Shopping centers with Roman columns and fountains with acrylic flamingos. Overlapping images of Greco-Roman busts, palm trees, lilac-colored kitchens on beaches at sunset. Before this became reality, Devo was already real.
Agreed, unfortunately most people have short attention spans and will switch channels before the end of the song and miss the really important part. 🤦♂
This song is super relevant right now...."This is often misinterpreted as a song celebrating personal freedom. It is actually a commentary on how people really want choices made for them. The song's statement is made in the last chorus, "Freedom of choice is what you've got, freedom from choice is what you want."
Thank you.,.. This isn't a political song, it should be seen as thought provoking.... But alas, someone will tie it to some political party or situation out of anyones personal scope.
the canyon jump (was that the term?) in the keyhole bowl was year zero for me. Had heard they did it but to see it in a video of a great band: no way. Insane.
DEVO is one of those very rare bands where you can let loose and just enjoy the beat and the melody, or you can decide to look a little deeper and be amazed at what you uncover. We're all DEVO.
@@erossinema8797 I think there's a small handful of good disco groups, but I generally agree, that's pretty much a big reason why there was that huge backlash in the late 70s/early 80s, labels flooding the market with countless generic empty-calorie disco groups.
@@julz404 Not really. The lyrics of many bands' songs mean nothing. I'm not saying that that is a bad thing. Most people love a song with a great beat and a feel-good riff & chord progression. You could throw any word salad in there and many people would still love it. However, I personally like a song better if it has a meaning of some kind.
I had been saying that for years, but now my own selfish desire is to see them NOT be inducted. The Rock HOF has become an absolute joke, and it is no longer deserving of Devo's inclusion.
@@brians736 Hi, it's Sad but it was Proven* when they Inducted Radiohead and the Cure BERORE Devo and Kraftwerk Who Laid the Foundation for both of those bands and Many Others*-Insulting***. Thanks
I can tell that I am getting old when I remember watching this on tv during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Devo were a big hit with fans down under. And I am one of those fans.
I sometimes wish I had been born ten years earlier. If I had I'd have been able to exploit soft cannabis cultivation laws during the nineties that meant a person could grow up to 10 plants without going to court if caught.
A victim of collision on the open sea Nobody ever said that life was free Sank, swam, go down with the ship But use your freedom of choice I'll say it again in the land of the free Use your freedom of choice Your freedom of choice In ancient Rome There was a poem About a dog Who found two bones He picked at one He licked the other He went in circles He dropped dead Freedom of choice Is what you got Freedom of choice! Then if you got it you don't want it Seems to be the rule of thumb Don't be tricked by what you see You got two ways to go I'll say it again in the land of the free Use your freedom of choice Freedom of choice Freedom of choice Is what you got Freedom of choice In ancient Rome There was a poem About a dog Who found two bones He picked at one He licked the other He went in circles He dropped dead Freedom of choice Is what you got Freedom from choice Is what you want
Steve Austin I saw them about seven years ago in Chicago and the crowd never stopped jumping up and down screaming the entire concert! They nailed it! Great show and great energy.
No joke: the Febreeze ad before this played literally just said “ This is what freedom looks like. This is what freedom smells like.” This is my second time listening to it in a row. The first time was a maxi pad ad. Do with that what you will.
That opening booming metallic pulse is *still* one of the greatest, most unique drum sounds ever. In a way it's surprising that it didn't become as much a feature of later records the way the Phil Collins' gated reverb drum sound from around the same time did.
Probably because they used a fairly obscure and unique synthesizer for it, I recall Mark saying that the drum beat was the only damned thing they were able to get out of it that they considered worthwhile.
@@antagonizingusername with modern technology it would probably be fairly easy to cut out a sample of that one sound, and clean up the audio before reusing it in new songs without having to buy that specific model of synthesizer.
Exactly, spot on. That's why in the video the group of young men ride skateboards into a clothing store and march out in matching outfits, proceding to turn all bystanders into clones to join their marching army; they all become homogenized. The song is basically a critique of facism; it speaks to the human desire for and susceptiblity to mass conformity.
