Retro Music Poll - Cars vs. B52s?

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Poll question: Retro Music Poll - Cars vs. B52s?

very minimal reminder of each:

CARS

I can’t feel this way much longer
Expecting to survive
With all these hidden innuendoes
Just waiting to arrive
It’s such a wavy midnight
And you slip into insane
Electric angel rock and roller
I hear what you’re playin’

It’s an orangy sky
Always it’s some other guy
It’s just a broken lullaby
Bye bye love
Bye bye love
Bye bye love
Bye bye love

Substitution mass confusion
Clouds inside your head
Involving all my energies
Until you visited
With your eyes of porcelain and of blue
They shock me into sense
You think you’re so illustrious
You call yourself intense

It’s an orangy sky
Always it’s some other guy
It’s just a broken lullaby
Bye bye love
Bye g-bye love
Yeah bye bye love
Bye bye love-ov-ov-ove

( I always thought "broken lullaby" was "f**king alibi" ).

B52s

We were at a party
His ear lobe fell in the deep
Someone reached in and grabbed it
It was a rock lobster

We were at the beach
Everybody had matching towels
Somebody went under a dock
And there they saw a rock
It wasn't a rock
It was a rock lobster

Motion in the ocean
His air hose broke
Lots of trouble
Lots of bubble
He was in a jam
S'in a giant clam

Down, down

Underneath the waves
Mermaids wavin'
Wavin' to mermen
Wavin' sea fans
Sea horses sailin'
Dolphins wailin'

Red snappers snappin'
Clam shells clappin'
Muscles flexin'
Flippers flippin'

Down, down

Let rock!

Boy's in bikinis
Girls in surfboards
Everybody's rockin'
Everybody's fruggin'
Twistin' 'round the fire
Havin' fun
Bakin' potatoes
Bakin' in the sun

Put on your noseguard
Put on the Lifeguard
Pass the tanning butter

Here comes a stingray
There goes a manta-ray
In walked a jelly fish
There goes a dog-fish
Chased by a cat-fish
In flew a sea robin
Watch out for that piranha
There goes a narwhale
HERE COMES A BIKINI WHALE!

[mike_c]

1. I'm goin' with the Cars tonight....

The B52s are just a little too perky for my taste these days.

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2. I'm in more of a Cars groove myself tonight

I don't mind B52s when I have some certain particular substances. :D

[Lady Effingbroke]

3. The Cars!

"Candy-O, I need you,
Sunday dress, ruby rings.
Candy-O, I need you so,
Could you help me in..."

[Nevernose]

11. What a strange song!

When someone says "The Cars" that's the song I think of.

[DS1]

4. The B-52s should be slapped to death

[Deja Q]

12. Get out of your private idaho, man! Come back from planet claire!

:D :D :D

B-52s ROCK!

The Cars are stalled. :P

[Gold Metal Flake]

5. WTF?

I gotta choose? Both are fanastic. I have fond memories of cruising with both. Besides, the late Ricky Wilson had fire, a real passion, a real style that I don't think is very appreciated.

Nope, not gonna choose between these two great bands. They co-exists nicely in my world.

[Floogeldy]

6. I hate "Band vs. Band." It is negative and invites criticism of art.

Why don't you ask something like, "What characteristics of The Cars and B-52s are in common and how did they contribute to their successes?

I hate this pitting band against band shit. That is what the refucklicans do.

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BTW, I LOVE BOTH BANDS.

Don't do this.

[mtnsnake]

9. I agree with you n/t

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10. for Gods sake, DONT FREAK OUT

[Left Is Write]

7. Cars. I'd take the Cars any day, over lots of bands.

[Abelman]

8. Cars

No contest for me.

[Deja Q]

13. B52s for me, no contest whatsoever. Even Ed McMahon's shrill voice

could not speaketh differently. :D

[Dukkha]

14. Gotta go with Cars

mainly for "Drive" one of the best rock ballads ever! Sung by the late Ben Orr.

Also when Ric Ocasek married Paulina Porizkova, he gave hope to geeks & dorks everywhere!

[bobthedrummer]

15. "she comes from Planet Claire, all the trees are red, no one ever dies

there, no one has a head..."