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I received tracks 24 ballots and 14 album ballots. Thanks to everyone who voted!

I'll do the album results first:

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 13:16 (eight years ago) link

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/hardcoredevo.jpg

*TIE* 5. Hardcore Devo Volume One
17 points / 7 votes

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*TIE* 5. New Traditionalists
17 points / 9 votes

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 13:21 (eight years ago) link

Great title.

Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Thursday, 14 July 2016 13:25 (eight years ago) link

it really is. thanks for running this, soref.

oculus lump (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2016 13:43 (eight years ago) link

hah, I get it now

I didn't vote in the album poll, but it would probably just be chronological. Hardcores do mess that up though. Can't decide if the 1st or 2nd is better.

New Traditionalists is a bit underrated, I think. Needs more teeth but that middle stretch - "Going Under", "Race of Doom", and "Love Without Anger" - is gold. I think "Race of Doom" is one of Devo's great underrated songs, my roommate would frequently complain about how stupidly catchy it was.

frogbs, Thursday, 14 July 2016 13:54 (eight years ago) link

in the 33⅓ book on Freedom of Choice, Robert Margouleff says he was disappointed that Devo didn't ask him back to co-produce New Traditionalists, and that he thought he could have improved it:

“To this day, I don’t understand why they didn’t ask me to do the next record,” says Bob Margouleff. “I think they figured they had learned enough from that experience to do it themselves. And I don’t fault them for it, but I think I could have made a much hotter record than the first one. But they chose to do it on their own, and the results speak for themselves. It’s not that I haven’t offered.


I've always thought that the sound on New Traditionalists is kind of flat and drab compared to it's predecessor. it seems like kind of a transitional album as well, halfway between Freedom of Choice where they were a live band that incorporates synths on Oh No, It's Devo where they felt like a fully fledged electronic/studio deal

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 14:10 (eight years ago) link

sorry, I mean
Freedom of Choice = live band that uses synths
Oh No = studio/electronic act

with New Traditionalists neither quite one thing or the other

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link

https://smlycdn.akamaized.net/data/product2/2/a19082009fe0fbe08ace09c4e8a45e6364a1e60c_m.jpg

4. Oh, No! It's Devo
26 points / 8 votes / 3 first place votes

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 14:16 (eight years ago) link

i really like the halfway house sound of NT.

mark e, Thursday, 14 July 2016 14:18 (eight years ago) link

yeah I dunno if it's the transitional aspect of it that bothers me, more that it seems to be mastered for cassette. just sounds flat.

frogbs, Thursday, 14 July 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link

also wtf at not including "Mecha-Mania Boy". I would've voted for it too but I forgot it existed.

frogbs, Thursday, 14 July 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link

Oh No! also has a great B-side - "Find Out"

frogbs, Thursday, 14 July 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link

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3. Freedom of Choice
30 points / 9 votes / 1 first place vote

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:09 (eight years ago) link

genuinely surprised that oh, no! placed above new traditionalists - and with 3 first place votes! though it's got some classic material ("big mess"!), it's the point where the cracks really start to show: uneven songwriting, palpable lack of enthusiasm.

oculus lump (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link

Yeah but it is consistently fun. I can see it appealing to those who are in it just for the catchy tunes. Sadly it prevents this from going in chronological order, which is really as it should be - though I would argue that FoC > Duty

frogbs, Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:32 (eight years ago) link

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1866/2731/1600/devo%2079.jpg

2. Duty Now for the Future
38 points / 13 votes / 2 first place votes

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Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
60 points / 14 votes / 7 first place votes

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link

no surprise, it's pretty much a perfect album

frogbs, Thursday, 14 July 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link

come back jonee kind of sticks out like a sore thumb on it

the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Thursday, 14 July 2016 16:33 (eight years ago) link

there was one vote apiece for Hardcore Devo Live, Recombo DNA, Devo Live: The Mongoloid Years, EZ Listening, Greatest Hits, Greatest Misses and Hardcore Devo Volume Two (I had one vote for the 2cd set that collects vol 1 & 2 of Hardcore, and added this to the points for Hardcore Devo Volume One). no votes for any of the post-Oh No studio albums.