@Art and Music Sod off, you stupid reich-wing bastard. We patriots whipped your sorry treasonous ilk150 years ago and 80 years ago, and we'll do it again. Not just mouth-breathing fascists have guns, you know. If anybody will be destroyed, it will be you.
Yes just like today's Democrats who corrupt and want to give All the money to the Iran like the last in the house Obummer dud Thank GOD he's not there Abd we more corruption from Nancy Pelosi Maxine Waters AOC Illhan Drain The Swamp !
This video is one of the best arguments against the kind of jump-cut, super-slick music videos that dominate the stream-o-verse today. Look what Devo did with cheesy alien makeup, donuts, and ultra deadpan expressions. This video just never ever fails to crack me up--it also has a surreal visual narrative, and the song is unbelievably catchy. I am not man, I am DEVO.
Thank you, Bob Casale and all the guys in DEVO for being the only band that I grew up listening to that ever saw the world through the same lens that I did. And still do.
Sci-fi kitsch on the surface, savage sarcasm beneath, devo's Dadaist disco-punk spectacle felt like the missing link between Kraftwerk, the Sex Pistols, and mad magazine.
DEVO in The Age COV19 Corina Virus Epademic from China ! Please watch The Video That Fortold about The COV 19 Corrina Virus Epademic from China ! Jocko Homo DEVO posted by Shaw Isreal Iskson From The True Pioneers Of Rock and Roll Music Videos DEVO is Still Ahead of Their Time Duty Now For The Future !
I;m 55 years old now. Wow was I a Spud Head in the early 80's. Still love these guys. That concert I attended in Houston seeing Devo was a super kick !
if anyone could put flowerpots on their heads and make a good fashion statement its devo. this song, and whip it, and that's good are timeless classics. long live the 80s/ long live devo.
I was 12 years old in 1978 when I discovered DEVO. From SOCAL into metal and punk they always crossed all barriers of the music industry and I was always accepted as a huge DEVO fan. Guiding me as a young student in the de-evolution process my life would never be the same. DEVO FAN FOREVER 🇺🇸
A million miles ahead of their time. They were like the wildmen of old the prophets and the seerers. And here we are fools with choice but wanting to be told what to do. Thank you Devo for keeping me ahead of the curve (as I swim in the shallow pool with idiots)
this song and the video is the right , kind of medicine , and DEVO IS SUPBERB !, and DEVO needs to be inducted to the rock and roll hall of fame !, so my fellow DEVOTEES , go vote them in , as the next future legends !, ps , r I p , BOB 2 CASALE AND ALAN MYERS !
One of the best parts of this vid was seeing all those cool skateboards from that past. Oh how I miss my Logan Earth Ski with the Bennett Trucks. Missed it so much I bought the Gravity re-issue Logan with some Tracker Trucks. I ride it from time to time busting some DEVO on tape with my old walkman. The only thing missing is the same skill and ability to ride like I did back then.
The best Devo video! I miss the Devo days of my youth. I can't thank them enough from choosing to break away from that awful baby boomer music of the day. (Disco and hard rock). So glad to say Devo is my generation, and that I had the 'Freedom of Choice' RIP Bob.
in what way? Roe V Wade returned Freedom OF Choice to each state, or you hate affordable gas and groceries? the fact Trump didn't involve America in any new wars from 2016-2020 ? the fact that in 2019 under Trump the dollar had the spending power of $1.23 in 2024? maybe you hate the fact he puts Americans and not Ukraine or Israel first? that he made America energy independent for the first time in 40 years? imagine voting for a candidate based on their ability to lead and keep the peace instead of their skin color or gender..madness ! 🤡🤡🤡oh wait are we going to pull the fascist/nazi/everyone i disagree with is a 'racist' nonsense? because fact check - it was Democrats who started the KKK , and Joe Biden who eulogized Klansman Robert Byrd in 2011 and the Democratic party who fought to keep slaves as well as who funded the 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, and who in more recent times demanded free citizens of America wear useless face masks and take experimental drugs for a virus with a 99.97 percent survival rate and nearly every liberal marched in lockstep , yet we're the cult? haha right. ps fun fact , the only areas Kamala won in 2024 were those with no voter ID required. gosh i wonder why 15 million democrat voters just decided not to show up this election...couldn't be because they never existed to begin with and the 4 am mail drops on November 6 2020 were fraudulent, nah that would be too logical 🤣
FREEDOM NEVER FADES ; TENDER HEARTS GET BROKEN...THATS ALL...U KNOW GERALD, MARK, BOB1, BOB2 ALL ALLEGE TO BE SHAKEYS GIRL!?!?! DAMMIT MON, IM WAITING IN LINE...IM ALREADY PREGGO THOUGH...LOL...ROCK N ROLL!
