Devo and Kraftwerk deserve a lot of credit for bringing synth-based music into the mainstream. By keeping it simple and song focused, rather than complex and performance focused like most of the music of the 70's was.
I ignored them when i was younger, i liked Whip It and Freedom Of Choice as songs but my young testosteroned mind couldn't sit still enough to understand them at that time. Now that i am older i love them. They just blow me away.
I like all kinds of music, but I always got Oh yeah you like that devo stuff. Its the same attitude from people towards people who like Star Trek. Its like oh you must be a weirdo. You can't be a fan of something, but you can be at a football game and paint yourself blue. Thats ok.
i have something to say to all you Devo haters and the other one hit wonders that you all are forgetting they made it to MTV, Don Kristines Rock Concert and there own concerts and we all paid to see them and enjoyed their music so stop being a player hater people, I myself sat in with Bill Haleys Comets when they played Saugus Ma in the 80's and i got to do the lead to Rock around the clock and you know what if anyone like devo or one hit wonders ever had a show in my area i would be in line buying tickets. It dont matter how old you are or how popular you were your still a step above us so DEVO you go back and tour and knock em dead :) everytime i hear whip it i still get up and crack that whip ......
Sometimes it doesn't NEED to be about the mission statement. This was a great video about Devo's approach to music production, and just when it was getting good, edit, mission statement. Many times. Gripes.
@1776Rosco I am motivated in life by love and compassion for other human beings. When people place love of their deity above their love for other human beings, they become capable of the most extraordinary evil, as history tells illustrates.
Foo Fighters still use tape and they sound more fantastic than ever. Dave Grohl is old school and so is Devo and I do not agree that you have to be "brave" to admit that you were a fan back in the day when Devo first hit the music scene, you only have to be proud and I am. I was a fan back in the day when I first heard them and I'm an even bigger fan now, Love you guys and can't wait to see my fellow Ohioans at the LC Pavilion on June 16th in Columbus Ohio!! Tickets go on sale tomorrow!
In my opinion. Devo was always ahead of it's time, and in a way... warned us with their music of the future. I think it's time they come back in the this new generation and show these kids what real music is like... maybe help form a new style, but on their terms. So... Ironically, I say that devo work on becoming the new face of this music era, such as cobain was the frontman for Generation X. I'd love to see some new Devo songs.
Flagwaver 1969 , What an asshole ! It's such a shame that we must grow old as this conceptual band had it correct 40 plus years ago. I miss those days but thank god that I had the opportunity to see them several times and understand what it was all about. The four visionaries of Devo are not nor will they ever be forgotten. It's assholes like Flagwaver 1969 ( more like "Meatpuller" 2015 ) that are fucking this world up. Thanks Devo, for getting it right !
@ 2:03 Mark and Jerry are referring to the computer software programs for music sequencing called "Logic" and "Reason"... they are making a play on words
One thing I regret in my life is that I did not go to more concerts. Devo is definitely a band that I would have considered seeing. Devo is awesome. I have seen Sammy Hagar twice (once at the Toledo Zoo and once at Promenade Park in Toledo) and R.E.M (Luscious Jackson opened but my brother and I got a flat tire and missed them at the Palace where the Pistons used to play; at least we got to see all or almost all of R.E.M.) and Robert Plant at the Salvage Arena at the University of Toledo.
@RachelCorriesGhost I’m puzzled. I’m agreeing with you that their tine is past. There’s an old saying that people who praise themselves have a small fan base. Or something like that. I respect older performers who are still out there practicing their craft for the sheer love long after the spotlight, money, and groupies have migrated on to newer stuff.
@RachelCorriesGhost I’m agreeing with you that the Love Generation was pretty much stoned out. I myself have been clean and sober all my life Now…if your problem is simply with people who happen to have racked up a bunch of decades, I can’t do anything about that. Time goes by. People age. It happens.
