Devo - Oh No It's Devo
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Music CD Cover Artist: Devo Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2005-06-28 Music Label: Collectables Soundtracks:
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Free Music Review: Oh, yes! It's Devo
Hit: 4 Stars
Like some other reviewers have mentioned, I'm surprised at the nay-saying I'm hearing about this album lately. "This was the beginning of the end of Devo" and other such horse crap. I'd been into Devo since their first SNL appearance (late 1978/early '79?) and I don't recall this album having anything to do with any sort of decline or downfall. I know it never really qualified as a "hit" album per se, but I recall it being very well received by the fanbase, which by this time (late 1982) had boiled down a bit; it had been a couple of years since Whip It ruled the airwaves, and many Jonee-cum-lately fans had moved on to greener pastures. Maybe Oh No wasn't exactly the band at their peak, but it's an excellent album. As I recall, Devo referred to it as their "evil clown period". I sort of consider it to be part of an unofficial "Devo Phase II" trilogy that began in 1980 with Freedom of Choice, continued with New Traditionalists in 1981, and ended with this. It was the follwing album, 1984's Shout, that made it clear that Devo had run out of juice and was no longer vital. I'm loving their new comeback album and all, but I would argue that this was Devo's last truly great classic album. I could be mistaken, but I often hear hints of this record in a good bit of techno, at least up to the mid-1990s. I don't mean actual samples, just a general influence. In any case, make no mistake: Oh No It's Devo is quintessential and a must-own for even the most casual spud.