The B-52’s announces 9xLP box set, The Warner and Reprise Years

The B-52’s have announced a career-spanning vinyl box set. On June 20, via Rhino, they’ll release The Warner and Reprise Years, a 9xLP box set on colored vinyl, comprising their studio albums from their 1979 self-titled debut on up to 1992’s Good Stuff. The box set is being released in time for Pride Month, and as such the vinyl comprises a rainbow: The B-52’s (yellow), Wild Planet (red), Mesopotamia (blue), Party Mix! (green), Whammy! (smokey), Bouncing Off the Satellites (pink), Cosmic Thing (orange), and Good Stuff (purple), issued as a double LP. The box set will also be released on CD the same day.

Party Mix, the group’s remix EP from 1981, is featured on our list of 10 Essential Remix Albums.

The B-52’s The Warner and Reprise Years tracklist:

LP One: The B-52’s (1979)
Side One
1. “Planet Claire”
2. “52 Girls”
3. “Dance This Mess Around”
4. “Rock Lobster”

Side Two
1. “Lava”
2. “There’s A Moon In The Sky (Called The Moon)”
3. “Hero Worship”
4. “6060-842”
5. “Downtown”

LP Two: Wild Planet (1980)
Side One
1. “Party Out Of Bounds”
2. “Dirty Back Road”
3. “Runnin’ Around”
4. “Give Me Back My Man”
5. “Private Idaho”

Side Two
1. “Devil In My Car”
2. “Quiche Lorraine”
3. “Strobe Light”
4. “53 Miles West Of Venus”

LP Three: Party Mix! (1981)
Side One
1. “Party Out Of Bounds”
2. “Private Idaho”
3. “Give Me Back My Man”

Side Two
1. “Lava”
2. “Dance This Mess Around”
3. “52 Girls”

LP Four: Mesopotamia (1982)
Side One
1. “Loveland”
2. “Deep Sleep”
3. “Mesopotamia”

Side Two
1. “Cake”
2. “Throw That Beat In The Garbage Can”
3. “Nip It In The Bud”

LP Five: Whammy! (1983)
Side One
1. “Legal Tender”
2. “Whammy Kiss”
3. “Song For A Future Generation”
4. “Butterbean”

Side Two
1. “Trism”
2. “Queen Of Las Vegas”
3. “Moon ’83”
4. “Big Bird”
5. “Work That Skirt”

LP Six: Bouncing Off the Satellites (1986)
Side One
1. “Summer Of Love”
2. “Girl From Ipanema Goes To Greenland”
3. “Housework”
4. “Detour Through Your Mind”
5. “Wig”

Side Two
1. “Theme For A Nude Beach”
2. “Ain’t It A Shame”
3. “Juicy Jungle”
4. “Communicate”
5. “She Brakes For Rainbows”

LP Seven: Cosmic Thing (1989)
Side One
1. “Cosmic Thing”
2. “Dry County”
3. “Deadbeat Club”
4. “Love Shack”
5. “Junebug”

Side Two
1. “Roam”
2. “Bushfire”
3. “Channel Z”
4. “Topaz”
5. “Follow Your Bliss”

LPs Eight/Nine: Good Stuff (1992)
Side One
1. “Tell It Like It T-I-IS”
2. “Hot Pants Explosion”
3. “Good Stuff”
4. “Revolution Earth”

Side Two
1. “Dreamland”
2. “Is That You Mo-Dean?”
3. “The World’s Green Laughter”

Side Three
1. “Vision Of A Kiss”
2. “Breezin’”
3. “Bad Influence”

Side Four
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