 60's Italian Cinematic Science

Manufacturer: Dagored
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00075U544
Release Date: 2005-04-12

Tracks:

Diafanoidi [From I Diafanoidi Vengono Da Marte (War of the Pla]
Cristalli Sospesi [From I Diafanoidi Vengono da Marte (War of the ...)
Minaccia Interstellare [From I Diafanoidi Vengono da Marte (War of the
Stirpe Aliena [From I Diafanoidi Vengono Da Marte (War of the Pla]
Fluttuando [From I Diafanoidi Vengono Da Marte (War of the Pla]
Desolazione Cosmica [From I Diafanoidi Vengono da Marte (War of ...)
Sono Tra Di Noi! [From I Diafanoidi Vengono da Marte (War of the ...)
Scontro Finale [From I Diafanoidi Vengono da Marte (War of the Planets)
Criminali Dalle Galassie [From I Criminali Della Galassia (Wild ...)
Amebe Cosmiche [From I Criminali DeLla Galassia (Wild Wild Planet)]
Oltre la 5th Dimensione [From I Criminali Della Galassia (Wild ...)
Diafane Presenze [From I Criminali DeLla Galassia (Wild Wild Planet)]
Galazy Galore [From I Criminali DeLla Galassia (Wild Wild Planet)]
Fiore del Male [From I Criminali DeLla Galassia (Wild Wild Planet)]
Segnali Dall'infinito [From I Criminali Della Galassia (Wild Wild ...)
Bolle Di Azoto [From I Criminali DeLla Galassia (Wild Wild Planet)]
Radio Faro [From I Criminali DeLla Galassia (Wild Wild Planet)]
Gorgo Stellare [From I Criminali DeLla Galassia (Wild Wild Planet)]
Planeta Errante [From il Pianeta Errante (War Between the Planets)]
Fuori Orbita [From il Pianeta Errante (War Between the Planets)]
Paradosso Spazio-Temporale [From il Pianeta Errante (War Between ...)
C'Ancora un Futuro [From il Pianeta Errante (War Between the Planets)
Rotta Di Collisione [From il Pianeta Errante (War Between the Planets)]
Conto Alla Rovescia [From il Pianeta Errante (War Between the Planets)]
Vagaboni Dello Spazio [From il Pianeta Errante (War Between the ...)
Verso Altre Galassie [From il Pianeta Errante (War Between the Planets)
I Diavoli Dello Spazio [From LA Morte Viene del Pianeta Aytin ...]
Mostri O Semidei? [From LA Morte Viene del Pianeta Aytin (Snow DeVils]
Come un Western/// [From LA Morte Viene del Pianeta Aytin (Snow DeVils]
Snow Devils [From LA Morte Viene del Pianeta Aytin (Snow DeVils]
Aytin [From LA Morte Viene del Pianeta Aytin (Snow DeVils]

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The Gamma I Quadrilogy Includes Four of the Coolest, Kitschiest Trashiest Sci-fi Films to Come Out of Italy in the 1960s with Freaky Space Age Soundtracks to Match the Groovy, Otherwordly Images On-screen. Set Your Theremins to Stun!.

Flumpa's World : Frog's, Rain Forest and Other Fun Facts

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Fun and educational

Flumpa's World : Frog's, Rain Forest and Other Fun Facts
Flumpa®'s World Featuring Wendy Whitten
Manufacturer: Ion Imagination Entertainment, I
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Children's Music | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000K2CS
Release Date: 1998-09-01

Tracks:

Flumpa's World
Reptile Vs. Amphibian
A Frog's Life
Swamp Stompin'
Never Say Good-Bye
The Future's In Our Hands
Fantazulmazmic
Habitats
Rain Forest Rock
Voices of the Forest
Rain Forest Paradise
Go, Flumpa, Go!

Album Description

“Flumpa's World: Frogs, Rain Forests & Other Fun Facts,” features 12 original tunes in various pop, funk and fun music styles with catchy lyrics designed to help children ages 3 to 9 learn “fantazulmazmic fun facts” about amphibians, reptiles, rain forests and the environment. These lyrics are based on nationally accepted science curricula and are designed to inspire positive action to enhance the sciences and preserve the earth. “A Frog's Life” traces the development of a frog from egg to hopping adult; “Swamp Stompin'” will get kids bopping to real frog, toad and tree frog sounds as they learn about a mucky ecosystem; “Rain Forest Rock” is a danceable tune exploring the different levels of a tropical rain forest; “Rain Forest Paradise” conveys the wonder of discovering the life in a fragile environment; and the haunting drums and background vocals on “Voices of the Forest” echo real recordings made of children and animals in the Amazon region. Kids also love the moving music of “The Future's In Our Hands” and the energy of the closing tune, “Go Flumpa Go!” With its top-notch musicianship, soothing vocals and production values, “Flumpa's World” draws from some of the best talent in Nashville. AWARDS & SELECTIONS A 1998 Parents' Choice Approval 1998—The National Parenting Center Seal of Approval Selected by the Parent Council as Outstanding Dr. Toy's 100 Best Children's Products for 1998 Dr. Toy's 10 Best Children's Software, CD's, High Tech Products Parent's Guide to Children's Media audio award Museum Store Association - One of the top educational audio products 1999 Nominee—Nashville Music Awards, Children's Music Recording of the Year

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Fun and educational.......2006-12-23

As a father, uncle, and concerned friend, I recommend these CDs for my children, nieces/nephews and friends' children. I enjoy them as much as the kids and they teach the children about science. There are three right now and they are great. Buy one as a present today and give a child something to listen to that is educational. All ages like them from my one year old daughter to my 8 year old nephew and I am sure that they will like them for some time to come.

