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Lead Performance: Devo; Genre: Pop

Even sophisticated de-evolutionaries must have been ordinary people once, but these early home-made efforts show that Devo had its bizarre sound and concepts together well before unleashing them on the world. Amid distorted guitars, demented syncopations, high-strung vocals, and wiggly synthesizer squiggles, the songs -- most never before released -- clearly reflect the band's warped worldview. ''I'm a Potato,'' ''Buttered Beauties,'' and ''Uglatto'' are pungent Devo detritus; rare versions of ''Mongoloid,'' ''Jocko Homo,'' ''Satisfaction,'' and ''Social Fools'' up the album's ante as illuminating anthropology, especially in light of the band's creative decline in the '80s.


Posted Nov 21, 2003
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