Party Mix!

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Party Mix!
B52s partymix.jpg
Cover photograph by Lynn Goldsmith. Cover art by Tony Wright.
Remix album by
The B-52's
ReleasedJuly 1981
Recorded1980
Genre
Length28:23
LabelIsland (UK) / Warner Bros. (US)
ProducerThe B-52's, Chris Blackwell, Rhett Davies
The B-52's chronology
Wild Planet
(1980) 		Party Mix!
(1981) 		Mesopotamia
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic2/5 stars[1]
Christgau's Record GuideA–[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 stars[3]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 stars[4]

Party Mix! is a 1981 remix album by The B-52's, released in between their second album Wild Planet and the Mesopotamia EP.[5] On the original vinyl, this six-song collection contained songs from their first two albums remixed and sequenced to form two long tracks, one on each side.[6] On the CD version, however, all the songs feature their own tracks.

In the US, Party Mix! and a 1990 remix version of Mesopotamia were combined onto one CD, released in 1991. In Europe, both albums were made available on separate CDs, with Mesopotamia retaining the original US mix. However, Party Mix! is no longer in print in Europe.

Track listing[]

  1. "Party Out of Bounds" (Remix) (Schneider, Strickland, Wilson, Wilson, Pierson) - 5:11
  2. "Private Idaho (Remix)" (Schneider, Strickland, Wilson, Wilson, Pierson) - 4:03
  3. "Give Me Back My Man" (Remix) (Schneider, Strickland, Wilson, Wilson) - 7:04
  4. "Lava" (Remix) (The B-52's) - 6:02
  5. "Dance This Mess Around" (Remix) (The B-52's) - 2:58
  6. "52 Girls" (Remix) (Jeremy Ayers, Ricky Wilson) - 3:05

Personnel[]

Chart performance[]

Chart (1981) Peak
position
Australia Albums Chart[citation needed] 79
UK Albums (OCC)[7] 36
U.S. Billboard 200 55[8]
Peru Lima Air Play[citation needed] 1 (Album of the year 1983)

References[]

  1. ^ Party Mix! at AllMusic
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1990). "B". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved 17 August 2020 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (27 May 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (27 May 2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743201698 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "TrouserPress.com :: B-52's". trouserpress.com.
  6. ^ "No novelty, the B-52s may be the most subversive band America ever gave us". Salon. 14 July 2017.
  7. ^ "B-52s | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  8. ^ "The B-52s". Billboard.
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