All posts tagged "Devo"

Hard as it may be to believe, Devo dropped their first album in 20 years on Tuesday. It's called "Something For Everybody", because in order to put it together, they had a fake focus group on their website, where fans could listen to snippets of songs and vote for their favorites. The songs that got the most votes got on the album. As usual, their desire to make fun of corporate mediocrity by being de-evolved competed with their urge to make music that doesn't suck, though, so the whole process was more a joke than anything else. But it would be interesting to do a similar experiment using 100 songs by 100 artists chosen randomly, and producing an album of astonishing mediocrity, which is what you get most of the time when you split the difference through a focus group style of making "art". But I'm glad they chose "listenable" and "fun" over "mediocrity as an artistic statement". Here's the first song off it.

In case regular readers haven't noticed, I like the band Devo.

I was going to pick "Boo Hoo Fucking Hoo" by the Yuppie Pricks for today's Genius pick, to honor the "you made FUN of US" whining we've had to tolerate from self-described libertarians this week, but alas, there's no You Tube video for it. But there is for Devo's "Through Being Cool".

Concert review under the fold, spuds. Things that are more fun than a Devo show at a horse racetrack:

I couldn't resist putting up a post about Devo and Nixonland at TPM Cafe. There are some good commenters there, and I look forward to their feedback, but I'm also not looking forward to the people that seem to hang out there all day so they can just hate on everything in sight.