Devo had a huge impact on music - they fit right in their time period. Whip It, Beautiful World, Girl you want, Freedom of choice, Jerkin back and forth, I can't get no satisfaction etc
It's pronounced "Dee-vo". This isn't my favorite song by them, but they're always a lot of goofy fun. "Whip It" is probably their most iconic song, you should definitely check it out. They also do a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" that, on paper, shouldn't be good, but is somehow just as great as the original but for totally opposite reasons.
@@oisinduggan8944bullshit. they always pronounced it with a long e. if you had a clue, you would have noticed it in jocko homo, but that would have meant you knew what you were writing about.
Devo was among the first bands to ever do music videos like this, and their videos were what helped MTV to be born. Devo's videos were played heavily when MTV was in test markets. This video was made the year MTV launched (1981), but Devo had been making weird music videos for several years already. Then everybody started making videos for MTV. Prior to that, almost all "music videos" were just simulated performances to the studio song.
when i first joined the Air Force my roommate "from California" was crazy about Devo! made sure i listened to all there music! i was drawn by the beer more so! but we opened the window and door and drew in the women to! we were party animals! i will not lie about that!
Neil Young is big fan of Devo and used to go to their shows at Hollywood clubs. Mark Mothersbaugh came up with Neil Young's 1979 album title Rust Never Sleeps which contains the iconic songs Hey Hey My My (Out Of The Blue) acoustic, and My My Hey Hey (Into The Black) electric/grunge.
They were a weird new wave/post-punk group lol. Love them when I as a kid, though ('80s). Didn't take much to entertain us GenXer kids back then. lol. Wow, haven't seen that video in decades! Laser tag, roller skating, break dancing, etc, We did all of that! Many more great songs and videos from them yall need to check out. "Whip It", " Freedom of Choice", "Girl U Want" , "Turn Around (Nirvana covered this later on)" were some of those cool yet wacky songs/videos. Also "Gut Feeling" song was a banger. Their singer also wrote songs for the TV cartoon show, Rugrats. Yes, Asia, synthesizer! So '80s, early '90s. Style as well, BJ.
The look on ya'lls faces are priceless. This was one that didn't age particularly well, lol. Was goofy back then IMO. They have some great songs though. You may want to check out 'Uncontrollable Urge,' or their cover of the Stones 'Satisfaction.'
New Wave is the difference between Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones AND the Satisfaction Cover DEVO performed in SNL in 1979 and The World was NEVER the Same after That!
A hall monitor. Hahahahaha. I was the kid who was always getting in trouble, but I have a feeling I wouldn't mind you as a hall monitor at all. Because you really ARE cool! 😀.
they do cant get no satisfaction by the stones too, they had to play it for jagger before he would give permission. He sat still for first minute then got up and started doing the mick jagger moves to it lol
I was just thinking about this song! This is a great song! Remember that the lead singer, Mark Mothersbaugh, was an art student and interested in post-modernism. This lead him and two other members to come up with the DEVO concept. De-evolution.
Devo is short for DEVOLUTION - the opposite of EVOLUTION. The kids in the video were NOT the band (the members were in the blue shirts in the locker room scene) Mark Mothersbaugh (lead singer)is still a highly sought after film and tv composer and runs a Music Company.
Freedom of Choice, Whip It, there are so many great Devo songs! Devo made college fun. Maybe you had to be there, but we had a blast dancing to them. 😁❤️
Devo was criticizing the Reagan era and the wall street greed. "We're through being cool," is like them saying that's what the mainstream is saying. They're going backwards to embrace money and status.
It's "DEE-VO," (short for DE-evolution). "Greetings beautiful mutants, and how may we be of service? This is Nu-Tra for Devo Incorporated, checking in with the many factions of devolutionary humans who have waited so faithfully this past year, while Devo gathered its strength for the next offensive." "As many of you can see, the road ahead is filled with danger. It's not nuclear bombs we must fear, but the human mind itself, or lack of it, on this planet. It's time to go beyond the normal thing. It's time to do the super thing. It's time for Devo, there's no question about it. The spudboys are ready with new songs, new films, and new approaches to survival in a world ruled by subhumans." - You should probably start out with Devo songs that made it to the radio, and MTV. "Through Being Cool" - was created for the "Heavy Metal" movie soundtrack. It's not one of their greatest hits. "It's A Beautiful World," - is probably one you should review. "Whip It," is probably their most recognized song. Q: "Are We Not Men? - A:"We Are Devo." is a Devo song every beautiful mutant should know. (It's actually called, "Jocko Homo." "Freedom of Choice" is another great public service announcement song, like Beautiful World. Devo is more of an "Art Band" Genera, somewhat like GWAR, or Die Antwoord.
