B52s – Think Bensonium https://bensonium.com Sight through thought Tue, 04 Apr 2023 23:17:17 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://bensonium.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NewEYEIcon-100x100.png B52s – Think Bensonium https://bensonium.com 32 32 Day 406: Planet Claire, B52s https://bensonium.com/song/planet-claire-b52s/ https://bensonium.com/song/planet-claire-b52s/#respond Thu, 29 Apr 2021 23:00:08 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?post_type=cid&p=3121 Now this song fits the psychedelic sci-fi pop genre perfectly. A complete classic from the rather “out there” band the B52s. This is their third appearance in Covid Island Discs. Enjoy Kate’s continuous singing of a single note being electronically mixed with her synthesizer. Very cool.

She came from Planet Claire
I knew she came from there
She drove a Plymouth Satellite
A-faster than the speed of light
Planet Claire has pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a head

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]]> https://bensonium.com/song/covidisland-week30/feed/ 0 Day 11: Rock Lobster, B52s. https://bensonium.com/song/covid-island-discs-day-11-rock-lobster-by-the-b52s/ https://bensonium.com/song/covid-island-discs-day-11-rock-lobster-by-the-b52s/#respond Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:50:13 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?p=173 So keeping to my musical thread, yesterday I posted the hit Watching the Wheels by John Lennon which appeared on his final album Double Fantasy. A little bit of rock trivia. Apparently, he was stimulated to come out of retirement and produce Double Fantasy after hearing Rock Lobster on the radio. Another great song to get you dancing around your living room with your fellow family prisoners.

PS: Why is the guitarist playing a guitar which is missing the D and G string? Perhaps he wants it to be a ukulele?

Fast forward some years

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