Q: Are we not Men? A: We are DEVO!

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20 Jan 2006, 10:37 pm

Devo was the first band that made me feel like someone else understood what it felt like to be born on the wrong planet. Just as William S. Burroughs had the Johnsons versus the s***s, so Devo had the Smart Patrol versus the Spuds.

Favorite albums:
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO!
Duty Now For The Future
Freedom of Choice
New Traditionalists

Favorite tracks:
Jocko Homo
Satisfaction
Uncontrollable Urge
Shrivel Up
Mongoloid
Timing X
Clockout
Devo Corporate Anthem
Secret Agent Man
Red Eye
Girl U Want
Gates of Steel
Freedom of Choice
Beautiful World
Be Stiff

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26 Jan 2006, 8:17 am

Devo ROCK.

My favourite Devo album is Duty Now For The Future - so many great tracks. Favourites include most of the ones you mentioned, but also Strange Pursuit, Blockhead, Smart Patrol/Mr.DNA...

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19 Feb 2014, 8:56 pm

R.I.P. Bob Casale

The OP says it best in that first sentence

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/mu ... z2tnApzX3w

Of course I don't know if the they have been diagnosed but they are autistic as f**k. Stimming party begins at 2:54
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRguZr0xCOc[/youtube]

MONGOLOID HE WAS A MONGOLOID
HAPPIER THAN YOU AND ME
MONGOLOID HE WAS A MONGOLOID
AND IT DETERMINED WHAT HE COULD SEE
MONGOLOID HE WAS A MONGOLOID
ONE CHROMOSOME TOO MANY
MONGOLOID HE WAS A MONGOLOID
AND IT DETERMINED WHAT HE COULD SEE
AND HE WORE A HAT
AND HE HAD A JOB
AND HE BROUGHT HOME THE BACON
SO THAT NO ONE KNEW
MONGOLOID, MONGOLOID
HIS FRIENDS WERE UNAWARE
MONGOLOID, MONGOLOID
NOBODY EVEN CARED
MONGOLOID HE WAS A MONGOLOID
ONE CHROMOSOME TOO MANY
MONGOLOID HE WAS A MONGOLOID
AND IT DETERMINED WHAT HE COULD SEE
AND HE WORE A HAT
AND HE HAD A JOB
AND HE BROUGHT HOME THE BACON
SO THAT NO ONE KNEW

Change Mongoloid to aspie and these lyrics are eerie
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRrISZAF7lo[/youtube]

Song written in 1981 is so prescient
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGINIsLnqU[/youtube]

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20 Feb 2014, 8:03 am

I made a Devo - Jocko Homo referrence on facebook two weeks ago. Sadly it went over everyones head. I found a picture of Batman entering the mens bathroom and in the text bubble he was saying was -- "Are we not men" and I posted the picture and added the text we are Devo in the post and no one got it and I cried a little inside.

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20 Feb 2014, 8:11 pm

I absolutely love those guys! They were big back when I was in high school, but for some reason they hadn't caught fire with me. But today, they are absolutely one of my favorite groups. I especially like Whip It.

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