"Fridays TV Show" (1980) [Show F-10] Devo - "Uncontrollable Urge" (Live) [10 of 10]
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2009
- Devo performs live, "Uncontrollable Urge", in their second 'Fridays' appearance. Lead in with Maryedith Burrell.
** Check out this excellent article written by Dennis Perrin: "Fridays: The SNL Ripoff That Nearly Surpassed the Original" (January 31st, 2012) -
splitsider.com/2012/01/fridays...
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How the fuck could anyone possibly dislike this band
jmcieslak0 I got this when it was new. This band, and others, made me rethink a lot of things, especially music. People who hate it are often small minded and have VERY little understanding about most things, especially music. Music was fresh and popping and nuts then. There was a ton of absolute shit also, but inventive people had a lot of room to experiment and venues developed to catch up with the music. This, and other good things, drew me to NYC and the music scene in 1983 when I was 19. I was playing all the time and worked in a music store and a few night clubs, including a 4 year stint as assistant manager of CBGB. I played in bands and had brushes with the music industry. In my opinion, cocaine drove music into the dirt in the 1980s and it's never recovered. Plus people are, generally speaking, so stupid that they would not know quality if it bit them in the ass. It has a lot to do with indoctrination. There has been a crackdown and marginalization on free thought since Ronald Reagan was selected. No, long before that. The Reagan era was a key turning point. All music is folk music. It reflects culture. If the music is shit, it follows that the culture is shit and the people are, well... We had a little bright spot with DEVO and some others. I'm holding my nose these days.
There is still good music being made but it often has to be sought out
jmcieslak0
I'll give you that.
B Donor Ever hear of the PMRC? Jello Biafra's arrest for an album cover? Much more, but those are the famous examples.
***** I just looked online at bands in Vietnam. They sound like bands in Hungary.
A few years ago, I had a talk with Louise, the manager of CBGB. I trained her in 1986 when I was assistant manager. Funny thing about her, she knows nothing about music, but she kept the place alive for its last 20 years...
Anyway, I saw how the festival was slapped together. What a useless clusterfuck. I said something about the integrity of it, referring to the musical integrity. Louise took it as an attack on her personal integrity. She never got the concept that there was a such thing as musical integrity. It caused a rift.
Frank Zappa debated Tipper Gore and during it called her a Republican. Tipper was appaled and defended herself as a Democrat. Zappa replied - "If it smells like a Republican, it's a Republican." But that's just a game anyway. It's all Hegelian Dialect.
Jello was singled out by the FBI. It was abuse of power.
SUCH A TIGHT FUCKING BAND.... never get tired of them
Devo was so ahead of their time.
One of the tightest performances from the tightest, most imaginative musicians I have seen. So many musicians owe so much to them.
t3l3phasicworksh0p I do. Back in the day, when I was a young player in NYC, we'd all talk about our guitar heroes. I'd offer up Bob1 and WC Fields. lol It was my line for a couple of years, even though I played totally different stuff. But still, I'd find myself picking out DEVO riffs/songs and listening to them as one of my desert island bands. And they are one of the few that survives the purges of shit from my mind over the years. It's more than music. It's philosophy - the stuff that makes life good. DEVO are true.
I remember back in the day how awesome it was back in the day to be awesome lol smh htfu omg
One thing about Devo was just how great their timing was, they were never sloppy players. They were like machines keeping the beat.
Feares Monkeyes what a band !
Machines do not have DEVO's Heart & Feeling that are a Core of the Songs, they perform levels above machines So Strongly.
Love!
Not men. They are D-E-V-O
Alan Myers the original drummer responsible for the tight beat.
They were so ahead of their time.
No, they were right for their time. Their sound was very 80s.
@Jake Roberts well lack of airplay
The Next album New Traditionlist
1981 and OH No Its DEVO 1982
No airplay !
Blasting DEVO at high volume was the only aerobics I participated in back then.
R.I.P. Bob Casale 1952-2014
It is stuff like this that makes the 80s the last great decade for popular music
Still amazing all these years later ...
Without question thee most underrated&unappreciated band of all time. And I watched this&every Fridays show. It was the latenight show SNL should've been. And it's funny to think,when this aired,Devo had been together 10 years but were still in their infantcy as a band. RIP Bob Casale.
solid. You tube seems to invite lunacy. Your comment is appreciated .
Glad I could help. Your comment sure made me laugh.
Vampirebear13 I don't know. I'm well aware of their impact, but have you thought about Booker T and the MGs, The Funk Brothers, The Swampers, etc? Each of those bands has caught and continues to catch the ears of people and nobody knows who the musicians are and many of them died tragically. DEVO had a fairly cushy ride compared to someone like James Jamerson - who may be the single most influential electric bassist and nobody knows who he is! I love DEVO and am quite aware of their impact. I think a lot of it was misunderstood and put into horrible manifestations. Not their fault. Stupid cocaine-fueled human tricks. A lot of folks missed their point and twisted it around for misuse. And I can't think of who has really taken from them and made something good. I was assistant manager of CBGB in the 1980s. The best and the worst were in NYC then. The worst won in that little tug of war. Please have a reality check.
