Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation

by The B-52's

Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1998-01-01
  • Label: Reprise
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:07:15
  • Community rating: 3.79/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A greatest hits collection by The B-52's, gathering two decades of the Athens band's danceable new wave. Fred Schneider's sprechgesang, the harmonies of Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson, and Ricky Wilson's surf inflected guitar drive their camp, party ready sound.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, guitars, dance, melodic, synthesizers

Tracklist

  1. Planet Claire (4:36)
  2. Rock Lobster (4:55)
  3. Private Idaho (3:34)
  4. Quiche Lorraine (Live) (4:29)
  5. Mesopotamia (3:50)
  6. Summer Of Love (Original Unreleased Mix) (4:34)
  7. Channel Z (4:50)
  8. Deadbeat Club (4:54)
  9. Love Shack (5:22)
  10. Roam (4:52)
  11. Good Stuff (5:55)
  12. Is That You Mo-Dean? (5:07)
  13. (Meet) The Flintstones (2:24)
  14. Debbie (3:34)
  15. Hallucinating Pluto (4:19)

Credits

  • Pat Irwin - guitar, keyboards, guitar

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