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  • great version!

  • With the right kind of ears, you'll here surf music.

  • 70ies for ever

  • They sound so heavy live during this period, why is the album so light and empty sounding? This is punk!

  • @Skankwire slap ur mammy certainly doesn't sound empty on the album

  • @fuckamericanidiot I think around this era they just sounded heavier live.

  • @Skankwire Something wrong with your volume knob? TURN IT UP.

  • La première fois que j'ai vu un type chanter avec un micro sans fil... au Palace, Paris, 78. We were so young.

  • is that a Gison Marauder one of the guitarists is using?

  • Oh. My. God.

  • At the end, who isn't waiting for "Come Back Jonee" to start? The 2nd side of that LP was shit hot.

  • Wow, Wow, Wow! Devo, Devo Devo! Alan, Alan Alan!

  • That's not even VHS, that's some good ol' Betamax tape right there!

  • Devo really worked their way up from the bottom. The ultimate in originality.

  • Never thought I would find that live!!!! Totally awesome!!!! The kids need to know about de-evolution.  Which has been happening for a few decades now.

  • this song is the epitome of punk

  • I still think this is the front runner for "Best Song Ever.". Wanna know why nobody does a cover of it? It's impossible to play live ... unless you are Devo.

  • The French sent Lafayette and the Statue of Liberty. In 1978,we sent them DEVO for a night. That's more than a fair bargain I think. DEVO was/is Absolutely awesome.

  • @5050NM And three years later you sent us the Stray Cats and it was also a very nice deal ! Can the U.S. of A. do something to keep D.S.K. and France will welcome any interesting American band ?

  • @chucku00 is space and cerrone still around?

  • @bobo007xx Cerrone, in some way yes, he isn't still really creative except for doing big concerts "à la Jean-Michel Jarre",he was a member of a jury in a TV show like "x-Factor", but I don't know who is Space ?!

  • 5 people have No life!

  • As much as it's argued that Devo is punk or not and whatnot, I don't care what anyone says, but this song is so punk rock. The attitude, aggressiveness, so fast, it just screams punk rock to me. Especially when it becomes slap your mammy, I mean honestly, what punk rocker is not gonna want to mosh and slam to that? That is almost amongst the lines of hardcore punk right there that part of the song when it becomes so fast and angry. I just think that this video, song shows the punk rock of them.

  • I actually enjoy the bad sound quality- you can hear the OHIO PUNK, man! It sounds like an old tape from the radio. Really glad to see this video, great antidote to some of the less satisfying later stuff. I'll dodge all the plastic hats flying at me from the die-hards- spent my formative years around the Akron/Kent scene a few years after this video was made.

  • All of these fantastic different styles of rock from back in the 70's collided into a head in 1987...and then a great bliss happened between 87' and 96...from 96 on? Mainstream has been a sheer disillusion of one off pop charts, and un-enthusiastic rock releases. Bring back vinyl? I Think SO!

  • i saw them last night. best night of my life.

  • How cool are Devo, I mean honestly.

  • BEST. EVER.

  • fuck what anyone says devo is as punk as it gets

  • Outstanding!

  • Brilliant! Unbelievable.

  • OMFG!!!!!! How cool are DEVO......"Something for Everybody" is just as good...nearly.

  • It is impossible to play the original studio version too loud!  Makes me wanna ram my head thru some sheetrock in ecstasy.

  • Chuck norris listens to DEVO

  • L'image et le son sont pourri, mais... à genoux !

  • one of the closest things to a perfect album...ARE WE NOT MEN?!

  • Seriously someone needs to get a cleaner version of this, this is brilliant

  • Budding Guitarists: This is chords E, G, C, A, D Rockin out on the E ;)

  • @badback22 neil young's i'm the ocean

  • @mymar86 I'll check it out Thx!

  • SEXY

  • @rinneysays No, white punks on spuds!  WE MUST REPEAT!

  • Aye the quality isnt best. Mics tend to pick up higher frequencies better.

  • also, why is the feedback solo overdubbed?

  • @fuckamericanidiot I thought the same thing, about the bass line; maybe it just can't be heard because of the audio quality?

  • fake!!

  • why did jerry abandon the awesome bassline in the verses so early on?

