Week Fifty-Four: B-52's - "Deadbeat Club" - Cosmic Thing

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Although most people probably wouldn't name "Deadbeat Club" as their favorite B-52's song, I will most certainly claim that it is my favorite. This tune, along with "Roam" (included below the lyrics), made it onto every Road Trip Mix that I ever created --- be it cassette or CD!!

I know that I mentioned what a cutie-patootie Kate Pierson is when I posted her duet with Iggy Pop called "Candy", but there is something about her that is just so attractive and endearing!

Last, but not least, I'll leave you with some info about this song that I found on Wikipedia:

"The song is about the band's early days in Athens when they would hang around in cafes drinking coffee. Because they didn't work or do anything, their parents nicknamed them 'Deadbeats.' Allen's, mentioned in the nostalgic song, is a real-life place in Athens, Georgia. Normaltown is a neighborhood of Athens."

Huh, Get a job, what for, I'm trying to think

I was good, I could talk

A mile a minute,

On this caffeine buzz I was on

We were really hummin'

We would talk every day for hours

We belong to the deadbeat club

Anyway we can,

We're gonna find something

We'll dance in the garden

In torn sheets in the rain

We'll dance in the garden

In torn sheets in the rain

In the rain

Chorus

We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}

We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}

We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}

We're the deadbeat club 

Going down to Allen's for

A twenty-five cent beer

And the jukebox playing real loud,

"Ninety-six tears"

We're wild girls walkin' down the street

Wild girls and boys going out for a big time

Chorus

We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}

We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}

We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}

We're the deadbeat club 

[instrumental break]

Let's go crash that party down

In Normaltown tonight

Then we'll go skinny-dippin'

In the moonlight

We were wild girls walkin' down the street

Wild girls and boys going out for a big time

Anyway we can

We're gonna find something

We'll dance in the garden

In torn sheets in the rain

We'll dance in the garden

In torn sheets in the rain

In the rain

Chorus

We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}

We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}

We're the deadbeat club {deadbeat club}

We're the deadbeat club

Oh no! Here they come

The members of the deadbeat club

{dead-b-b-beat dead beat club}

Oh no! Here they come

The members of the deadbeat club

{dead-b-b-beat dead beat club }

Oh no! Here they come

The members of the deadbeat club

{dead-b-b-beat dead beat club }