Deadbeat Club
The B-52's * Track #3 On Cosmic Thing
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Deadbeat Club by The B-52's
Performed by
The B-52'sProduced by
Don Was & Nile RodgersWrited by
Cindy Wilson & Fred Schneider & Keith Strickland & Kate PiersonAbout
Written by drummer and later guitarist Keith Strickland, “Deadbeat Club” is a retrospective, autobiographical song about the band, who were referred to as the “deadbeat club” and adopted the name for themselves. The autobiographical slant of the song is furthered by references to specific locations...
Deadbeat Club Lyrics
"Huh, get a job!"
"What for?"
"I'm trying to think..."
I was good, I could talk
A mile a minute
On this caffeine buzz I was on
We were really hummin'
We would talk every day for hours
We belong to the deadbeat club
Anyway we can
We're gonna find something
We'll dance in the garden
In torn sheets in the rain
We're the deadbeat club
We're the deadbeat club
Going down to Allen's for
A twenty-five cent beer
And the jukebox playing real loud
"96 Tears"
We were wild girls walkin' down the street
Wild girls and boys going out for a big time
Let's go crash that party down
In Normaltown tonight
Then we'll go skinny-dippin'
In the moonlight
We were wild girls walkin' down the street
Wild girls and boys going out for a big time
Anyway we can
We're gonna find something
We'll dance in the garden
In torn sheets in the rain
We're the deadbeat club
We're the deadbeat club
Oh no! Here they come
The members of the deadbeat club
Deadbeat Club Q&A
Who wrote Deadbeat Club's ?
Deadbeat Club was written by Cindy Wilson & Fred Schneider & Keith Strickland & Kate Pierson.
Who produced Deadbeat Club's ?
Deadbeat Club was produced by Don Was & Nile Rodgers.
What did The B-52's say about "Deadbeat Club"?
Drummer/guitarist Keith Strickland spoke frankly about the song’s origins in a 1990 Spin interview:
In the early days, we all used to sit around like this, just hang out, drink coffee and talk. It was sort of Cafe Society in Athens. It looked like we never worked or did anything, and friends of our...