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 16:35 (eight years ago) link

everyone who did an album ballot voted for the debut, and all but one had it ranked either first or second.

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 16:37 (eight years ago) link

i too would have voted debut #1, nothing else by this band, or very few other bands to be honest, comes close.

its an absolutely perfect album.

mark e, Thursday, 14 July 2016 17:07 (eight years ago) link

i am curious how many songs from the debut will be in the top 10, could be one of those polls where one album totally dominates the upper reaches

Best Beloved Trump-Pence (some dude), Thursday, 14 July 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link

I've always thought that the sound on New Traditionalists is kind of flat and drab compared to it's predecessor. it seems like kind of a transitional album as well, halfway between Freedom of Choice where they were a live band that incorporates synths on Oh No, It's Devo where they felt like a fully fledged electronic/studio deal

From Wiki:

New Traditionalists was recorded on a then-new brand of 2" tape from 3M. Unfortunately, when Devo began recording the vocals for the album, the edges of the tape had begun to disintegrate. After asking Warner Bros. if they could start over and re-record the album from scratch and being denied, Devo transferred all the work they had done to digital reel-to-reel tape and finished the album via digital recording at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, California.[4] All of this resulted in New Traditionalists having a murkier and darker sound than previous Devo albums.

FWIW, the current CD remaster sounds fantastic, and is bolstered by some strong bonus tracks, most of which are Oh No... outtakes from the Recombo collection.

Kenneth Without Anger (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 14 July 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link

FWIW, the current CD remaster sounds fantastic

oh damn yes, the difference between this version and the crappy UK/Virgin issue is massive ..

mark e, Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link

I'm going to make a start on the tracks now, don't know how may I'll post tonight as I may be called away in a bit

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link

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Mechanical Man
72 points / 4 votes

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link

gah, that's number 40

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link

i wish i had added to the album poll ..

just had stuff on all week, and i was struggling to figure out how to reduce my love to just 5.

1. are we not men.
2. new trad.
3. oh no..
4. now it can be told.
5. FOC/Something for everybody/DTNFTF/etc

could never have done a tracks poll though.

mark e, Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link

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*TIE* 37. Strange Pursuit
73 points / 3 votes / 1 first place vote

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*TIE* 37. Turn Around
73 points / 4 votes

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*TIE* 37. Race of Doom
73 points / 3 votes

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:22 (eight years ago) link

The burying of "Turn Around" is weird..."Whip It" b-side, covered by Nirvana, only album appearance is Greatest Misses, currently available on itunes individually or as part of a "digital 45' w/the ol' topside.

Kenneth Without Anger (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link

yeah I might have voted for it had I not completely forgotten about it

I mentioned that upthread too, Devo had a lot of weirdly great B-sides

frogbs, Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link

"Turn Arounnd" may be the only song I've voted for in 2 different artist polls, it was #14 on my Nirvana ballot and #8 on my Devo ballot.

Best Beloved Trump-Pence (some dude), Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link

only 3 votes for "Race of Doom" is unfortunate, y'all need to throw that one on again

the version from that 1981 Seattle disc is great. bonk-bonk-bonk! bonk-bonk-bonk!!

frogbs, Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:40 (eight years ago) link

Turn Around was one of the last things I cut from my ballot, but I could have easily replaced #11 - 20 on my ballot with another 10 tracks I like just as much. this was hard!