Thank you for NOT doing Whip It and doing a song that is not usually done. There is SO much more to Devo (= Devolution) than Whip It. - They were/are literally the ANTI-Rock Band even tho they will probably FINALLY get inducted into the Rock'n Roll Hall of Fame THIS YEAR!
Asia's face through the whole thing... then finding something nice to say :) Ironically, singing the hook, she had fun making fun of it, and that seems just the kind of nerdy recursion Devo would get a kick out of.
Asia had the pronunciation correct. It is Dee-Vo. The guys in the band were in the blue shirts. Check out their first album titled Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO. Especially their cover of The Rolling Stones song I Can't Get No (Satisfaction), and Uncontrollable Urge. Oh No It's DEVO!
Hey, I was a hall monitor back in elementary school so BJ shush, lol! It's DEE-VOH. The men in the teal shirts are the band members. Whip It, Peek-a-Boo, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Working in a Coalmine, Jerkin' Back and Forth, Freedom of Choice, Girl U Want, Jocko Homo. It's different is right and that's what made them awesome!
You might like a couple other songs by Devo….. Peek-A-Boo or Workin in a coal mine. They’re weird, but I love it…. All the best from Melbourne Australia
To watch Devo, you can't just go in blind. You need a Primer on Devo. By this point they had been around for 5 years or so. They practically invented music videos. The have a whole mythology around them, based on proving that humans are devolving,.including themselves. They were mad at consumerism and the u.s. military (for killing wear protesters) and had. A point they wanted to prove.
Haha, the band are the five guys in blue. Those kids are not in the band. I tell everyone this when they are introduced to Devo, so I will tell you guys. Please check out their live performance of Satisfaction on Saturday Night Live. It's a cover of a Rolling Stones song, so I would actually listen to the Stones version first and then watch that performance, which is iconic. There is no other band out there like Devo, but there is a reason they were nominated for the rock and roll hall of fame. You know...a cook can make lasagna, and then a chef will create "deconstructed" lasagne. Some people will go..wth is this?? That's not lasagna! Others will go..omg...wth is this?? It's lasagna...but...not! Yeah, that's Devo in a nutshell.
These guys are really fun...one of my favorite 80s bands...try Uncontrollable Urge live cuz they perform it so cool...or Gates of Steel...Peekaboo...Going Under...their hit is Whip It
No video for this would help. Smart patrol/Mr. DNA would be a good choice to listen to. DEVO is an awesome band. Plenty of great songs to pick from. This one is kind of eccentric and made after they got big with their previous album. Its kind of a joke song.
Yeah it wasn't the kids they were just two actors the guys handing out the guns that was the actual group the ones were in the plastic hairdos yeah there's a lot of Devo songs you'll have to check out that's a whole nother rabbit hole freedom of choice is from that same era they do a cover of Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones it's pretty hilarious it's just too numerous to mention alright kids
Devo! lol Divo is awesome. Watch Whip It sometime...its impossible to watch it and not say WTF lol Kinda like the face Asia is making throughout this video 🤣🤣
DEVO , yeah you guys will not get it. If you were a teenager in the late 70’s and early 80’s then you would. Some people try to explain to your generation these things. All I have to say is “you were born too God damned late to get it, and you never will” . So enjoy your auto tune shit music !! 😂
devo sort of did what andy warhol did - distilling cultural trends down into simplistic primary-color caricatures of real life, except they did it to make fun of people.
I don't know where to make a request but anyway I'll do it here. Can you please react to the song, "Gethsemane" sang by Ted Neeley in the movie JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR. Thank you.
Hold up. Did you say you were a hall monitor? I don't know what that is but Im gonna take that to mean it was something bad? No?..... Did you give tickets to kids who were late for class or taking names of kids running in the halls and shit?....I think that is funny as hell but had "I" did that....in school.....back then ....aw hell no. I got bullied in school anyway but if I was the "HM" too ....Hell To The Last Naw. Love to the both of you!! I'm still watching ya'll every night !!
They were a hoot! Weren't around long. Please check out the Eureythmics songs, Sweet Dreams, Here Comes The Rain Again. Or, check out Annie Lennox song, I Put A Spell On You.
