Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! by Devo

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It's time for me to get serious and review Devo. No eye-winking here either, as funny as that first sentence might seem. Devo gets short shrift, remembered for their red circular-staircase hats, a weird video and weird song, and not much else. Criminal! ...

Pros: Fun stuff; jerky rhythms; very unique
Cons: Tends to wear thin before the disc is over

Devo, sadly, is best known for wearing upside down flower pots on their heads, a lot of synthesizers and that Whip It song. That's really too bad as the band -- in the early days -- was an extremely jittery, guitar-based punk band that was more ...

Pros: "This ain't rock'n'roll, this is GENOCIDE!" Well, actually, not quite...
Cons: Not for fans of Blue Oyster Cult, I'd imagine.

There has been so much written about 9/11 that at this point I really hate to jump on that greatly overloaded bandwagon, fearing that I have little of value to offer on the topic. Nevertheless, I plow onward: Just this morning I listened, with a largely ...

Pros: Its Devo
Cons: your friends will ridicule you, but at least its not culture club

“Are We Not Men? We Are Devo.”
I don’t know why I like the band, Devo. The only noteworthy thing they ever did was write that “Whip It” song. They have made absolutely no mark in history. The most noteworthy thing they have ever...

Pros: fun cubed; irreverent and goofy
Cons: hard to dance in any cool kinda way to

I was alive and had seen the Talking Heads around the same time as Devo made their appearance on Saturday Night Live. I have since seen the clip Devo did in what...'78, maybe '79 and I can see what the furor was about. First they whipped out the robotic...