Uncontrollable Urge / (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction / Praying Hands / Space Junk / Mongoloid / Jocko Homo / Too Much Paranoias / Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy) / Come Back Jonee / Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin’) / Shrivel-Up. Q: ARE WE NOT MEN? A: WE ARE DEVO! (1978) Re-packaged with different B side (“Uncontrollable Urge (edit)”) on 7-inch single and colored vinyl 7-inch single on Septemin the US (Warner Bros., WBS-8675), Canada (Warner Bros., WBS-8675) and Japan (Warner Bros., P-343W) with picture sleeve. Released on 7-inch single in July 1977 in the US (Booji Boy/Bomp, 72843-1) with picture sleeve and in April 1978 in the UK (Booji Boy, BOY-1) reached #41 on the UK charts. Re-issued on 7-inch single on Februin the UK (Booji Boy/Stiff, DEV-1) with A and B sides flipped reached #62 on the UK charts.ī/w Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Getting). Released on 7-inch single in December 1976 in the US (Booji Boy). As with Kraftwerk, their clearest precedent, Devo’s unrevolutionary stance in later years isn’t a sign of defeat, but rather that the war had already been won with remarkable efficiency. Yet revolution is a transitional state, not one of permanence, and Devo had brought the revolution full circle from chaos to mind control within their first four or five records. It is admittedly difficult to draw a line between “Uncontrollable Urge” and Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs without introducing the idea of a commercial sellout or softening with age. In the 1990s, Mark Mothersbaugh made the transition to film and television scores, including Rugrats and The LEGO Movie. Oh No! It’s Devo began to show signs that the machines had taken over (the videos were far more interesting than the music), and everything from Shout onward suggested a band going through the mechanical motions. Fortunately for us, the band used flower pots and potatoes to get their point across, rather than tanks and prisons.ĭevo’s first four albums are absolutely essential. Of course, de-evolution was really just the next phase of the rock & roll revolution, which both cannibalized its founders and replaced the laws and mores of the past with new beliefs. By the time they released their first album, Q: Are We Not Men?, the band’s strange theory of de-evolution was already in mid-mutation. “I think Devo may be the most misunderstood band ever to show up on the planet.” – Gerald Casale, in a 1984 interview with Charlie Rose.ĭevo was one of the most important art-rock bands to emerge in the Seventies.
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