  • holy muther of GOD! Devo makes the Talking Heads and Rocky Horror Picture Show seem like conservative republicans. awesome!

  • My god... does anyone have a perfect copy of this (and the Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA). Best ever.

  • Wooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

  • NERDS / UNITE/ CONQUER/ DESTROY! ! !

  • I liked the retro old VHS tape effects

  • @EsClayWilson that's no "effect", that's the real deal!

  • Thats a take

  • This is really intense rock 'n' roll! I love it that the video tape goes out of sync several times! Great!

  • there will never be another DEVO

  • One of the best bands ever doing one of the best songs ever

  • admit it or not,, DEVO is amongst the fathers of punk rock

    ...even if they became some kind of bizarre new wave band

    I've seen them live in 2010 and they are still giving one of the best show you could see!

  • @Comaura In my opinion, DEVo were the pionners of post-punk... even before punk itself existed. They're bloody fuckin' geniuses! And you're a very very lucky bastard, I've been waiting to see them live since the age of 8! (I'm 19). Best band ever!

  • @radstuf this is a vhs from a live movie. i don't think he was actually there

  • @theRADteepee I was responding to Comaura (a few comments below) who actually saw them live, not to Cosmotype

  • @radstuf

    I was in high school in the mid to late nineties and although I liked pearl jam, metallica, NIN, Alice in chains, Nirvana and a lot of other popular music at the time NOBODY listened to Devo and everyone thought they were a one hit wonder joke. I got one girl into them but nobody back then liked Devo or synth pop in general, I got made fun of a lot by my friends for listening to Oingo Boingo and Devo I'm not to fond of their new album except no place like home but I'm glad their back.

  • I consider myself extremely lucky to have seen them perform are we not men and freedom of choice both in their entirety and although I think even the albums which were considered to be their weaker albums : shout, total devo, and smooth noodle maps I think all three of those were better than there last but I'm glad other people enjoy it. I think the part that really gets to me is the brickwall compression used on there last album it adds too much distortion, for more info wiki the "volume wars"

  • @PigsOnTheWingpart2 I never hear about Oingo Boingo before, just heard their song "Little Girls", and they seem pretty fucked up... and it's exactly what I love about synthpop bands, they oughta completly crazy.

  • @radstuf Oingo Boingo never got too popular outside of L.A. But Their lead singer and song writer Danny Elfman became a major film composer scoring a slew of Tim Burton films including Edward Scissorhands, Batman, and Nightmare Before Christmas, he even sang the part of Jack Skellington on that one. I would suggest all of their albums but check out: Only a lad, Nothing To Fear, Good for Your Soul, Danny Elfman So-Lo, and Dead Man's party, first. Those are the most Radical. I like the rest also.

  • Where can I get the glasses they're waring?

  • @FuyuAkiWorld

    ClubDevo . com, spud.

  • As a nerd that grew up in the 70's and 80's .... this was the first band I remember seeing that embraced being nerdy and made it cool. Thanks Devo for making me realize that 99% of the population is stupid.What part of the population is not having a lot of kids? Smart people. What's the future gonna be like?

    Lotta morons running around that can't fix their own robots. But between like 1997 and 1999 things were good, huh? We were recognized, for a brief flicker in time. No pun intended.

  • There are no bad DEVO tunes, just bad listeners.

  • @WPODOD no way, there are loads of bad devo tracks, there are no bands where i like every song to me that's just blind devotion

  • @fuckamericanidiot No, it's blind DEVO-tion.

  • @pmam1968 yeah

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  • song still modern still today--god ,i cant guess was 1978 year created!incredible!

    davide form italy

  • Whoa, I am a singer and I never knew how to move during the show. Now here's some example :oD

  • The music is so fucking ahead, no band today or ever could ever catch up to them. They are forever the future of rock

  • This is bad ass.....

  • This was to me the frenzy of all DEVO songs, the first time, around '78 long time ago, they went off absolutely, Block Head is another fav, the videos that went with the show would warp your mind never "mind" the acid these guy are, were, the shit to see back then, now? I gotta gut feeling they still got it.

  • Gosh I love this song. The vocals/writing are top-top. I'd perform this at the drop of hat.

  • A b s o l u t l y A m a z i n g. At least 30 years ahead of its time. What a lucky audience.

