![]() In this piece, Booji Boy utters the famous line that would be the catchphrase of the band throughout their career: "We're all devo!" The first disc starts off with a short audio clip from the band's 1977 short film In The Beginning Was The End, We're All Devo!, that features the voice of the band's mascot, Booji Boy. It would make for an extremely long and dull writeup if I were to commentate on every track, so instead I'll try to summarize and only point out individually some of the more notable songs. Every page is glossy and in full color, capping off an already well-executed project.īut, as always, the music is the real treat, and we are not disappointed here. Perhaps the most notable feature of the two-disc anthology, besides the huge assortment of songs, is the wonderful fifty-two page insert booklet that, visually and in words, tells the story of the band, its evolution throughout the years, and the impact that it had. The group used a lot of pop, rock, and electronic elements to produce paeans of sexual frustration and commentaries on the de- evolution of society and culture, writing a lot of clever and thought provoking music along the way. Underground, however, their music had a lot of influence in shaping the New Wave sound and altering how electronic elements are made in music, and had a huge visual impact with their clever music videos and visual elements. This anthology is the result of a renewed interest in Devo in modern times, as witnessed by the number of recent pop cultural references to the band that can be found in as diverse places as The Simpsons, Muppets Tonight, and SportsCenter.ĭevo themselves were a very influential early New Wave group that had one strong mainstream hit, Whip It. This set is another entry in the ongoing collaboration between Warner Bros and Rhino Records Rhino is re-releasing a great number of the albums sitting in the Warner archives and releasing them again, some of them for the first time on CD. ![]() and Rhino Records and totals one hundred fifty four minutes and thirty nine seconds in length over fifty tracks. ![]() Pioneers Who Got Scalped is a two-disc musical anthology of the career of the influential New Wave band Devo. ![]()
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