Edgar Allan Poe tried to warn us of this "devolution" in his story "The Fall of the House of Usher" but no one listened. Perhaps this DEVO comeback will help!
Unfortunately we are de-evolving. We have environmentalist pushing us backward and cursing civilized progress, invention, production, and almost demanding that we regress toward a hunter-gatherer society. Government bureaucrats are all too happy to oblige as long as they are the ones with the purse strings.
@colemann76 Smooth Noodle Maps was "very good"? Not the last time I listened to it. It was certainly better than Total Devo, but that's not saying much. =P
@1776Rosco Of course there are medical challenges - many of them arising from the fact that we are living longer - but we are meeting them and overall the facts are that we are healthier and we enjoy longer lives. Of course science disproves itself all the time. Scepticism and doubt are integral parts of the scientific method. With each piece of new evidence we get closer to truth; but few questions are answered once and for all. That's what makes it superior to knowledge based on faith.
BTW, does ANYONE out there know who this new drummer is out there for DEVO. He's no young spring chicken, or at least it looks that way, but he's kind of hot ... from what I can tell. NOT that I'm looking or anything, I'm just sayin.' Anyway, could he be the son of one of the original DEVO band members? I'm certain that it's not Alan ... so who is he?
These guys have and always will be WHINNERS. A holier-than-thou attitude that they know what is best for the World. Nothing is ever THEIR fault. Their music i like... their advice they can keep!!
Something just struck me, now I know this is nothing new but I think often we put the cart before the horse in this choice of worldview and its affect on us. Usually when we see a person who has chosen to believe in evolution we think that their life is then changed for the worse and sin enters in because now they think they can make their own rules. But I think often it is the other way around a person 1st gives into sin and then chooses a worldview to fit their lifestyle. Evidence is ignored.
DEvolution is real. What do we do about it? Can it be stopped? Should we just accept it? Maybe the new album will enlighten us all. Maybe it'll just be a soundtrack for the final decline of mankind. "Watch Us Work It" rocks! I hope to hear more along those lines. I feel so Devo I don't know what to do.
@LHZZ12MM Yeah. People are people. If we’re lucky we don’t mess up the world any more than we have to. Maybe we even fix a few problems…and hopefully not be too complicit in the crimes of our era. It can be a hard gig.
DEVO themselves delivered their message as well as could be expected; problem was, despite the warning, the public chose instead to take “Timeout For Fun”…
Hind-sight is 20/20, ain't it? Seeing this side of the decades is kind of bittersweet. Yeah, the message was right, but on the other hand... the message was right.
@RachelCorriesGhost Apology accepted. It’s cool. Anything I listen to from the 1960’s is strictly for nostalgia. I’ve been into classical since forever. Beethoven, etc. & 1940’s; Bing Crosby, etc. & big movie scores, like by Miklos Rozsa & John Williams. & from flicks like Lord Of The Rings. My current favorite is Chevaliers de Sangreal from the Da Vinci Code. Listened to Mindless Self Indulgence; it’s a little nerve-jangling for me. To each their own. Vaya con Dios.
@thechessstick In your list of evidence you forgot the living examples of natural selection in birds and insects. Oh and the timeclocks of trees and radioactive dating that calibrate a timescale for evolution. Then there's the the fossil record and the traces of our earliest ancestors. And not forgetting the confirmation from molecular biology and genetics and much more . . .
@thechessstick People don't "choose" to "believe in evolution." Evolution has been established as fact by scientific evidence. I welcome the fact that so may believers in the supernatural refuse to accept the evidence, because ultimately their refusal will ensure that their reactionary ideas will wither and die.
It's scary to think that all our parents were right when they said we too would be subjected to a style of music run by a different generation that we wouldn't agree with. They had rock n' roll, perhaps some of us had grunge or punk, whatever. but it's all the same. if you are a 90's kid, your time is comming to an end. Music today has become too simple yet sound difficult. It's like... the synthesyser in the 80's... move over electric guitar. Devo understands this... brilliantly.
