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bitter69uk · 17 days

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“Later we [Culture Club] played with them a few times and they had the most unique, hypnotic sound. It’s trashy Americana, John Waters, Divine, the Shangri-La’s, high camp and bubblegum punk. The beat is everything. Fred always reminded me of Dr Zachary Smith from Lost in Space. I never thought about whether the B-52’s had a gay angle. They were just against rules in general – taking classic American kitsch and giving it a punk, space-age irreverence, like a beautiful car crash with pop surrealism. They were very camp but very funky: always on it, melodic but effortlessly free. It’s the sort of pop music that I want to hear.”

/ Boy George reflecting on the B-52’s in The Guardian /

Born on this day: happy 76th birthday to the sublime Kate Pierson (née Catherine Elizabeth Pierson, 27 April 1948) - singer, multi-instrumentalist, bouffant wig enthusiast and one of the founding members of Athens, Georgia’s essential post-punk party band the B-52’s! For me, Pierson’s spine-tingling dissonant science fiction anti-harmonies with co-vocalist Cindy Wilson are one of the defining sounds of American New Wave music. Pictured: Pierson captured by Lynn Goldsmith in the early 1980s.

#b 52's #the b 52s #kate pierson #bouffant wig #lobotomy room #new wave #post punk #beehive wig #bouffant #kitsch #lgbtqia #surf guitar #retro #camp #punk #athens georgia #lynn goldsmith

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ms-boogie-man · 2 months

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Soon to be former mayor of Athens, Georgia, Kelly Girtz, not only had the gaul to claim there is not any connection between illegal migration into the US and the current out of control crime wave, he then went on to blame President Donald Trump for the murder of Laken Riley by border hopper Jose Antonio Ibarra

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Angie/Maddie🦇❥✝︎🇺🇸

#Laken Riley #Jose Antonio Ibarra #FJB #Mayor Kelly Girtz #Athens Georgia #border crisis #invasion #close the border #crime #you know what I want to call this so & so #wn #1A #2A #MAGA

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nugothrhythms · 3 months

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"Bloat" by Athens, Georgia-based deathrock act Tears for the Dying off of their 2024 album In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun

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booksandplantsintheclassiccity · 7 months

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#photography #my photos #plantblr #plant #uga #university of georgia #athens georgia #student #college

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lanovenapuertablr · 2 months

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#joe strummer #the clash #athens georgia

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nuanimistdatabase · 8 months

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Irina Rozovsky. "Untitled," 2018. In "A Long Arc: Photography and the American South" (Aperture).

#Irina Rosovsky #photography #athens georgia

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rocknrollflames · 25 days

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The One I Love

- R.E.M.

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ivemanifest · 27 days

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Sharing this here if by chance any of my followers are from Georgia! I am hosting a free event on Thursday guiding you through a spiritual mindful moment ✨🧡

Save your spot here

#spirituality #manifestation #spiritualgrowth #how to manifest #law of manifestation #self improvement #positivity #manifestingmiracles #manifestyourreality #law of attraction #mindfulpractice #mindfulness #athens georgia #athens #georgia

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kickdrumheart68 · 2 months

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R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (Official HD Music Video)

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#r.e.m.#losing my religion #that's me in the corner #michael stipe #music video #you tube #georgia band #athens georgia #Youtube

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caardamoom · 1 year

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Zumm Zumm Zine

A short lived zine run by Theo Hilton of Defiance Ohio and Nana Grizol, two impeccable indie-folksy-punky acts.

I believe this is from the early 2000’s, and as far as I know there are no living copies of it! If you know of one, please let me know❣️

#indie rock #orange twin #athens georgia #athens #folk punk #nana grizol #defiance ohio #theo hilton

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bitter69uk · 1 year

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Born on this day: happy 75th birthday to the sublime Kate Pierson (née Catherine Elizabeth Pierson, 27 April 1948) - singer, multi-instrumentalist, bouffant wig enthusiast and one of the founding members of essential post-punk party band the B-52’s! For me, Pierson’s spine-tingling dissonant science fiction anti-harmonies with co-vocalist Cindy Wilson are one of the defining sounds of American New Wave music. Pictured: Pierson captured by Lynn Goldsmith in the early 1980s.

