The B-52's – Whammy! (VG+/VG+) – LP, AU 1983

Whammy! is an LP by The B-52's from 1983 released on the Warner Bros. Records label.

About this album

Whammy! finds The B-52's pushing their party-starting new wave into brighter, stranger electronic territory. Released in 1983, the album was their first without original guitarist Ricky Wilson, and that change helped tilt the band further towards synthesiser-driven arrangements and offbeat studio experimentation. Songs such as Legal Tender and Whammy Kiss show their gift for turning playful hooks, deadpan humour and dance-floor pulse into something unmistakably their own. It may be one of the group’s most divisive records, but it remains an important chapter in their catalogue, bridging the early art-rock oddity of their debut and the more polished pop of later years.