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Whammy!

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Whammy! is the third studio album by American new wave band the B-52's. [1]

64 relations: A-side and B-side, Album, AllMusic, Art director, Audio engineer, Audio mastering, Bass guitar, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Bouncing Off the Satellites, Chris Connelly (journalist), Cindy Wilson, Clothing, Compass Point Studios, Cover version, Dance Club Songs, Dance music, Devo, Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow), Drum kit, Drum machine, Fred Schneider, Game Show Network, Garage sale, Gary Kurfirst, Guitar, Kate Pierson, Keith Strickland, Keyboard instrument, Legal Tender (song), Mesopotamia (EP), Minneapolis, Moon 83, Nassau, Bahamas, New wave music, New York City, Novelty song, Party Mix!, Ralph Carney, Record producer, Ricky Wilson (American musician), Robert Christgau, Rolling Stone, Simon & Schuster, Song for a Future Generation, Spin Alternative Record Guide, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Steven Stanley, Synth-pop, ..., Synthesizer, Talent manager, Ted Jensen, The B-52's, The Rolling Stone Album Guide, The Spectator, The Village Voice, UK Albums Chart, Vintage Books, Warner Bros. Records, Whammy Kiss, Wild Planet, William Wegman (photographer), Yoko Ono. Expand index (14 more) »

A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Art director

Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games.

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Audio engineer

An audio engineer (also sometimes recording engineer or a vocal engineer) helps to produce a recording or a performance, editing and adjusting sound tracks using equalization and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.

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Audio mastering

Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master); the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication).

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Bouncing Off the Satellites

Bouncing off the Satellites is the fourth studio album by American new wave band the B-52's, released on September 8, 1986.

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Chris Connelly (journalist)

Chris Connelly (born 1957) is an American sports and entertainment reporter who currently works for ESPN as a contributor to its E:60 newsmagazine.

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Cindy Wilson

Cynthia Leigh Wilson (born February 28, 1957) is an American singer, and is one of the vocalists, songwriters and founding members of new wave rock band the B-52s.

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Clothing

Clothing (also known as clothes and attire) is a collective term for garments, items worn on the body.

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Compass Point Studios

Compass Point Studios was founded in 1977 by Chris Blackwell, the owner of Island Records.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Dance Club Songs

The Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly chart published exclusively by Billboard in the United States.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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Devo

Devo (originally) is an American rock band from Akron, Ohio formed in 1973.

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Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)

"Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" (also known as "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow)" or "Don't Worry Kyoko") is a song by Yoko Ono that was originally released by Plastic Ono Band in October 1969 as the B-side of John Lennon's single "Cold Turkey" and was later released on Ono's 1971 album Fly.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Drum machine

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion.

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Fred Schneider

Frederick William Schneider III (born July 1, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter, arranger, and musician, best known as the frontman of the rock band The B-52's, of which he is a founding member.

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Game Show Network

Game Show Network (GSN) is an American pay television channel that is a joint venture between Sony Pictures Television (owning a 58% interest) and AT&T (holding 42%).

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Garage sale

A garage sale (also known as a yard sale, tag sale, moving sale and by many other namesSome rarely-used names include "attic sale," "basement sale," "rummage sale," "thrift sale," "patio sale" and "lawn sale.") is an informal event for the sale of used goods by private individuals, in which sellers are not required to obtain business licenses or collect sales tax (though, in some jurisdictions, a permit may be required).

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Gary Kurfirst

Gary Kurfirst (8 July 1947 – 13 January 2009) was an American figure in late 20th and early 21st century popular music, working as a promoter, producer, manager, publisher, and record label executive.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Kate Pierson

Catherine Elizabeth Pierson, better known as Kate Pierson (born April 27, 1948), is an American vocalist, lyricist, and one of the singers and founding members of The B-52's.

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Keith Strickland

Keith Julian Strickland (born October 26, 1953) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, composer, and one of the founding members of The B-52s.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Legal Tender (song)

"Legal Tender" is the first single released by The B-52's from their 1983 album Whammy!.

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Mesopotamia (EP)

Mesopotamia is an EP by new wave band the B-52's.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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Moon 83

"Moon 83" is a song by the American new wave band The B-52's.

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Nassau, Bahamas

Nassau is the capital and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Novelty song

A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song, performed principally for its comical effect.

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Party Mix!

Party Mix! is a 1981 remix album by The B-52's, released in between their second album Wild Planet and the Mesopotamia EP.

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Ralph Carney

Ralph Carney (January 23, 1956 – December 16, 2017) was an American singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Ricky Wilson (American musician)

Ricky Helton Wilson (March 19, 1953 – October 12, 1985) was an American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of rock band the B-52's.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Song for a Future Generation

"Song for a Future Generation" is a song by new wave band The B-52's.

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Spin Alternative Record Guide

Spin Alternative Record Guide is a music reference book compiled by the American music magazine Spin and published in 1995 by Vintage Books.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine (born June 18, 1973) is an American music critic and senior editor for AllMusic.

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Steven Stanley

Steven J. C. Stanley (born July 11, 1958), is a Jamaican audio engineer, record producer and keyboardist who has worked in the reggae, dub and rock music genres since 1975, most notably with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and Black Uhuru.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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Talent manager

A talent manager (also known as an artist manager, band manager or music manager) is an individual or company who guides the professional career of artists in the entertainment industry.

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Ted Jensen

Ted Jensen (born September 19, 1954) is an American mastering engineer, known for having mastered many recordings including the Eagles' Hotel California, Green Day’s American Idiot and Norah Jones' Come Away With Me.

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The B-52's

The B-52s (styled as The B-52's prior to 2008) are an American rock band, formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1976.

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The Rolling Stone Album Guide

The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine.

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The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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Vintage Books

Vintage Books is a publishing imprint established in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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Whammy Kiss

"Whammy Kiss" is the second single released by The B-52's from their 1983 album Whammy!.

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Wild Planet

Wild Planet is the second studio album by the B-52's, released in 1980.

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William Wegman (photographer)

William Wegman (born December 2, 1943) is an American artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses.

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Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono (小野 洋子, born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist who is also known for her work in performance art and filmmaking.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whammy!

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