@@ffieditor Techno came out long before Devo, but Deve did have a lot of influence on many other Punk and New Wave bands that followed. Whip it was released in 1980.
Mark Mothersbaugh, the band member in the glasses, went on to a successful composing career, doing music for movies like The LEGO Movie and Rushmore, TV shows like Rugrats, Beakman's World, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Pee-Wee's Playhouse, video games like The Sims 2, Crash Bandicoot, and the Jak and Daxter series, and the music for the Apple "Get a Mac" commercials.
Devo had a punk vibe in the new wave scene, reaching back to Dadaism and Absurdity to make a statement about Mankinds de-evolution. They achieved that mark.
I love this song. Was driving home late one night a few months ago and it came on the radio during a "80s flashback" segment. I cranked up the volume and jammed out singing as loud as I could LOL
Not 2 of their best songs at all play their damn albums and live material lol learn they had more overseas hits and how Warner Bros. screwed them pretty much.
The video was inspired by an old Dude magazine article they found about a wealthy guy who opened a dude ranch where he and his wife would perform such a "whiptease" act. The whole cowboy aesthetic of the video is basically their commentary on blue collar America during the Reagan era. "Whip It" the song itself was Jerry Casale's attempt at mimicking the style of "can-do" poems from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. There's obvious (or vague?) double entendres in the lyrics but the band insists it was innocent. If you know any of Devo's other material you know there's no way they weren't aware of the innuendos. The red hats are called "energy domes" and have been variously explained as based on ziggurats or an old art deco lamp, etc. It's one of their signature live gear pieces following 1980, along with the yellow jumpsuits from 1978. The band's catalogue is really solid from the 70s up through '82, I cannot recommend them enough.
more devo! we need devo reactions. they've got like 60 bangers if you're willing to meet 'em half way, which good reactors like yourself do! it's a leap a faith each time i get it, but the best music takes you by trusting aural hand to places you may never have been. or in devo's case, directly transports you to late 70s early 80s. but fr, it's timeless high art type stuff.
Loved DEVO, another fun band of the 80's. I had heard about a show of theirs that had Prince as the opening act. Prince was getting Booed when some ropes dropped from overhead and DEVO slid down them chanting "are we not men, no DEVO". Would love to see them again.
I saw Devo in Chicago right before this album was released. It was the most fun I ever had a concert. About 20 of us friends all went and we had a blast.
You are on a roll! I am loving all the songs you’ve been reacting too!! Lou Reed, Marty Robbins, the Kinks, Devo, B-52’s !!! Keep it up , Please! Best channel on UA-cam 😀
Mark Mothersbaugh still does music. He does the music score for Television shows and cartoons. One notable cartoon was Rugrats (Mark wrote most of the music in the show and the opening score).
Fun song! Back in 1980 when it came out, MTV was not yet launched. (And when it did launch in 1981, my parents were too cheap to buy cable TV anyway! :-) ) So I wasn't really too familiar with this weird video. We mostly just listened to the radio. :-) I wouldn't take the video too seriously. Devo had a fun, warped sense of humor. LOL. I read that when MTV did launch in 1981, there weren't too many promotional music videos around to play, so "Whip It" got a lot of airplay on the new music channel. Back in the day, us cable-TV-free teens had to stay up until midnight on Friday nights to watch "Friday Night Videos" on NBC. There were also live bands performing on "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert," "The Midnight Special" and "Saturday Night Live" on various nights of the week.
always enjoy ALL of your reactions, india, Thank you for the smiles :) this one is right there,... on point. LOVE Devo, they are always good fun, 'freedom of choice' is a favorite.! * I did notice that your intro on this is a bit different than all of the other reactions I have seen, though, heart beat RACED!! I'll say this, my goodness, you are a very pretty & fit lady. wow! with all respect. wow. :)
No one has done this song. thank you. This was like the first New Wave song we heard in the early 80s and we knew something new was a foot. It was a classic. I love the whipping in it.
They actually originally pronounced it like how she said it. They went with dee voh because that is how everyone else said it. Technically she is right
I suffered my worst rolling skating injury to this song when I was in junior high. I skated way too fast- losing it around a curve and crashed into the side of a door. Just too hyped listening to Devo- they were one of my favorites growing up.
This is the MTV era.....music videos made stars out of quirky bands like Devo. Loved all of these. We couldn't wait to see what each band would come up with.