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link

"race of doom" was my #6! ("turn around" also made my ballot, though it was ranked below "penetration in the centerfold" and "mecha-mania boy".)

the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link

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36. Pink Pussycat
74 points / 4 votes

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:54 (eight years ago) link

not a fan of that one at all.
find it annoying.

mark e, Thursday, 14 July 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link

definitely ranks on my "I'm sure this is disgusting but I don't want to contemplate how" list

frogbs, Thursday, 14 July 2016 19:12 (eight years ago) link

I like it! the demo version from Recombo DNA is pretty neat as well, slightly slower, it sounds kind of slinky and squirrelly at the same time (and disgusting as well, of course)

https://youtu.be/bhoH9q8uA7M?t=12m34s

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 19:20 (eight years ago) link

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PwktUdTzsm0/UZeD-NvoFWI/AAAAAAAAMq4/As9doWv6VWk/s1600/mark+mothersbaugh+1978+horn-rim+eyeglasses.jpg

35. Too Much Paranoias
86 points / 4 votes

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 19:24 (eight years ago) link

^ was expecting this one to be higher

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link

me too .. that's very unexpected.

mark e, Thursday, 14 July 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link

always the song I think of when someone talks about something having an "angular" riff

frogbs, Thursday, 14 July 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link

my #3!

the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Thursday, 14 July 2016 19:39 (eight years ago) link

http://67.media.tumblr.com/b65256b94cc755e3a639345557ccf112/tumblr_mi7xqyrYSF1qzz7quo1_1280.jpg

Love Without Anger
87 points / 5 votes

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link

Mechanical Man is great -- I'd have ranked it higher than twenty, but it's an uncredited semi-cover which is kinda uncool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8g_t2tfbz8

Three Word Username, Thursday, 14 July 2016 19:49 (eight years ago) link

xp sorry, Love Without Anger is number 34

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 19:50 (eight years ago) link

have folks here seen the comic book space girl blues is based on?

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/12/10/comic-book-legends-revealed-290/

the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Thursday, 14 July 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link

i will post a video re a 12" that i had totally forgotten about at the end if it does not turn up in the rundown.
took me ages to find it in the archive once i remembered about it.

mark e, Thursday, 14 July 2016 19:58 (eight years ago) link

I don't really mind that much about them not crediting Bent Bolt and the Nuts given how much of their material is reworking and combining bits of art/music/adverts etc. I like how they take the implicit creepyness of the idea of a servile + amorous robot, and run with it

soref, Thursday, 14 July 2016 19:58 (eight years ago) link

http://punkygibbon.co.uk/images/d/devo/jocko_7_us_400.jpg

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7. Jocko Homo
410 points / 16 votes

soref, Sunday, 17 July 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link

WOw I thought that was either win or be #2.

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 17 July 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link

interested to hear what people's definitive version of Jocko Homo is - the version from The Truth About De-Evolution? the single version? the Eno produced version from the album? one of the super-long versions from a live bootleg? other?

soref, Sunday, 17 July 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link

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6. Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy
437 points / 15 votes / 2 first place votes

soref, Sunday, 17 July 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link

I just got back from my local antique mall where they were having a big sale. Picked up a Devo shirt in perfect condition for $7. It's a good day.

Kitchen Person, Sunday, 17 July 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link

1. Gates of Steel
2. Beautiful World

^my top two...

my 3 & 4 prolly on their way

Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 17 July 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link

I have a feeling Uncontrollable Urge is going to be number one but I'm really hoping Smart Patrol/Mr DNA can get there.

Kitchen Person, Sunday, 17 July 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link

http://images.45cat.com/devo-girl-you-want-virgin.jpg

5. Girl U Want
438 points / 18 votes / 1 first place vote

soref, Sunday, 17 July 2016 18:51 (eight years ago) link

http://deeperintomovies.net/journal/image09/0911shorts040.jpg

4. Mongoloid
447 points / 16 votes / 1 first place vote

soref, Sunday, 17 July 2016 21:27 (eight years ago) link

all three versions of Mongoloid from the 1979 Devo covers album Devotees are up on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zfdrOQ0DU4

soref, Sunday, 17 July 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/31/Devo_freedom_of_choice.jpg http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/c7249ed34ecc2f3d35332a6a348a8a4a/2375268.jpg

3. Freedom of Choice
471 points / 19 votes / 1 first place vote

soref, Sunday, 17 July 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link

I am sensing the presence of voters who have not heard the first two albums...

Three Word Username, Sunday, 17 July 2016 22:09 (eight years ago) link

1 & 2 will be from the first 2 albums, if they are what I think they are.