So, the BIG question is,did the Pinks and their ilk win?Did July 6th 1998 happen,or did it not? I say it DID,and we forgot,and linger in a mashed potato sort of way. Either way,Devo,play on,"Smart Patrol"!!!! BOB and Rev. Stang smile upon your efforts.Give my regards to Mr. Kamikaze and Mr. DNA. Those in the know(potatos or otherwise),understand...
@oobiedoob Agree in general but not about the bomb. Sure "a country that has the bomb" cannot be picked on by the major powers but since country means government here, it also leaves such a government even freer to treat its subjects as they see fit. Consider China, North Korea, Pakistan. Not all governments are as benevolent as (despite all their faults) Britain, the US or France.
@RachelCorriesGhost Alas. They…like me…are Baby Boomers. We unleashed the Full Of Ourselves curse on the world. Every generation before ours labored for the betterment of those coming after. The Greatest Gereration rode out the Great Depression and WW2. Then came Vietnam. We got on our High Horse. And you feel about us was we felt about the Greatest Generation. And those after you will feel about you what you feel about the Devo gen.
@redword2007 And something isn't true because science says so, it's always being disputed and science disproves itself all the time . Hey, I'll admit when I'm wrong. You believe in your science and trust man and I'll believe in my God and trust his word.
@1776Rosco As a species we are living longer; we are also healthier, wealthier and better educated. That doesn't mean that there aren't serious challenges, but overall the trend in human development is one of improvement. Belief in god is based on faith. Faith is an unreliable route to truth. Only science, depending as it does on evidence, reveals truth.
@thechessstick Supporting microevolution, but not macroevolution, is like saying that it is perfectly possible to use one domino brick to trip over another, but then throwing a fit and screaming that it is impossible to trip over an entire line of domino bricks in the same way.
Devo and Kraftwerk deserve a lot of credit for bringing synth-based music into the mainstream. By keeping it simple and song focused, rather than complex and performance focused like most of the music of the 70's was.
By the grace of the gods I got to see Devo twice. RIP Casales.
And Alan Meyers!!!
Jerry Casale is alive... His brother Bob passed.
RIP General Boy (Robert Mothersbaugh Sr.).
Rip spaz attack
Oh no I didn’t know spaz attack passed away! RIP
A man is real not made of steel !! Good to see Mark is not messed up on dope like a lot of artists. Aging gracefully. Much love !
Well said.
Words of truth..."devolution is real & it's happened"
and he must be a wee bit fed up explaining all this yet again to some fake tomatoes.
It is happening as we speak.
I ignored them when i was younger, i liked Whip It and Freedom Of Choice as songs but my young testosteroned mind couldn't sit still enough to understand them at that time. Now that i am older i love them. They just blow me away.
Mothersbaugh is a genius. I heart Devo.
Devo was way ahead of there time. That's what makes them GREAT!
The comments are wonderful... so much devo going on.
"We're like the house band on the Titanic - entertaining everybody as we go down."
I like all kinds of music, but I always got Oh yeah you like that devo stuff. Its the same attitude from people towards people who like Star Trek. Its like oh you must be a weirdo. You can't be a fan of something, but you can be at a football game and paint yourself blue. Thats ok.
When a troll comes along
You must whip it
i have something to say to all you Devo haters and the other one hit wonders that you all are forgetting they made it to MTV, Don Kristines Rock Concert and there own concerts and we all paid to see them and enjoyed their music so stop being a player hater people, I myself sat in with Bill Haleys Comets when they played Saugus Ma in the 80's and i got to do the lead to Rock around the clock and you know what if anyone like devo or one hit wonders ever had a show in my area i would be in line buying tickets. It dont matter how old you are or how popular you were your still a step above us so DEVO you go back and tour and knock em dead :) everytime i hear whip it i still get up and crack that whip ......
Who hates Devo? What is there to hate? These guys clearly get what it's all about.