The hats that the band members are wearing are referred to as "power domes", but they do look a lot like flower post. This video was released in 1980, which was a single from DEVO's 1979 album, "FreedomOfChoice". DEVO recorded and toured from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. The band never officially broke up, but the band members found jobs that earned them more money than recording and touring as DEVO. DEVO occasionally made concert appearances until the drummer and lead guitarist died in recent years. Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald "Jerry" Casale are the remaining surviving members of DEVO.
Check their other songs, That’s Good, Satisfaction(Roll Stones cover). Girl U Want, etc…They are insanely good musicians and song writers. Most underrated band EVER!
Gerry Casale while not directly involved in the protest was present at the Kent State massacre and one of his female friends he was with that day was one of the students killed by the National Guardsmen.
They should be in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame dammit! Look up some of their live concert videos, just not from their later years, though. Try live in Japan. They had a huge fan base over there.
Fun 80s song. You should check out Onigo Boingo's Little Girls, Only a Lad, Grey Matter, Just Another Day, Weird Science or Dead Man's Party. The singer is the voice of Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas and now does major movie scores.
Hey one of the facts about this group is they were actually major players in the development of synthesizers. I don't remember what company they actually worked with but basically they worked with one of the companies I believe it was Moog to get the synthesizers that we have today. Mongoloid is one of their greatest songs.
nobody expected this song would take off so the did not use a lot of money in the production! The head gear was flower planters!. Very budget oriented!
A complete classic got me into alternative music and not just the radio hits. Should listen to Freedom of Choice, Girl you want, Beautiful World are all great.
I always thought they looked like upside-down flower pots. But now that I know their energy domes I need to get one. I'm being serious I need to get one
This song is sooo much the early 80's, birth of music videos, punk transitions to new wave. So much history here.
This was start of what was called the Techo music
@@ffieditor Techno came out long before Devo, but Deve did have a lot of influence on many other Punk and New Wave bands that followed. Whip it was released in 1980.
I saw Devo in 1977 before they made it big. I like their humor and music. My favorite song is "Mongoloid".
lucky cowboy
I love their music. I was and still am a fan of Punk and New Wave.
@@andrewluchsinger Me too. My all-time favorite is Nina Hagen.
Were Boojie Boy and the Chinaman present for the performance?
@@stevenfritchie7529 Damn I love that woman's voice.
Mark Mothersbaugh, the band member in the glasses, went on to a successful composing career, doing music for movies like The LEGO Movie and Rushmore, TV shows like Rugrats, Beakman's World, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Pee-Wee's Playhouse, video games like The Sims 2, Crash Bandicoot, and the Jak and Daxter series, and the music for the Apple "Get a Mac" commercials.
I always wanted to know what Devo's home planet looks like.
Looks like Ohio.
Ohio...definitely Ohio
As someone recently moved to Ohio from Arizona... Can confirm. Definitely Ohio.
Pottery barn
Akron Ohio
"Are we not men? No, we're Devo!"
Hella Yeah!.
DEVO Finally got a nomination to be inducted into the Rock Hall of fame this year.
Play NOTHER DEVO TUNE.
Smart Patrol/ Mr DNA
......and Gut Feeling/Slap your mammy....
Devo had a punk vibe in the new wave scene, reaching back to Dadaism and Absurdity to make a statement about Mankinds de-evolution. They achieved that mark.
I never considered Devo as being Dadaist but on a little reflection that's definitely what they are.
Mark Mothersbaugh wrote the Rugrats theme
Devo's cover of The Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" is incredible.
Girl U Want. That would be a great video of theirs to review.
I love this song. Was driving home late one night a few months ago and it came on the radio during a "80s flashback" segment. I cranked up the volume and jammed out singing as loud as I could LOL
Loved Devo,back in the day.This and "Working in a Coalmine' were my faves.
Not 2 of their best songs at all play their damn albums and live material lol learn they had more overseas hits and how Warner Bros. screwed them pretty much.
The video was inspired by an old Dude magazine article they found about a wealthy guy who opened a dude ranch where he and his wife would perform such a "whiptease" act.
The whole cowboy aesthetic of the video is basically their commentary on blue collar America during the Reagan era.
"Whip It" the song itself was Jerry Casale's attempt at mimicking the style of "can-do" poems from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.
There's obvious (or vague?) double entendres in the lyrics but the band insists it was innocent. If you know any of Devo's other material you know there's no way they weren't aware of the innuendos.
The red hats are called "energy domes" and have been variously explained as based on ziggurats or an old art deco lamp, etc. It's one of their signature live gear pieces following 1980, along with the yellow jumpsuits from 1978.
