Wild Planet

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Wild Planet
Wild Planet cover
Studio album by The B-52's
Released August 27, 1980
Recorded April 1980
Genre New Wave
Length 34:44
Label Warner Brothers (US)
Island Records (UK)
Producer Rhett Davies and the B-52's,
Chris Blackwell (exec.)
Professional reviews
The B-52's chronology
The B-52's
(1979)		 Wild Planet
(1980)		 Party Mix!
(1982)

Wild Planet is the second studio album by the The B-52's, released in 1980. The album has a slightly more psychedelic and even paranoid sound than that of their debut. Wild Planet also contains the band's first experiments using electronic drum machines.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland, Ricky Wilson, Cindy Wilson, and Kate Pierson, except as indicated.

  1. "Party out of Bounds" – 3:21
  2. "Dirty Back Road" (R. Wilson, Robert Waldrop) – 3:21
  3. "Runnin' Around" – 3:09
  4. "Give Me Back My Man" (Schneider, R. Wilson, Strickland, C. Wilson) – 4:00
  5. "Private Idaho" – 3:35
  6. "Devil in My Car" (Schneider, R. Wilson, C. Wilson, Pierson) – 4:28
  7. "Quiche Lorraine" (Schneider, Strickland, R. Wilson) – 3:58
  8. "Strobe Light" (Schneider, Strickland, R. Wilson) – 3:59
  9. "53 Miles West of Venus" (Schneider, R. Wilson, C. Wilson, Pierson) – 4:53

[edit] Miscellanea

  • "Party out of Bounds" lends its name both to singer Fred Schneider's radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio, and to an annual charity benefit party held in the band's hometown of Athens, Georgia.
  • Director Gus Van Sant thanks the band in the credits of the 1991 film My Own Private Idaho for the use of the song title, "Private Idaho." The song itself is not referred to anywhere in the movie.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Chart performance

Chart (1980) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200 18
UK Albums Chart 18

[edit] Certifications

Organization Level Date
RIAA – U.S. Gold October 21, 1981


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