DEVO - PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION DOLLARS HARD AT WORK

"Hey Mom and Dad, While Your Working Struggling To Pay Your Mortgage, Little Billy and Co. Are Hard At Work Blowing Our Tax Dollars On Creating Forgettable Bullshit"

Take a good look at this video. It came from a public school of some sort. Maybe an arts program. These are your tax dollars.....

Strange, intriguing and outrageous.

Feeling it?

Cantu 2007

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

DEVO - ITS A BEAUTIFUL WORLD

"A SWEET, ROMANTIC PLACE... ITS A BEAUTIFUL WORLD.. FOR YOU, (NOT ME)

This actually aired on the Pee Wee Herman Show when it was originally broadcast at 1 am in the early 80's. You may remember that one where it was a stage show etc. He actually aired this Devo clip but I am not sure it had the Booji boy intro in the beginning controlling the actual video. But it works... again.. its been a long time since I seen this... maybe 1982.

I am going to get stoned for saying this but I think Mark Mothersbaugh is TEN TIMES HOTTER than Jessica Alba.. and the reasons why should be obvious. Yes he is an ultra geek but this guy had a lot of vision. You really couldn't take your eyes off anything he created because he was just flat out strange and captivating. I get sick of alba in about ten minutes. But I can sit there and watch a Devo video over and over again because it is ENTERTAINING.

There really hasn't been another band like Devo which is kind of too bad. They were creating great material in the early 80's. By the Mid-80's other bands were grabbing the spotlight and synth pop was dominating American radio. Then things got really bad.

You suddenly had a lot of bands creating cerebral kamakazi with the ear drums and patience such as Mister Mister, KajaGooGoo, Cutting Crew, Aha, Terrance Trent Darby and many others. It wasn't until bands who danced around on the outter edges of IRS records got kids thinking about what music could be and what was possible. That is when things got interesting again.

But before the great rennaisance this is what we had to work with and it was substantial. It held up and some songs held up better than others. Devo doing Jocko Homo was beyond brilliant. The introduction of Booji boy was amazing too. See it all come together in this social commentary video is just what the Booji Boy ordered. Its king.

Cantu 2007, can be found at http://www.1seomichigan.com this post was created May 26, 2007 at 1:03 pm

DEVO - the attack of booji boy on Saturday Night Live

"THIS BROADCAST IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK IT IS...... HONESTLY"

When I first saw this I really thought it was THE GENIUS OF LORNE MICHAELS but I was sorely mislead. This actually appeared on Saturday Night Live and I thought it was the most brilliant thing I'd ever seen. In fact this had nothing to do with SNL.

It was just something they put on the show to ... kill time?

This was never really parodied -- or copied by any other bands. I still have no idea what inspired it. Seeing Booji run down the stairs into the parking lot was memorable. As a kid this sort of scared the crap out of me. It was fascinating to watch but yet I could not look away. I wasn't into the music or the dancing. It was about as disturbing as a late B movie at a drive in.

Later the boys in DEVO became the very establishment they pretended to rebel against. These guys spun out CD-ROMS and became major contributors to NICK TV for kids. They had a lot to do with the Rugrats.

Still, for my money I'd like to see this whole thing in its entirety. I am glad to see at least this intro because it proves to me that this was not my imagination working overtime. This was a real production of sorts. Its still disturbing. Its still interesting.

Cantu 2007, posted this on May 20, 2007 at 11:21 pm

DEVO - JOCKO HOMO

DEVO - BOOJI BOY - ROCKING THE FRENCH FANTASTIC

GET YOUR RAH RAH'S OUT !!!