@@abramtaylor1 your the meathead People of Iran want Freedom Presdent John Kennedy is the last Of The good Democrats Not Today the all work for George Soros Who wants Take Away Our Freedom of Choice Because the c are power hungry Look at all the homeless in San Francisco under Nancy Pelosi Maxine Waters Feet While they live in Mansion Shame on Them They need to be replaced and locked up in jail And Shame on you you keep drinking the Kool aid ! CBS NBC MSNBC ABC PBS and CNN all work for George Soros And that is what I call Corruption You're the meathead Because you want Freedom From Choice It's what you want !
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Who here after the outcome of the election in 2024? This song speaks..
Pinned, epic.
Down right prophetic.
@@capbubba I don't think that's what the song is supposed to mean... that's not even the right quote
Yep.
@@ToniaGlitched I agree. Lots of people use old things with topical meanings without understanding or even being born then. As propaganda.
Skateboards, donuts and Romans. Only Devo could pull this off.
Well it was 1979...
Just another great Tuesday back in the day.
Shopping centers with Roman columns and fountains with acrylic flamingos. Overlapping images of Greco-Roman busts, palm trees, lilac-colored kitchens on beaches at sunset. Before this became reality, Devo was already real.
...and weird masks with swimming goggles too.
that extra 8th note in the intro always throws me off. Like they started on the and of 4 when recording. Brilliant.
Exactly!
We need this on every tv in America
Agreed, unfortunately most people have short attention spans and will switch channels before the end of the song and miss the really important part. 🤦♂
We need this on every TV in every English-speaking country. Then we need it translated into other languages and played on their TVs as well.
Im trying hard now.. Every 3rd night I post it on Twitter
Im guessen that's where we got tricked.
@@jeremyyoung4415We didn't.
This song is super relevant right now...."This is often misinterpreted as a song celebrating personal freedom. It is actually a commentary on how people really want choices made for them. The song's statement is made in the last chorus, "Freedom of choice is what you've got, freedom from choice is what you want."
Thank you.,.. This isn't a political song, it should be seen as thought provoking.... But alas, someone will tie it to some political party or situation out of anyones personal scope.
Thanks for the insight, Vladimir Putin would be proud.
Ahahahhaa!
People don't want and can't think for themselves
Said every dictator in the history of the world. Good grief..🤦♂️
at least 50 years ahead of their time. There is a very special place for Devo in music history. Very unique.
Can you say more about DEVO being 50 years ahead of their time? What do you mean?
@@rebeccawalter645 devolution, man...we're devolving as time goes on.
Wouldn't That Mean. In A Way That is.. THAT This SONG Came out In "73" ??? Which it didn't...
It’s “devolved” gracefully.
@@bryanprince5276 No, they mean that they're still ahead of their time
Why did it take me 40 years to realize how cool Devo was/is.
Who cares so long as you finally made it. Hooray!
I think Devo made weirdness cool. Glad you finally realized you weren't normal.
So you're late to the party. The good news is that you can still catch a Devo concert if you want to and they still give quality performances.
It’s ok Spud! We’re all DE-VO!
You made it to the party! 🎉 🥳
This song, album and video stoked me even more because I skateboard.
Still skating at 58.
I'm 58, never skated, love DEVO!❤
same here. 50 been a skater since 85 and I AINT NEVER GOING TO STOP! 215 Philadelphia Pa
the canyon jump (was that the term?) in the keyhole bowl was year zero for me. Had heard they did it but to see it in a video of a great band: no way. Insane.