24 Hour Sex Ban Man (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 July 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link

Uncontrollable Urge and Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA for sure. The order is the only mystery.

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 17 July 2016 22:13 (eight years ago) link

Stoked to chew through this poll; tried to cram listening to enough of the Hardcore comps to feel like I could put an informed ballot together but didn't quite make it. "Gates of Steel" would have been my #1, eh.

First came across "Snoball" via the sample in Felix da Housecat's "Sweetfrosti":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieu959PeBjU

Hadn't realised that he'd sampled "That's Good" six years earlier w/"Control Freaq" (or that Devo had been sampled by, uh, Colleen Green & Cut Copy).

etc, Sunday, 17 July 2016 22:13 (eight years ago) link

I'll post the last two at once:

soref, Sunday, 17 July 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/2014/article/watch-devo-hardcore-live-uncontrollable-urge-20141216/177809/large_rect/1418746831/1401x788-DEVO_white_by_Richard_Peterson.jpg

2. Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
543 points / 18 votes / 4 first place votes

1. Uncontrollable Urge
579 points / 22 votes / 2 first place votes

soref, Sunday, 17 July 2016 22:20 (eight years ago) link

here's the full results with number of points/ number of votes / number of first place votes:

1. Uncontrollable Urge 579 / 22 / 2
2. Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA 543/ 18 / 4
3. Freedom of Choice 471 / 19 / 1
4. Mongoloid 447 / 16 / 1
5. Girl U Want 438 / 18 / 1
6. Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy 437 / 15 / 2
7. Jocko Homo 410 / 16
8. Gates of Steel 393 / 15 / 1
9. Beautiful World 373 / 13 / 2
10. I Can't Get No Satisfaction 354 / 15
11. Whip It 293 / 13 / 1
12. Through Being Cool 288 / 15
13. Space Junk 280 / 11 / 1
14. Peek-A-Boo! 265 / 12
15. Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin') 249 / 10 / 2
16. The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize 224 / 11
17. Jerkin Back and Forth 204 / 10
18. Big Mess 200 / 9

18. Snowball 200/ 9 / 1
20. That's Good 182 / 10
21. Clockout 168 / 8
22. Be Stiff 168 / 8
23. S.I.B. 159 / 8 / 1
24. Speed Racer 158 / 7 / 1
25. Wiggly World 157 / 8
26. Blockhead 154 / 7
27. Going Under 148 / 7
28. Come Back Jonee 141 / 7
29. Shrivel Up 130 / 7
30. Time Out For Fun 126 / 6
31. It’s Not Right 104/ 4
32. That's Pep 102 / 4 / 1
33. Praying Hands 98 / 5
34. Love Without Anger 87 / 5
35. Too Much Paranoias 86 / 4
36. Pink Pussycat 74 / 4
37. Strange Pursuit 73 / 3 / 1
37. Turn Around 73 / 4
37. Race of Doom 73 / 3
40. Mechanical Man 72 / 4

41. Penetration In The Centrefold 70 / 3
42. I’m A Potato 69/ 3
43. Social Fools 65 / 3
43. Planet Earth 65 / 3
45. Working In The Coal Mine 61/ 4
46. Mecha-Mania Boy 60/ 3
47. Auto Modown/Space Girl Blues 50 / 2
48. Faster And Faster 49/ 3
49. Ono 47/ 2
50. Uglatto 46 / 2
50. Soo Bawls 46 / 3
50. Ton O Love 46/ 3
53. Secret Agent Man 38 / 2
54. What I must do 36/ 1
54. RU Experienced 36/ 2
56. Post Post Modern Man 35 / 2
57. Red Eye 34 / 2
57. Mr. B's Ballroom 34 /2
57. Disco Dancer 34/2
57. Stop Look and Listen 34 / 2
61. Worried Man 33 / 1
61. Puppet Boy 32 / 2
61. U got me bugged 32 / 2
64. Can You Take It? 30 / 2
64. I Desire 30 / 2
64. Theme From Doctor Detroit 30/1
64. The Satisfied Mind 30/1
68. Don't Shoot (I'm a Man) 29/ 2
69. Timing X 26 / 1
70. My My Hey Hey 25 / 1
71. Triumph of the Will 23 / 1
72. Bushwacked 22/ 1
72. No Place Like Home 22
74. Modern Life 21/1
75. The Rope Song 20/ 1
76. A Plan For U 19/ 1
76. Pity You 19 / 1
78. Golden Energy 18/1
78. Don’t You Know 18/ 1
80. Find Out 17/1
81. Enough Said 16 / 1
81. Explosions 16/1
83. Midget 15/ 1
84. Go Monkey Go 14 /1
85.Happy Guy 13 /1
85. Watch Us Work It 13 / 1
85. Chango 13 / 1
88. I’m Lost At Home 12 / 1
88. Time Bomb 12 / 1
88. Fresh 12/1
88. Nu-Tra Speaks (New Traditionalist Man) 12 / 1

