but wasn't that always the point re devo ?
their cartoonish overtones vs their adult f*cked'upness ..
hence why they are one of the few bands you can fall for hard when a young'un and still appreciate as you enter your more mature years ..
or is that just a heavy dose of transference on my side ?
― mark e, Thursday, 4 April 2013 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
They started off mocking paternalism (appeaaling and exciting to youth). Then post Whip It they continually dished out advice in a fairly paternalistic way. Perhaps mirroring this idea that we all get more conservative as we get older?
― everything, Thursday, 4 April 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
Devo was the first band I ever really loved, at the age of 6...my parents went to high school with those dudes!!
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 April 2013 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
mind. officially. blown.
gotta love the wired world we now live in.
― mark e, Thursday, 4 April 2013 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
man this is impossible, maybe mongoloid?
i will throw down hard for new traditionalists, i love that album
― My Chemical Romance did 9/11 (jjjusten), Thursday, 4 April 2013 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
totally.
― mark e, Thursday, 4 April 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
There's a great stretch in the middle - "Going Under", "Race of Doom", and "Love Without Anger" - all three are all-timers for me. I never hear anyone mention "Race of Doom" but the chorus on that one - "Is it on? Is it off? Re-ply!" probably stuck with me more than anything else they did.
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 April 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
haha .. now that is one seriously good call ..
time to dig in the archive ..
i need to hear that now.
― mark e, Thursday, 4 April 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
well, time to order the New Traditionalist re-issue...but I'm a little shocked that this doesn't include "Working In a Coalmine" and "Mecha-Mania Boy"! I mean the former's basically a part of the album (IIRC all the LPs had it as a bonus 7") and the latter is one of their greatest rare tracks. I thought they'd take the opportunity to give it a real official release here.
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 April 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
re new traditionalists yeah .. i got the 7" when i picked up the vinyl edition in miami in '84 when i was on a solo mad young man trip
and now that you mention it, its not good that the track was not part of the remastered edition.
humph.
― mark e, Thursday, 4 April 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
― frogbs
I actually have a spare copy of a reissue of this as I originally got most of my Devo stuff on CD but then replaced it all on vinyl (for no good reason) Is this the version you're after? http://www.discogs.com/Devo-New-Traditionalists/release/2884028 I think it has a hole punch in the bar code but I must have only played it once. You can have it if you want, just drop me an email.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 4 April 2013 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
thats the one i have .. i seriously scoured chicago for the other ones while i was there, but other than 'q: are we not men', to no avail ..
― mark e, Thursday, 4 April 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
Just listening to New Traditionalists now, yeah this is a really good album. It might still be my least favourite of the first five but it's solid. Love that guitar that comes in at 1.14 on Love Without Anger, probably one of my favourite Devo moments.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 4 April 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
thats the one i have ..i seriously scoured chicago for the other ones while i was there, but other than 'q: are we not men', to no avail ..
― mark e
Yeah when I was in America (Minnesota and Chicago) the first few times I was there I got all their albums on CD but they always had different versions/reissues. I hardly ever saw those 2010 issues anywhere, think I actually ordered New Traditionalists in the end. When I went back a year later I was on a vinyl mission and you could always find their albums around, reissues and second hand copies. Freedom of Choice in particular used to pop up all the time second hand.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 4 April 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
Appreciate it KP but I just found a real cheap copy on Amazon
― frogbs, Friday, 5 April 2013 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
Okay no worries.
Has anyone heard the reunion album from 2010? I kept seeing it around and being tempted by it at one point. It's on spotify now, was thinking about giving it a go.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 5 April 2013 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
more detail kp ! i love their last studio album, something for everybody. i think there are specific ilm threads re this return-to-form, but suspect you don't mean that !