The band's catalogue is really solid from the 70s up through '82, I cannot recommend them enough.
more devo! we need devo reactions. they've got like 60 bangers if you're willing to meet 'em half way, which good reactors like yourself do! it's a leap a faith each time i get it, but the best music takes you by trusting aural hand to places you may never have been. or in devo's case, directly transports you to late 70s early 80s. but fr, it's timeless high art type stuff.
Loved DEVO, another fun band of the 80's. I had heard about a show of theirs that had Prince as the opening act. Prince was getting Booed when some ropes dropped from overhead and DEVO slid down them chanting "are we not men, no DEVO". Would love to see them again.
Prince loved Devo he called them Caucasian James Browns on Marching Powder lol.
I saw Devo in Chicago right before this album was released. It was the most fun I ever had a concert.
About 20 of us friends all went and we had a blast.
You are on a roll! I am loving all the songs you’ve been reacting too!! Lou Reed, Marty Robbins, the Kinks, Devo, B-52’s !!! Keep it up , Please! Best channel on UA-cam 😀
I saw Devo live on TV doing this song the first time. It was amazing. Still afresh and mazing 40 years later.
Mark Mothersbaugh still does music. He does the music score for Television shows and cartoons. One notable cartoon was Rugrats (Mark wrote most of the music in the show and the opening score).
Devo was lots of fun! This song was epic!
I love the diversity of your music
Deeeeeeeee-voe. They made wearing a flower pot on your head COOL as hell.
I got to see them live back in the 80s. They were awesome.
They were my first concert.
Fun song! Back in 1980 when it came out, MTV was not yet launched. (And when it did launch in 1981, my parents were too cheap to buy cable TV anyway! :-) ) So I wasn't really too familiar with this weird video. We mostly just listened to the radio. :-) I wouldn't take the video too seriously. Devo had a fun, warped sense of humor. LOL. I read that when MTV did launch in 1981, there weren't too many promotional music videos around to play, so "Whip It" got a lot of airplay on the new music channel. Back in the day, us cable-TV-free teens had to stay up until midnight on Friday nights to watch "Friday Night Videos" on NBC. There were also live bands performing on "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert," "The Midnight Special" and "Saturday Night Live" on various nights of the week.
I remember this I got out of H.S. in 81 when Mtv had Rock videos on 24/7.
I am here for your vibe!
Flashback to the 80’s! I remember this one!
Loved the song. great reaction!
I love DEVO, I saw them here in Brazil in the early 90s
Have I ever told you how much I love your intro? 😍
always enjoy ALL of your reactions, india, Thank you for the smiles :) this one is right there,... on point. LOVE Devo, they are always good fun, 'freedom of choice' is a favorite.! * I did notice that your intro on this is a bit different than all of the other reactions I have seen, though, heart beat RACED!! I'll say this, my goodness, you are a very pretty & fit lady. wow! with all respect. wow. :)
No one has done this song. thank you. This was like the first New Wave song we heard in the early 80s and we knew something new was a foot. It was a classic. I love the whipping in it.
That “red hat” is an Energy Dome!
it's pronounced "DEE VOH"
YES!
They actually originally pronounced it like how she said it. They went with dee voh because that is how everyone else said it. Technically she is right
Best way to listen to this song is with rollerskates on at the skating rink.
I suffered my worst rolling skating injury to this song when I was in junior high. I skated way too fast- losing it around a curve and crashed into the side of a door. Just too hyped listening to Devo- they were one of my favorites growing up.
That is an absolutely perfect alternative video to this song
DEEE-VO= DEVOLUTION
They were so different I liked them back in college. tv was still very young. When they just did Music videos only at that time still.
😃 Those are flower pots on their heads 😃😃😃
Energy dome hats
Love DEVO!
The theme song from the show Rediculousness is also a Devo song. :)
This is the MTV era.....music videos made stars out of quirky bands like Devo. Loved all of these. We couldn't wait to see what each band would come up with.
Remember when Neil Yong and DEVO hooked up.....now that was a trip.
A classic... definitely unique, even during that New Wave era.
The hats that the band members are wearing are referred to as "power domes", but they do look a lot like flower post. This video was released in 1980, which was a single from DEVO's 1979 album, "FreedomOfChoice". DEVO recorded and toured from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. The band never officially broke up, but the band members found jobs that earned them more money than recording and touring as DEVO. DEVO occasionally made concert appearances until the drummer and lead guitarist died in recent years. Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald "Jerry" Casale are the remaining surviving members of DEVO.