soref, Sunday, 17 July 2016 22:23 (eight years ago) link

tracks from the first 5 albums that received no votes:

Devo Corporate Anthem
Cold War
Soft Things
The Super Thing
Out of Sync
Pattens
Deep Sleep

Cold War and Out of Sync were two of the last things I cut from my ballot, I probably would have found room for them if I'd known

soref, Sunday, 17 July 2016 22:25 (eight years ago) link

thanks again to everyone who voted!

soref, Sunday, 17 July 2016 22:25 (eight years ago) link

Not too surprised at the (deserving) winner, my #2.

Great poll, soref, thanks for running this one!

pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Sunday, 17 July 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link

This was a hoot!

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 17 July 2016 22:31 (eight years ago) link

Nice one, all of my tracks were in the Top 40 somewhere or other... which must mean something, don't know what... oops, all of my tracks but one.

24 Hour Sex Ban Man (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 July 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link

Great poll soref. Thanks for running it.

Uncontrollable Urge is a great song and a worthy winner but I did hope Smart Patrol might be number one. It's one of my favourite songs ever. This live performance is ridiculously exciting https://youtu.be/0UKtZwWLMp8

Kitchen Person, Sunday, 17 July 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link

Oh I got the top 2 mixed up. SP/MrDNA was my #2.

pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Sunday, 17 July 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link

love this photo of them at a skatepark

https://pregnantminds.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/devomalba_pamona1.jpg

soref, Sunday, 17 July 2016 22:42 (eight years ago) link

votes that got scalped :(

I'm a Potato
Red Eye
Faster and Faster
Time Bomb

Best Beloved Trumppence (contenderizer), Monday, 18 July 2016 01:14 (eight years ago) link

Now regretting not voting for Watch Us Work It, not that another vote would've gotten it in the top 40. As far as comeback singles go, that one's way up there.

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 July 2016 01:25 (eight years ago) link

I'm not so keen on Watch Us Work It, partly because it's a reworking of an Oh No era track called Part Of You which is much better imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkB-ssGU00o

I do like their performance of Watch Us Work It they performed on Yo Gabba Gabba though, and prefer this arrangement to the single version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvtwTi_oC78

soref, Monday, 18 July 2016 01:36 (eight years ago) link

I think the only album that had zero votes for any of its tracks (unless you count Adventures of the Smart Patrol) was Something Else for Everybody which is a shame as it's good, maybe better than Something for Everybody. (there is some good stuff on Something for Everybody though, especially Later Is Now and Fresh)

soref, Monday, 18 July 2016 01:45 (eight years ago) link

Since we're just posting stuff now, wanted to re-rep for "Faster and Faster", one of my all-time favorites, if anything too low on my ballot. Working an underexplored lonely conventioneer tech-noir angle that suits Devo all too well. Plus catchy as heck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvw21UhMGvo

Faster, faster...

