PLAYLIST
Songs for January
Coming out of the fever
Crawling my way out of the worst Omicron symptoms with a good portion of the world, I immediately turn to the songs that have served as stepping stones in the mire.
I started this playlist before getting sick and added tunes on the way. You can thank the fever dreams for this motley that somehow coalesces into a coherent expression of January: the back end of holiday excess (chocolate every day) with the clarity of burgeoning wishes for a new year with more kindness.
We always have so much to catch up on, so here is a bevy of selections from the Spotify playlist linked below.
DEVO — Gut Feeling
Just to remind you that DEVO is not a novelty act, this song’s sprawling instrumental introduction and assertive punk-style vocals grabs me every time with one last punch in the brilliant, frenetic outro.
Here they are perfoming it in 1977:
