It's been decades my friend. Still waiting to see if the other great fave band The Cars will get inducted. Sometimes the RnR HoF is just bollocks. Never explored this side of the 80s.
@@radiopadilla yes the B52S The other Video That's Good DEVO posted by Electronictomato is inching it's Way to 1 million views Can you please watch The Video and post your favorite song by The 52s Thank You Kindly kindred spirit !
I so dislike those who write Devo off as a "One Hit Wonder"...they are amazing, and Mark Mothersbaugh has becoming an accomplished composer, like Danny Elfman....
Anyone who was there knows DEVO was a unbelievable band. Their live shows were incredible. They were then and still are one of a kind. AND they need to be in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
I was at one live show in the late '80s and a nude woman with a strap-on dildo walked out on stage. Still don't know if it was part of the show or a prank someone pulled on them.
DEVO's charisma has always been cleverly cloaked under a veneer of 'nerdism'... These guys had the world punk'd then and now. I've been binge watching footage of DEVO recently and I am convinced that aliens abducted their drummer and implanted an atomic clock in his brain. On time, every time... RIP Alan
This tune is so irresistible! Why does this sound so good?! I've listened to this song at least 400 times and I'm still not tired of it! By the way, Mark Mothersbaugh's hip thrusts are AWESOME!!! Screw the haters.
You mean, screw those who see its appeal to that part of human nature that is so empirically verifiable and yet (therefore) is most intellectually resisted?
true! true! I maybe a millennial but I always thought lady gaga's stuff was quite creepy. But when I stumbled upon this group I just said "woah, now that's my thing right there". How I wish I was born earlier. So ahead of my time right now. P.S. You should try listening to their pre-Devo days. They're into punk rock and stuff like that before going all synthpop. Could be fun too. :D
@@carolyndempsey7023 ruclips.net/video/XkZwHVM64qg/видео.html That's Good DEVO posted by Electronictomato DEVO Kicking Ass On David Letterman Late Show NBC 1982 ! This video has almost 1 million views !
Incredible when you hear these early Devo tracks and you think its a drum machine but its not, its the human metronome, Alan Myers! RIP to Bob and Alan. Long live SPUDS and DEVO!
True. Unfortunately,none of them are actually playing the instruments in that video. No cords, and of course, Casale playing *chords* on an SH-101. Nope. :)
+MrCarl220 man he killed himself over that shit, if he only live to see the Millennium..... He paved the way for the modern "preformer". Amazing how they had so much back Lash in the 80s and now it's commonplace to lip sync. I know he was embarrassed, but he didn't deserve to die
The whole set-up, the thought. We think that someone of the four is going to step up to the microphone and then the fifth comes down the ladder with his own. Magic!
how the hell, heaven, world, or fuck are you ???????? i miss you all ready , and no i did not watch a flock of seagulls yet , so happy new year , please tell DEVO to make new songs and and tour new england , please with honey on top, and long live DEVO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you mongo the lioyd monster man is excelant, !!!!!!!
Great band...they were VERY cool ....the general public didn't get them, but the cool people did....everyone who knows what good music is loves devo...
People can say what they want about Devo but they were a huge part of the changing music scene at that time & they made a name for themselves whether people want to admit that or not...
Never has there been a band who delivered an orchestrated performance as well as Devo. They developed a theme and stuck with it all the way through. De-evolution.I bow down to the spud boys. Fantastic. In the purest sense of the word. You won't see the likes of them again. Eleven out of ten.
REST IN PEACE TO , ALAN MYERS , AND ROBERT CASALE , BOB 2 OF DEVO , AND GODSPEED TO BOTH , AND MAY GOD BLESS DEVO , SO THE SHOW MUST GO ON , LONG LIVE DEVO INDEED , DEVO ARE THE NEXT FUTURE LEGENDS !!! THE US NEEDS , DOCTOR RON PAUL , WHO CAN WHIP AMERICA INTO SHAPE , AND THATS GOOD !!!!
I watched this when it originally aired. I'm pretty sure Mark had an interview segment with Letterman. I remember Dave joking about the white shoulder piece and Mark flipped the piece upside down and said you can use it as a portable snack tray!
Wow, I don't know why the 80's are made fun of... if you had bands like this come out, it just shows the mix of art and pioneering of technologies that created our modern world. IT must have been an amazing time, when the future was finally tangible.
@MEATYOKERRable Devo is a prime example of an overlooked band from this era. To the broad public they were only known for "Whip It" (which in my mind is far from one of their betters songs) and they weren't "commercially viable" enough to become more than just a cult band. To get a clue what happened during the mid 80's listen to Dead Kennedy's "MTV-Get off the air!". Not saying all the commercial bands of the 80's were bad but a lot got way more airtime than they deserved for their talent.
Yes, this seems a very rare instance of the b'hoys performing on national teevee -- and about the only instrument that was plugged in and real was Mark's microphone. Watch Bob 2's playing and note that they rarely (if ever) used those keyboards in actual live performances. He is, as always, a good actor though. Creepy -- this was the beginning of the end for them -- but there are some interesting interviews floating around out there of this very visit to NYC. diligent spud will find 'em.
and the videos , That's Good DEVO , posted both by electronictomato and grapesarefun9000 has sent here , THANK GOD ! ,hopefully it will go over 1 million views and this one too ! ,question , does any DEVO fan , have where LETTERMAN is interviewing , JERRY AND MARK and then the rest of the band, ?
I performed a lip-synch / dance performance to this song at a talent show when I was in 8th grade. I dressed all in black, made a set of white shoulder-pads out of poster-board, and made my own piano/keytar, complete with a leather strap and painted-on keys, out of 3/4" plywood. (It looked more like an artist's palette, but it did the job.) I got a nice ovation, and the highlight of my junior high school life was that the HOTTEST 9th grade cheerleader, Stephanie Angevine, signed my yearbook that year and complimented me on my performance. She said, "I liked your talent show thingy." As a 5 foot 1, 145 pound butterball, I thought..."I'm gonna MARRY that girl!!!"
Bold and broad strokes,innovation with courage and charisma, ultra hip and refreshing, a truely iconic part of music culture and history of music in general.
This is the most innovative of Devo's garb (costumes if you will). And I would wager the raw materials for said costume could be obtained for under $30.
How can “Roxy Music” be in the R&R Hall of Fame & not Devo ?!. . . (without Google) can anybody name more than one “Roxy Music” song? (or even name one of their songs?)
So that's a ROLAND SH-101 He is "playing". It was my very first synthesizer and it's monophonic meaning it does not play chords so there is no way in hell this was not lip synced or pre recorded....it also did not have MIDI so anything you programmed in would eventually skip a beat and screw your entire song up if you were recording . But dang, didn't it look cool?
It's a GOOD thing that America is getting out of Iraq. We need to quit pissing away billions of taxpayers money over there - - THAT will be a good thing too! THIRD PARTY NOW!
@redheadedgolem - well, they don't make that mistake anymore. They're playing live everywhere they go. They've got a great publicist. They've hit Colbert, Letterman, and even Regis & Kelly. I love they're still around.
I'm seeing them for the very last time this Saturday night! So effing Psyched. Then New Order on Wednesday 11/15 and ECHO and the Bunnymen on 11/20. Life be good.💯
What new and old fans need to do is every so often just listen to the albums and realize how damn good the songs were . They weren't doing all the visual stuff because they were covering for a lack of writing and playing skills. It was a way to supplement it. They are a top notch rock band
I asked Mark about the origin of the band's name. Mark told me that humankind was de-evoluting and that things were going to break down. He also said to me, "If we are around thirty years from now, look me up and see if I wrong." Mark was (and remains) a prophet of sorts. Besides all that, Leonard and Sheldon like this song.
James Parsons Duncker They were students at Kent State when the Ohio National Guard shot and killed four students during a protest. That's when devolution began for them. BTW, those shootings were the inspiration for another song called "Ohio", by Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
I haven't seen everything that man has ever created but I have seen Devo and although my first degree is in science I know that there must be a God because THAT thing called Devo cant happen by accident in a random universe that makes no sense. Purest art man can make - live sound and visual with a backstory.
Devo and the B-52's are such fun original bands.
When they came out I was about 12yrs old, they seemed like they were from the future. I'm now 53 and that still seems true.
Back then, they were doing their Duty Now for the Future.
lets hear ! , three cheers for DEVO , DEVO , DEVO ! , Duty Now For The Future !, DEVO the future legends to be voted into the rock and hall of fame !
It's been decades my friend. Still waiting to see if the other great fave band The Cars will get inducted. Sometimes the RnR HoF is just bollocks. Never explored this side of the 80s.
this year , THE CARS are in ! , DEVO is next and long over due !
Rock and roll Hall of Fame
Starting my record collection with that album. :)
Could have done a lot worse!
Happy New year 2020 !
DEVO Fans !
Rest In Peace Alan!
Alan was a Beast on the skins!
Alan and Bob, we miss our brothers.
Unlock that ancient voice
Put Devo in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! They really deserve it -- lots of unique, brilliant, and catchy music.
I agree they should get the nod....... But its far more important to put rap groups in there........ eye roll
Bill Hay Dont worry the Hall of Fame is meaningless bollocks anyway
and B-52's
Agree. Talking heads too, their early stuff was brilliant. Later stuff ? Hmmm.
@@radiopadilla yes the B52S
The other Video
That's Good DEVO posted by Electronictomato is inching it's
Way to 1 million views
Can you please watch The Video and post your favorite song by
The 52s Thank You
Kindly kindred spirit !
I so dislike those who write Devo off as a "One Hit Wonder"...they are amazing, and Mark Mothersbaugh has becoming an accomplished composer, like Danny Elfman....
Anyone who was there knows DEVO was a unbelievable band. Their live shows were incredible. They were then and still are one of a kind. AND they need to be in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
I was at one live show in the late '80s and a nude woman with a strap-on dildo walked out on stage. Still don't know if it was part of the show or a prank someone pulled on them.
The live shows…..I saw them play twice 81-82….great shows, they rocked hard, the crowds loved it
I make a point o not even knowing who is in there, StripperLicker.
True. True. AND absolutely true.
Criminally underrated. The BEST.
DEVO's charisma has always been cleverly cloaked under a veneer of 'nerdism'... These guys had the world punk'd then and now. I've been binge watching footage of DEVO recently and I am convinced that aliens abducted their drummer and implanted an atomic clock in his brain. On time, every time... RIP Alan
Celebrating 50 years of D-EVOlution 1973-2023
This tune is so irresistible! Why does this sound so good?! I've listened to this song at least 400 times and I'm still not tired of it! By the way, Mark Mothersbaugh's hip thrusts are AWESOME!!! Screw the haters.
You mean, screw those who see its appeal to that part of human nature that is so empirically verifiable and yet (therefore) is most intellectually resisted?
Karl Martell Sure. That works, too. 👍🏾
the one posted by electronictomato , has almost 1 million views !
Jerry's bass.
Only 400
People are now used to lady Gaga n they wonder why DEVO was weird? please...
true! true! I maybe a millennial but I always thought lady gaga's stuff was quite creepy. But when I stumbled upon this group I just said "woah, now that's my thing right there". How I wish I was born earlier. So ahead of my time right now. P.S. You should try listening to their pre-Devo days. They're into punk rock and stuff like that before going all synthpop. Could be fun too. :D
But devo has talent.
DEVO were studs....uuuuuh, I mean spuds.
I Love You
AWW cute
@@carolyndempsey7023 ruclips.net/video/XkZwHVM64qg/видео.html
That's Good DEVO posted by Electronictomato DEVO Kicking Ass On David Letterman Late Show NBC 1982 !
This video has almost 1 million views !
Spudrific
Incredible when you hear these early Devo tracks and you think its a drum machine but its not, its the human metronome, Alan Myers! RIP to Bob and Alan. Long live SPUDS and DEVO!
True. Unfortunately,none of them are actually playing the instruments in that video. No cords, and of course, Casale playing *chords* on an SH-101. Nope. :)
Pete Brown 80s were about lip syncing, but I still liked it, just to see the artists perform to it
MrCarl220 Yeah. It cracks me up when lip syncing on stage these days is considered controversial and new. :)
When I think controversy, I recall Milli Vanilli! Ha!
+MrCarl220 man he killed himself over that shit, if he only live to see the Millennium..... He paved the way for the modern "preformer". Amazing how they had so much back Lash in the 80s and now it's commonplace to lip sync. I know he was embarrassed, but he didn't deserve to die
Nobody understood Devo back then, but a lot of people get them now. I love these guys.
I got it from the first time I saw them
Muchos incluso muy lejos los amamos y entendimos en esos años… ellos adelantaron la DEV evolución del ser humano en manos de la tecnología
Not true if they were not popular they wouldn't have kept the recording contract so long at Warner Brothers
They blew NWA out of the water.
my god I was 11 years old, running around with a flowerpot on my head wanting to be DEVO!! :)
I hope that you enjoyed being Devo! Sounds like fun! My son was "Buckethead". Karl
We are all DeVO!
I'm 53 and still want to be DEVO.
You too? :P
@@karlfisher1864 Parenting done right.
Let's put Devo on the rock and roll hall of fame now👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
DEVO + David Letterman = winner.
So many many great musical moments on his show
30 yrs later, this is still relevant! Even my teenage boys like Devo!
40 years later...more relevant than ever!
@@drsloanski 41 and still no satisfactION!
I love the way Alan moves and plays in this he's a badass
The whole set-up, the thought.
We think that someone of the four is going to step up to the microphone and then the fifth comes down the ladder with his own.
Magic!
how the hell, heaven, world, or fuck are you ???????? i miss you all ready , and no i did not watch a flock of seagulls yet , so happy new year , please tell DEVO to make new songs and and tour new england , please with honey on top, and long live DEVO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you mongo the lioyd monster man is excelant, !!!!!!!
Great band...they were VERY cool ....the general public didn't get them, but the cool people did....everyone who knows what good music is loves devo...
People can say what they want about Devo but they were a huge part of the changing music scene at that time & they made a name for themselves whether people want to admit that or not...
ogrebattle22763 --- saw them three times in Atlanta at the Fox, '79 to '81. We had a great time.
Never has there been a band who delivered an orchestrated performance as well as Devo. They developed a theme and stuck with it all the way through. De-evolution.I bow down to the spud boys. Fantastic. In the purest sense of the word. You won't see the likes of them again. Eleven out of ten.
What other group formed behind a message and stayed true to that message the whole time?
@@hubbsllcGhost 😈🎶🖤🤘🏻
How could anyone no like Devo?
This band has helped me through so many 80s party years
If people had listened, this country wouldn't be in the sad state that it is in.
It's like they tried to warn us, and in more recent interviews they make a point of saying de-evolution *happened* - past tense.
DEVO played two of the best concerts I ever went to, so I will always have a place in my collection for them. PTxS
Alan Myers and Bob Casale?! NO! Come on, now! Why the good ones always go 1st! Take Bieber, please! And leave us the good ones!
Nope....leave Trump and take all of congress....they have zero value.
REST IN PEACE TO , ALAN MYERS , AND ROBERT CASALE , BOB 2 OF DEVO , AND GODSPEED TO BOTH , AND MAY GOD BLESS DEVO , SO THE SHOW MUST GO ON , LONG LIVE DEVO INDEED , DEVO ARE THE NEXT FUTURE LEGENDS !!! THE US NEEDS , DOCTOR RON PAUL , WHO CAN WHIP AMERICA INTO SHAPE , AND THATS GOOD !!!!
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Do not put Devo in a museum, send them into perpetual orbit instead!
Saw them many times, local bar band before MTV "discovered" them . Amazing live.
