A Must-Have for DEVOted Fans! Featuring "Booji Boy's Funeral", "37", "Let's Go", "Goo Goo Itch", "U Got Me Bugged", "Be Stiff" & Many More!
4-Track Recordings Made in Akron, Ohio Between April 1974 and December 1977!
DEVO is an American New Wave band formed in 1972 consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio. The classic line-up of the band includes two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs (Mark and Bob) and the Casales (Gerald and Bob), along with Alan Myers. The band had a No. 14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It", and has maintained a cult following throughout its existence. Their style over time has shifted between punk, art rock, post-punk, and New Wave. Their music and stage show mingle kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor, and mordantly satirical social commentary. DEVO dramatized conformity, emotional repression, and dehumanization in order to attack them, not to pay tribute to them.
Their often discordant pop songs feature unusual synthetic instrumentation and time signatures that have proven influential on subsequent popular music, particularly New Wave, industrial and alternative rock artists. Devo was also a pioneer of the music video, creating many memorable clips for the Laser Disc format, with "Whip It" getting heavy airplay in the early days of MTV.
The name "Devo" comes "from their concept of 'de-evolution' - the idea that instead of continuing to evolve, mankind has actually begun to regress, as evidenced by the dysfunction and herd mentality of American society." This idea was developed as a joke by Kent State University art students Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis as early as the late 1960s. Casale and Lewis created a number of satirical art pieces in a devolution vein. At this time, Casale had also performed with the local band 15-60-75 (The Numbers Band). They met Mark Mothersbaugh around 1970, who introduced them to the pamphlet "Jocko Homo Heavenbound", which includes an illustration of a winged devil labeled "D-EVOLUTION" and would later inspire the song "Jocko Homo". However, the "joke" became serious, following the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970, which Casale witnessed. This event would be cited multiple times as the impetus for forming the band Devo.
During a 5 year hiatus the band released Hardcore Devo Volume 2, early 70s era compilations, is the second of two collections of demos which showcase DEVO's seminal, minimalist electronic rock recordings. The Hardcore Devo albums are collections of 4-track basement demos recorded by the band between 1974-1977. Some tracks are earlier versions of some of Devo's best known tracks that would later be re-recorded and used on subsequent Devo records (e.g. "Jocko Homo," "Mongoloid"), but a majority of the tracks were never re-used and remained unreleased until the Hardcore Devo compilations. Volume Two has been described as even more "hardcore" than Hardcore Devo: Volume One, as it contains more "experimental" tracks. However, it is not without its share of "classic Devo," with the band's trademark sound already beginning to show.
"Like its predecessor and true to its title, Hardcore, Vol. 2 is an indispensable item for any hardcore Devo fan. Featuring over an hour's worth of raw, four-track basement recordings from the years 1974-1977, the disc contains such necessities as the atmospheric instrumental 'Booji Boy's Funeral,' the mechanized blues shuffle of '37,' the mock sports anthem 'Let's Go,' the gleeful bubblegum pop parody 'Goo Goo Itch' (revealing a surprisingly strong sense of melody), and the sheer aural dementia of 'U Got Me Bugged,' as well as 'Be Stiff,' which later became the theme song for the pioneering British indie label Stiff Records. Also featured are early versions of 'Clockout' and their cover of Lee Dorsey's 'Working In a Coalmine.'...the compilation again proves the depth of development and detail in Devo's satirical vision far prior to their 1978 debut album." - Steve Huey, allmusic.com
Features:
160 Gram Vinyl
Double LP
Includes Lyrics Insert
Musicians:
Bob Casale, guitar, keyboards, vocals
Gerald V. Casale, keyboards, vocals
Bob Mothersbaugh, guitar, vocals
Mark Mothersbaugh, guitar, keyboards, vocals
Jim Mothersbaugh, drums
Alan Myers, drums
Selections:
LP1 - Side 1:
1. Booji Boy's Funeral
2. Can U Take It?
3. Bamboo Bimbo
4. A Plan For U
5. The Rope Song
6. Goo Goo Itch
LP1 - Side 2:
1. Be Stiff
2. All Of Us
3. Baby Talkin' Bitches
4. I Need A Chick
5. U Got Me Bugged
6. Chango
LP2 - Side 3:
1. Fraulein
2. Dogs Of Democracy
3. "37"
4. Bottled Up
5. Working In The Coal Mine
6. I Been Refused
LP2 - Side 4:
1. Fountain Of Filth
2. Clockout
3. Let's Go
4. Man From The Past
5. Doghouse Doghouse
6. Hubert House
7. Shimmy Shake
4-Track Recordings Made in Akron, Ohio Between April 1974 and December 1977!
