DEVO - I CANT GET NO SATISFACTION

"STABBING THE TOASTER OF LOVE"

This is great, this is violent, this is pop, this is even recorded on scratchy film. Its far from polished and its got great energy and it speaks about its time. It wasn't shot on a multi million dollar budget and it shows. THATS GOOD ENOUGH... and its relevant.

The baby who stabs the toaster is in for a real treat. We shriek in mock terror but this is what good video is all about. It gets your attention. That baby grows up into a very disturbed young man who does these strange forward flips. It is enough to carry us through the entire video experience of this STONES song.

I prefer this song to the Stones in a lot of ways because it is so straight forward. Notice how these new Yellow Devo suits became their signature garb. This was even parodied in Revenge of the Nerds. Besides being somewhat geeky Devo was actually an angry band in a lot of ways. They had a lot of energy to them.

When they came out in the rock tabloids Devo garnered some bad reviews. One actually said if you don't care about the girl you are with go ahead and put a Devo record on. The reason being that a Devo record never meant anything to anyone. That little snippet of wisdom I find hilarious and at the same time nonsensical. It DID have some meaning to me. I found them interesting. Although I did find playing an entire album by them a little tedious because some of the songs were nerve grating, (Through Being Cool etc.).

But this one is a gem.

Ted Cantu posted this on May 26, 2007 at 1:17 am