  • wow they really knew how to move back then^^

  • Way B4 and After itz Time.......

  • YEAH! LOL!!!

  • brilliant memorys of this band ,,,i went to see them in liverpool at the liverpool empire , i think it was 1977 or 1978....ive still got a yellow 7 inch vynil of be stiff wow,,,

  • There are some great stills in this. Fantastic.

  • I saw Devo on tour for their first album in Edmonton Alberta Canada.... one of the most incredible shows I have ever seen!!! Profesional musicians and entertainers!!!

  • A seriously under rated band..the guitar licks in this is are mind blowing...

  • I love this band, I've bought about 11 or 12 of their albums. Some were vinyl, some cassettes, some CDs. This is my favorite Devo song. Their sound is years ahead of it's time on this track. It's 1978 but you would think it was 1983, if you didn't know better.

  • devo doesnt even care about how they look now crap bands care so much about how their jacket looks when they wear it

  • awesome...amazing...outstandin­g

  • Just great!!!

  • pure magic

  • vintage stuff, mate nice post...so that's where lady gaga got the idea of perfonming in her underwear

  • also i notice in this vid that those were the glorious times,when u didn´t need security personell for the first rows,fans showed respect.we had The Stranglers in Cologne at that time and some idiots thought it was fashionable to throw half-full beer cans on the stage,then Cornwell stepped to the front and said:"One more of this and we´ll stop playing."suddenly there were no more beer-cans flying.for obvious reasons i don´t watch Gaga for her"underwear",but for her piano&singing!

  • @MrSKINFLICK Lady GaGa is modern proof of DeEvolution

  • you know I laughed my ass off when I read that, but now I'm said because ur rite

  • rock on

  • wow, just amazing

  • fucking priceless...

  • fuckin right Mr. Myers

  • Great Great Great

  • This song was in the Movie Otis..awesome song..

  • I thought I would add my 2 cents. I'm curious why nobody ever points out what seem to me to be obvious similarities between DEVO and Talking Heads. For one thing, DEVO's first album and Talking Heads' "Remain in LIght" were both produced by Eno. For another, both bands were extremely funky. Just listen to Satisfaction and then listen to Houses in Motion by Talking Heads if you don't believe me. They could have been separate tracks on the same album.

  • @brookeraasch ya know, i just put that together (as i've been cracking out to this tune for about a week straight.) never did before...

  • Best guitar riff ever.

  • i miss punk rock

  • @astorastilbe yes! do the pogo!

  • datapanik in the year zero.  feel the fear.

  • haha I thought it was "I've got a gun, beat it!"

  • wow, I'm getting goosebumps from the nostalgia. Thinking about playing my vinyl Devo albums I borrowed from a friend... been 30 years.... time to return them? Nah!

  • @Galactu5 they actually came out with an album a year or two go... its called something for everyone... pretty cool.

  • @Galactu5 i wish i could feel the nostalgia like you, but iwasn't even alive in the 80's but i darn wish i was!

  • such a cool track :)

    I heard it first on the steve zissou movie (great movie!!!) and it caught my ear instantly.

  • i no me and ma dad dance the poot in the living room and some day we will wear those science goggles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!! xxxxxx ly daddy x

  • Those guys are so stylish!

  • It's all been redifined. I used to slam dance at CBGB in 1986 .... but that wasn't punk. Cromags .... Agnostic Front .... that was post punk. Hardcore.

    Devo .... AT THE TIME was called new wave. Recognized recently along with bands like the Plasmatics as early punk.

    Compare this to .... Ramones at the time. This was punk for smart people.

  • @afwoods

    This year, 1978, everything still was PUNK. There wasn´t any difference between New Wave and Punk. Devo was Punk and later Popbands like Ultravox, The Jam, even The Police, too. The expression New Wave fully came around by mid/end 1979.

    I´m old enough to remember ;))

  • @afwoods

    yeah you forgot talking heads

  • I know that Mark Mothersbaugh has done the music for various Wes Anderson films, but didn't the intro for this was in the life aquatic?

  • Great intro. They could have done a lot more with this song, but did sorta go for mere punk noise. That said, DEVO was a New Wave band.

  • Catchiest song ever!!!

  • This is the stuff that made punks in England say ... "I guess it started in America."

