The Spider's Web Vintage

10/16/2025

"The Witch's Cat." An illustration. 1950s.

Hilda Boswell (British, 1903-1976)

09/19/2025

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07/19/2025

🔥 GIVE ME BACK MY MAN – THE B-52’S FINEST MOMENT, OR DOES ANOTHER SONG TAKE THAT TITLE? 🔥

On this date in 1980, THE B-52's released the single GIVE ME BACK MY MAN — a standout moment for Cindy Wilson, who takes the lead with a vocal that’s both yearning and sharp-edged. Described by Record Mirror at the time as “a web of musical intrigue,” the track pairs her controlled emotional delivery with glockenspiel accents, swooshing guitar effects, and that nagging, minimal bass line that crawls under your skin.

Lifted from their second LP Wild Planet, released a month later, the song came out in the UK first, before eventually getting a remixed airing on the Party Mix! EP in 1981 — which stretched the groove and turned it into more of a dancefloor oddity. On stage, it became a regular opener during their early ‘80s sets, with Fred Schneider often adding his trademark glockenspiel clinks to the live mix. When they toured again for Funplex in 2008, it was back in rotation.

Cindy’s delivery was compared by Trouser Press to Patsy Cline — a nod to the heartbreak in her voice — but the instrumentation was anything but country. A warped swirl of dry drums, pinging electronics, and processed guitar gives it a distinct, dislocated feel. As The Story of the B-52s put it: “The unnatural compression on Keith’s drums and the layers of Cindy’s voice over the outro conspire to create an otherworldly ambience.”

R.E.M.'s Mike Mills once picked it as a favourite, and you can hear why. For all its robotic, othered textures, there's something deeply human about its push-pull of power and vulnerability. The chorus — “I’ll give you fish / I’ll give you candy” — sounds almost throwaway on paper, but the desperation is real. It's Cindy trying everything and offering anything, while the song circles back to its demand: Give Me Back My Man.

More brutal than Dance This Mess Around, and far more affecting than it has any right to be, it's one of the B-52’s finest moments — raw, twitchy, and laced with a humour so deadpan it hurts.

07/05/2025

1920’s Art Deco magazine cover illustration by Alberto Vargas.

06/11/2025

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