DEVO is an American New Wave band formed in 1972 consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio. The classic line-up of the band includes two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs (Mark and Bob) and the Casales (Gerald and Bob), along with Alan Myers. The band had a No. 14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It", and has maintained a cult following throughout its existence. Their style over time has shifted between punk, art rock, post-punk, and New Wave. Their music and stage show mingle kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor, and mordantly satirical social commentary. DEVO dramatized conformity, emotional repression, and dehumanization in order to attack them, not to pay tribute to them.
Their often discordant pop songs feature unusual synthetic instrumentation and time signatures that have proven influential on subsequent popular music, particularly New Wave, industrial and alternative rock artists. Devo was also a pioneer of the music video, creating many memorable clips for the Laser Disc format, with "Whip It" getting heavy airplay in the early days of MTV.
The name "Devo" comes "from their concept of 'de-evolution' - the idea that instead of continuing to evolve, mankind has actually begun to regress, as evidenced by the dysfunction and herd mentality of American society." This idea was developed as a joke by Kent State University art students Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis as early as the late 1960s. Casale and Lewis created a number of satirical art pieces in a devolution vein. At this time, Casale had also performed with the local band 15-60-75 (The Numbers Band). They met Mark Mothersbaugh around 1970, who introduced them to the pamphlet "Jocko Homo Heavenbound", which includes an illustration of a winged devil labeled "D-EVOLUTION" and would later inspire the song "Jocko Homo". However, the "joke" became serious, following the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970, which Casale witnessed. This event would be cited multiple times as the impetus for forming the band Devo.
During a 5 year hiatus the band released Hardcore Devo Volume 2, early 70s era compilations, is the second of two collections of demos which showcase DEVO's seminal, minimalist electronic rock recordings. The Hardcore Devo albums are collections of 4-track basement demos recorded by the band between 1974-1977. Some tracks are earlier versions of some of Devo's best known tracks that would later be re-recorded and used on subsequent Devo records (e.g. "Jocko Homo," "Mongoloid"), but a majority of the tracks were never re-used and remained unreleased until the Hardcore Devo compilations. Volume Two has been described as even more "hardcore" than Hardcore Devo: Volume One, as it contains more "experimental" tracks. However, it is not without its share of "classic Devo," with the band's trademark sound already beginning to show.
"Like its predecessor and true to its title, Hardcore, Vol. 2 is an indispensable item for any hardcore Devo fan. Featuring over an hour's worth of raw, four-track basement recordings from the years 1974-1977, the disc contains such necessities as the atmospheric instrumental 'Booji Boy's Funeral,' the mechanized blues shuffle of '37,' the mock sports anthem 'Let's Go,' the gleeful bubblegum pop parody 'Goo Goo Itch' (revealing a surprisingly strong sense of melody), and the sheer aural dementia of 'U Got Me Bugged,' as well as 'Be Stiff,' which later became the theme song for the pioneering British indie label Stiff Records. Also featured are early versions of 'Clockout' and their cover of Lee Dorsey's 'Working In a Coalmine.'...the compilation again proves the depth of development and detail in Devo's satirical vision far prior to their 1978 debut album." - Steve Huey, allmusic.com
Features:
160 Gram Vinyl
Double LP
Includes Lyrics Insert
Musicians:
Bob Casale, guitar, keyboards, vocals
Gerald V. Casale, keyboards, vocals
Bob Mothersbaugh, guitar, vocals
Mark Mothersbaugh, guitar, keyboards, vocals
Jim Mothersbaugh, drums
Alan Myers, drums
Selections:
LP1 - Side 1:
1. Booji Boy's Funeral
2. Can U Take It?
3. Bamboo Bimbo
4. A Plan For U
5. The Rope Song
6. Goo Goo Itch
LP1 - Side 2:
1. Be Stiff
2. All Of Us
3. Baby Talkin' Bitches
4. I Need A Chick
5. U Got Me Bugged
6. Chango
LP2 - Side 3:
1. Fraulein
2. Dogs Of Democracy
3. "37"
4. Bottled Up
5. Working In The Coal Mine
6. I Been Refused
LP2 - Side 4:
1. Fountain Of Filth
2. Clockout
3. Let's Go
4. Man From The Past
5. Doghouse Doghouse
6. Hubert House
7. Shimmy Shake
