RoCK LoBSTER???

Question

is that actually a real song.....i saw it on Family guy and i kno they usually do ''spoofs'' but i just wanted 2 kno

Answer 1

As you probably are aware by now from the previous answers, it was done by the B-52's (incase you missed it). Great music, stupid lyrics. It's like one of those songs you can't help listening to even if you don't like it. I hated it back in the 80's because of the vocals in it, but I really liked the drums and guitars in it. I've heard it so much that now and just devloped a liking for it that I even have it on my ipod. lol

Answer 2

It's defiantely a real song. Rock Lobster is from the B-52's the song was released on their self tittled debut in 1979.

...Somebody went under a dock and there they saw a rock, it wasn't a rock it was a rock lobster...

Answer 3

Yes by the band the B-52's

Answer 4

Yep its a real song. The first major hit for the B-52's. circa 1979

Answer 5

We were at a party
His ear lobe fell in the deep
Someone reached in and grabbed it
It was a rock lobster

We were at the beach
Everybody had matching towels
Somebody went under a dock
And there they saw a rock
It wasn't a rock
It was a rock lobster

Motion in the ocean
His air hose broke
Lots of trouble
Lots of bubble
He was in a jam
S'in a giant clam

Down, down

Underneath the waves
Mermaids wavin'
Wavin' to mermen
Wavin' sea fans
Sea horses sailin'
Dolphins wailin'

Red snappers snappin'
Clam shells clappin'
Muscles flexin'
Flippers flippin'

Down, down

Let's rock!

Boy's in bikinis
Girls in surfboards
Everybody's rockin'
Everybody's fruggin'

Twistin' 'round the fire
Havin' fun
Bakin' potatoes
Bakin' in the sun

Put on your noseguard
Put on the lifeguard
Pass the tanning butter

Here comes a stingray
There goes a manta-ray
In walked a jelly fish
There goes a dogfish
Chased by a catfish
In flew a sea robin
Watch out for that piranha
There goes a narwhale
HERE COMES A BIKINI WHALE!

Rock Lobster" is The B-52's' first single, released in 1978 and in a longer version placed on the band's self-titled debut album, The B-52's, one year later. It has become one of their signature tunes, and it helped launch the band's success. "Rock Lobster" was the band's first single to appear on Billboard's Hot 100. The song is mainly instrumental; some instruments used include a twangy, baritone surf-style electric guitar (a Mosrite), a Farfisa or Vox organ, and drums. Unlike most pop and rock songs, no bass guitar was present. In place of the bass guitar, a baritone guitar was used for the bass lines.

The album version of "Rock Lobster" (released in 1979) clocks in at about seven minutes and contains superficially nonsensical lyrics about a beach party and excited rants of absurd and inaccurate marine animal noises; the chorus consists of the words "Rock lobster!" repeated over and over. Critic Rick Anderson commented "despite the song's self-consciously weird texture and silly lyrics about earlobes falling off and communal towel coordination, there's a thread of darkness weaving through it. Make no mistake: this is not a song with hidden meaning lurking below the surface. But its surface is a little more complicated than it seems to be at first."

The song "Rock Lobster" is part of the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.[1]

"Rock Lobster" also appears at number 146 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of greatest songs.

Answer 6

YEAH its a real song! its by the B52s. Its a really good song. You know that one musical number shipoopi? Thats real too, its from the Music Man.

Answer 7

yes it was the B-52's first hit

Answer 8

yes. it is by the B' 52's

Answer 9

Also check out Planet Claire by them, good stuff.

Answer 10

yeah. the b-52's!