Devo - Uncontrollable Urge (live)

[hustlax]

Sounds good!

[taquitozz]

do i like this song? yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah YEAH

[BruisedLemon]

Ridiculousness theme song.

[koolaidman]

@BruisedLemon fag

[BruisedLemon]

@koolaidman ok 

[Mrdouche96]

this is one of the most retarded songs ive ever heard... yet i still like it lolololololol

[CWake1]

@PatrickOrTreat7 Rob pretty much butchers it.

[squidisrad]

@PatrickOrTreat7 i voted you down

[Canibelamewithyou]

@PatrickOrTreat7 Die.

[FALpwn]

what led zepplin song has a simiar guitar riff

[fretbored23]

@FALpwn misty mountain hop. is my guess.

[FALpwn]

@fretbored23 thats it

[bylcote]

misty mtn. hop

[RavenPryde]

the hopping @2:29 still gets me every time i watch. love it.

[jasonmontes1492]

That video was really awesome, thanks for the clip! I hear Mark Mothersbaugh is going to be in a documentary called “Programming the Nation.” It’s all about conspiracy theories and searching for truth in a commercially contrived world. bit. ly/qUuUCp

[Burningchromosome]

watch the fucking conviction !

[mxsurfoc]

Devo came onto the scene waaay before the Eighties bbugkil! nuff said!

[Richie7884]

tight !

[kfkennedy1]

these guys set the bar WAAAAYYY to high for future musicians! still ahead of their time. never to be equaled!

[TheIllegalKind]

Devo mixed techno and punk its sweet its punkno

[WheresPoochie]

@ 0:49 = bounce 0_o

[toobsockproductions]

i truly feel bad for people who don't like devo... wierdos

[7188181]

@toobsockproductions And you're an illiterate moron.

[PyroKife]

YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA - YAAAAAAAAAAA

[113jm]

Saw them in Newcastle around 1980, but every song sounded exactly like the records! Still love them.

[insect1752]

I moved to NYC in late 1978 to go to art school. The first live band I saw was The Dots, and the second was DEVO. Man, those were the days!

[paulakhs]

american crap, for the dumbo yank. x

[axional]

musicians, artists, entertainers.. business men.

they are a well rounded group of individuals.

they captured my interest in the 70's and have held it ever since.

When most others were into Zeppelin and the rock norm i went to the obscure. Glad I did and continue to.

[Xcorgi]

They were considered new wave but in the EARLY 80's they were very much pure ROCK!!!! This is probably thier best live performance ever!!! The only people I knew who listened to them back then were comic book nerds and computer geeks and I proudly include myself!

[SKOTP69]

Masterfully GOOD!

[MrLunavision]

yeah yeah yeah yeah yessssssssssssssssssssssssssss­ssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[diosterco]

ye ye ye ye yeyeyeye yeeee

[alienCascais]

timelessssssssssssss

[mattfirebird]

"I got an uncontrollable urge I wanna tell you all about, an uncontrollable urge that makes me scream and shout, and I say yah!...(boom boom)...yah!...(boom boom)...I say yah yah!...(boom boom)...yah yah!...(boom boom)...and I say yah!...(boom boom)...etc.

[Chipvw63]

Saw them play in NZ 82, they were a great show.....pure entertainment

[watchmyshoes22]

2 people had an uncontrollable urge to hit the dislike button

[richie649]

tightest band ever!

[bugiewugie1234]

Super Human ..or Sub Human, two extremes that coincide...it's all the same .

[bigman10239]

DEVO rules! it really does take a worried man!

[meyery2k]

Wow 2 people DON'T have an Uncontollable Urge...

[alex99fever]

awesome song ;D

[desertgeologist]

Wow! Such amazing energy. You mean there's more to DEVO than Whip It?

[WoodRatGirl]

@desertgeologist

DUH :P

[bandcouver]

@bbugkil. Not to be a pain .but, Devo formed in 1973. Recorded material for film and/or record as early as 1974. Then released "Are We Not Men" album in 1978 on WB. The name "Devo" comes "from their concept of 'de-evolution' - the idea that instead of continuing to evolve, mankind has actually begun to regress, as evidenced by the dysfunction and herd mentality of American society."