I have loved DEVO's music and quirky qualities for over 30 years.
DEVO should rule the world like Dethklok does in Metalocalypse.
Sven Jansen totally would be down for that
YES. YESSSSS!
"we are the house band on the titanic"!!!!!.......
10 spuds don't get the message.
They played a small bit in the movie 'Spirit of 76'. Worth a watch.
Thanks for sharing this. Wonderful comments on the demise of analogue technology for working creatively. Nearly did my PhD on the topic.
I like seeing all these positive posts!!!
He's staying at the Sheraton! not bad for a guy from Akron.
DEVO: Right diagnosis, rong prescription!
Sometimes it doesn't NEED to be about the mission statement. This was a great video about Devo's approach to music production, and just when it was getting good, edit, mission statement. Many times. Gripes.
@1776Rosco
I am motivated in life by love and compassion for other human beings. When people place love of their deity above their love for other human beings, they become capable of the most extraordinary evil, as history tells illustrates.
these guys are so old, i feel bad i didnt know about them earlier, they only tour for so long
Foo Fighters still use tape and they sound more fantastic than ever. Dave Grohl is old school and so is Devo and I do not agree that you have to be "brave" to admit that you were a fan back in the day when Devo first hit the music scene, you only have to be proud and I am. I was a fan back in the day when I first heard them and I'm an even bigger fan now, Love you guys and can't wait to see my fellow Ohioans at the LC Pavilion on June 16th in Columbus Ohio!! Tickets go on sale tomorrow!
akron ohio baby...no record company wants to hear that, he's right
❤️❤️❤️
God love them. When Devolution comes, I'll go through the blue door.
the men who make the music!
until 1980
Neat band, always have been.
In my opinion. Devo was always ahead of it's time, and in a way... warned us with their music of the future. I think it's time they come back in the this new generation and show these kids what real music is like... maybe help form a new style, but on their terms. So... Ironically, I say that devo work on becoming the new face of this music era, such as cobain was the frontman for Generation X. I'd love to see some new Devo songs.
Great clip man thanks that was awesome. Like how it ended with "That's Good", one of my many favorite DEVO songs.
It’s a beautiful world 🌎 ❤
DEVO as “the house band on The Titanic”; most fitting, indeed!…
Flagwaver 1969 , What an asshole ! It's such a shame that we must grow old as this conceptual band had it correct 40 plus years ago. I miss those days but thank god that I had the opportunity to see them several times and understand what it was all about. The four visionaries of Devo are not nor will they ever be forgotten. It's assholes like Flagwaver 1969 ( more like "Meatpuller" 2015 ) that are fucking this world up. Thanks Devo, for getting it right !
I was around when Devo came out. Only now I get it.
@ 2:03 Mark and Jerry are referring to the computer software programs for music sequencing called "Logic" and "Reason"... they are making a play on words
One thing I regret in my life is that I did not go to more concerts. Devo is definitely a band that I would have considered seeing. Devo is awesome. I have seen Sammy Hagar twice (once at the Toledo Zoo and once at Promenade Park in Toledo) and R.E.M (Luscious Jackson opened but my brother and I got a flat tire and missed them at the Palace where the Pistons used to play; at least we got to see all or almost all of R.E.M.) and Robert Plant at the Salvage Arena at the University of Toledo.
"...the houseband (like ) on the titanic. peace" EEEEEpic
@RachelCorriesGhost
I’m puzzled. I’m agreeing with you that their tine is past. There’s an old saying that people who praise themselves have a small fan base. Or something like that. I respect older performers who are still out there practicing their craft for the sheer love long after the spotlight, money, and groupies have migrated on to newer stuff.
@RachelCorriesGhost
I’m agreeing with you that the Love Generation was pretty much stoned out. I myself have been clean and sober all my life
Now…if your problem is simply with people who happen to have racked up a bunch of decades, I can’t do anything about that. Time goes by. People age. It happens.