Devo had a huge impact on music - they fit right in their time period. Whip It, Beautiful World, Girl you want, Freedom of choice, Jerkin back and forth, I can't get no satisfaction etc
I love how Devo made being a nerd into cool.
It's pronounced "Dee-vo". This isn't my favorite song by them, but they're always a lot of goofy fun. "Whip It" is probably their most iconic song, you should definitely check it out. They also do a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" that, on paper, shouldn't be good, but is somehow just as great as the original but for totally opposite reasons.
I looooved get no satisfaction from them....underrated track from them is Faster And Faster....
Wrong its pronounced dev-o like art deco but they couldn't be bothered correcting everyone so just say deevo
@@oisinduggan8944bullshit. they always pronounced it with a long e. if you had a clue, you would have noticed it in jocko homo, but that would have meant you knew what you were writing about.
Girl U Want is a banger too
Nerds singing "we're through being cool". Awesome.
Asia & BJ, you'll love their "Whip It" and "Girl U Want"!!
Devo was among the first bands to ever do music videos like this, and their videos were what helped MTV to be born. Devo's videos were played heavily when MTV was in test markets. This video was made the year MTV launched (1981), but Devo had been making weird music videos for several years already. Then everybody started making videos for MTV.
Prior to that, almost all "music videos" were just simulated performances to the studio song.
when i first joined the Air Force my roommate "from California" was crazy about Devo! made sure i listened to all there music! i was drawn by the beer more so! but we opened the window and door and drew in the women to! we were party animals! i will not lie about that!
Neil Young is big fan of Devo and used to go to their shows at Hollywood clubs. Mark Mothersbaugh came up with Neil Young's 1979 album title Rust Never Sleeps which contains the iconic songs Hey Hey My My (Out Of The Blue) acoustic, and My My Hey Hey (Into The Black) electric/grunge.
Saw them perform this on Halloween, 1981, at Radio City Music Hall. Fantastic show.
They were a weird new wave/post-punk group lol. Love them when I as a kid, though ('80s). Didn't take much to entertain us GenXer kids back then. lol. Wow, haven't seen that video in decades! Laser tag, roller skating, break dancing, etc, We did all of that!
Many more great songs and videos from them yall need to check out. "Whip It", " Freedom of Choice", "Girl U Want" , "Turn Around (Nirvana covered this later on)" were some of those cool yet wacky songs/videos. Also "Gut Feeling" song was a banger. Their singer also wrote songs for the TV cartoon show, Rugrats.
Yes, Asia, synthesizer! So '80s, early '90s. Style as well, BJ.
Mad props for reacting to Devo.
This is a good track. I've been a fan since '83.
The look on ya'lls faces are priceless. This was one that didn't age particularly well, lol. Was goofy back then IMO. They have some great songs though. You may want to check out 'Uncontrollable Urge,' or their cover of the Stones 'Satisfaction.'
New Wave is the difference between Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones AND the Satisfaction Cover DEVO performed in SNL in 1979 and The World was NEVER the Same after That!
Asia we all think your cool now!!
Try whip it! Thats my fav from Devo! Happy Tuesday to you both! 💕
Thank you 🤗
This song was featured in the animated film " Heavy Metal and shows their original costumes.
This is it. Time of my youth. Yes
They were so ahead of their time. Love me some Devo!
This is the first time I have seen Asia and BJ so expressionless 🤣🤣🤣
A hall monitor. Hahahahaha. I was the kid who was always getting in trouble, but I have a feeling I wouldn't mind you as a hall monitor at all. Because you really ARE cool! 😀.
they do cant get no satisfaction by the stones too, they had to play it for jagger before he would give permission. He sat still for first minute then got up and started doing the mick jagger moves to it lol
I was just thinking about this song! This is a great song! Remember that the lead singer, Mark Mothersbaugh, was an art student and interested in post-modernism. This lead him and two other members to come up with the DEVO concept. De-evolution.
This is the song that made me a Devo obsesso. _New Traditionalists_ was the first album I ever bought with my own money.
Devo is short for DEVOLUTION - the opposite of EVOLUTION. The kids in the video were NOT the band (the members were in the blue shirts in the locker room scene) Mark Mothersbaugh (lead singer)is still a highly sought after film and tv composer and runs a Music Company.
Devo is hilarious. Their song "Peek A Boo" has a nice touch, also "Mexican Radio" by Wall of Voodoo is great as well. Thanks yall.
