Record of the Day – 010: DEVO!

I didn’t need to watch the Netflix documentary on DEVO to shake the dust off my DEVO albums. I never stopped playing them.

However, that first record was pretty amazing, even in a day where punk was king, and new wave was a close second – DEVO was unique. It was a classic day in the record store that I worked, with the satin-jacketed guy from WB stopping in with the promo and concert tickets! Sometimes it pays off to work the night shift.

By this time, I’d seen them on Saturday Night Live and bought the first record, the one you see here – the tix were for the Duty Now For the Future album, at the Uptown Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the summer of ’79

But this record, produced by Brian Eno is so catchy, it sounds completely fresh today, full of animalistic drumming, buzz saw guitars and out of this world synthesizer bits. Of course, the anthem that made DEVO famous is here in all it’s glory, but this record is 34 and a half minutes of fun.

For those of you that are interested, our own Jaan Uhelszki did an incredible interview with Mark Mothersbaugh back in issue 26, that we’ve put back on the site here:

https://www.tonepublications.com/music/looking-back-on-devo/

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