I can understand their point, but sadly this came across as just sounding old: "I don't like the way things are now, they were better 30 years ago."
Edgar Allan Poe tried to warn us of this "devolution" in his story "The Fall of the House of Usher" but no one listened. Perhaps this DEVO comeback will help!
the energy dome is still awesome!
Unfortunately we are de-evolving. We have environmentalist pushing us backward and cursing civilized progress, invention, production, and almost demanding that we regress toward a hunter-gatherer society. Government bureaucrats are all too happy to oblige as long as they are the ones with the purse strings.
@colemann76 Smooth Noodle Maps was "very good"? Not the last time I listened to it. It was certainly better than Total Devo, but that's not saying much. =P
@1776Rosco
Of course there are medical challenges - many of them arising from the fact that we are living longer - but we are meeting them and overall the facts are that we are healthier and we enjoy longer lives.
Of course science disproves itself all the time. Scepticism and doubt are integral parts of the scientific method. With each piece of new evidence we get closer to truth; but few questions are answered once and for all. That's what makes it superior to knowledge based on faith.
BTW, does ANYONE out there know who this new drummer is out there for DEVO. He's no young spring chicken, or at least it looks that way, but he's kind of hot ... from what I can tell. NOT that I'm looking or anything, I'm just sayin.' Anyway, could he be the son of one of the original DEVO band members? I'm certain that it's not Alan ... so who is he?
These guys have and always will be WHINNERS. A holier-than-thou attitude that they know what is best for the World. Nothing is ever THEIR fault.
Their music i like... their advice they can keep!!
I will be be a spud again in Louisville when I see DEVO play.
I love DE-VO!
Love the cones,man,classic
WHY am I the only Black person at a DEVO concert for the last 40 years here in NYC???????????
Something just struck me, now I know this is nothing new but I think often we put the cart before the horse in this choice of worldview and its affect on us. Usually when we see a person who has chosen to believe in evolution we think that their life is then changed for the worse and sin enters in because now they think they can make their own rules. But I think often it is the other way around a person 1st gives into sin and then chooses a worldview to fit their lifestyle. Evidence is ignored.
They and their message may be bigger than they realize
DEvolution is real. What do we do about it? Can it be stopped? Should we just accept it? Maybe the new album will enlighten us all. Maybe it'll just be a soundtrack for the final decline of mankind. "Watch Us Work It" rocks! I hope to hear more along those lines. I feel so Devo I don't know what to do.
Good one! I doubt many caught the reference...
@LHZZ12MM Yeah. People are people. If we’re lucky we don’t mess up the world any more than we have to. Maybe we even fix a few problems…and hopefully not be too complicit in the crimes of our era. It can be a hard gig.
@pamb440 I will be at the show and can't wait. All Hail DEVO
DEVO themselves delivered their message as well as could be expected; problem was, despite the warning, the public chose instead to take “Timeout For Fun”…
Devo is like a true Christ to humanity.
Hind-sight is 20/20, ain't it? Seeing this side of the decades is kind of bittersweet.
Yeah, the message was right, but on the other hand... the message was right.
@RachelCorriesGhost Apology accepted. It’s cool. Anything I listen to from the 1960’s is strictly for nostalgia. I’ve been into classical since forever. Beethoven, etc. & 1940’s; Bing Crosby, etc. & big movie scores, like by Miklos Rozsa & John Williams. & from flicks like Lord Of The Rings. My current favorite is Chevaliers de Sangreal from the Da Vinci Code. Listened to Mindless Self Indulgence; it’s a little nerve-jangling for me. To each their own. Vaya con Dios.
@thechessstick
In your list of evidence you forgot the living examples of natural selection in birds and insects. Oh and the timeclocks of trees and radioactive dating that calibrate a timescale for evolution. Then there's the the fossil record and the traces of our earliest ancestors. And not forgetting the confirmation from molecular biology and genetics and much more . . .
@MsGeek703
D'ya mean the day is near? At hand?
