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Great performance by robotic intelligence, Jul 3 2004
OOooh ,yeah! Uncontrollable urge is surging.Every time I listen to this CD,I cannot help giggling over those guys who have fire inside them with all their might.They severely criticize and sing abot the modern civilization and corruption of our society.
That is, they have a cool perspective towards our way of living.
The sound they use is more punkish and violent and more intelligent with a distorted and twisted edge.They always whip our ears with their avant-garde taste futuristic sound texture.
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No comparison!, May 28 2004
O.K. I'd like to start off by pointing out that this record was the end result of DEVO's long and complicated de-evolution from multi-media project to major label "pop" band. The reviewer that wrote something about DEVO ripping off some idiotic Euro-dweebs has no idea that almost all of the songs on this perfect album were being developed since 1974-75. Lookie here spud, DEVO were WAY head of "new wave", "electro" or whatever pretentious label you wanna give it. Yeah, Kraftwerk were around before DEVO but man, those guys took themselves SO seriously! DEVO created a kind of glorious primitive futurism that is complex while being darkly funny. DEVO are part freak show, part futurist, part goon and 100% pure godhead. That said, "Are We Not Men" is a blistering manifesto and a great record.
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THE BEST OF ALL 80's BANDS!, May 9 2004
Except for They Might Be Giants, maybe.
I really like 80's music and listen to it a lot.
Now, pay attention.
This CD/tape/LP is NOTHING like those bands.
Spandau Ballet Is mellower
Human League is more punk and rockish.
Now DEVO, they SCREAM, they rap (just a little), they play rock, and sound nothing like them. And their album was actually released in 1978, not '76.
SO THERE!
NOw for my review.
Their debut album [NOT LIVE(as the title says)]is my favorite.
Their other albums are a 4 star to me.
This is entertaining through out the whole thing. It starts off with a rock song sounding nothing like other 80's bands.
Then there is a cover of Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones.
Sounds very different, and almost impossibly better.
Next are praying Hands and Space Junk which I like, and Mongoloid, although a little offensive, is one of their greatest hits, and I like it. (Ignore the booji boy version heard elsewhere) Jocko Homo, is not inappropriate if it sounds it.
It's a species in De-evolution they made up.(Like homo sapiens and homo erectus). Gut Feeling and Shrivel- up are good, but I can't understand why they aren't on the anthology.
Too Much Paranoias, I think, is about advertising. Smart lyrics and a good tune. The other two are just good Devo songs, nothing really to say about them.
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The end of a great band, Feb 25 2004
By A Customer
Although this is their first official release the band had been around already for 6 years doing their own home recordings and a handful of brilliant strange films. The old recordings, which were put out on the sadly out of print Hardcore Devo compilations were completely brilliant, insanely bizzare and very very unique. This album marks the end of that insane streak of genius and the watering down of Devo as the music got less strange and more bland, this album isn't horrible by any means but it certainly is a tame puppy compared to the recordings that actually got them signed, worse albums were to come as the music got far more mainstream though you could never convince Devo that.
If you're new to Devo buy this album then I guess download the Hardcore Devo Vol 1 and 2 albums to hear the REAL Devo, then pretend like they died in a plane crash after those. I really hate their other stuff and hate cruddy 80s music with the similiar sound, did they really HAVE to De-evolve like they did?
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Gut Feeling is not from a coffee club., Feb 16 2004
By A Customer
Greg Schwartz's smoking gun; ie Devo's song "Gut Feeling" was stolen from Spandu Ballet's "Coffee Club" (off of their Diamond Album) was enough to peek my curiosity. A simple check of the sound byte of the song on the Amazon page of the "Diamond album by Spandu Ballet" confirms Greg may have been taking some kind of mind altering drug that day.
Rock on Spuds, nobody before or after will ever sound like those boys from Akron.
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in response to other reviews, who's ripping who..., Feb 6 2004
Devo was formed in 1972.
Their first performance was in 1973.
Their first release was in 1976.
Human League? Spandau Ballet?!?
I don't think so.
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just for the record..., Jan 18 2004
spandau ballet formed in 1979.
human league formed in 1977, but did not release an album until 1979.
thompson twins formed in 1977, but did not release their debut until 1981.
visage formed in 1978, but debuted in 1980....let's all learn some history before shouting that a band is ripping off someone else, eh?
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Greg Schwartz from The Netherlands is factually wrong, Jan 1 2004
This debut Devo album was released in July 1978 and their second in mid 1979. The Human League's first single was released in June 1978. The first Thompson Twin single was released in April 1980. The first Visage single was released in late 1979. To say that Devo were in any way influenced by the aforementioned UK bands (as Greg Schwartz from The Netherlands claimed) is simply nonsense. It is true to say that all were influenced by the masters of this genre, the highly original Kraftwerk. That said, this album is their most raw and punk influenced. It contains some gems but I prefer 'Freedom of Choice' which is why I have only allocated ***. Anyone interested in the facts about Devo's development and their unique contribution to the evolution of modern music should read "We Are Devo!" by Jade Dellinger & David Giffels.
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Same old, same old generic corporate slop, Dec 31 2003
This band totally bit their style and message from such Euro-synth groups as Human League, Thompson Twins and Visage. Get a grip, people, if not for those bands Devo wouldn't even exist. Go listen to the Spandau Ballet song "Coffee Club" and then listen to "Gut Feeling". Um, Spandau Ballet CALL YOUR LAWYER!!! Plaigirism!!!
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Ignore 'Music Fan from Seattle', Dec 15 2003
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It's spelt RAMONES! This album should be in any true music fan's collection. It was so far ahead of anything being done at the time it's ridiculous. This came out around the same time as The Rolling Stones' 'Some Girls' and it has one of the best covers of a Stones' song EVER...
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