Thumbs up if you know that this is a cover of Kipp Hamilton's lounge performance tune of the same name in the 1966 Toho Kaiju masterpiece "War of the Gargantuas"!
@bps3013 Yes! At an SF Godzilla film festival, Russ Tamblyn told a story about how, when he met Devo, they told him that they sang a song from one of his films. He thought they meant "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" or "West Side Story", but they said, no, "War of The Gargantuas!" LOL!
Equally genius that you made that connection. I think it was an original composition for "Gargantuas", which is even more bizarre. Check out the vid for Hevy Floe's "War of the Gargantuas".
"bit" late on this reply but Werewolves was written in 1975 (even though it's on Zevon's 1978 LP), but I doubt Devo intentionally snagged the riff from that.
@Acquisto What's wrong with just having some fun with music? I hardly doubt that Devo was taking this cover so seriously- or else then a "girly" voice would not have been used, but instead his normal one. Devo does have talent, and they have enough of it to the point where they can get away with jokes like this. Personally, I don't think that ANYONE can replace Devo. I've never heard any other band who sounds anything like them.
DEVO is an absolute great band. There's no band in the world that can resemble this band. Their theory: going back to basics. This is 'Booji Boy' singing, the character from one of DEVO's first songs Mongoloid. U gotta have humor and some feeling for art to understand this. They're practicing Dadaism
It was a touch of genius for Devo to perform this fascinatingly crummy song from War of the Gargantuas, but as dbzsamuele120 points out, it's funnier when you just do it straight. Trying to make it sound bad on purpose is a mistake. It's when you try to make it sound as good as possible that you realize what a funny awful song it is.
Booji Boy is my favorite singer of all time.
He's the only member of DEVO who hasn't aged a bit.
He should do a solo record.
Thumbs up if you know that this is a cover of Kipp Hamilton's lounge performance tune of the same name in the 1966 Toho Kaiju masterpiece "War of the Gargantuas"!
@bps3013 Yes! At an SF Godzilla film festival, Russ Tamblyn told a story about how, when he met Devo, they told him that they sang a song from one of his films. He thought they meant "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" or "West Side Story", but they said, no, "War of The Gargantuas!" LOL!
Lovely vibrato.
Equally genius that you made that connection. I think it was an original composition for "Gargantuas", which is even more bizarre. Check out the vid for Hevy Floe's "War of the Gargantuas".
-We love you booji! -Now, can I get an extra large fries & a diet coke with that?
One comes to realize that "cover" is a very loose term when applied to Devo's work...
Rock on Booji Boy!
A little bit of 'Werewolves of London' sneaking through there, or maybe it was the other way around.
"bit" late on this reply but Werewolves was written in 1975 (even though it's on Zevon's 1978 LP), but I doubt Devo intentionally snagged the riff from that.
@Acquisto i know right!!!!
@Acquisto What's wrong with just having some fun with music? I hardly doubt that Devo was taking this cover so seriously- or else then a "girly" voice would not have been used, but instead his normal one.
Devo does have talent, and they have enough of it to the point where they can get away with jokes like this. Personally, I don't think that ANYONE can replace Devo. I've never heard any other band who sounds anything like them.
It's Bob1 on synth?
@Acquisto this isn't unique?
@Acquisto "People with unique voices and abilities such as Axl Rose or Eddie Van Halen"
LOL
Booji boy loves Bieber fans because they are the sheep among the shepards, as General Boy would say! Unite spuds!
DEVO is an absolute great band. There's no band in the world that can resemble this band. Their theory: going back to basics. This is 'Booji Boy' singing, the character from one of DEVO's first songs Mongoloid. U gotta have humor and some feeling for art to understand this. They're practicing Dadaism
It was a touch of genius for Devo to perform this fascinatingly crummy song from War of the Gargantuas, but as dbzsamuele120 points out, it's funnier when you just do it straight. Trying to make it sound bad on purpose is a mistake. It's when you try to make it sound as good as possible that you realize what a funny awful song it is.
What was awful about it?
@@thesilverspider agreed, this is one of my favourite Devo songs. Taking the piss or not they absolute kill it. Amazing.
Wtf did I just watch? :-0
You're giving justing bieber fans wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much credit. Justing Bieber fans don't know who Devo are.
Not bad, but Hamilton did it much better in War of the Gargantuas.