  • Love the drums. Really drive this song thru the roof. Anyone playing guitar must have asbestos fingers on this one.

  • devo is the shit

  • so amazing - so wonderfull *****

  • cant fuckin w8 til tomorrow in hollywood at the fonda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • best version of Gut feeling/slap your mammy

  • This is when they were good.

  • pioneers who got scalped

  • Magnificent version. Someone really should find the original tape of the whole French gig and remaster it for sale. It beats the hell out of 'Live 1980'.

  • definitely, i MUCH prefer these 1978/79 videos to the FOC era videos, although uncontrolable urge is rockin

  • GREAT!!!!!

    LOVE LOVE LOVE this early Devo vidi!!

    thanks for making my week!

  • Thanks

  • AWESOME!

  • Crappy sound, but a great version! Did Mark EVER play that keyboard intro with the same sound? (lol)

  • remember it was 1978. I think the recording adds to the overall experience that era provided. Its awesome.

  • DEVO kicked French ass with this set, fucking toads don't deserve to smell their shit.

  • HA!

  • LOL.....I tend to agree, but at least they're smart enough to use nuclear power.

  • spunds on punk

  • 3:24 i love that! goofy hulley

  • Love the helmut - Safety First!

  • I could watch this over and over. They rule.

  • Devo's gut feeling with NEU! tape effects- I came.

  • Got Some if you need it . . .

  • I love when the tape goes askew and everything goes out of tune

  • STEREO

  • Nah, they went as far as they could go with guitars and their synth-driven stuff was great...

  • So glad I saw them twice when they were in their prime, 1979 & 1983.

  • We're All DEVO!!!

    saw um met um.

  • this IS the best song ever written. by the best band ever. perfect combination of lyrics, music, and energy,

  • This is so much better than music today...Devo in one of their raw moments

  • Genius.

  • After seeing this band on late nite TV in 1978, I got rid of my flannel/workboot get-up and started to explore the "next-wave" of music.I finally saw them live,and 30 yrs. later they still rule THANKS DEVO!!!!!

  • This is the Weather Channel's favorite song.

  • great band man!! i havent heard a lot of them, but the ones that i know are awesome

  • this is one song that needs to be played LOUD and unfortunately this upload is too quiet. Love those shorts guys!

  • One of, if not the most innovative bands ever. IT'S 1978 FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! What was on the top 40,...Angel Aquarius??!!

  • Pretty close: Wings !!!

    Devo was fantastic and surreal for those days, but they were not alone. T. Heads, PiL, Young Marble Giants, etc etc... Great time for music off the beaten path.

  • I love how this song builds and builds.

  • BEST .... SONG ....... EVER!

  • All the rest of y'all poster's already understand....but for those of you who don't ......

    This is what a truly great band is like !

    (Especially this performance !!!!! )

  • This band paved the way for anything even remotely considered alternative. Their combination of musical talent and vision are incredible. One of the few bands that sound as tight live as they do in the studio. Awesome!

  • fastest version ever with Alan Myers on drums !

  • GFIAFP

  • STEREO

  • In 1977 I went to a weekly showing of "Rocky Horror Picture Show" at the Key theater in Georgetown, Washington DC. Before the show they played clips from David Lynch's film "Eraser Head", with Devo's record "Are We Not Men" instead of the audio from from the film. During the scene where the gelatinous goo comes spewing out of the "squab" "Gut feeling" breaks loose on the audio, truly a memorable moment. Try this at home, I recommend you do drugs, to experience the full effect.

  • My favorite DEVO driving tune ever! Alan Myers is one of the most incredible drummers in history. DEVO has stood the test of time, they still reign supreme over Spud Boys, looking for that Real Tomato!! Thanks so much for posting this AWESOME video!

  • I challenged a local Seattle band to learn this song and cover it. It's not an easy song to play by any means. But this band has the skills to pull it off. I hope they do it.

  • great post man ;)

  • THis is the BEST SONG EVER WRITTEN!!!

  • It's hard to disagree with you there. I love this song.

  • I second that emotion!

    This song has it all, great opening cords by Bob2, Jerry's wicked kick ass bass line, Mark raging on the keyboard, Alan beating the shit out of the drums and Bob1's sleazy guitar wailing.