Devo: Underrated Legends

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

Mongaloid, he’s a mongaloid

 

[Cat tit bingo]

I adore devo, they basically wrote the anthem of the farms.

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They rode that fine line with kinda political stuff like freedom of choice and the corparte anthem and just plain wacky shit like a creepy song version of peek a boo. You also have to respect a band to put out a greatest missed albums, still don't understand how swelling itching brain is on there that's songs amazing.
People like to say devo is nerdy and lame but going under was on Miami vice and that's the definition of cool.

 

[Enig]

DEVO-branded Linux distro, obviously.

Gentoo Booji, the distro of love, the distro where you can't be a spud boy if you wanna compile and comply and where systemd is a one way ticket to being burnt out on the highway of life because to install Gentoo you really gotta be a worried man.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

also Devo was in Heavy Metal as Space Devo

 

[Gan Ying]

My favorite thing about Devo is that each of their albums was worse than the last, which I'm still convinced was (mostly) on purpose. They literally devolved. Although the one they put out in 2010 was definitely better than their last 3 before it. And imo Smooth Noodle Maps is at least something of an improvement over Shout and Total Devo.
Even saying all that I like pretty much all of their albums besides those two.

Their best stuff is Q: Are We Not Men? which is basically a perfect album, and the Hardcore Devo demo tapes which are the greatest collection of musical shitposts ever made. I've personally always loved Duty Now.

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

Like I dont think a band like The Scissor Sisters could exist in a world without Devo.

Uh... Should we really be thanking Devo for giving us the Scissor Sisters?

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Uh... Should we really be thanking Devo for giving us the Scissor Sisters?

They are just one of many that paved the way for bands like that to exist.

 

[David Floyd George]

Their best stuff is Q: Are We Not Men? which is basically a perfect album, and the Hardcore Devo demo tapes which are the greatest collection of musical shitposts ever made. I've personally always loved Duty Now.

Duty Now is a really, really, really great album. That segue between Smart Patrol and Mr. DNA? Very, very tasty. We shove the poles in the holes!

 

[Spasticus Autisticus]

You could do an iceberg meme of Devo, where the tip of the iceberg is "Whip It", then their studio albums. As you go lower you get into their music video collection, their live albums, "Hardcore Devo", the various demo and outtake compilations, their movie appearances in "Heavy Metal" and "Human Highway", their book "My Struggle" (which I've always wondered if it influenced MDE's book), the computer game, and all the bootlegs available at places like Booji Boy's Basement.

I always liked Devo but hearing "Hardcore Devo" for the first time was an absolute trip. I'm so glad I got to see them perform a bunch of those songs live on their 2014 tour.

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

They are just one of many that paved the way for bands like that to exist.

You misunderstand me. I would not thank Devo for paving the way for "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" torturing my ears for half of 2006.

 

[Enig]

You could do an iceberg meme of Devo, where the tip of the iceberg is "Whip It", then their studio albums. As you go lower you get into their music video collection, their live albums, "Hardcore Devo", the various demo and outtake compilations, their movie appearances in "Heavy Metal" and "Human Highway", their book "My Struggle" (which I've always wondered if it influenced MDE's book), the computer game, and all the bootlegs available at places like Booji Boy's Basement.

I always liked Devo but hearing "Hardcore Devo" for the first time was an absolute trip. I'm so glad I got to see them perform a bunch of those songs live on their 2014 tour.

The real start of the deep Devo descent is when you get into the bootleg volumes 3 and 4 of Hardcore Devo and then listen to Art Devo. They were randomly flying between genres that didn't even exist yet while reworking old songs more times than even David Bowie until they became final album cuts. After that you get the later ones like Oh no! it's DEMOS or the collection of the work Mark did for Pee Wee's Playhouse or even the 90s period where they sort of existed as a band in a gaseous form doing random movie soundtrack cuts or starting a surf rock band for the Rocket Power theme, the DEVO pit is just that ridiculously deep.