THE B52s Island Records LP 1979 ILPS 9580 Near Mint/Near Mint First Press
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THE B52s. Condition is "Used". Vinyl LP 1979, Island Records. ILPS 9580 First Press
This quintet of mostly gay, party-loving, college-town dropouts—which included Wilson’s sister Cindy on percussion and vocals, vocalist Fred Schneider, and drummer Keith Strickland—had plenty of time in Athens, Georgia to put together weird party outfits and draw from Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies during jam sessions. They absorbed the lean styles of punk and post-punk—a music of provocation, antagonism, anger—and subverted it with color, American postwar iconography, and a gleeful refusal to be anything but who they were. Drawing on the cinematic soundtracks of Morricone and Mancini and the experimentation of Yoko Ono and Captain Beefheart, their 1979 debut, The B-52’s, is a 39-minute transmission from the past, present, and future. (Susan Elizabeth Shepart, Pitchfork)
I have graded the vinyl Nr Mint I have graded the sleeve Nr Mint, still shrink-wrapped
- Matrix / Runout (Side A label): ILPS 9580-A
- Matrix / Runout (Side B label): ILPS 9580-B
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped / etched): ILPS 9580 A-4U SOUND CLINIC JONZ AHTUS'-LUV...
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped / etched): ILPS 9580 B-3U SOUND CLINIC JONZ ...THE B52's
Issued in a Matt sleeve with an illustrated card inner sleeve with lyrics and credits;
Corners of the top of the inner sleeve are cut off
Cat# ILPS 9580* on rear cover, custom yellow labels with red print
Recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas.
Track A1, A2, A4, B1 and B3 copyright © 1978 Boo-fant Tunes, Inc.
Track A3, B2 and B4 copyright © 1979 Boo-fant Tunes, Inc.
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