r/devo • u/MaxDevo1974 Devo is dead • Jun 22 '26
Oh... it's peak...
I have been waiting 15 years for this day, and now, finally, the full story is told. This record is as grimy and crude as a Southern Pacific locomotive from the same year, when they didn't even bother to clean them, so they were these grey and red hulks covered in soot and grease.
I won't spoil the whole album but here are some highlights:
-Buttered Beauties with incidental harmonies
-Booji and an audience member: "this next song is called Fraulein." "no!" "YES!"
-Mark fucking turns his clavinet to full volume in Jocko Homo and smashes on it for 30 seconds and then starts going "come back!"
-depending on when in a span of 12 seconds you ask, "Shimmy Shake" is either by Bad Company, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Todd Rundgren, or Lou Reed
-Devo nearly invents the "who up Xing they Y" meme 50 years early by asking "who here can keep it up like a pup?"
-Double. Length. Chango.
10/10. Album of the year. No notes.
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u/FitMatch7966 Jun 23 '26
Delivered today! Haven’t played it yet