Devo - Jocko Homo - 1978 - France

[LeeB9999]

Are we not men?  Not in today's world.

[lewisner]

Now you've watched this check out The Residents.

[Aidanloveskeyboards]

@lewisner GREAT band.

[lewisner]

@Aidanloveskeyboards I bought their "Commercial Album" in 1980 and it fucked my head up.

[Aidanloveskeyboards]

@lewisner yeah. it's good though. i discovered them this summer at camp ( why i went ill never know). i was bored and i looked up The Residents by accident. never regretted it, though listening to Easter Woman on the bus to a camp trip to Ripley's in NYC made me and my friend question why we were listening to them. Fun summer.

[booboowilson10101]

aw cmon the crowd are being tarded

[tromar68]

Unbelievable. This is more relevant in 2011 than it was in 1975. These guys were prophets and i bow to their genius. We are all devo!

[verve92]

CLASSIC



[poplock1963]

THE SEVENTIES MUSIC SCENE WAS THE SHIT.AS YOU CAN SEE , WE HAD IT ALL.

[jasonmontes1492]

That video was really awesome, thanks for the clip! I’m excited to see Mark Mothersbaugh in the documentary “Programming the Nation.” Hopefully it has some Devo music in it. bit. ly/qUuUCp

[bathoryanna]

where has this KIND OF MUSIC been all my life? ... that's fun

[chucku00]

These guys deserve that a Music Nobel Prize will be created in music !

[countrychess]

Etonnant ...

[MrUnivert]

@countrychess ENORME



[allblue3]

I'll tell you what, they were right weren't they? Look how far we have de-evolved since then, little tails growing everywhere. Next stop - the swamp.

[kwakis]

The weirdest and most original band ever!

[lashwhip]

atonal brilliance

[ZLUGGO]

Magnificent!

[pedrocarlosleite]

thets so bizarre and classic that meke me want to cry

[DJVM95]

They aren't men,they're DEVO

[DJVM95]

What are those men doing?

[sjk72]

The devolution of man.

[kilroywuzhere1]

What the fuck just happend

[sussexmews]

about a driver on BR

[Ningo86]

I love the crazy timing... I think it's 7/8 and then changes to 4/4.

[kucoru16]

They tried too hard to be like talking heads, and made up for it with weirdness.

[Arkhandroid]

@kucoru16 You sir, are a dumbass!

DEVO didn't try too hard to do anything.

[sjk72]

@kucoru16 Talking Heads were not remotely electronic. You have no idea what you're talking about.

[67BuickGS340]

@kucoru16 Tried to be the talking heads? Devo started up in '73, the talking heads in '74.

Since they started about the sane time, but with Devo coming first, it doesn't make any sencr to say they tried to be like the talking heads. Besides, Devo never took any of it serious enough to copy anyone.

[sc0ner]

@67BuickGS340 Besides... they sound absolutely NOTHING like the Talking Heads. What is that dude thinking? Devo rocked like motherfuckers... broke style ground... had a new and unique presentation... much more sarcasm and social commentary. What was the parallel that this guy was trying to draw? The ONLY possible thing is that Mark's voice does sound vaguely like Byrne's, on some level (like timbre and maybe some of the inflection... the "outness"). You could say that about D Elfman.

[tatsandteles]

Genius. 'Dance the Poot'?? Is that the line, and if it is-what is the 'Poot'??

[marcfedak]

Devo's first two albums (Are We Not Men? and Duty Now For the Future) are genre defining classics. Somehow, their early music had a disturbing quality. And their tight musicianship and well coordinated showmenship was already in evidence as early as 1978.

[VETTSCALESL7]

So fucked up, so timeless.

[bradgotch]

These guys scared the shit outa me when i was little, I used to run out the room when they were on Countdown.

[fuckamericanidiot]

@bradgotch scared? wow

[lesleynation]

Devo is truth, justice and the American Way. Keep bringing home the bacon, boys.

[weaseldragon]

Now that's punk.

[weaselidiotu]

@weaseldragon thats what punk should have been. hey you a weasel too

[BrennymanPage]

yeah this is weird

[mrbokka11]

i saw this tour in birmingham uk in the late seventies it was brilliant if your to young you missed out big time ,never mind ay,,,lol

[Gnarkill2k6]

Damn... When I see Sabbath I wish I was 20 in the 70's... when I see this I'm very happy I was born in the 80's ;-) This is what I dream when I have a bad fever...

[fuckamericanidiot]

@Gnarkill2k6 sabbath and devo? love it

[fancynot]

excellent song ! *

[steverino333]

What an awesome DEVO performance... but, this Froggy audience SUCKED! I wished I had seen these guys in their prime like this. Mothersbaugh was a genius!

[RanetkiFan]

@steverino333 I saw them at Rhode Island College 1980

[Trex100]

It is ART.  Excellent.

[JoshuaLuty]

Devo deserved better than what we gave them.

[ScottMarquis]

Kraftwerk meets Landscape - Shite..

