Gut Feeling

Song Name: Gut Feeling

Artist: DEVO

Appears On:

• Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO! (1978), Greatest Hits (1990),

• DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years - 8/77 (1992), Live at Max's Kansas City - 11/15/77 (2014), DEV-O Live - 8/16/80 (expanded 1999 release), DEVO Live: 1980 - 8/17/1980 (2005 CD/DVD), New Traditionalists: Live 1981 Seattle, Now It Can Be Told, Devo At The Palace 12/9/88 (1989), Live in Central Park - 7/23/04 (2005), Live at the Observatory, Santa Ana, CA - 5/13/2012 (2012), Hardcore Devo Live! - 6/28/14 (2015 CD/DVD)

Run Time: 4:54 (album version, including "Slap Your Mammy")

Year Released: 1978 (album version)

Years Performed: 1977 to present

Writing Credits: Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh

Sung By: Mark Mothersbaugh

Alternate Versions: Performed live both with and without segue to "Slap Your Mammy," which was composed by Gerald V. Casale

Demo Versions:

Song Connections:

• (Slap Your Mammy) (segue).
  • Two movies have non-Devo title tracks that base their music off of this song's opening riff: Scared by your Love by Dan Wool in '95 and The Dog Problem by Mark in '06

Trivia / Info:

• "Gut Feeling" segued into "Slap Your Mammy" in live performances from 1977 to 1980, and from 1996 to present. From 1981 to 1988, however, "Gut Feeling" song was performed on its own
• Bob Casale played the long, slowly building guitar intro

• Appears in the Wes Anderson film "The Life Aquatic"

Onstage Behavior:

• Mark often spits after singing "makes me want to clear my throat"

Lyrics:

something about the way you taste

makes me want to clear my throat

there's a method to your movements

that really gets my goat

I looked for sniffy linings

but you're rotten to the core

I've had just about all I can take

you know I can't take it no more

got a gut feeling

centred 'round a long time ago

on your ability to torment

then you took your tongs of love

and stripped away my garment

got a gut feeling.

Video: N/A  DEVO made no music video for "Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy."   Live Video: "Gut Feeling" appears on Devo: "Live 1980", Devo: "Live" (2004), (Devo: "Live in the Land of the Rising Sun" (2004), "Live at the Observatory, Santa Ana, CA" (2012), Devo - Hardcore Live (2015)

External Links:

"Gut Feeling / Satisfaction (I Can Get Me No)" - Discogs

"Gut Feeling / Satisfaction (I Can Get Me No)" - 45cat

"Gut Feeling / (Slap Your Mammy)" - MusicBrainz

"Gut Feeling / (Slap Your Mammy)" (overview) - AllMusic

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