“Devil In My Car” by The B-52's

"Devil In My Car" rides along on Wild Planet, the B-52's second album, which Warner Bros. put out in America in August 1980, with Island handling Europe and Japan. Kate Pierson, Fred Schneider, Cindy Wilson and Ricky Wilson share the composing credit, and the band went back to Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas, where they had made their debut. Rhett Davies engineered and co-produced with the group, Benjamin Armbrister assisted, and Chris Blackwell was executive producer.

Several of the Wild Planet songs had been in their live set since 1978, left off the first LP only because there wasn't room. Robert Christgau of The Village Voice had little patience for parts of the album but picked this song, with "Give Me Back My Man", as the moment their gleeful new-wave party music reached for real meaning: the cosmic kind, in this case.

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