…this new deluxe edition contains two additional discs inclusive of rare remixes and a complete previously unreleased live show recorded on the Meso-America tour in 1982.
In 1982, the B-52’s teamed up with David Byrne for an album and ended up putting out the Mesopotamia EP instead. Rumors swirled that the band didn’t like working with the Talking Heads frontman, but Kate Pierson told us a few years ago that their manager had been “pushing us, pushing us, to get the next record out” and they “felt rushed.” The deluxe edition arranges the tracklist as originally intended, pairing newly remastered versions of the original six songs with three outtakes: unreleased recordings of “Big Bird” and “Adios Desconocida,” plus…
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A new box set from Rhino offer nearly all the studio material of Athens, Georgia alt-rock icons The B-52’s. The Warner Reprise Years brings together the six albums and two EPs the quirky quintet put together between 1979 and 1992 – a period where they went from cult favorites to unlikely hitmakers. The collection feature the group’s 1979 self-titled debut, 1980’s Wild Planet, the 1981 and 1982 EPs Party Mix and Mesopotamia, Whammy! (1983), Bouncing Off the Satellites (1986) – the last album to feature all five original members – plus Cosmic Thing (1989) and Good Stuff (1992).
…The box is a nearly complete chronicle of the group’s output, minus a few major omissions. Some single-only rarities and exclusive material has been released on two compilations by…