Palette Playlist Highlights

I first became aware of Gil Scott-Heron through Little Steven's music. Little Steven, Springsteen's guitarist, had dropped Gil's name in the title song of his fourth solo album, Revolution, from 1989. I was in college at the time, majoring in education.

During that period of time, I understood the want/need for revolutions. I still do. The planet's human and non-human inhabitants are in worse straits now than they were in the late eighties, let alone when Gil first told us the revolution "will not star Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen."

However, today, I know revolutions don't really change anything. Essentially they're changing one regime for another. Or, as Pete Townshend wrote, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

They're still operating within a destructive and deadly system. It is the system that needs to be abolished and done away with.

Other songs I've highlighted this week on the Palette's playlist included: This is Halloween by Danny Elfman, Evil Motherfucker from Tennessee by Joe Buck Yourself, Crawling King Snake by The Doors, Crimson and Clover by Tommy James and the Shondells and Devils Whorehouse

by The Misfits. And, finally, Cookoo's Cookoolicious theme song, Cannibal Clown Parade by butterfly suiCIDE.