@@damianb2374 i would call it a channel but close enough. im saying even now i would be hype if i saw them do that. it was dope
ua-cam.com/video/BoSWUo0OKzg/v-deo.htmlsi=5pH3nSfZp8Fq20kL i skate too 50yrs old
Freedom of choice is what you got.
Freedom from choice is what you want...
From the mother ship devo ,beam me up!
Bring back the 80’s
Devo was definitely ahead of their time. Nerdy geniuses, not just songs, the videos as well.
DEVO is one of those very rare bands where you can let loose and just enjoy the beat and the melody, or you can decide to look a little deeper and be amazed at what you uncover. We're all DEVO.
I always preferred to look a little deeper, which is why disco often got on my nerves. I looked deeper and it was so insipid.
You could literally say this about any band ever
@@erossinema8797 I think there's a small handful of good disco groups, but I generally agree, that's pretty much a big reason why there was that huge backlash in the late 70s/early 80s, labels flooding the market with countless generic empty-calorie disco groups.
Only those of us sensibly silly ..... and appreciative of a catchy beat !
@@julz404 Not really. The lyrics of many bands' songs mean nothing. I'm not saying that that is a bad thing. Most people love a song with a great beat and a feel-good riff & chord progression. You could throw any word salad in there and many people would still love it. However, I personally like a song better if it has a meaning of some kind.
Song is very applicable to today's time! Don't be a sheeple, go out and make your choice instead of someone else doing it for you.
Well said!
Devo for the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame!
They should be in the Hall of Fame
I had been saying that for years, but now my own selfish desire is to see them NOT be inducted. The Rock HOF has become an absolute joke, and it is no longer deserving of Devo's inclusion.
They are the hall of fame come on rock!😊
@@brians736 Hi, it's Sad but it was Proven* when they Inducted Radiohead and the Cure BERORE Devo and Kraftwerk Who Laid the Foundation for both of those bands and Many Others*-Insulting***. Thanks
Absolutely qualified for the fame company of creatives
How relevant is "Freedom of Choice, is what you got...Freedom FROM Choice, is what you want?" That speaks!
Explains the love affair some people have with totalitarian government. Some people just don't want freedom. (shrugs)
Relevant for ANY election year!
2024 election year
What do you want...
I can tell that I am getting old when I remember watching this on tv during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Devo were a big hit with fans down under. And I am one of those fans.
The Cutting Edge always came from unexpected places. Be proud.
I sometimes wish I had been born ten years earlier. If I had I'd have been able to exploit soft cannabis cultivation laws during the nineties that meant a person could grow up to 10 plants without going to court if caught.
Cheers from Northeast Ohio, USA Sir!
What Australia is losing, "freedom of choice" in 2021!
After their huge hit in the USA , "Whip-IT" there was no stoppin them. I did not know who they were before that. They were way ahead of their time
long live DEVO
♾️ forever 😊
My God man. November 12, 2024 and this song is about 40 something years old and still better than the crap they're putting out today.
What? You don't like the auto-tuned uninspired re-hashed devoid-of-any-creativity garbage of today's music?
A victim of collision on the open sea
Nobody ever said that life was free
Sank, swam, go down with the ship
But use your freedom of choice
I'll say it again in the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice
Your freedom of choice
In ancient Rome
There was a poem
About a dog
Who found two bones
He picked at one
He licked the other
He went in circles
He dropped dead
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom of choice!
Then if you got it you don't want it
Seems to be the rule of thumb
Don't be tricked by what you see
You got two ways to go
I'll say it again in the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice
Freedom of choice
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom of choice
In ancient Rome
There was a poem
About a dog
Who found two bones
He picked at one
He licked the other
He went in circles
He dropped dead
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want
I know I'm a year late but thanks
Who's sings?
@@claudineilustosa2700 Mark Mothersbaugh :)
love that song
Deep
Did we not have the coolest youth culture ever?!!
Freedom of Choice, is what you got
Freedom from Choice is what you want
2021: more relevant than ever
Yeah, say it! ✨🍩🍩🍩✨
All I need is a half hour of Korporate News.
Achtung!