In this hour of darkness
Just before I say goodbye
Smoke a teflon cigarette
I chew my cyanide Clorets
I write down a fake confession
And I send it off to you

You did it

Swim up the river
Shoot them my head
Bury the hatchet
In the fertile riverbed

Drive my car over a cliff
See myself lying dead
They tortured me
With the cable tv

In this hour of darkness
Everything's turned gray
Now it's time for all good things
To pass away

Don't ask me why, why, why
We all must go, go, go go go

You did it, faster

Now the tears run from my eyes
But it seems like there's no running from the lies
My heart, my poor heart plays tricks on my mind

Best Beloved Trumppence (contenderizer), Monday, 18 July 2016 02:13 (eight years ago) link

This poll followed the same pattern as the Van Halen poll - every song from the 1978 debut album makes Top 40*, nothing makes Top 40 from any album post-'84 (Van Halen) or '82 (Devo)

*(in Van Halen's case one song made #41)

Josefa, Monday, 18 July 2016 02:16 (eight years ago) link

Correction: I think about three Van Halen songs post '84 made their list, something like that

Josefa, Monday, 18 July 2016 02:17 (eight years ago) link

Faster and Faster is great, I couldn't find room for it on my ballot but it's impressive that it managed to pick up three votes considering its relative obscurity. I think it was recorded around the time of the Oh No It's Devo album (it seems to have evolved into Luv-Luv which came out in 1983, so it must be before that), you're right about underexplored, it feels like another direction they could have gone in as they moved into the mid-80s, but didn't

soref, Monday, 18 July 2016 02:28 (eight years ago) link

Jocko Homo was my #1, so I don't know if my ballot got left out, or just the first place marker got forgotten. Either way, I don't think it changes the results much. Thanks for running it!

Vinnie, Monday, 18 July 2016 06:15 (eight years ago) link

gah, sorry - I forgot to add the first place marker, the only first place for Jocko Homo. Your ballot was definitely included though!

soref, Monday, 18 July 2016 13:28 (eight years ago) link

brilliant poll soref - ta for doing this.

while all this was going on i remembered a random 12" single that i picked up years ago that i seemed to recall having some DEVO involvement. took some digging out, but i found it on thursday.
its not been mentioned in the thread to date ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnxOY4soITM

summary : DEVO vs Bill Paxton !!

mark e, Monday, 18 July 2016 14:08 (eight years ago) link

Here's my full ballot:

1. Beautiful World
2. Gates of Steel
3. Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
4. Mongoloid
5. Blockhead
6. Freedom of Choice
7. Jocko Homo
8. That's Good
9. Girl U Want
10. Satisfaction
11. Uncontrollable Urge
12. Big Mess
13. Red Eye
14. Snowball
15. Peek-a-Boo
16. RU Experienced
17. Midget
18. Speed Racer
19. Don't Shoot (I'm a Man)
20. Mechanical Man

Three Word Username, Monday, 18 July 2016 14:10 (eight years ago) link

Songs
1. Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin')
2. Gut Feeling / (Slap Your Mammy)
3. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
4. Mongoloid
5. Be Stiff
6. Space Junk
7. Jocko Homo
8. Clockout
9. Uncontrollable Urge
10. Freedom of Choice
11. Whip It
12. Through Being Cool
13. Girl U Want
14. Come Back Jonee
15. S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain)
16. That's Good
17. Shrivel-Up
18. Penetration in the Centrefold
19. That's Pep!
20. Love Without Anger

Albums:
1. Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
2. Freedom of Choice
3. New Traditionalists
4. Duty Now for the Future
5. Oh, No! It's Devo

24 Hour Sex Ban Man (Tom D.), Monday, 18 July 2016 14:26 (eight years ago) link

TRACKS

Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin')
Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy
Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
Freedom of Choice
Big Mess
Beautiful World
Gates of Steel
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Mongoloid
Girl U Want
Uncontrollable Urge
That's Good
Jerkin' Back 'N' Forth
Whip It
Jocko Homo
Peek-A-Boo
Shrivel-Up
Through Being Cool
Happy Guy
Be Stiff

ALBUMS

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Freedom of Choice
New Traditionalists
Oh No! It's Devo
Duty Now for the Future

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 July 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link

