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06-12-2010, 11:02 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | DEVO returns - with a lot of synth bass
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Listen, I don't want to hear anything about how it's mostly synth bass. DEVO's first new album in 20 years, "Something For Everybody" is out and it kills! It's currently sneak preview streaming on www.colbertnation.com and the album comes out on Tuesday. Pretty much every song is golden.
If you haven't seen any of the publicity they've been doing behind this album, you are missing out on the funniest goof on the music industry ever. They re-signed with their old record company Warner Bros., who hired this ad company called Mother to do "focus groups" for them to choose how the album was to be presented so it could appeal to everybody, and they have videos showing the process on Youtube. Like they said they were going to let the fans vote on their favorites and put what the fans wanted on the album. But the album's song order was set in stone months ago and the fans version will be available as a download. And the ad guys are the most ridiculous parody of ad guys you've ever seen. They made a reality show out of it that starts on www.clubdevo.com next week, but there are tons of clips about it on Youtube. Here's a starter clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmusSjrDf8
So what does this have to do with bass? Jerry Casale plays a song or two with electric bass on it  Most of it is synth bass, but at least he plays it live and doesn't usually program it. But who cares? It's the best album they've done since Freedom Of Choice, which of course spawned the classic "Whip It." Kids, this is the band that inspired all your favorite bands like LCD Soundsystem, the Ting Tings, Nine Inch Nails, and Nirvana. Kurt Cobain said they were the most subversive band of all time. He was right.
And now they're 60 year old men and they're still the most subversive band of all. And they still make kickass electronic dance rock. I love it! First it was AC/DC, now it's Devo. The old farts are taking back over. Rise up, old farts! Rise up, I say!
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06-12-2010, 11:08 PM
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Haha... "It's offensive to God, therefore it's offensive to me."
Devo, the new Marilyn Manson.
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06-12-2010, 11:16 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: San Francisco | | | Talk about de-evolution
I find that statement offensive to Devo, therefore it is offensive to me.
God bless Devo..... |
06-12-2010, 11:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: San Diego | | | by odd coincidence, i just floored somebody by introducing them to Devo's cover of "Satisfaction" and I wondered about them.... |
06-12-2010, 11:39 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | | | my second favorite commie band after rage aainst the machine  as one oftheir earliest fans i am saddened bythe new Devo work-but you have my vote Jimmy if Casale kicks the bucket. They were influential and out there for their time.
Santa Monica civic auditorium their best concert ever!
but i do agree old guys rockin is not a bad thing 
Im so stroft......
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06-13-2010, 12:10 AM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | saddened? i guess i get that. but they did a focus group, and the focus group liked synth bass and dance beats more
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06-13-2010, 12:55 AM
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06-13-2010, 01:14 AM
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06-13-2010, 01:27 AM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | JimmyM, my jury has been out for awhile on just what to make of you, but this bumps the *respect-of-your-opinion-of-genuinely-influential-artists-of-my/perhaps-your-era-ometer* count up a notch or three; thank you for the tip.
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06-13-2010, 03:37 AM
| | Dry and Heavy | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Swiss Alps | | | We all went to see them in Montréal a week after we saw them on SNL (the time of their debut album). They played a small club with the audience seated around tables, not usually a venue for rock bands at the time.
The floor was covered in black plastic sheeting, and no one knew what to expect.
They showed those great early video clips on a big screen, and then came out in boilersuits and sowed mayhem for an hour. They were a complete mind-xxxx, especially when Mothersbaugh dove under the plastic sheeting and crawled around the tables like a moving lump. I don't remember much in the way of details, but I do remember the general sense of disorientation and of course some great music. The album got a lot of play that summer...
Good to see them doing something again, though I found those videos and the concept a bit lame, to be honest. But if the music's good, who cares? |
06-13-2010, 05:27 AM
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06-13-2010, 05:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: St. Louis, Missouri | | | Thanks for the update JImmy. Can't wait to pick this up. Been a huge DEVO fan for years.
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06-13-2010, 05:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Barkless Dog What is it about Akron Ohio that breeds bands? | Well, there's not a lot else to do in Akron.
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06-13-2010, 06:56 AM
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Originally Posted by One Drop Good to see them doing something again, though I found those videos and the concept a bit lame, to be honest. But if the music's good, who cares? | right. actually, those vids are purposefully lame. but the album's rockin', no doubt!
wish i could have seen them back then...first time i saw them was 1980 and they had already ditched the yellow suits. never did see them play in the yellow suits live, as a matter of fact. i think it makes a difference
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06-13-2010, 07:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Late Boomer Well, there's not a lot else to do in Akron. | I have family from the area, it is a depressed town. Maybe misery breeds creativity. The Black Keys still live there & Chrissy Hind did come back to the area & opened a Vegan restaurant. I doubt Devo will be moving back though.
Mark Mothersbaugh has had a pretty successful music career post Devo (Rugrats, etc. soundtracks) |
06-13-2010, 11:05 AM
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06-13-2010, 11:17 AM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | Frankly, as I have stated on the DEVO forum, I think the new album sucks in a variety of ways. I think it's harsh, overproduced, messy, annoying, not catchy, and the lyrics are trite.
I'm sure they still have the ability to put on a weird live show, so that's cool, but you'd have to pay me to listen to the new album a second time. |
06-13-2010, 11:24 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Ernie Ball Strings | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Huntington Beach | | | Just went and saw them on the Jimmy Kimmel show a couple of week ago. They Killed! My calves were sore for a week from pogoing around.
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06-13-2010, 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by JimmyM ...The old farts are taking back over. Rise up, old farts! Rise up, I say! | OFBPOAC (You must be 50+ to join)
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06-13-2010, 11:31 AM
|  | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyM right. actually, those vids are purposefully lame. but the album's rockin', no doubt!
wish i could have seen them back then...first time i saw them was 1980 and they had already ditched the yellow suits. never did see them play in the yellow suits live, as a matter of fact. i think it makes a difference | They were wearing the yellow suits both times I've seen 'em live.
1995 and 2009. Hope to see 'em again soon. Great live show. 
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