Song · The B-52's
“Give Me Back My Man” by The B-52's
From the album Wild Planet (1980)
“Give Me Back My Man” by The B-52's appears on 5 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1980 and 2026. It was first released in 1980 on the album Wild Planet. Its best result is #5 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1980. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #5 alternative song of 1980, #3,680 alternative song of all time and #482 of the '80s.
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"Give Me Back My Man" sits fourth on the B-52's second album, Wild Planet, and went out as a single in 1980, and it belongs to Cindy Wilson. It was one of her solo showcases in the band's early years, and she sings it with a big, aching swoop that Trouser Press traced back to Patsy Cline.
Kate Pierson, Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland, Ricky Wilson and Cindy Wilson share the writing credit with Robert Waldrop, and Rhett Davies produced it with the band, with Chris Blackwell as executive producer. The track is stranger than it first sounds: a treated guitar swells and whooshes at the head of each verse, and little electronic pops are scattered through the mix, like a dance party in a haunted house. R.E.M.'s Mike Mills picked it as one of his favourites in 1991.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1980 | 106 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 178 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1988) | 496 |
| 1989 | 228 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989) | 495 |
| 1996 | 419 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996) | 500 |
| 2026 | 494 | WYEP | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time | 1180 |
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