Deprogam
@@RockBrentwood
The next thing I say will be true.
The last thing I said was false.
BZZZZZt!
people are idiots now, not all, just those who don't care about the choice we once had.
Love'em or hate'em, no denying they are unique. Nothing like them before or since. One of my all-time favorite bands!
a lot of brave men and women died so you and I can listen to Devo kids.
Their musicianship and writing ability has been so overlooked.
i pity the fool who overlooks DEVO
Even Neil Young lifted from them - for his Rust never sleeps album.
Still VERY playable and relevant. Hasn't aged at all. Speaks for the quality of DEVO's body of work :)
I've said it once and I'll say it agsin, DEVO are the most underrated band of all time.
XTC are the most underrated imo
Right on! SO underrated! Awesome band!
Saw them live in Brisbane Aust in 1981. Terrible on stage. Far from being underrated based on what I experienced.
Steve Austin Devo or XTC?
Steve Austin I saw them about seven years ago in Chicago and the crowd never stopped jumping up and down screaming the entire concert! They nailed it! Great show and great energy.
Devo...defies genre categorization... yet was the wellspring for so many music genres.
The message conveyed by this song is just as relevant in 2022 as it was when the song was first released.
Wish we still had freedom of choice. Still fighting for it but so many people I know seem are happy to have their decisions made for them.
Only one Devo. No one dared tried to imitate them. Saw them twice. Wow, they were great.
Soundgarden covered ' girl u want' , they did their own thing to the song, it's cool.
I hope to see them one day!
Well, Weird Al did do that one song,"dare to be stupid".
Shihad. Gates of Steel.
Weird Al Yankovic did, and he created the perfect Devo song. Dare to be Stupid.
No joke: the Febreeze ad before this played literally just said “ This is what freedom looks like. This is what freedom smells like.” This is my second time listening to it in a row. The first time was a maxi pad ad. Do with that what you will.
One of the handful of bands that changed the face of music.
this album, this song particularly was all I really needed to understand the world as a kid. bloody genius.
Agreed, they sang about things I had heard growing up in my home and put it in terms I could wrap my young brain around. 🏁
My favorite Devo song. I listened to it every day on my Walkman on the way to school.
Most favorite DEVO video of all
It's what you got! .
Freedom FROM choice is what YOU WANT....
says volumes
Freedom from choice. These guys knew.
thats because there has always been no shortage of sheeple
This is going to mean something more in 500 years, I bet.
Let's start something
All these years being a mad Devo fan (since the 70s) I have never before actually listened to these lyrics properly. Prophetic.
That opening booming metallic pulse is *still* one of the greatest, most unique drum sounds ever. In a way it's surprising that it didn't become as much a feature of later records the way the Phil Collins' gated reverb drum sound from around the same time did.
Probably because they used a fairly obscure and unique synthesizer for it, I recall Mark saying that the drum beat was the only damned thing they were able to get out of it that they considered worthwhile.
@@antagonizingusername Aahahhahah!
Yank KOOKS, Bet You Rule nohow
@@antagonizingusername with modern technology it would probably be fairly easy to cut out a sample of that one sound, and clean up the audio before reusing it in new songs without having to buy that specific model of synthesizer.
This is definitely a great tune , It should have had the same air time as the tune Whip it
i feel like i've heard a similar tom sound in some earlier depeche mode songs
“Freedom of Choice is what you got, freedom from choice is what you want.” That’s pretty much the issue for every single conformist out there.
No, he's singing "Freedom from choice is what you got. Freedom of choice, is what you got".
@ You must be trolling as the lyrics I mentioned were in the *outro* of the song.
best video ever made really
For 40 years those RAMS headphones crack me up ...I don't know why ...Just very 79 - 80 ...FOOTBALL PHONE from SI
because if you had them you were cool
Devo were right on the money way back then, and they are still right on the money now.
Devo at their best. True artists with provocative and serious messages for everyone. So good.
Also ways to go!
Devo helped define early 80s MTV. This is my favorite song of theirs
nonya Biznessses What a wonderful comment.
Exactly.. Remember how MTV would use clips from Devo videos in their promo bumpers, especially the "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" video?
