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Before this album was properly completed guitarist and principle song writer Ricky Wilson died, leaving the B-52's to carry on and become hugely popular under the guidence of Kieth Strickland. While they obviously produced some great material post-'Bouncing Off the Satellites', nothing equalled this little known gem. After being lost in the wilderness for several albums, and unable to recapture the glory of their first album, the band finally found a maturity of style based on concise and precise songwriting, playing, production and performance. The listener only has to hear the opening chordsmore… of 'Ain't I Ashamed' to recognise that he/she is listening to a perfectly constructed pop song, and what follows never lets up - effective as a result of the superbly crafted timing as well as the haunting melancholy of Cindy Wilson's vocals. This is an album that is a triumphant accumulation of all that has gone before: the sixties pop sensibility of the earlier albums is here, as well as a more refined distillation of the attempts to progress that the group didn't quite manage to pull off on such albums as 'Mesapotamia' and 'Whammy'. There is a 'life is a beach' anthem, 'Song For A Nude Beach', over-the-top exhuberance in 'Wig', and the surreal and psychadaelic 'Detour Through Your Mind'. In 'She Brakes for Rainbows' the band evoke an almost platonic, ethereal image of the ultimate hippy-chick without ever sounding merely whimsical: "Footsteps on the ceiling/ How did they get there?""Bouncing Off the Satellites' is a fantastic album; I cannot recommend it enough. Delighted as I am that the B-52's went on to great success after this album, I am saddened that Ricky Wilson never lived to share in it, and that we will never know what the band could have become had he lived.

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