After setting dancefloors alight and funny bones aquiver in 1979-1980 with their first two albums,
The B-52's and
Wild Planet,
the B-52's seemed to run out of gas soon after, issuing a stopgap remix mini-album,
Party Mix!, in 1981, and then turning in another stopgap mini in this lackluster set, produced by
David Byrne, who must have seemed like a good choice, although his sense of humor is less zany, if just as weird, as that of
the B's.
Mesopotamia is the sound of a band that once sounded like it was on a steady path, now losing its footing. ~ William Ruhlmann