Exactly, spot on. That's why in the video the group of young men ride skateboards into a clothing store and march out in matching outfits, proceding to turn all bystanders into clones to join their marching army; they all become homogenized. The song is basically a critique of facism; it speaks to the human desire for and susceptiblity to mass conformity.
Desire to FIT in....
FREEDOM OF CHOICE: IS WHAT YOU GOT----FREEDOM FROM CHOICE: IS WHAT YOU WANT.
What the sheepeple want...to be led.
@@dennistyler8746 Not precisely. They want someone ELSE to take the blame
So few who see truth. So many who laugh in ignorance.
@Art and Music Sod off, you stupid reich-wing bastard. We patriots whipped your sorry treasonous ilk150 years ago and 80 years ago, and we'll do it again. Not just mouth-breathing fascists have guns, you know. If anybody will be destroyed, it will be you.
Yes just like today's Democrats
who corrupt and want to give
All the money to the
Iran like the last in the house
Obummer dud
Thank GOD he's not there
Abd we more corruption from
Nancy Pelosi Maxine Waters
AOC Illhan
Drain The Swamp !
DEVO is the only group that every single song on every album is there on its own merit and not just an album filler!
not only is this brilliant skateboarding and a largely unknown Rock Anthem but I especially enjoyed the March Of The Retails Workers at the end....
The magnet of conformity is what this song is about.
This video is one of the best arguments against the kind of jump-cut, super-slick music videos that dominate the stream-o-verse today. Look what Devo did with cheesy alien makeup, donuts, and ultra deadpan expressions. This video just never ever fails to crack me up--it also has a surreal visual narrative, and the song is unbelievably catchy. I am not man, I am DEVO.
And skateboards.
Thank you, Bob Casale and all the guys in DEVO for being the only band that I grew up listening to that ever saw the world through the same lens that I did. And still do.
Wow, for real
Sci-fi kitsch on the surface, savage sarcasm beneath, devo's Dadaist disco-punk spectacle felt like the missing link between Kraftwerk, the Sex Pistols, and mad magazine.
I feel lucky to have been a 10 year old consumer of this Top 40 pop music
Devo were an amazing, underrated cultural force!
DEVO in The Age COV19 Corina Virus Epademic from China !
Please watch The Video That Fortold about The COV 19 Corrina Virus Epademic from China !
Jocko Homo DEVO posted by
Shaw Isreal Iskson
From The True Pioneers Of Rock and Roll Music Videos
DEVO is Still Ahead of Their Time
Duty Now For The Future !
This might be the single best comment on this entire godforsaken website
@Michael Garrettua-cam.com/video/Bp2tQ75pTD0/v-deo.html
Brian Eno produced at least one of their LP's- can't be bad
I swear this plays in my head nonstop Every election season
DEVO WITH NO DOUBT , DOES BELONG IN THE ROCKANDROLL HALL OF FAME , FOR MAKING GREAT VIDEOS LIKE THIS ONE!!!!!
SO VERY TRUE, I WISH I CAN GET SOME HELP , FROM SOME TRUE BRAVE DEVO FANS OUT THAT WOULD AGREE TOO, YES WE ARE DEVO!
yes they, DEVO do, because DEVO IS THE BEST THERE IS.
QUICK QUESTION... WHY ARE WE YELLING?
The Volcano Worshpers Club QUICK ANSWER, BECAUSE, DEVO IS THE BEST!
Larry Williams YES, BUT I HIGHLY DOUBT THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO YELL. BUT, IF YOU USE YOUR FREEDOM OF CHOICE, I GUESS THAT'S GOOD!
Devos tunes are all very inciteful. Got me jerkin back an forth . Been there done that. Go Devo. Love ya work enjoy ya retirement. From a devotee🤠💪😎😃
I;m 55 years old now. Wow was I a Spud Head in the early 80's. Still love these guys. That concert I attended in Houston seeing Devo was a super kick !
+James Baw Just because you gotta grow up doesn't mean you gotta grow old. Stay young and keep on rockin'!
+James Baw YOU BLESSED SOUL!!
