The B-52'sRock Lobster (5:24)

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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.

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The album version of „Rock Lobster“ (released in 1979) clocks in at about seven minutes and, like the original single, 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; the chorus consists of the words „Rock lobster!“ repeated over and over.

As with other tracks on the album („Dance This Mess Around“), there are references to dances popular in the early 1960s, such as the Frug („Everybody’s fruggin’“) and the Twist („Twistin’ round the fire“), which, combined with the absurd, beach party-themed lyrics and the early 60s outfits the band wore at the time, suggest a parody of 1960s beach party films.
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