#kate pierson #the b-52's #the b-52s #b-52s #new wave #post punk #bouffant wig #beehive wig #lobotomy room #athens georgia #lynn goldsmith #kitsch

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stimtickle · 3 months

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“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

Any way we can

We're gonna find something

We'll dance in the garden in torn sheets in the rain

In the rain

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

We're the deadbeat club (deadbeat club)

We're the deadbeat club

Let's go crash that party down

In Normaltown tonight

Then we'll go skinny-dippin'

In the moonlight

We're 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

In the rain

We're the deadbeat club (deadbeat club)

Oh-oh no, here they come!

The members of the deadbeat club

(Deadbeat club)

Oh-oh no, here they come!

The members of the deadbeat club

(Deadbeat club)

Oh-oh no, here they come!

The members of the deadbeat club

(Deadbeat club)

Oh-oh no, here they come!

The members of the deadbeat club”

#The B-52’s #the b 52's #the deadbeat club #cosmic thing #athens georgia

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nugothrhythms · 6 months

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Music video to "We Are the Darkness," a 2023 single by Athens, Georgia-based deathrock act Tears for the Dying

#deathrock #deathrocker #deathrock girl #deathrock music #Tears for the Dying #We Are the Darkness #singles #music #2023 #Athens Georgia #female singer #Georgia goth #Georgia deathrock #Southern goth #Southern deathrock #music video #first share #Youtube

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foto-eye · 1 year

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November 30, 2022 • Athens, GA

#photography #nature photography #urban photography #university of georgia #athens georgia #trees & leaves

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celtic-romulan · 10 months

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Spent the last two days on a business trip in Bulldog country. Woof! 🐶❤️🖤

#georgia bulldogs #athens georgia

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mywifeleftme · 1 year

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18: Various Artists // Athens, GA.—Inside/Out

Various Artists Athens, GA.—Inside/Out 1987, IRS Athens, Georgia is currently the 218th most populous city in the United States, but between the B-52s’ 1979 breakthrough and the mid-2000s it was one of the world’s key incubators of college/alternative/indie rock. Athens, GA.—Inside/Out, the soundtrack to a quirky local documentary, is a great snapshot of the scene as it existed circa 1986. In some ways, the track list is evocative of the ecosystem in any thriving music town: the revered pioneer that never quite blew up (Pylon); the true phenomenon (R.E.M.); the anointed next big thing (Dreams So Real); the durable live favs (Love Tractor); the non-entities (Time Toy); the last to know they're going nowhere (Bar-B-Q Killers).

In its details, however, Athens' sounds were as woolly and unique as you’d expect of a scene breach-birthed from the temple of the B-52s. These recordings, mostly live takes recorded for the doc in local rock clubs, a frat house porch, and even the chapel of a nineteenth century girls’ school (R.E.M., of course), reveal strains of new wave and post-punk that’ve evolved in relative isolation from the coastal meccas. Of the lesser-known Athens acts, Squalls make the best impression, offering two infectious, endearingly goofy bops that may lodge themselves in your ears for days.

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One can quibble about the presence of Carrboro, North Carolina’s Flat Duo Jets, who apparently moved to Athens for all of three months (possibly in order to get themselves into the movie) before peeling out of town—but their ferocious “Jet Tone Boogie” might be the standout of the whole LP. The absence of the B-52s is notable (as they do appear in the documentary), but it’s hard to ding the comp too much for it as it leaves more room for artists who would otherwise be (even more) lost to history.

No single LP compilation focused on a year in the life of a rich scene could hope to be comprehensive, considering how many of Athens’ finest acts had such short life spans (e.g. Oh-OK, Pylon, The Method Actors). But for what it is, Inside/Out is a valuable addition to the collection of anyone who is an appreciative sicko for this era of alternative music.

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#athens georgia #athens music #college rock #indie rock #alternative rock #r.e.m.#flat duo jets #b-52s #pylon #love tractor #vinyl #'80s music #music review

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