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“Girl From Ipanema Goes to Greenland” by The B-52's
From the album Bouncing Off the Satellites (1986)
“Girl From Ipanema Goes to Greenland” by The B-52's appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2002 and 2003. It was first released in 1986 on the album Bouncing Off the Satellites. Its best result is #564 on the Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,924 alternative song of all time.
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The title alone is a gag with a long reach: "Girl From Ipanema Goes to Greenland" nods to Antônio Carlos Jobim's 1963 hit "The Girl from Ipanema" and sends her somewhere a good deal colder. Keith Strickland, Cindy Wilson and Ricky Wilson wrote it for Bouncing Off the Satellites, the B-52's' fourth studio album, from 1986, with Tony Mansfield producing and Shep Pettibone credited for additional production. As the album's second single it climbed to 10 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart, the band's fourth top-10 there.
It carries a heavy shadow, too. It was among the last songs guitarist and founding member Ricky Wilson recorded before his death, and the video, made around 1986, was a memorial to him, with his face laid over the rising moon.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 564 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 1172 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
Also listed as: Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland.
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