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Love Shack

So I'm walking through the grocery store the other day and kind of humming along with the music being piped throughout the store.  Wasn't paying attention until a particular note struck me as very familiar.  It was the B-52s!  And it wasn't Love Shack!  I'm not sure what song it was but it was, without a doubt, them.  You know what I'm saying right?  The B-52s are unmistakable in their sound and style.  Suddenly I was so happy in the middle of the grocery store.  The eldest redhead was with me and I am pretty sure she thought I had lost my mind...once again.  So I, of course, had to feature B-52s on the experiment!  They just make people happy.  On one of the comments to one of their songs (maybe today's featured?) someone wrote, "I want B-52s played at my funeral."  :) 
I ended up choosing Love Shack for today's song because it is what put the B-52s on the mainstream map, musically speaking.  But I had to include Rock Lobster which was the inspiration song for a Veggie Tales tune I featured waaaaaaay back in January.  Here's what I love about B-52s.  They make no sense and they are good dance music (not that this white girl with no rhythm dances but you know what I'm saying).  Now.  I know, no really I do, that some of their songs have political undertones.  Whatev.  I just ignore it and go with the fun ones. 
Love Shack hit the US music charts in 1989.  According to one site source it was inspired by a 1970 song by The Temptations called, "Psychedelic Shack." Before B-52s had made it big in the US (which is where they all hail from) they made it big about a decade earlier in the UK and Australia. 
It's Tuesday!  Get your groove on! :)

Love Shack
Rock Lobster - the song that provided the inspiration for Rock Monster from Veggie Tales. :) 

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