Here’s another reason why I’m glad I grew up in the 80’s:
And just in case you didn’t know what they were singing about:
Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo
You’re living in your own Private Idaho
Living in your own Private Idaho
Underground like a wild potato.
Don’t go on the patio.
Beware of the pool,
blue bottomless pool.
It leads you straight
right throught the gate
that opens on the pool.
You’re living in your own Private Idaho.
You’re living in your own Private Idaho.
Keep off the path, beware the gate,
watch out for signs that say “hidden driveways”.
Don’t let the chlorine in your eyes
blind you to the awful surprise
that’s waitin’ for you at
the bottom of the bottomless blue blue blue pool.
You’re livin in your own Private Idaho. Idaho.
You’re out of control, the rivers that roll,
you fell into the water and down to Idaho.
Get out of that state,
get out of that state you’re in.
You better beware.
You’re living in your own Private Idaho.
You’re living in your own Private Idaho.
Keep off the patio,
keep off the path.
The lawn may be green
but you better not be seen
walkin’ through the gate that leads you down,
down to a pool fraught with danger
is a pool full of strangers.
You’re living in your own Private Idaho,
where do I go from here to a better state than this.
Well, don’t be blind to the big surprise
swimming round and round like the deadly hand
of a radium clock, at the bottom, of the pool.
I-I-I-daho
I-I-I-daho
Woah oh oh woah oh oh woah oh oh
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Get out of that state
Get out of that state
You’re living in your own Private Idaho,
livin in your own Private…. Idaho
I absolutely LOVE the B-52′s.
They were the first band I found on my own without being introduced to them by my older brother. I’ve been a huge fan for 25+ years and can even say that Fred Schneider and the Shake Society has a place in my CD collection.
“There’s a monster in my pants and it does a nasty dance…”
Classic lyrics from a modern poet.
Love it! My sis and I had choreographed a dance to this, I still remember parts of it!
They toured the gay bars for a while in the late 70′s early 80′s before they caught-on mainstream. I remember my older brother being angy as he wanted to see them but was no way going to a gay bar(in North Carolina or Georgia) to see them. They finally started making the college rounds and he saw them. I can remember hearing Rock Lobster and Planet Claire until I thought I have to burn the albums. I really did not catch on to them until they hit the mainstream…Love shack with RuPaul in the video(before he got his 15 mins of fame). Its really ironic that they came from a little CONSERVATIVE college town in rural Georgia. (REM as well)
Saw them at Canada’s Wonderland during my high school years. The Violent Femmes opened up for them and at least half the audience left when the Femmes were done. Kinda sad really. Even having Julee Cruise (Twin Peaks anyone?) with them couldn’t change the fact that every single song sounded exactly the same as the last one. It was like an hour long extended version of Planet Claire. I’m sure it was no accident that Love Shack and Rock Lobster were saved for the end of the encore (I hear R.L. as we were getting in the car. Couldn’t take it anymore and left early).