Elsewhere, the band manage to reference both Russ Meyer and Jerry Lewis in the disc's primo title cut – a trio of amusing dramatic monologues set in a shopping mall ("I'm a daytime waitress at the Taco Tiki Hut/I'm a daytime waitress, here's your stupid Seven-Up!") – and celebrate onetime Fellini spouse Giuletta Masina ("Juliet of the Spirits") in a song that could've fit snugly onto one of Blondie's better albums. They dabble in Kraftwerkian electrofunk with "Eyes Wide Open" and provide an always-welcome psychedelic pslide to "Too Much to Think About." By the time Strickland's guitar starts chiming in with proto-Stones vigor on the final cut, "Keep This Party Going," it's clear that the B-52s still have something to say to the next generation of would-be hedonists.
"Take this party to the White House lawn; things are getting dirty down in Washington," the girls proclaim. Only the irredeemably tight-assed could deny the call.
Article comments
1 - El Bicho
I'll have to check this out. You have me piqued.
2 - Twiddles42
This album is increasingly addictive. While there are the types of songs I miss (e.g. "Wig", "Housework", "Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland", "Butterbean", "Roam", "Is That You Mo-Dean?", et cetera), and how the songs in "Funplex" end up sounding like the same lyrics regurgitated for every song (the band redefines carnal as if there's nothing else to do in life), everything comes together so perfectly... definitely a must-have despite my gripe which, all things considered, is minor.