Bouncing off the Satellites

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Bouncing off the Satellites
Bouncing off the Satellites cover
Studio album by The B-52's
Released September 8, 1986
Genre New Wave
Length 45:55
Label Warner Brothers
Producer Tony Mansfield,
Shep Pettibone
Professional reviews
The B-52's chronology
Whammy!
(1983)		 Bouncing Off the Satellites
(1986)		 Cosmic Thing
(1989)

Bouncing off the Satellites is the fourth studio album by New Wave band The B-52's, released in 1986. Guitarist Ricky Wilson died of AIDS during the recording. With the band too distraught to tour, the album received minimal promotion and failed to yield any hits despite some stations initially giving good airplay to "Summer of Love".

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Summer of Love" (Pierson, Strickland, C. Wilson, R. Wilson) – 4:02
  2. "Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland" (Strickland, Wilson, Wilson) – 4:22
  3. "Housework" (Pierson, Rollins) – 4:04
  4. "Detour Thru Your Mind" (The B-52's) – 5:06
  5. "Wig" (The B-52's) – 4:22
  6. "Theme for a Nude Beach" (The B-52's) – 4:50
  7. "Ain't It a Shame" (Strickland, C. Wilson, R. Wilson) – 5:30
  8. "Juicy Jungle" (Coté, Schneider) – 4:50
  9. "Communicate" (The B-52's) – 4:08
  10. "She Brakes for Rainbows" (Strickland, Wilson) – 4:41

[edit] Miscellanea

  • "Ain't It a Shame" is now regularly covered in live shows by Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor.
  • The album's cover is by pop artist Kenny Scharfe, who also illustrated a book by the band's singer, Fred Schneider, entitled Fred Schneider and Other Unrelated Works (ISBN 0-87795-917-X).
  • All Fairlight CMI sounds and sequences for the album were created in a collaboration between the band members and Tony Mansfield, Roland JP8 synthesizer was played by Keith Strickland.
  • If the psychedelic talking at the end of "Detour Thru Your Mind" is played backwards, Fred Schneider can be heard saying "I buried my parakeet in the backyard. Oh-no, you're playing the record backwards. Watch out, you might ruin your needle."

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Production

[edit] Chart performance

Chart (1987) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200 85
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The B-52's
Kate Pierson · Fred Schneider · Keith Strickland · Cindy Wilson
Ricky Wilson
Studio albums
The B-52's · Wild Planet · Mesopotamia · Whammy! · Bouncing off the Satellites · Cosmic Thing · Good Stuff · Funplex
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