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tonight my mate went to a free gig by noxagt and the guy who was djing played this thing which a recording of a radio phone where callers did versions of devo tunes over the phone. the track that was played was this amazing touch tone phone devo version. anyone know anything about this and if it is possible to track done these tracks?

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

excuse typing mistakes for i am heavily endowed with alcohol this evening

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the Touch Tone Tuners...who appeard on a KROQ album, Devotees.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

cheers alex - mucho help - now i just hope it's slskable

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/imageserver.x/00000000/recordrecycler/mvc057f.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Never released on disc, sadly enough. Some truly entertaining cuts therein.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i really don't want to have to make it my life mission to hear/own this. would it be a lost cause?

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I have it on vinyl locked away in a storage space in Lower Manhattan, but if ya find any mp3s of it, I'd love it if'n ya shared with me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 May 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

mp3s found pretty much at first time of looking. just message me and i'll share em with ya [boomnoise!zoo]

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Friday, 21 May 2004 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Which Devo song(s) did they cover?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 21 May 2004 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's the track listing:

01. Group: Song
02. Knife Lust: Shrivel Up
03. Jupiter: Mongoloid
04. The View: Uncontrollable Urge
05. The Firemen: Jocko Bozo
06. The Deadliners: Mongoloid 07. The Bakersfield Boogie Boys: Okie From Muskogee
08. Lonnie and the Devotions: Jocko Homo
09. The Doguloids: Blockhead
10. The Touch Tone Tuners: Jocko Homo
11. The Sordes: Music inspired by Space Junk
12. Bohonian Plimquins: Gut Feeling

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Friday, 21 May 2004 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Jocko Bozo" is pretty damn entertaining as well, as I remember.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't anyone try to 'phone me this evening - I'm gonna be busy trying to work out how to play Jocko Homo on the handset.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

hahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

did mike get a prize for this thread by the way? i know there have been many thread deletions over time but currently this is #30,000. pretty historic, no? or hysterical maybe

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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