@thechessstick
People don't "choose" to "believe in evolution." Evolution has been established as fact by scientific evidence.
I welcome the fact that so may believers in the supernatural refuse to accept the evidence, because ultimately their refusal will ensure that their reactionary ideas will wither and die.
And I thought entropie's a fact.
It's scary to think that all our parents were right when they said we too would be subjected to a style of music run by a different generation that we wouldn't agree with. They had rock n' roll, perhaps some of us had grunge or punk, whatever. but it's all the same. if you are a 90's kid, your time is comming to an end. Music today has become too simple yet sound difficult. It's like... the synthesyser in the 80's... move over electric guitar. Devo understands this... brilliantly.
we’re all devo :/
'Darkness has descended upon mankind...'
So, the BIG question is,did the Pinks and their ilk win?Did July 6th 1998 happen,or did it not? I say it DID,and we forgot,and linger in a mashed potato sort of way. Either way,Devo,play on,"Smart Patrol"!!!! BOB and Rev. Stang smile upon your efforts.Give my regards to Mr. Kamikaze and Mr. DNA. Those in the know(potatos or otherwise),understand...
"That's Good" from "Oh, No! It's Devo", except that intro isn't on the record.
@reuterhunter1 "That's good" from "Oh No! It;s DEVO"
What they did, is what they did! Then they went, and then they hid!
With apologies to Devo for Misquoting them
We're all Devo.
@oobiedoob
Agree in general but not about the bomb. Sure "a country that has the bomb" cannot be picked on by the major powers but since country means government here, it also leaves such a government even freer to treat its subjects as they see fit. Consider China, North Korea, Pakistan. Not all governments are as benevolent as (despite all their faults) Britain, the US or France.
What they did, is what then did! Then they went, and then they hid!
With apologies to Devo for Misquoting them
Oh no it's Devo was very good and Smooth noodle maps was good too, the two inbetween were just average.
The WOKEST of’3m all. One Devo to show us the mirror image truth. Are we not men?
YES!!! 👍👽
why is the video jerky?
hahaha, what exactly was the message of the song Speed Racer?
Doctor kills so here's your bill.
i am inspired
Is it just me, or do they kinda come off like Waldorf & Statler in this clip?
Some independent bands use tape:]
Some, but not many
what song are they playing
What's with the flower pot on his head?
I wish I could where a flower pot and be taken seriously.
@RachelCorriesGhost Alas. They…like me…are Baby Boomers. We unleashed the Full Of Ourselves curse on the world. Every generation before ours labored for the betterment of those coming after. The Greatest Gereration rode out the Great Depression and WW2. Then came Vietnam. We got on our High Horse. And you feel about us was we felt about the Greatest Generation. And those after you will feel about you what you feel about the Devo gen.
How would you find a fella like me eh/
@redword2007 And something isn't true because science says so, it's always being disputed and science disproves itself all the time . Hey, I'll admit when I'm wrong. You believe in your science and trust man and I'll believe in my God and trust his word.
@cretinbob sweet thanks i love devo my mom raised me with them lol
@Druffmaul noy very good, but certainly good, i stand by that, i still think it's a good album.
Are we not men?
We are Divo!
@1776Rosco
As a species we are living longer; we are also healthier, wealthier and better educated. That doesn't mean that there aren't serious challenges, but overall the trend in human development is one of improvement.
Belief in god is based on faith. Faith is an unreliable route to truth. Only science, depending as it does on evidence, reveals truth.
at 4:04 what song is that?
@thechessstick
Supporting microevolution, but not macroevolution, is like saying that it is perfectly possible to use one domino brick to trip over another, but then throwing a fit and screaming that it is impossible to trip over an entire line of domino bricks in the same way.
Jerry always talks over Mark
@bacofishtaco we are DEVO!!!!!
WE MUST REPEAT! OHIO!
What would happen if it was a real dove, there'd be... shit when it flew away.