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Breathtaking
A truly spiritual masterpiece

The Offering

Manufacturer: Wild Dove Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music

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General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music

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This Embrace
A deeper surrender
Songs for the Inner Child
A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are
in love

ASIN: B00005LK7V
Release Date: 1997-04-10

Tracks:

Let It Out
Choose One
Blue Sky
The Offering
Life
Guide Me
A Brighter Way of Being
Light Like Yours
Mundaka
Handiwork of God
Ships
A Tiny Gem
Crystal Bowl Tones

Album Description

The Offering; Epiphanies and Prayer Flags begins with a few relatively upbeat songs then winds down into more praryerful, introspective ballads about our relationship to ourselves, our planet and the cosmos. These messages of hope and healing are tenderly accompanied by cello, flute, keyboards, violin, piano, bass, tabla and percussion.

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Breathtaking.......2005-12-21

Deeply meditative and heartfull - a breathtaking CD. If you are looking for meditative music with beautiful lyrics that isn't synthesized or repetitive chant, this is the best of its kind. Kirtana's lyrics are spiritually breathtaking, her voice resonant and beautiful, the instrumental arrangements equally beautiful (and real, not synthesized). These songs will open your heart, soothe your soul, and still your mind. I have this CD along with her two others (This Embrace and A Deeper Surrender) in my CD player and I just can't seem to listen to anything else. A real gem.

A truly spiritual masterpiece.......1999-08-19

Take this one with you paddling on a starry night alone. Let it paint a soft magical background for a quiet evening with a friend. Kirtana touches truth so sweetly and wraps it gently with harmonies and lyrics of silver and gold. It's a heart winner.

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It's ok
A Dizzying Array of Talent with a Few Soft Spots

Wild Planet
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Nettwerk Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

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Subconscious Communications:Paradigm Shift
Microscopic
Call the Ambulance Before I Hurt Myself
The Infidel
Bedside Toxicology

ASIN: B00004SZDZ
Release Date: 2000-05-09

Tracks:

Tooly Hooof (Remix) - Download
Quackerz (Revision) - A Duck
Three Years - Plateau
Steps - Doubting Thomas
Rodent (Remix) - Skinny Puppy
Things That Go Bump In The Night - The Tear Garden
Ultra Binghi (Brain Melter Mix) - Twilight Circus
Sanity Shovel - Philth
Foundflap - Floatpoint
I Still Ate Her - Cevin Key
Infinite Domain - Lustmord
Decaying Orbit - Off And Gone
Fate's Faithful Punchline - Legendary Pink Dots
Rijn - Dead Voices On Air/Dropstar

Customer Reviews:

It's ok.......2000-06-02

Some of the songs on here are so awesome and then some are just Bad! goes with all comps I guess,but I reall fell in love with the tear garden song on this,It's not on any other album I belive except this.. you'll like it but not continually..

A Dizzying Array of Talent with a Few Soft Spots.......2000-05-31

The electronica artists associated with cEvin Key's Subconscious label are undoubtedly among the genres' finest, and here are the proving grounds. For the most part, it is a solid release; it begins with a fairly interesting(if not a tad disappointing) re-mix of Download's "Toooly Hooof", done by the band itself. It's a good, but not terribly grabbing progressive techno ditty. What immedietely follows it, however, is one of the albums treats, a solo song from the deceased Dwayne Goettel(of Skinny Puppy and Download fame.) As with all his meager(but fantastic) work as A Duck, this song makes me wonder what wonderful and innovative music he could be making now if he were still alive.

In other places this proves to be an album of surprises; Philth(A.K.A. Phil Western,) releasing under both Philth and his side project Off and Gone, has two superb ambient techno pieces on Wild Planet, and thus has redeemed himself in this reviewer's eyes. I must admit that I had written him off as something of a non-talent before, judging him by the questionable material he released on the previous Subconscious sampler. Along the same lines of this Key's jazz-influenced techno project platEAU, which too has a startlingly strong track that contrasts with its poor earlier output.

Also surprising is Tear Garden's track "Things That Go Bump in the Night," which sees the band undergo a dynamic shift in sound. If nothing else be said, this song makes me extremely anxious to buy their upcoming release. Coming in usual cut-above-the-rest fashion are some of the older Subconscious bands: Lustmord, Legendary Pink Dots, Doubting Thomas and Dead Voices on Air(with an extremely strong dark ambient piece.)