[nosirrom14]

Absolutely BRILLIANT !!!! they are still ahead of our time

[seanie002]

actually this was from their 'freedom of choice' tour of 1980... still my best gig of all time!

[stevepaselli]

This must be from around 1984. I saw them in Italy, I was 16 or 17 and it changed my life: same lights in the back, same electronic drums, videos, Boogie Boy. They played like three times all their songs (INCLUDING Be Stiff). On the intro to Freedom of Choice the audience was clapping faster than the drummer, so he speeded up to keep with the audience and they ended playing it twice as fast as the record! What a band! And what a drummer, too! Hey guys, let's BUY THEIR NEW ALBUM!

[DNRvideos]

yeeeeah d-e-v-o~

[Richie7884]

Ya yeah I've got it

[Jennymay76]

Genius. Pure Genius. Punk rock plus Casio keyboard equals awesomeness.

[sandytoes23]

hey this video is actually fro the film "The Decline of Western Civilization" '81. Penelope Spears directed it. But it's still my favorite!

[SuspectCorner]

@sandytoes23

penelope spheeris...

[bylcote]

@sandytoes23 no, it's not.

[geminirat60]

i have been listening to these guys since the 70's! awesome atomic theme

[kingrob29]

What i wouldn't give for a time machine!

[NicksComments]

0:21 he just jizzed himself cuz hes at a devo concert

[reallyupthere]

it was the 70s

[JohnnyLovelyOfficial]

Okay, who were the two morons that didn't like this? Lol.

[gypsyeyes008]

i can't wait to see them at coachella! i've heard that devo fans are quite a riot themselves... if they play this song i'll lose my mind lol

[rosario508]

It kills me! One of my all time favorite bands and I have yet to see them live!!!!

[thunders5291]

The Spud boys kickin ass!

[CombatRocks]

Truly a unique band. Saw them on their first tour of the UK and was gob-smacked. Couldn't believe what I was watching. Nobody performs like DEVO. Are we not men?????? Are they?

[BlueCollarTweeker]

So ahead of their time!

[posthumanhero]

after watching a pere ubu video this sounds like wedding band material.........or the dickies......i guess they're ok.........alright, they're better than the beatles.

[stevemcgee99]

I saw them in SF a few months ago. Still really tight.

[climbon74]

This song rocks ! listen to how tight they are, just a solid band way ahead of there time !

[7188181]

@climbon74 Illiterate moron.

[kermankalle]

üncöntröläble ürge

[ReturnToAus]

Do you have one?

[bigbadboriqua]

YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YEA YEA YEAH! this song rocks! long live Devo

[wyogi06]

Total Punk Rock!!!!

[CombatRocks]

This totally trancends punk! This is stratospheric stuff.

[marvinp01]

you shouldve grilled him to perfection lol

[marvinp01]

did you sing?

[LukkyMusic]

I want one of those hats!

[ReturnToAus]

You can get one. And a yellow jumpsuit.

[marvinp01]

record it for us!

[TheronC2]

If I had been cool in the '80s, I would have been a Devo fan. So sad. Well at least I learned.

[bbugkil]

Those of us advanced enough see the genus of Devo back when they came on the scene in the 80's were considered geeks or nerds. Lame music conformists wallow in dreck forever .

[rabidbanshee]

@bbugkil 80's.!!! Dude think 1974 for the first releases and 78 for the great 'Are we not men'.

[trotp3]

@bbugkil I was, am and forever will be a Devo geek!

[7188181]

@bbugkil Illiterate moron.

[garagelandtv]

they don't write them like that anymore

[xtreme01hac10docter]

I wanna get in a 1969 Camaro and just tear up and down a highway

[WoodRatGirl]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah YYYYYYYEAH!

[loafpork]

Hey guess what, I just bought this ring tone and it's fucking great. Now I have to stick my fingers up your ass to shave off a little bit of Jesus Ham for breakfast.

[renderizer01]

Oh boy...had this one VHS some 25 years ago, but I watched the tape to shreds. Wish they (him? Miles Copeland?) would rerelease the film, but I'm afraid it won't happen. Urgh!

[steveo13211]

I desperately need a copy of this movie. I saw it a little while ago on VH1 classic and I was like with a title like URGH this is gonna be retarded but after seeing Total Eclipse i was drawn and I watched the rest of it. If anyone can get me even a VHS of this I would probably give a beej

[MANTLEBERG]

WHAT A LOAD OF SHITE.