@WhIke Turner. Though you gave props to the devolved in some small and token way, I can't help but think, from the rest of your take on things, that you're a bitter ole fart. I'm an ole fart, too, but not bitter--just riotous, exhuberant, and still trying to suck the marrow outta life.
I get it about all the brilliant but sad sacks who never got their due. I'd add The Sonics and The Trashmen to your list. But why the need to piss on someone giving these guys a well deserved nod? To say no one ever built anything great on Devo's back or that the worst of NYC prevailed makes you sound unimaginative, disillusioned and--horror of all horrors--boring! To be sure, even Richard Hell acknowledges the brief period of incandescence that lit up CBs; and yes, by the time you got there the Lower East Side WAS full of junkie losers. Still, I've never heard a person speak of a scene and what it spawned so dejectedly and with such disaffection. (Never mind that it had so little to do with Devo.) It doesn't even sound cooler than thou; it just seems sad.
That chatty-Cathy said "once in a lifetime" and now I have Talking Heads stuck in my...head.
"Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was."
How did i get here?
Fridays was the shizzle back then, man. The bands were great too.
That's the coolest thing I've seen in a very long time.
...and one of the best bands to see live. Merriweather Post Pavilion1981!!!!!!
Most people had never seen a wireless mic before. Yet another of many things DEVO helped pioneer. How accurately did they predict the high-tech, computer world awaiting us all?
They didn't predict it. They brought it to us!
They changed the trajectory of popular music/pop culture. "Dude, that is totally Devo" quickly became a household expression.
Very tight performance of this Devo classic - stayed up late as a kid to see it when it first aired - pity this is NOT included on the Fridays best-of DVD...Why?!!
Fucking brilliant.
As a musician I can only hope to one day shout "YEAH" half as well as Jerry does
such a fantastic song .................no autocorrect ..............................................so pure !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
R.I.P. Alan Myers and Bob (2) Casale
steemdup Yep.. we miss them.. I played with Alan in a improv music group for a few years.
@@AMOKIAN Alan had a great metre and a solid drumming technique.
wot a band, tight as fuck.
well it's not exactly symphonic in its complexity ;) but still a great song!
They SUCK!
@@richardcarden4161 Lol. It’s pointless to argue about musical taste. As a person who’s seen Devo live three times, I can attest that they take their music very seriously and are literally machine-tight in their performance. And I happen to like a lot of their songs, so I think they’re great.
@@gregbors8364 OK they are musicians but their type of music is just too far off.
@@richardcarden4161 Your opinion is noted
for a second there seeing the yellow radiation suit I was back in the early eighties again. That whole era from the early eighties to around 85 had a very unique feel to it it was exciting computers were new video games were new cable TV was new the bands had a new sound weird names weird hair suddenly everything was fun after suffering through disco and rock bands that take themselves too seriously
Yeah, I remember it too. There was definitely a major radical change in a very short time. It almost seemed that in a single day the endless years of 70's disco were suddenly replaced with a new fascinating futuristic world (for the reasons you state). It was really an amazing time to live through.
Whats gone wrong with music nowadays.so much variety back then and almost all of it was just fantastic
37 years later ...nothing has been comparable to Devo.Nothing even close, a masterpiece indeed
Lots of people missed the hook initially, but DEVO was one of my first favorites. Remember sneaking into my brother's room and playing the vinyl on his stereo. Ahead of their time.
The Band of my youth during the roaring 80s!
Absolutely AWESOME performance!
This is the clip that got me hooked onto DEVO.What a fabulous, strange, devolved, humorous, and delightful discovery it has been.These guys were SO much more then juSt 'Whip It'I'm a total 'DEVOtee' now. Conversion complete....Duty Now!
Brilliant
So frickin' Awesome!
I wish that I could have been there!
A time of musical genius… and I was there. 👍🏻
Holy Shit
They sound as awesome live as on the album !!
39 years later that song still kicks ass like Van Dam!
Are we not men? WE ARE DEVO! When I was a teenager I had a crappy cassette of this record. It blew my mind forever.
best DEVO song ever UNCOTROLLABLE URGE
Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA gets my vote! The guitar work on that song is terrific...
@Admin User I'm with you - best opening riff ever.
The first song on the first side of their first album -- WHAT A RIPPER -- they surely made an instant and life long fan!!
One of the all-time great live acts.
A great band. They were ahead of their time, but so glad they stayed in the 1980s.
what a band, what a song, brilliant jon
I have a uncontrollable urge to hit repeat...
Hands down, the most fabulous moment in mankind's history.
You are exactly correct.
I know Mark and knew Bob Casale well. Phenomenal act! Love those guys..
I too remember when they first appeared on Fridays and Saturday Night Live. They were from another planet! ;-)
In the 35 plus years Ive been going to gigs one of the most memorable and best one I went to was Devo a couple of years ago, playing their first LP all the way through in the same running order as the LP (something they had not done before apparently), plus a few extra tracks (after the run through had finished) in London, it was simply a brilliant gig.