Freedom of Choice, Whip It, there are so many great Devo songs! Devo made college fun. Maybe you had to be there, but we had a blast dancing to them. 😁❤️
DEVO is and always will be Ahead of their Time and ahead of the Curve ❤
DEVO. Great band and Asia sporting a hall monitor sash 😆
Nice Reaction.
Probably the first video, in which the band makes a brief cameo appearance in their own video.
Try DEVO "GOING UNDER".
Devo was criticizing the Reagan era and the wall street greed. "We're through being cool," is like them saying that's what the mainstream is saying. They're going backwards to embrace money and status.
I love your stunned silences trying to figure this out!
Takes me back to my early teens. DEVO, The Clash, Talking Heads...
My great-grandfather was one of those kids
You need to hear their song "THAT'S GOOD" It's one of my favorites.
Devo ""Uncontrollable urge " ! You'll love it !
It's "DEE-VO," (short for DE-evolution).
"Greetings beautiful mutants, and how may we be of service?
This is Nu-Tra for Devo Incorporated, checking in with the many factions of devolutionary humans who have waited so faithfully this past year, while Devo gathered its strength for the next offensive."
"As many of you can see, the road ahead is filled with danger. It's not nuclear bombs we must fear, but the human mind itself, or lack of it, on this planet. It's time to go beyond the normal thing. It's time to do the super thing. It's time for Devo, there's no question about it. The spudboys are ready with new songs, new films, and new approaches to survival in a world ruled by subhumans."
- You should probably start out with Devo songs that made it to the radio, and MTV.
"Through Being Cool" - was created for the "Heavy Metal" movie soundtrack. It's not one of their greatest hits.
"It's A Beautiful World," - is probably one you should review.
"Whip It," is probably their most recognized song.
Q: "Are We Not Men? - A:"We Are Devo." is a Devo song every beautiful mutant should know. (It's actually called, "Jocko Homo."
"Freedom of Choice" is another great public service announcement song, like Beautiful World.
Devo is more of an "Art Band" Genera, somewhat like GWAR, or Die Antwoord.
Thank you for NOT doing Whip It and doing a song that is not usually done. There is SO much more to Devo (= Devolution) than Whip It. - They were/are literally the ANTI-Rock Band even tho they will probably FINALLY get inducted into the Rock'n Roll Hall of Fame THIS YEAR!
Devo is so cool.
My fav Devo songs are " Freedom of Choice" and "Peek A Boo" Both have fun videos. Ya' ll should check them out 😊
We are Devo. D E V O!! On it's time for FISHEADS!!!
Asia's face through the whole thing... then finding something nice to say :) Ironically, singing the hook, she had fun making fun of it, and that seems just the kind of nerdy recursion Devo would get a kick out of.
Asia had the pronunciation correct. It is Dee-Vo. The guys in the band were in the blue shirts. Check out their first album titled Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO. Especially their cover of The Rolling Stones song I Can't Get No (Satisfaction), and Uncontrollable Urge. Oh No It's DEVO!
Those ZAP Guns in the Videos were meant for School Hall Monitors !
This song is OK but try their song Uncontrollable Urge or their cover of the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction".
Lol listening to your theme song and knowing the song very well you're getting ready to hear... It's gonna be like aliens landing. Lolol
Great band
Hey, I was a hall monitor back in elementary school so BJ shush, lol! It's DEE-VOH. The men in the teal shirts are the band members. Whip It, Peek-a-Boo, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Working in a Coalmine, Jerkin' Back and Forth, Freedom of Choice, Girl U Want, Jocko Homo. It's different is right and that's what made them awesome!
HAHA wow you picked a hell of a place to start with these guys. DEVO rules! :) Maybe try Red Eye Express or Wiggly World
Duty Now my favorite album from Devo.
The kids in the video are not the band. The band were the guys handing out the lasers.
Thanks for the reaction. Much "cooler" songs from this album. Beautiful World, Jenkin' Back and Forth, and Love Without Anger.
Your faces are the best!
DEVO should have been on The Big Bang Theory CBS show ❤
You might like a couple other songs by Devo….. Peek-A-Boo or Workin in a coal mine. They’re weird, but I love it…. All the best from Melbourne Australia
There’s no being ready for DEVO
Never saw or heard this. It was fun.
Check out the song Girl you want by Devo.
It seems like bands in the 80s had a contest to see who could be the weirdest.
To watch Devo, you can't just go in blind. You need a Primer on Devo. By this point they had been around for 5 years or so. They practically invented music videos.