The inclusion of a Skinny Puppy song, probably the reason most will purchase Wild Planet, ironically comes to be its most questionable track. The song is a re-mix of "Rodent", from 1989's Rabies, and sounds almost identical to a previous re-mix of the song on "Remix Dystemper", which was released a few years ago. Essentially there's nothing overly-wrong with it, but it simply isn't unique at all when compared to its predecessor, and seems to me a rather under-handed attempt to trick Puppy fans into buying a sampler they wouldn't normally think twice about picking up.

Two new bands are also featured on Wild Planet, Ryan Moore's Twilight Circus project, and the hitherto unheard of Floatpoint. The former comes as one of the greatest disappointments of the album, as it is what related artists such as DVoA and Download have managed to avoid becoming: pretentious, directionless noise. It sounds as if it's trying to do something along the lines of the bands mentioned, but it just kind of sits there, unfortunately. Floatpoint actually comes across as one of the higher points of the sampler, featuring a wonderful selection of fluid soundscapes and beats.

Despite a few missteps here and there, I think any fan of Key's post-Puppy work will find this entirely worthwhile, as well as fans of any form of progressive techno. My hats off to these artists, mostly, and I eagerly await their actual releases.

(Cd) Beats Working Volume 2 / Two: Love for Love Stones Extended Mix, Back to My Roots Jheri Curl Juice Mix, Fiesta Fatal Barcelona Tribe Megamix, Why Is It? Funk Dat, All I Want Garcia Pop Mix, I Want It I Need It Real Love, Best of My Love Philip Damien Remix, Zami Girl Jimmy Harry 7 Mix, Drive My Car, Love so Strong Youll Never Know Mix
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(Cd) Beats Working Volume 2 / Two: Love for Love Stones Extended Mix, Back to My Roots Jheri Curl Juice Mix, Fiesta Fatal Barcelona Tribe Megamix, Why Is It? Funk Dat, All I Want Garcia Pop Mix, I Want It I Need It Real Love, Best of My Love Philip Damien Remix, Zami Girl Jimmy Harry 7 Mix, Drive My Car, Love so Strong Youll Never Know Mix
RuPaul, B-Tribe, sagat, captain Hollywood project, Saundra Williams, lovestation feat. Lisa hunt, adele bertei, bang bang booty, wild planet robin S.
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ASIN: B000HDNRQE

Live at the Sax Blast
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Live at the Sax Blast

Manufacturer: Me and My Blues Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Blues | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0006FU518
Release Date: 2004-11-23

100 Percent Juicy - mixed by: Risky Bizness / Hardcore Speed (the sound of the UK underground) FEATURING: Sweet Jacks, DSK, Evelyn Thomas, KGB Connection, Phunkaholics, Dread Time Featuring Barbara, MD 20/20, Soul Citii, Sol Flava, Miquel Brown, Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force, Jay-Z, Common, Defari, Kurupt, Twista, Binary Star, All-Natural, Vakill, O Type Star, E.C. Illa, Punchline
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100 Percent Juicy - mixed by: Risky Bizness / Hardcore Speed (the sound of the UK underground) FEATURING: Sweet Jacks, DSK, Evelyn Thomas, KGB Connection, Phunkaholics, Dread Time Featuring Barbara, MD 20/20, Soul Citii, Sol Flava, Miquel Brown, Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force, Jay-Z, Common, Defari, Kurupt, Twista, Binary Star, All-Natural, Vakill, O Type Star, E.C. Illa, Punchline
******TRACK LISTINGS****** , Kiss Me - Sweet Jacks / What Would We Do - DSK / High Energy 2001 - Evelyn Thomas / Oacid - KGB Connection / What Tha' Diu - Phunkaholics / No Matter What Time - Dread Time Featuring Barbara , So Little Time 2002 - Miquel Brown / The Feeling Of The House - MD 20/20 / Planet Rock 2000 - Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force Take My Love - MD 20/20 / Your Love Is Taking Me Higher - Soul Citii / Ritmo Latino - Sol Flava / So Many Men , J.U.I.C.E. Intro / Key To The City - J.U.I.C.E. J / Cryogenic / Applause / Pressure / Wake Up Show Freestyle / The Man , Period / Unrational / Out The Speakers / Elements (Remix) / J.U.I.C.E. Is In The House / I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me) (Remix) / Definition Intro / Sincerely / Freestyle Or Written / KGB / The Anthem , and Late Night Hype (WMSE Freestyle) / We Do It Like That / Unknown / Wild In Da West / How We Chill Part.II / What's Freestyle?
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ASIN: B000REDHTK

Beats Working, Vol. 2
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Beats Working, Vol. 2
Robin S. , RuPaul , B-Tribe , Sagat , Captain Hollywood Project , Saundra Williams , Lovestation , Adele Bertei , and Wild Planet
Manufacturer: Imago Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000040PN
Release Date: 1996-10-15