Brilliant, a masterpiece. This video ought to be displayed in an endless loop in the Louvre, 'cause it makes much of the other stuff there uninspiring in comparison.
stereopolice It will be someday.
Louvre is in the heart
@@kellyjackson7889 Oy.
ah...maybe settle down a little bit
@@kellyjackson7889 Dlite-full comment.
saw this in 1980...blew my mind. still awesome.
This kicks ass! i forgot how great this performance was...must have been too young to appreciate it...but i do remember!
Brilliant. I've been a fan since day one and their music never gets old.
So fucking dope!
When you put all of Bob 1's guitar work together, he stands high among the best. He played consistently exactly what he needed to play!
No more, no less.
"You are a warm and beautiful human..."
Love these guys.
DEVO WAS COOL AF ! ! ! BRILLIANT ! ! ! I got to see them play in Central Park, NYC when they were still new.
BEST D*MN CONCERT EVER ! ! ! (Well, besides The Clash...)
Interesting you mention The Clash, because DEVO has cited them as an influence.
Would love to see eps of Fridays. I never missed a show, it was so funny (just as good, or better, than SNL). Michael Richards, Melanie Chartoff and Rich Hall were awesome!!
This band makes you earn it every single second and that is why they can charge more than full price. This Then was AWESOME. 3 channels and stuff.
that is one of the all time great TV performances ever.
They wre just showing us transhumanism - they were ahead of their time, ❤DEVO forever❣️💓💞💫😎👏
Absolutely superb!
Love the choreographed moves. DEVO was a very original band. And their live performances were excellent.
brilliant and timeless genius
The amazing DEVO they blow me away !
that riff,that absurd lyric,that energy,no one ever on the same level as devo up until this day.
Although I've bought every DEVO album and and single and I've loved nearly all of them, this track from their first LP remains my favourite song of all of them. And this performance is incredible. The only band who brought this sort of live performance art to the stage in 1980 were the B-52's.
Saw this band hundreds of times in the late 70’s and early 80’s in the Kent, Akron, Cleveland areas. Never disappoint! At Kent, Halloween weekend, they had fluorescent tape wrapped around the jumpsuits and came out glowing! Man I miss those days!
Man. What a freakin cool band.
I saw this performance when it aired live when I was 10. I never forgot it. I was blown away. I was a huge Devo fan then and I still am.
Once in a lifetime!
Musical and Performance Geniuses...
Devo are always Devo...
Should be in the Rock Hall. Impact!
So tight and unique, avant-garde Perfomance Art.
early 80s wave stuff was dope
Sooooooo awesome!!!!!!
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, YeeYeeYeeYeeYeeYeeYeah!!! 12 years old, saw this live, blew me away!!! Thanks For Posting!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR ! GREAT DEVO FANS 2017 !
Effing brilliant. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how it's done.
Wonderful !!!
Love it. Excellent showmen!!
One of my favorite Devo clips
Excelente presentación DEVO. Que buena música.
This is fantastic! I watched Fridays and it's so cool that this footage still exists.
Used to cruise around Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with the top down blaring this whole album in 80s. Good times. Awesome dorm parties.
I loved Fridays, it was a crazy and unpredictable show.
40 fuckin years unreal still sounds great
Wowza
Man this was so much fun to dance to at summer concerts. Yes I had the red flower pot hat. DEVO was the best of my generation.
so good!
Oh my God, I thought I dreamt all this....where's my drink?
I got to see them live in concert in the 80s and it was a blast.
I was stuck on metal back then. Boy did I miss out
Alan Meyers was one HARD WORKING SPUD
Wow so Great! I liike their dance so original!
I remember watching this live! Mark Hamill was the guest, I think. Could be wrong. I was 12 years old then..
Humor and bravery. Great music.
This is genius
brilliant performance.
I saw them last night in NYC on their "Hard Core Devo" tour. It was the first time I've seen them since 1981 and they were GREAT! They're looking fit, their voices sound the same as they did in their heyday, and they're just as weird even in their mid 60s. I hope they never retire.
fyi pretty much everyone from the OG lineup is dead except mark
Abraham Drimmer NO THEY FUCKING ARE NOT! Alan Meyers (who hasn't drummed with them since 86/87 passed last year and Bob Casale passed away this year. Mark Mothersbaugh, Gerald Casale, and Bob Mothersbaugh are all still around and touring.
+Abraham Drimmer r.i.p. we will miss them.
I saw DEVO 15 years ago at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano. They were awesome. They played an acoustic set first. Maybe 5 =6 songs then left the stage. Then, they tore the place down with an electric set
@@geniusofhate Really? Gerry and Bob 1 don't qualify? I understand many people equate Devo with Mark, but your math is sloppy.
This is one of DEVO's best songs...along with FREEDOM OF CHOICE and JOCKO HOMO and BIG MESS and GIRL U WANT
Tight. Still to this day.
Devo is great!