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Track List
01) Monster
02) Cut the Concrete
03) Summer in Hell
04) Orbit
05) I'm Gonna Haunt You
06) It's Time to Kiss
07) This Planet's a Mess
08) Wave
09) Boonga (The New Jersey Caveman)
01) Monster
02) Cut the Concrete
03) Summer in Hell
04) Orbit
05) I'm Gonna Haunt You
06) It's Time to Kiss
07) This Planet's a Mess
08) Wave
09) Boonga (The New Jersey Caveman)
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1984
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Fred Schneider and the Shake Society is the first solo album by American musician Fred Schneider. It was re-released in 1991 as Fred Schneider.
Musicians and backing vocalists varied from track to track. Notable names included co-producer Bernie Worrell on keyboards, synthesizers and/or backing vocals on several tracks, as well as Schneider's B-52's bandmate Kate Pierson on backing vocals on four tracks, including "Monster" (in addition to appearing in its music video).
The song "Monster" reached No. 85 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1991, and its music video was included that year on the VHS video compilation The B-52's: 1979-1989.
In November 2020, Schneider released a new music video for the song "This Planet's a Mess."
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Fred Schneider's first solo turn away from the B-52's was definitely a product of its time. For all of his band's new wave icon status, the B-52's weren't a synth rock group as such, but that's what more or less ended up backing him here, mostly thanks to one John Coté and his sometimes serviceable but unremarkable arrangements. Happily, Coté is content to either try to ape the B-52's or just let Schneider do his thing when he himself has little to offer, and more often than not the result is sometimes fine if not collectively spectacular. Perhaps wisely enough, the lead song and single from the album was not only the best but one of the most B-52's-like, "Monster." With Kate Pierson turning in one of several guest performances and Schneider clearly having deadpan fun with lines like "There's a monster in my pants and it does a nasty dance," it's hard to resist. "Summer in Hell" is another winner, and while Pierson reappears it's much more Schneider and Coté's show, a solid slice of ersatz B-52's merriment about how all the fun people ended up in the fiery regions. When it's just Schneider, Coté, and assorted others (including, in an inspired choice that just doesn't pan out for much, co-producer Bernie Worrell), things are often far less interesting, and more than once Schneider's trademark giddiness and odd imagery are the only things going for it. Remove those and songs like "Cut the Concrete" -- down to a really worthless ending guitar solo that seems borrowed from a bad mid-'80s cop drama -- and "This Planet's a Mess" could be trashed without anyone feeling any loss. Great as an EP, flawed as a full-length.
- allmusic.com Ned Raggett
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Fred Schneider and the Shake Society is the first solo album by American musician Fred Schneider. It was re-released in 1991 as Fred Schneider.
Musicians and backing vocalists varied from track to track. Notable names included co-producer Bernie Worrell on keyboards, synthesizers and/or backing vocals on several tracks, as well as Schneider's B-52's bandmate Kate Pierson on backing vocals on four tracks, including "Monster" (in addition to appearing in its music video).
The song "Monster" reached No. 85 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1991, and its music video was included that year on the VHS video compilation The B-52's: 1979-1989.
In November 2020, Schneider released a new music video for the song "This Planet's a Mess."
User Album Review
Fred Schneider's first solo turn away from the B-52's was definitely a product of its time. For all of his band's new wave icon status, the B-52's weren't a synth rock group as such, but that's what more or less ended up backing him here, mostly thanks to one John Coté and his sometimes serviceable but unremarkable arrangements. Happily, Coté is content to either try to ape the B-52's or just let Schneider do his thing when he himself has little to offer, and more often than not the result is sometimes fine if not collectively spectacular. Perhaps wisely enough, the lead song and single from the album was not only the best but one of the most B-52's-like, "Monster." With Kate Pierson turning in one of several guest performances and Schneider clearly having deadpan fun with lines like "There's a monster in my pants and it does a nasty dance," it's hard to resist. "Summer in Hell" is another winner, and while Pierson reappears it's much more Schneider and Coté's show, a solid slice of ersatz B-52's merriment about how all the fun people ended up in the fiery regions. When it's just Schneider, Coté, and assorted others (including, in an inspired choice that just doesn't pan out for much, co-producer Bernie Worrell), things are often far less interesting, and more than once Schneider's trademark giddiness and odd imagery are the only things going for it. Remove those and songs like "Cut the Concrete" -- down to a really worthless ending guitar solo that seems borrowed from a bad mid-'80s cop drama -- and "This Planet's a Mess" could be trashed without anyone feeling any loss. Great as an EP, flawed as a full-length.
- allmusic.com Ned Raggett
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