{"id":11597,"date":"2016-10-11T05:45:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T09:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11597"},"modified":"2016-10-10T11:34:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T15:34:38","slug":"album-mini-review-the-b-52s-live-8-24-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/11\/album-mini-review-the-b-52s-live-8-24-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: The B-52&#8217;s &#8212; Live 8.24.1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/b52s_live.jpg\" alt=\"b52s_live\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11598\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/b52s_live.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/b52s_live-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><iframe style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01H2ROX9W&#038;asins=B01H2ROX9W&#038;linkId=52c8e1a5021a94e972ee1ba60ea40517&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFile next to: <strong>DEVO<\/strong>, <strong>the Go-Go&#8217;s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Though they were unashamedly gimmicky, the B-52&#8217;s were also among the most refreshing of the so-called new wave groups. With a proudly tacky aesthetic that emphasized fun above all else, the Athens group turned out a short series of classic albums. Their first two \u2013 1979&#8217;s self-titled debut and <i>Wild Planet<\/i> from 1980 \u2013 are essential parts of any collection of new wave era albums. And now there&#8217;s an addition to that collection: this live album documents an August 1979 show recorded in Boston a mere three days before <i>Wild Planet<\/i> was released. Originally recorded for radio broadcast, <i>Live 8.24.1979 <\/i>captures the silly fun and excitement of the band, and proves that they were quite the tight and energetic live act, too. At 9 songs (6 from <em>The B-52&#8217;s<\/em> and 3 new ones) it&#8217;s a bit short, but the B-52&#8217;s trump quantity with quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: DEVO, the Go-Go&#8217;s Though they were unashamedly gimmicky, the B-52&#8217;s were also among the most refreshing of the so-called new wave groups. With a proudly tacky aesthetic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","cat-1-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11599,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11597\/revisions\/11599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}