The B-52's "Whammy!" (40th Anniversary) RSD Essential These 7-inch and compilation cuts

These 7-inch and compilation cuts were collected on CD by Lookout Records in 2003

Steve Earle has said that Colter Wall is "the best young-singer songwriter I've seen in twenty years"

'Lay Lady Lay' (a cover of Bob Dylan's old country-tinged hit) and 'Brick Windows'

the "songs about partying" vs

The B-52's "Whammy!" (40th Anniversary) RSD Essential These 7-inch and compilation cuts40th Anniversary Edition The B 52's were formed (1976) like R. E. M. in Athens, Georgia by vocalist Cindy Wilson, her elder brother guitarist Ricky Wilson (who died from AIDS in 1985), keyboardist and vocalist Kate Pierson and drummer percussionist Keith Strickland. Whammy!, their fourth album, moves the B 52's more into the electronic sound that started with their previous album 'Mesopotamia', though now goes further with the use of a drum machine.