FREEDOM OF CHOICE---DEVO IS THE WISE CHOICE THIS PLANET GOT!
if anyone could put flowerpots on their heads and make a good fashion statement its devo. this song, and whip it, and that's good are timeless classics. long live the 80s/ long live devo.
@@georgelarson8597 they're not flower pots
Totally forgot about this song and now I can’t stop listening to it. It’s like new wave meets rock and roll!
It's 2020 and this video/song is more meaningful than ever...
Came here myself for the melodic medication
Video? You mean the song, yeah I agree. But I’m from the near future and we don’t have much of a choice anymore. Enjoy that quarantine dude. Luls 😉
@@bojangles2644not sure if I could if I lived in an urban area, fortunately I live in the Ozark foothills
We're *all* De-vo
We must think like them 🤖🤖🤖🤖
I was 12 years old in 1978 when I discovered DEVO. From SOCAL into metal and punk they always crossed all barriers of the music industry and I was always accepted as a huge DEVO fan. Guiding me as a young student in the de-evolution process my life would never be the same. DEVO FAN FOREVER 🇺🇸
Love the drums in this track. Perfection
I love how the guitar and synth kicks in off beat and stays perfectly in sync.
sounds like rat scabies new rose intro
Happy New Year , Great DEVO fans !, and rest in peace to DAVID BOWIE !, DAVID BOWIE called DEVO the future of rock !, GOD speed to DAVID BOWIE !
FREEDOM OF CHOICE , IS A GREAT CLASSIC ROCK ALBUM !!!!
There was also a great jazz funk album by Throbbing Gristle...
I have that on vinal. Good disc. Freedom of choice is a fun record.
I have been corrected.
I learned something!
better than their debut album, which is also a classic
Freedom FROM choice is what you want!
I never get tired of this vid.
no words. First date/concert with my wife of 35 years. Still love DEVO. No words.
MAGIC DEVO STYLE!!!
A million miles ahead of their time. They were like the wildmen of old the prophets and the seerers. And here we are fools with choice but wanting to be told what to do. Thank you Devo for keeping me ahead of the curve (as I swim in the shallow pool with idiots)
Relevant in 2021
this song is relevant today in the political climate
The WHOLE SONG, THE WHOLE VIDEO ...Best part? The guys Rams old school EarCovers. I just love Devo . Always have, Always Will.
I just LOVE the weird costumes in this video!! GREAT SONG!! I LOVE DEVO👍👍🌟🕺🌹❤️😎😎
this song and the video is the right , kind of medicine , and DEVO IS SUPBERB !, and DEVO needs to be inducted to the rock and roll hall of fame !, so my fellow DEVOTEES , go vote them in , as the next future legends !, ps , r I p , BOB 2 CASALE AND ALAN MYERS !
One of the best parts of this vid was seeing all those cool skateboards from that past. Oh how I miss my Logan Earth Ski with the Bennett Trucks. Missed it so much I bought the Gravity re-issue Logan with some Tracker Trucks. I ride it from time to time busting some DEVO on tape with my old walkman. The only thing missing is the same skill and ability to ride like I did back then.
The important thing is you're riding bro, same here. This song is a skateboarding hymn
The best Devo video! I miss the Devo days of my youth. I can't thank them enough from choosing to break away from that awful baby boomer music of the day. (Disco and hard rock). So glad to say Devo is my generation, and that I had the 'Freedom of Choice' RIP Bob.
DEVO !
The True Pioneers Of Rock and Roll Music Videos !
DEVO is Ahead of Their Time !
I can still remember their live performance on SNL. Back when SNL was worth watching!
Happy now? Freedom from choice is what you got.
