B-52s releasing career-spanning box set

Rhino

The music of the B-52s will be celebrated with a new career-spanning box set.

The Warner and Reprise Years will include newly remastered versions of B-52s albums released between 1979 and 1992: 1979's The B-52s, 1980's Wild Planet, 1982's EP Mesopotamia, 1981's Party Mix!, 1983's Whammy!, 1986's Bouncing Off Satellites, 1989's Cosmic Thing and 1992's Good Stuff.

Songs featured in the set include such B-52s hits as “Rock Lobster,” “Private Idaho,” “Love Shack,” “Roam” and more.

The set will be released on June 20 in two formats: an eight-CD set and a nine-LP set, pressed on a rainbow of colored vinyl to celebrate Pride month. The LP set is limited to 2,000 copies and can be preordered exclusively through Rhino.com.

Formed in 1977 in Athens, Georgia, B-52s went on to sell over 20 million records worldwide, with five of the eight albums in the set having been certified Gold or higher by the RIAA.

The Warner and Reprise Years is available for preorder now.

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