― mark e, Friday, 5 April 2013 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
btw : if on spotify .. then surely the 'tude is :
'f*ck it, i have to listen to this ... '
― mark e, Friday, 5 April 2013 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah that's true, just wondering if it was worth my time listening through it really. I actually spent full album price on that B-52's reunion album from a few a years ago and it totally wasn't worth it so Spotify really does help me now buying things I actually enjoy. I just seem to have spent a lot of time recently thinking of albums by bands that I love that I've never heard and going through them on Spotify. I listened to Crash by The Human League yesterday, easily one of the worst albums I've ever heard.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 5 April 2013 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
ooooh .. the devo album is seriously way better than that
― mark e, Friday, 5 April 2013 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
satisfaction
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 5 April 2013 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
Something for Everybody is definitely pretty good but a couple things annoy me about it - one is that a few of the songs are really awful (I'm thinking of "Cameo" here), and two, really, really loud production that makes it a tough listen. But there are some really neat songs there. "No Place Like Home" is really unlike anything else they did.
― frogbs, Friday, 5 April 2013 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy
― ben kvelertak (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 5 April 2013 05:37 (eleven years ago) link
gut feeling all the way
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 5 April 2013 05:46 (eleven years ago) link
they're still good live
devo and gang of four, old ppl who will not make you sad if you see them live
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 5 April 2013 05:47 (eleven years ago) link
Listened to this on the walk to work, going to have to go with 'Uncontrollable Urge', flawless opener.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 5 April 2013 08:35 (eleven years ago) link
Uncontrollable POLL: Best Track on Q: Are We Not Men?
― billstevejim, Monday, 8 April 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
man i KNEW we had done this, pretty sure i voted 'gut feeling/slap yr mammy' last time so voting 'uncontrollable urge' this time
― balls, Monday, 8 April 2013 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
all those posts wasted for nothing..
― nostormo, Monday, 8 April 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
I wish it were possible to add keywords to threads to make searches more productive.
― The Complete Afterbirth of the Cool (WilliamC), Monday, 8 April 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
I think I voted for Gut Feeling as well, thinkin about Prayin Hands or the Satisfaction cover
― que sera sriracha (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 8 April 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
a little surprised by the lack of "space junk" chatter on here
― original bgm, Monday, 8 April 2013 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
outside of Shrivel Up and maybe Too Much Paranoias I think every song here is pretty defensible
― frogbs, Monday, 8 April 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
as a choice for this poll, that is. every song is good but so many of them are really good
yeah, I get that. but "space junk" rules.
― original bgm, Monday, 8 April 2013 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
"Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy" for me. SO glad to hear that the Hardcore Devos are being reissued - and by the same label that's doing the MX-80 reissue program! I LOVE THE MIDWEST!!
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
everything bonty just said, down to the second exclamation point.
wish there was a 20:10 gut feeling out there somewhere...
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
Ha yeah
― que sera sriracha (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 05:13 (eleven years ago) link
Hey does anyone know where to get the tracks they did with Neil Young from the Human Highway soundtrack? Used to have those and can't seem to find them anymore.
― we browse anonymo (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 09:36 (eleven years ago) link
'Mongoloid'
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 11:44 (eleven years ago) link
I love this, but Jocko Homo has to be the one.
― pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, it's got to be 'Space Junk' really. Such a joyful bounding sprint of a song. Subject matter set against that totally not-arsed delivery and the call-response backing vocals... oh boy. Totally exhilarating song.
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
xxxpost re Human Highway, it's just two songs: "It Takes a Worried Man" which was on a 7 inch and comped a couple of times such as on the Pioneers Who Got Scalped comp and the "We're All Devo" video comp; and "Hey Hey My My" which has never been released except on but you can get it from bootlegs available from Booji Boys Basement. But hey, good old youtube.
― everything, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
This album is so top-to-bottom brilliant that I went with what I think summarizes its greatness: Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy. (And does ILX like/not like Shrivel Up?)
― "Poot yawl hans together" patter. -- Steve Apple, RS (weatheringdaleson), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
i was wondering why nobody's mentioned Jonee itt. voted for it on account of how it was used in the movie rock'n'roll high school.but yes, shrivel is kinda tucked away there and is a groover
― making plans for nyquil (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
Late vote for Gut Feeling.
― More Songs About Buildings and Fuiud (Mr Andy M), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
(Although now feeling sorry for Praying Hands which is another of the great ones that I tend to overlook).
― More Songs About Buildings and Fuiud (Mr Andy M), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
mongoloid
― Bobby McFerrin, Quantum Physicist (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
That was actually the first Devo album I bought!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 28 March 2021 02:45 (three years ago) link