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| Funplex | 
 enlarge | Artist: The B-52's
Label: Astralwerks
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy New: $6.94
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (107 reviews)
Sales Rank: 59
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 28730
UPC: 094922873071
EAN: 0094922873071
ASIN: B00139B39O
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Pump | | • | Hot Corner | | • | Ultraviolet | | • | Juliet of the Spirits | | • | Funplex | | • | Eyes Wide Open | | • | Love In the Year 3000 | | • | Deviant Ingredient | | • | Too Much To Think About | | • | Dancing Now | | • | Keep This Party Going |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Like a time capsule, the B-52s' first album in 16 years reanimates that familiar fusion of danceable post-punk and bizarrely conceived songs of the oldest new wave. After sitting out 1992's Good Stuff, Cindy Wilson returns to the love shack, joining fellow bee-hiver Kate Pierson on mouth-watering vocals and harmonies circa Wild Planet. Colossal hooks jostle relentless rhythms, oddball lyrics, and the outrageous voice of Fred Schneider, who struts like a peacock through this infectious 11-track mix of frolic and frivolity. The songs are inspired by Fellini movies ("Juliet of the Spirits"), Athens, Georgia lore ("Hot Corner"), and the shopping mall ("Funplex"), and thanks to the band's melody creator, Keith Strickland, they shimmy, shake, and house-quake all night long. Out of the blue and virtually as fun as a party out of bounds, Funplex is a dee-lightful reunion record. --Scott Holter
Album Description
Along with producer Steve Osborne (New Order, Happy Mondays, Doves) the band have created an album as cutting edge, distinctive & danceable as their debut album in 1979. The B-52's influence cuts a wide path through much of so-called Modern Rock-- from the low-fi efforts of nouveau garage bands and the Retro-Hip of Ultra-Lounge to the very ascendance of Dance music itself. Twenty years and 20 million albums into a career that began as a low-rent lark in Athens, Georgia, the B-52's remain the most unlikely Pop superstars ever. The first band to glorify Pop culture with an almost Warholian sense of purpose, their absurd B-movie style and off-kilter sound celebrated the weirdness lurking just beneath the surface of Americana. EMI. 2008.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 102 more reviews...
 Fresh Sound Worth The Wait May 14, 2008
The B52's are back with their first studio release in over a decade. "Funplex" is a good time album that fans of the foursome will especially appreciate. The song "Pump" is a up-tempo song with a really good sound. The group really hasn't lost any of the style that they captured in the 80's. The group experiments with a lot of different sounds on "Funplex." Songs like "Juliet of Spirits" and "Love in the Year 3000," are really laid back cool songs, not really fast paced dance songs. Fans of B52's songs such as "Roam" and "Song for a Future Generation," will appreciate these songs. Cindy and Kate harmonize nicely on the song "Juliet of Spirits." "Funplex" is the kind of song that fans of The B52's will relate too. It's a signature B52's song. It's fun, happy and friendly. "Deviant Ingredient" is a laid back mellow song. Overall, "Funplex" is a fun, happy return to the music of The B52's. Fans of the group will be pleased.
The B's are Back! May 13, 2008
On first listen I wasn't that impressed but now I can't stop playing this infectious album! As much as I love the upbeat dance songs, I think my favorite is the Satellites-esque Juliet of the Spirits (maybe because it lacks any of Fred's outbursts). Wait, I LOVE FRED!
Buy the album -- support one of the hardest working bands in show biz.
Absolutely Great May 12, 2008
This is as good as you remember the B-52's being. There is no reason to hesitate buying this album.
Funplex is very fun! May 11, 2008
This is one of the best albums The b-52's have ever done! I know, I know the older b-52's music sometimes can be a little off the wall, but good, but this album and Cosmic Things are probably the two best albums they have ever done. I mean to say ALL the songs on Cosmic Things and Funplex are good, both entire albums. Song after song on Funplex is, well, Fun!
Good music, good lyrics (they continue to talk of love and the cosmic universe), the songs just want you to get up and dance jitterbug....
With Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson, two of THE BEST female harmonizers in the business, with their oozing, sexual, beautiful vocals, just what you to project above the Earth and into the universe and just have a good time. But the lyrics do talk about down-to-Earth goings on too; human interactions of love, politics, over-spending, dancing, sex, and just plainly having a good time. (Personally, when Kate and Cincy sing and I see how great they look, I would like to be on a deserted island with them) This is well worth buying. The music is great and the production is great. Buy it and have yourself a good ol' time. - Terry Chaffee
 They're back!! May 10, 2008
Amazingly enough, I didn't think it was going to be that good, but I'm blown away. I'm taken back to early 90s and all their fun stuff. I really like the majority of songs on this album!
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