Here's my list:

smart patrol/mr. dna
peek-a-boo!
too much paranoias
penetration in the centerfold
auto modown/space girl blues
race of doom
s.i.b.
social fools
mecha-mania boy
praying hands
ono
turn around
uncontrollable urge
wiggly world
speed racer
can you take it?
soo bawls
go monkey go
chango
clockout

albums:

Q?A!
Hardcore Vol. 1
Duty Now
Devo Live: The Mongoloid Years
NuTra

Here's some tracks I wanted to put on but had to cut:

space junk
blockhead
golden energy
u got me bugged
pink pussycat
red eye
sloppy
tunnel of life
mongoloid
mechanical man

the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Monday, 18 July 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link

Uncontrollable Urge
Smart Patrol/Mr DNA
Freedom of Choice
Mongoloid
Beautiful World
Gut Feeling
Gates of Steel
Girl U Want
Jocko Homo
Peek-a-Boo!
The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize
Through Bein' Cool
Blockhead
Sloppy
Stop Look and Listen
That's Good
Mechanical Man
Jerkin' Back 'n' Forth
S.I.B.
Too Much Paranoias

Albums

Are We Not Men
Oh No, it's
EZ Listening
Duty Now
Hardcore Devo Live

suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Monday, 18 July 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link

thanks for doing this. can't argue with the results, though I was surprised to see "Gut Feeling" only get #6 - thought that and "Smart Patrol" were gonna be 1 and 2

frogbs, Monday, 18 July 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link

Tracks:
1. Space Junk
2. Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
3. Jocko Homo
4. Be Stiff
5. Wiggly World
6. Timing X
7. Uncontrollable Urge
8. Gates of Steel
9. Mongoloid
10. Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy
11. Satisfaction
12. Peek-a-Boo
13. That’s Pep!
14. The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprize
15. Pink Pussycat
16. Whip It
17. Workin’ in a Coal Mine
18. Girl U Want
19. That’s Good
20. Freedom of Choice

Albums:
1. Q: Are We Not Men?
2. Duty Now

pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Monday, 18 July 2016 15:46 (eight years ago) link

I've been delving into deep Devo cuts for this and this Newbeats cover is by far the worst pre-90s Devo song I have ever heard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsST889zw4A

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 18 July 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link

1. Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
2. Freedom of Choice
3. Jerkin' Back 'N' Forth
4. Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy)
5. Beautiful World
6. Uncontrollable Urge
7. Secret Agent Man
8. Girl U Want
9. Praying Hands
10. Faster and Faster
11. Through Being Cool
12. It's Not Right
13. Mongoloid
14. Space Junk
15. Turn Around
16. Gates of Steel
17. Strange Pursuit
18. Blockhead
19. The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize
20. Nu-Tra Speaks (New Traditionalist Man)

Kenneth Without Anger (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 July 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link

soo! bawlz! too! low! j/k my #1 was beautiful world, i saw that video way too many times way too young

orifex, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 06:40 (eight years ago) link

tracks from the first 5 albums that received no votes:

Devo Corporate Anthem
Cold War
Soft Things
The Super Thing
Out of Sync
Pattens
Deep Sleep

I missed this poll completely. I'm kind of obsessed with Cold War right now so I would've voted had I known.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 07:11 (eight years ago) link

My ballot:

TRACKS
1. Mongoloid
2. Space Junk
3. Come Back Jonee
4. Girl U Want
5. Going Under
6. Jerkin’ Back ‘n’ Forth
7. Freedom of Choice
8. Speed Racer
9. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
10. Beautiful World
11. Whip It
12. Love Without Anger
13. Pity You
14. Peek-A-Boo
15. I Desire
16. Uncontrollable Urge
17. Jocko Homo
18. That’s Good
19. Time Out for Fun
20. Through Being Cool

ALBUMS
1. Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
2. Freedom Of Choice
3. New Traditionalists
4. Oh No! It’s Devo!
5. Duty Now For The Future

Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 11:16 (eight years ago) link

just tried to learn Pink Pussycat on guitar then tried playing along to the record. FAST! damn these Devo boys were on fire.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 22:48 (eight years ago) link


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