- alternative rock, pop rock, rock, pop
- 47 min
- 10 tracks
- Reprise Records
Cosmic Thing is the fifth studio album by American new wave band the B-52's, released in 1989 by Reprise Records. It contains the hit singles "Love Shack", "Roam" and "Deadbeat Club". The music video for "Love Shack" won the award for Best Group Video at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards. Six of the album's songs were produced by Nile Rodgers in New York City, and the remaining four by Don Was in upstate New York.
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Spare, character-led, classical in form and warm.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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Tracks
- A1Cosmic Thing3:50
- A2Dry Country4:54
- A3Deadbeat Club4:45
- A4Love Shack5:21
- A5Junebug5:04
- B1Roam4:45
- B2Bushfire4:58
- B3Channel Z4:49
- B4Topaz4:20
- B5Follow Your Bliss4:08
10 tracks, 47 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The B‐52s
- Label
- Reprise Records
- Released
- 1989
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- XE
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