All of my favorite records came out in 1979 Part Fourteen

This is starting to get ridiculous. And another thing- there so many influential women in New Wave. In 1979. Look at my list. Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Kate Pierson and that other chick with the beehive. You also had Souxsie Sioux literally inventing Goth with The Banshees, you had the Slits and the Vaselines and Nina Hagen and Sara Lee and Joan Jett and Tina Weymouth.

Etc. etc. etc.

But hey, it was 1979 after all. It wasn't like it was, oh, 2005.

"Rock Lobster", "Planet Claire", "Dance This Mess Around", "There's A Moon In The Sky (It's called the Moon)"; this record didn't skimp on punk genius. These guys were really, really weird when they came out. There's a scene in the Paul Simon movie "One Trick Pony" where he's out on tour with his band, feeling kinda like things are leaving him behind, and the B-52's are the opening band at one point. They are obviously the band of choice because they sort of make Simon's point by being so hilariously bizarre.

"One Trick Pony", The B-52's- It Happened In 1979. Of course. Stuff like that just tended to happen back then.

In 1979. The year of ass-rocking music. Or just the year of ass-rocking in general. You choose.
There sure wasn't any horrible shit like 9/11 which broke this country like a big Japanese wind up toy that gets sprung. Just broke it in pieces. Don't tell me you can't see. Hey, it didn't used to be neighbor against neighbor. Now everybody's got all their beliefs on the backs of their cars and we're amazingly divided. These fucking terrorists haven't attacked us again why? Because our security is so great? Hah!

Because they don't NEED to, man. They snapped this place in two like a fucking twig. If they hit us again we'd just crumble into disunified armed states and have a crazy multi-sided civil war that basically never ends and they wouldn't have anybody to fuck with. And Monsanto and WalMart and the World Bank and Microsoft and Time Warner and Exxon would become the new countries that would arise out of the rubble, and ladies and gentlemen if you think this place is just a tad bankrupt right now ohhhh, just you wait. We're talking Iron Curtain coming down chaos. We're talking corporateering with paid armies and all manner of ozone-burning fuckery. For years and years.

But hey, there's no need to worry about that now. And there sure as hell wasn't anybody worrying too much in 1979 when "The B-52's" came out. No sirree. 1979 just wasn't like that. It was, like, good.