"Democracy basically means government by the people, of the people, for the people, but the people are retarded"-Osho🤣🤣
in what way? Roe V Wade returned Freedom OF Choice to each state, or you hate affordable gas and groceries? the fact Trump didn't involve America in any new wars from 2016-2020 ? the fact that in 2019 under Trump the dollar had the spending power of $1.23 in 2024? maybe you hate the fact he puts Americans and not Ukraine or Israel first? that he made America energy independent for the first time in 40 years? imagine voting for a candidate based on their ability to lead and keep the peace instead of their skin color or gender..madness ! 🤡🤡🤡oh wait are we going to pull the fascist/nazi/everyone i disagree with is a 'racist' nonsense?
because fact check - it was Democrats who started the KKK , and Joe Biden who eulogized Klansman Robert Byrd in 2011 and the Democratic party who fought to keep slaves as well as who funded the 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, and who in more recent times demanded free citizens of America wear useless face masks and take experimental drugs for a virus with a 99.97 percent survival rate and nearly every liberal marched in lockstep , yet we're the cult? haha right. ps fun fact , the only areas Kamala won in 2024 were those with no voter ID required. gosh i wonder why 15 million democrat voters just decided not to show up this election...couldn't be because they never existed to begin with and the 4 am mail drops on November 6 2020 were fraudulent, nah that would be too logical 🤣
One of the best songs ever. Thank you Devo.
Heard this song at a Freedom Rally on the weekend. Blew my mind then just as it did back in the day, great great band.
I'll say it again in the land of the free . . . 🚧
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom FROM choice 🚫
Is what you want
Thank you A Perfect Circle for making me discover this!
The Ultimate and quintessential DEVO song.
Not one of their better songs, but that's just one man's opinion. I'm a "Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA" kinda guy.
This might be the most patriotic American music video ever.
It's actually not, if you get what the song is really about
The song is about capitalism lol so no
@@b00psn00t it's making fun of America
Devo has the best music videos of all time!
I thank them for standing up for skateboarding. Our sons grew confidence ❤️🏆
Bought this album when I was 10...10 yrs old playing with Legos and listening to DEVO.
for decades , I'm still trying to decide on which chocolate donut to eat
That album is so good, they were at their peak musically and lyrically.
It was pretty huge in So. Cal the year it was released.
just gets better and better and better
Great satirists who saw the future. Freedom fades.
As relevant today as it was then, if not more relevant.
Very True Like Today's Democrats
And The last Fool in The
House Obummer
Gives lots of Money To Iran
Who wants Take Away
Your Freedom of Choice !
FREEDOM NEVER FADES ; TENDER HEARTS GET BROKEN...THATS ALL...U KNOW GERALD, MARK, BOB1, BOB2 ALL ALLEGE TO BE SHAKEYS GIRL!?!?! DAMMIT MON, IM WAITING IN LINE...IM ALREADY PREGGO THOUGH...LOL...ROCK N ROLL!
@@guyboost7311 Okay meathead.
@@abramtaylor1 your the meathead
People of Iran want Freedom
Presdent John Kennedy is the last
Of The good Democrats
Not Today the all work for George Soros
Who wants Take Away Our
Freedom of Choice
Because the c are power hungry
Look at all the homeless
in San Francisco under Nancy Pelosi Maxine Waters Feet
While they live in Mansion
Shame on Them
They need to be replaced and locked up in jail
And Shame on you
you keep drinking the Kool aid !
CBS NBC MSNBC ABC PBS and CNN all work for George Soros
And that is what I call
Corruption
You're the meathead
Because you want
Freedom From Choice
It's what you want !
Happy New Year 🎉 2022
And GOD Bless 🙏 America 🇺🇸 USA
Saw them twice, some best highlights of my life looking back. Wish I could go back in time, they saw the future
We are Devo. We are not men.
In my opinionone of the most underrated song/video from the most underrated band of all times, period
Classic Devo.
I love Devo's whole catalog but this is my straight up rock anthem I've always loved how harsh but catchy it is
Even ‘Shout’, ‘Total DEVO’, and ‘Smooth Noodle Maps’? Wow, that is devo-tion.
Mick Jagger was once quoted as saying that DEVOs cover of Satisfaction was so good it was better than the Rolling Stones
Let us all rinse, and then repeat. Freedom of choice. Is what we want. Freedom of choice. Freedom of choice.
My brother used to think he was singing "Sue Lawley".....He was only 8 at the time!!!.....Happy times.
The Eye has become the we. We are DEVO.
I listened to this song 10 times in a row. Best 30 minutes of my day! : )