The have a whole mythology around them, based on proving that humans are devolving,.including themselves.
They were mad at consumerism and the u.s. military (for killing wear protesters) and had. A point they wanted to prove.
Haha, the band are the five guys in blue. Those kids are not in the band. I tell everyone this when they are introduced to Devo, so I will tell you guys. Please check out their live performance of Satisfaction on Saturday Night Live. It's a cover of a Rolling Stones song, so I would actually listen to the Stones version first and then watch that performance, which is iconic. There is no other band out there like Devo, but there is a reason they were nominated for the rock and roll hall of fame. You know...a cook can make lasagna, and then a chef will create "deconstructed" lasagne. Some people will go..wth is this?? That's not lasagna! Others will go..omg...wth is this?? It's lasagna...but...not! Yeah, that's Devo in a nutshell.
Do another DEVO reaction to Girl U Want or Freedom Of Choice
Asia is CooL !
Time to get on the Devo rabbit hole
And try aussie band TISM
The guys in blue are the band members, not the kids.
These guys are really fun...one of my favorite 80s bands...try Uncontrollable Urge live cuz they perform it so cool...or Gates of Steel...Peekaboo...Going Under...their hit is Whip It
How 'bout you do a video, in honor of Asia, reacting to the band, ASIA- 'Heat of the Moment' would be a good one to start with!
Those "kids" aren't DEVO. The band members of DEVO are the guys with the plastic hair and the blue shirts.
I've been Working In A Coalmine.
gotta try "Thats good" by DEVO. its way better and when they really started (De)volving into some great music
No video for this would help. Smart patrol/Mr. DNA would be a good choice to listen to. DEVO is an awesome band. Plenty of great songs to pick from. This one is kind of eccentric and made after they got big with their previous album. Its kind of a joke song.
Agree. Love their first 3 albums. Especially Duty Now.
Yeah it wasn't the kids they were just two actors the guys handing out the guns that was the actual group the ones were in the plastic hairdos yeah there's a lot of Devo songs you'll have to check out that's a whole nother rabbit hole freedom of choice is from that same era they do a cover of Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones it's pretty hilarious it's just too numerous to mention alright kids
ARE WE NOT MEN..WE ARE DEVO..
Whip It Is the best from Them. Another good one: Freedom to Choice
Yes I agree with the others if this isn’t my favorite song by them and the others have better ideas about what their music is about
Devo! lol Divo is awesome. Watch Whip It sometime...its impossible to watch it and not say WTF lol Kinda like the face Asia is making throughout this video 🤣🤣
Try old school DEVO, like Secret Agent Man, Jocko Homo, Satisfaction, Mongoloid etc.....
If you live in a Big Place many factions under ground Chase doen Mr Hinky Dink ( The Devil 👿 Down !!❤
DEVO , yeah you guys will not get it. If you were a teenager in the late 70’s and early 80’s then you would. Some people try to explain to your generation these things. All I have to say is “you were born too God damned late to get it, and you never will” . So enjoy your auto tune shit music !! 😂
devo sort of did what andy warhol did - distilling cultural trends down into simplistic primary-color caricatures of real life, except they did it to make fun of people.
I love your Beth Hart tee shirt. Are you a fan of her?
No flower pot hats....this is not devo..😁
try gut feeling/slap your mammy. best opening riff ever.
Lol yeah this one needs context 😅
I don't know where to make a request but anyway I'll do it here. Can you please react to the song, "Gethsemane" sang by Ted Neeley in the movie JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR. Thank you.
Hold up. Did you say you were a hall monitor? I don't know what that is but Im gonna take that to mean it was something bad? No?..... Did you give tickets to kids who were late for class or taking names of kids running in the halls and shit?....I think that is funny as hell but had "I" did that....in school.....back then ....aw hell no. I got bullied in school anyway but if I was the "HM" too ....Hell To The Last Naw. Love to the both of you!! I'm still watching ya'll every night !!
Santana please Europa live please.
Funny videos
Lorrie Morgan out of your shoes tonight.
They were a hoot! Weren't around long. Please check out the Eureythmics songs, Sweet Dreams, Here Comes The Rain Again. Or, check out Annie Lennox song, I Put A Spell On You.
They are active to this day, just haven’t been in the mainstream since the 80’s. Saw them live about 10 years ago.
Should have just watched Heavy Metal with that song.
a Devo parody
Weird Al
Dare to Be Stupid