Devo - Q: Are We Not Men
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Free Music Review: We're All Devo
Hit: 5 Stars
Okay, let's flashback in time. It's 1978, the height of the disco era and one can only wonder what the future of rock and roll will hold. Then, come one seminal moment in the history of rock, one television's Saturday Night Live, these young men from Akron, Ohio come out on stage in their yellow radioactive suits and perform "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" and put a little fun back into rock and roll.Twenty-five years later, this disc remains a classic. Devo has always been hard to sort of pigeonhole or label. Perhaps, that is why their music is just as fresh now as it was back then.
Having Brian Eno and David Bowie in the wings did not hurt at all and one can only wonder if Eno had worked with the band more in later years what sort of the direction the band could have taken.
Nonetheless, Devo has never really enjoyed the fame that they rightfully deserved, but that's okay. Maybe that is why when you listen to them now their music defies any genre labels that have been the death knell for other bands from the same era.
Hey, this is some of the zaniest music with some of the craziest lyrics you will ever hear on a disc.
But don't just take my word for it. Buy the disc, slap it on and have yourself an enjoyable "devo" moment.
Free Music Review: D-e-v-o...
Hit: 5 Stars
This album shook up a lot of us who were in a comfortable scene of rock and roll and disco, but it beckoned...there was something about that scene that was just not *there*, and new wave had to come in and take rock and roll to some new heights. This album was one of them, amidst the quirky B-52's, Cars, Talking Heads and all the punk that was around. Very easy to dismiss, DEVO did have something to say...and I must admit I was VERY weary of these 'nerds' from Akron. The more I listened, the more I realized that there was really something there with this album - and it is enamored in my 'hall of fame' of great wave albums ever made.My difficulty with DEVO was taking all that I ever had in regards to what makes up 'good music' and throwing it aside - and that was old school 'Genesis' kind of skills, along with the ability to really rock out (which is why Styx and Journey got so popular!). Taking that one step further, I always admired a band that went further than that - and DEVO managed to take my so-called 'musical sensibilities' aside and show a side of music that was stripped-down, angry, fun - all wrapped up into one. Give these 'taters' a few minutes of your time, and you just might get a 'big surprise' (to quote one of their songs...)
Free Music Review: Come in, Booji Boy!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the album that re-defined music and is considered one of the most ground-breaking albums in music history. Damn straight. Released in 1978, when everyone was shaking their hairy butts to disco fever, geeks and misfits everywere were rocking out to the robotic riffs of 5 spudboys from Akron, O-hi-O. However, lots of people say this the only good album Devo ever made.... It's not my favorite Devo album (that honor would go to Duty Now For The Future) but it still kicks major rump. The synth was not yet made a necessity and as a result, plenty of guitars abound. Every single track rocks the house down, especially the underrated masterpiece "Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy". "(Sloppy)I Saw My Baby Gettin" is hilarious and you just can't resist chanting along to the classic Jocko Homo. The album ends perfectly with the ominous and creepy Shrivel Up. A great pastiche of Devo at their prime and one of the most acessable, too. The hideous rendition of Chi Chi Rodriguez on the cover is guaranteed to freak out your parents. Buy it buy it buy it!Free Music Review: The first record I ever bought from the first band I ever loved!
Hit: 5 Stars
I first heard DEVO in 1977 on the Doctor Demento radio show in Los Angeles. The song was Mongoloid and I thought it was brilliant.
It's on this amazing record along with other great twisted funny songs like Jocko Homo, Uncontrollable Urge, an amazing cover of the Stones I Can't Get No (Satisfaction), Shrivel Up and my favorite Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy. It was produced by Brian Eno (It was 10 years later before I discovered early 70's Roxy Music...Amazing!)
When this came record out in 1978 it was so far ahead of it's time, that many of my friends would run out the room with their ears plugged when I played this for them. And the best thing about it is that it still sounds fresh today. (They still run out of the room) I got to see DEVO in concert later that year on the Duty Now For The Future Tour (Another Fantastic Record) and they played a cover of The Words Get Stuck In My Throat from the incredibly bad/great japanese monster flick "War Of The Gargantuans", needless to I've been a lifelong DEVO fan ever since.
Free Music Review: The end of a great band
Hit: 5 Stars
Although this is their first official release the band had been around already for 6 years doing their own home recordings and a handful of brilliant strange films. The old recordings, which were put out on the sadly out of print Hardcore Devo compilations were completely brilliant, insanely bizzare and very very unique. This album marks the end of that insane streak of genius and the watering down of Devo as the music got less strange and more bland, this album isn't horrible by any means but it certainly is a tame puppy compared to the recordings that actually got them signed, worse albums were to come as the music got far more mainstream though you could never convince Devo that.If you're new to Devo buy this album then I guess download the Hardcore Devo Vol 1 and 2 albums to hear the REAL Devo, then pretend like they died in a plane crash after those. I really hate their other stuff and hate cruddy 80s music with the similiar sound, did they really HAVE to De-evolve like they did?