[mozman64]

superb the fun and enthusiasm they bring to the stage is great and to top it the song is brilliant

[rnrbishop]

yeah, they are still going, still as full of energy on stage, and they are all 60 odd now! brilliant!

[Albeleo]

Man my friends and I will blast this song when we're driving somewhere where we're gonna get shitty drunk! Awesome song

[gabrielgabriel2000]

i just buy 6 DEVO LP's on eBay ... i'm born 1990 :) and FROM GERMANY. so im sure many people think I'm an idiot because i don't know anything about this band but i give a fuck i love this music!

[dolly4320]

what a total flashback,i was 17 when this came out...totaly coool

[catmasterman]

yeah! this is from the movie 'urgh! the music war' and it's truly fantastic....

[BrokenBananaPhones]

I would love to see them live. They are funky great and good for your soul in so many ways aesthetically, musically and mentally. There's even more but I didn't want to blind everyone with too many LY's. So enjoy them in any or all of these ways. Oh BTW.. Is that the first chordless mic that Mothersbaugh is singing into? It's most likely that he made that himself. Anyone know for sure? Thanks.

[kermankalle]

ûncöntröläble ûrge.

[zweiosterei]

Great, great stuff.

[Bassmaster86]

where can I get one of those flowerpot hats?

[JryanAin]

try kungfunation

[mikewattdisciple]

What was often missed due to the attention paid to their outfits, etc., is that Devo was a really good live band (and may still be). I saw them in '81 and they absolutely rocked--while performing on treadmills at times!

[Skulldini]

I always liked the way they moved and posed on stage. I hear choreographer & recording artist Toni Basil had something to do with it.

[mitchy604]

touring Australia this month

[BobMonkfish]

Aye, great guitar. This version brings this out.

[puptentacle]

The more vids I watch on here the more I'm coming to conclude this is the greatest band that the US ever produced. From the personal look to the stage designs to the videos and, of course, the music these guys were the real deal and pioneers of all. Unabashedly geeks and freaks. Enjoy seeing them now, there won't be another like them. DUTY NOW, SPUDS!!!

[crapidious]

you`re right pup. I was lucky enough to see these at the birmingham odeon england in 78 or 79...there was no such word as geek back then! but pioneers, yes definitely. they blew us away like no other band of the time (apart from Throbbing gristle, perhaps)

[bgas98]

totally wacked performance!

[thunders5291]

This rocks!

[dixiesda]

Superb music man. And good hats.

Thanks for posting this.

Martez909.

[LoviesHubby]

Are they all still alive?

[tocobogo]

yes, and still performing, theyre about 57-58

(except for josh freese)

[metrosexualbastard]

how do their lamp shade hats stay on their head? especially when they jump around so much.

[tocobogo]

theyr'e calles "energy domes" and they have hardhat liners inside them

[cudabluesman]

Rockin devo song, too bad the cameras blew it when they are doing their diamond formation stomp hop(2.30). Gotta get the whole shot down to the feet. Makes me laugh every time.

[finalnexus]

didn't Eno produce these guys?

[golfinblack]

very true.he brouight them to uk

[gumonthepants]

True performers.

[SpeedballinAcidFreak]

... SO effing good.

[librarianeric]

God's honest truth - I saw this show from the third row and still own the paper suit Mark Motherbaugh is wearing in this clip.

It was at the old California Theatre in San Diego, which sadly, has fallen into disrepair. Great show, great theater.

[Jabbaman65]

I was a big fan from the early eighties onwards and finally managed to get a chance to see them this year in London (over 25 years later!!). Their music still sounds great to this day and they rock live!

[josesito9999]

i adore this group , hahahahaha ,a fan from peru

[soadfan33]

I love this song!!!

[vizion23]

I saw Devo back in '83 and was pleasantly surprised by their energy and vigour (as opposed to their video robot-like personae). Thanks for posting!

[andrewlewis963]

ive always had a spot for it

[Loverearsup]

Classic from the Akron/Kent Ohio Boys.. Maybe Mark will slip this into the soundtrack for one of the "Rugrats" episodes. Teach the little kids to DEVOlve early..