Check their other songs, That’s Good, Satisfaction(Roll Stones cover). Girl U Want, etc…They are insanely good musicians and song writers. Most underrated band EVER!
This was definitely a cute, fun song back in the day, and fell more into the catagory of New Wave type music, that became quite popular in the 80's :)
It’s so absurd.
I love it.
Love this song! Uplifting!
Gerry Casale while not directly involved in the protest was present at the Kent State massacre and one of his female friends he was with that day was one of the students killed by the National Guardsmen.
They should be in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame dammit! Look up some of their live concert videos, just not from their later years, though. Try live in Japan. They had a huge fan base over there.
Fun 80s song. You should check out Onigo Boingo's Little Girls, Only a Lad, Grey Matter, Just Another Day, Weird Science or Dead Man's Party. The singer is the voice of Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas and now does major movie scores.
LOL I just ran across this video the other day. I'd forgotten how kooky it was.
Used memorably in the Ryan Murphy Gianni Versace miniseries.
I believe this was Jr High for me.....loved it. Very popular 👌
I love this!!!
DEVO did a scintillating version of the Rolling Stones "Satisfaction", and performed it on Saturday Night Live.
80s MUSIC IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE AWESOME
Man cannot live on Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin alone. Go DEVO and India!! Yes!!
I remember hearing this on 21 Jump Street. Great times. 😃
The hats were actually planters for potted plants! And there is a reason why. MONEY!
It's not too late, to whip it, whip it good! 🤠👍🏼
OMG! I remember going
to their concert in 1982 Adelaide Sth Australia.. Has it seriously been that many years?
Devo: First band made up of nerds...after Kraftwerk.
Kraftwerk was amazing
Autobahn
Not all nerds nope.
Hey one of the facts about this group is they were actually major players in the development of synthesizers. I don't remember what company they actually worked with but basically they worked with one of the companies I believe it was Moog to get the synthesizers that we have today. Mongoloid is one of their greatest songs.
I’m always a hit at Halloween with that hat
They are smart weird and fun. Try their cover of the Rolling Stone's "satisfaction"
Their best songs in my opinion were Gates of Steel and their cover of R U Xperienced - great video - they made movies (early videos) in the early ‘70s
Devo - Satisfaction
80s music is so freakin awesome!
He whip stripped Tony Basil. LOL I have loved that video since it first came out.
Everytime I watch that video it reminds me of Revenge of the Nerds.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
PLEASE do Smart Patrol / Mister DNA, by DEVO
that song is hilarious!
Would you do a reaction to Postmodern Jukebox? May I suggest "Creep" , "Love Yourself", "Welcome to the Black Parade", or "Royals"
This my first time seeing this video even though I've heard the song before
Love
nobody expected this song would take off so the did not use a lot of money in the production!
The head gear was flower planters!. Very budget oriented!
I was tripping on Mr natural the 1st time I heard and seen this song on mtv at a party. I was like WTF hahahahahahaha!
Please do “Twilight Zone” by Golden Earring
Great song!
Yes love that song
A complete classic got me into alternative music and not just the radio hits. Should listen to Freedom of Choice, Girl you want, Beautiful World are all great.
Whip It is good, but my favorite DEVO song is Uncontrollable Urge
Yes! Mine too! Did you see it live on “Fridays”
My dad’s favorite song before he passed away :(
Devo -satisfaction
MAMA ... just jiggle to the music lovely!!!!!!!!!! Jiggle Good!!!
wow totally 80'es pop (in some kind of avantgarde synth way)
The hats are energy domes I’ve got one
I always thought they looked like upside-down flower pots. But now that I know their energy domes I need to get one. I'm being serious I need to get one
You should react to DEVOs cover of "can't get no satisfaction"
More Devo please.
In Australia we called Devo the Flower Pot Men.
Energy domes, please.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_dome
I think the band believed technology would cause mankind to devolve, hence the name.
They were 100% correct. Mankind has devolved due to to technology. What else could explain the current socio political cluster duck we have today!
Christmas suggestion- The Waitresses- Christmas Wrapping
Please try 500 miles by the Scottish band The Proclaimers. It will make you tap your toes.
"what is he wearing on top of his head?" ha ha ha
Devo 😹🤣😜🎶🤗❤️
Those were literal flowerpots
You might like Men Without Hat's Safety Dance.
Thisbis my first vid.
Are we not men? We are Devo. D-E-V-O
React to Devo. What we do is what we do
More DEVO
oh that Alan, lol.
I was in high school when this weird song came. It was extremely popular.