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Cabin Fever Playlist We asked listeners for the music that snaps them out of a winter funk — songs that get your blood pumping and body moving, despite weeks of cold, gray days. And you delivered.
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Cabin Fever Playlist

All Things Considered asked listeners for the music that snaps them out of a winter funk.
It Lives! It Rocks, Too — In Fact, This Music Does Many Things
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It Lives! It Rocks, Too — In Fact, This Music Does Many Things

As all snowdrifts melt sometime, so too does winter end. But this playlist, built from your picks, has a thousand lives of its own — fit for cardio, cleaning and even bringing the sick back to life.

It Lives! It Rocks, Too — In Fact, This Music Does Many Things

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Desperate Times Call For Measures You Can Dance To

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Desperate Times Call For Measures You Can Dance To

We're so close to spring, we can nearly smell the flowers on the breeze — but we're by no means there yet. Dance out the wait with our Cabin Fever Playlist, 90 songs suggested by listeners and curated by producers at All Things Considered.

Desperate Times Call For Measures You Can Dance To

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A Little Love And Lots Of Music To Break Your Cabin Fever
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A Little Love And Lots Of Music To Break Your Cabin Fever

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Melissa Block and Robert Siegel present some listener song selections from our Cabin Fever Playlist. It's not just dancey. It's about love, too — in all of its romantic, frustrating and happy splendor.

A Little Love And Lots Of Music To Break Your Cabin Fever

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Trade Your Snow Boots For Dance Shoes, And Just Press Play

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Trade Your Snow Boots For Dance Shoes, And Just Press Play

Don't give in to that midwinter swoon. Listen to this instead: More than 800 of you, our listeners, shared songs to quicken the blood and make you move. Inside, find our Cabin Fever Playlist — 84 tracks meant to wake you from even the deepest hibernation.

Trade Your Snow Boots For Dance Shoes, And Just Press Play

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Start Warming Up Now: Cabin Fever Playlist Is On Its Way

With our cure for the winter woes under construction, we offer another hint at what you can expect to hear in our cabin fever playlist. Expect a hefty dose of funk, bass and anything to make you move on a cold, gray day.

Start Warming Up Now: Cabin Fever Playlist Is On Its Way

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600 Suggestions — And Counting — For Our Cabin Fever Playlist

Melissa Block and Robert Siegel update listeners on some of what the open flood gates of social media brought us when we asked for suggestions for our Cabin Fever playlist. Hint: It was a deluge of great, funky, upbeat, sunny songs prescribed to cure the winter blahs.

600 Suggestions — And Counting — For Our Cabin Fever Playlist

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