[yossarian9]

The way that Gerry takes off his suit at 2:07 makes it seem like the video is rewinding. Even his movements are devo. How does he do that?

[nick1137]

imo opinion the only bad devo albums are shout and smooth noodle maps everything else is great well except total devo which was only decent

[Fire1742]

i don't think even they are bad; i love Devo Has Feelings Too from Smooth Noodle Maps, for example :\

[NJPJMommaDJ]

Jerry knows that pants are for squares.

[thecrikster]

shame they couldn't keep it up for more than a couple of albums.

[mwells219]

so i guess marc didn't feel like wearing pants.

[daviru02]

Check out Uncontrollable Urge in this concert. He gets them ripped off by a fan.

[jammumu]

Praise Bob. All hail Eris, all hail Discordia...

[mwells219]

aum shiva

[volvo4377]

i want the yellow anti radiation suit even though i would probably get arrested for wearing it today

[mwells219]

actually you'd fit in if you were in certain parts of brooklyn.

[BIGBADONKADONK]

Rush, Subdivisions.

But these guys were freeky to me as a 14 year old watching their first videos back in the 70's Way cool !

[cturner3rd]

How many songs do you know that are in 7/8 time?

[BarfFromSpaceballs]

"Outshined" and "Spoonman" by Soundgarden

"The Test That Stumped Them All" by Dream Theather (actually 13/8 (7/8 + 6/8))

"Before the Lobotomy" by Green Day

"Subdivisions" and "Free Will" and the solo to "Tom Sawyer" by Rush

[Coldacre]

@BarfFromSpaceballs - Kim Thayil is a huge Devo fan

[tetavo]

actually, all of venetian snares' songs are in 7/4 time...

[OtterEars]

This was the first Devo song I ever heard and it was like electroshock to the brain. Still love it.

[yeshead]

Total prog... the time signatures are all over the place. And where would the Cars have been without Devo?

[CombatRocks]

@yeshead Devo don't do time signatures - they were devolved...... Ask Steven Hawking.

[logikos1]

@yeshead  Good question about the Cars. Brilliant. Devo inspired at least a decade of music.

[smartlamppost]

@yeshead Ah, fellow prog fan (judging by your YES username). Quick trivia: what bands were the original members of ASIA apart of?

[yeshead]

@smartlamppost Heh, nice try. John Wetton: UK, King Crimson, Roxy Music, Family, among others. Geoff Downes: Yes and The Buggles. Steve Howe: Yes, Bodast, Tomorrow and others. Carl Palmer: ELP and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Not that Devo fans care much about any of that. :-)

[smartlamppost]

@yeshead Ha ha ha, nice; yeah, I'm sure DEVO fans are more into the synthe-pop bands of the era (the buggles, men without hats, perhaps tears for fears), but it's nice that progressive observation is still alive. In my opinion, the only thing more difficult than weird time signatures are polymetrics... but that's another story!

[Raiderblack]

@yeshead - I do!!!

[bigthickett]

@yeshead likes listening to Grinderman - Super Heathen Child (Feat. Robert Fripp)

[fuckamericanidiot]

@yeshead i wouldn't say all over the place, it's 7/8 then 4/4 and that's it

[howlsfish]

brilliant version

[KoivuTheHab]

Who's parents? Yours or mine? If you ask me, this wasn't the music of your generation.

[Dockshund]

Reminds me of what I was thinking when I had a 103 degree fever. But I like it!

[onechord55]

It's hard to find a version of this song that maintains the original wording in the middle section ("I got a rhyme that comes in a riddle, O-hi-o"). Good to hear it again.

[westpacsalty]

: )

[Jemmer1000]

we must repeat

[pntm]

So fucking robotic, I love it.

[emmon72cz3x]

Pure Genious. Misunderstood, of course.

[NBM3]

EB O !!

[1devo6587]

my olny question about this consert is why is bob 2 isolated so far to the back of the stage next to the drummer?

[tomfrankly]

hard to believe jerry was already 30 at this time. he is one old fuck.

[jamesbluntslunts]

I can feel their awe...

[SkatePunkMan1980]

I'm De-Evolving as I watch this! Saw them in concert 1979 and 1980 in Tampa Fl. They had their radiation suits on and Bob 1 got grabbed by some guys in the front row. He slashed at them with his guitar and kicked them back! It was the BEST!!!

[robbwindow]

Hey this is great. Funky music.

[Jemmer1000]

you must like this

[Heartshapedbox0888]

BEST DEVO SONG EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

[fuckamericanidiot]

definitely

[PhilBullen]

That rocked! These guys are irreplaceable.

-pb

[rollfitty69]

very sweet indeed

[mikeintexas808]

I want to become a monkey!

[krazy5000]

devo are geniuses

[Sean1086]

D-E-V-O!!!

[56BUICKRiviera]

Every song these guys came up with was good!

[13DCH]

Great Clip... Very Rare, Indeed !

THANK YOU !

[earboy1]

holy shit, fakkin sweet