"Whip It" was a massive hit years before MTV existed. Hell, twenty million people saw them on Saturday Night Live in 1978.
I watched this when it originally aired. I'm pretty sure Mark had an interview segment with Letterman. I remember Dave joking about the white shoulder piece and Mark flipped the piece upside down and said you can use it as a portable snack tray!
He did the same thing on night flight
Here around1:08, I think: ruclips.net/video/EoboWHE42Fk/видео.html
@@mournblade1066 Hey, awesome! Thanks for the link- hadn't seen this since '82. That was some show with Pee Wee Herman as the other guest.
some great spuds there
Spudrific
All the more mind-blowing when you realize the singer is the same guy who wrote Everything is Awesome for the LEGO movie
Oh dad it’s Devo!
GREAT DEVO FANS , GO watch the That's Good DEVO , video posted by eletronictomato , and tell me if it was recored on blue ray disc ?
mark's hair is completely on point in this video, totally amazing
Favourites 40 years ago and still is
I absolutely adore Devo. Spudboy forever.
Wow, I don't know why the 80's are made fun of... if you had bands like this come out, it just shows the mix of art and pioneering of technologies that created our modern world. IT must have been an amazing time, when the future was finally tangible.
@MEATYOKERRable
Devo is a prime example of an overlooked band from this era. To the broad public they were only known for "Whip It" (which in my mind is far from one of their betters songs) and they weren't "commercially viable" enough to become more than just a cult band.
To get a clue what happened during the mid 80's listen to Dead Kennedy's "MTV-Get off the air!". Not saying all the commercial bands of the 80's were bad but a lot got way more airtime than they deserved for their talent.
fuckin classic, way ahead of their time, saw them three times live. be stiff
Yes, this seems a very rare instance of the b'hoys performing on national teevee -- and about the only instrument that was plugged in and real was Mark's microphone. Watch Bob 2's playing and note that they rarely (if ever) used those keyboards in actual live performances. He is, as always, a good actor though.
Creepy -- this was the beginning of the end for them -- but there are some interesting interviews floating around out there of this very visit to NYC. diligent spud will find 'em.
and the videos , That's Good DEVO , posted both by electronictomato and grapesarefun9000 has sent here , THANK GOD ! ,hopefully it will go over 1 million views and this one too ! ,question , does any DEVO fan , have where LETTERMAN is interviewing , JERRY AND MARK and then the rest of the band, ?
Those early 80s herky jerky tunes.Loved them all. The Cars. Devo. Gary Neumann.
Buddy Holly?! Have you been time travelling?! *o*
the yanks had Devo we had Split Enz
I performed a lip-synch / dance performance to this song at a talent show when I was in 8th grade. I dressed all in black, made a set of white shoulder-pads out of poster-board, and made my own piano/keytar, complete with a leather strap and painted-on keys, out of 3/4" plywood. (It looked more like an artist's palette, but it did the job.) I got a nice ovation, and the highlight of my junior high school life was that the HOTTEST 9th grade cheerleader, Stephanie Angevine, signed my yearbook that year and complimented me on my performance. She said, "I liked your talent show thingy." As a 5 foot 1, 145 pound butterball, I thought..."I'm gonna MARRY that girl!!!"
Strange to see Alan play electronic drums. One of my favorite drummers.
Bold and broad strokes,innovation with courage and charisma, ultra hip and refreshing, a truely iconic part of music culture and history of music in general.
Haha I did and I do. Badass original shit!
To this day DEVO has put on the greatest live shows I have ever seen!!
Devo rules! Letterman ruled in the 80’s!
xoxo The Clarences
Who else is here from the “Square Pegs” episode back in 1982? (FORTY years ago) 😬
Sheesh… where does time go?
ruclips.net/video/f5-5bAgEueY/видео.html
This is the most innovative of Devo's garb (costumes if you will). And I would wager the raw materials for said costume could be obtained for under $30.
Devo the best music ever greetings from Chile 2021
Bob 1 and Bob 2 are so cute
How can “Roxy Music” be in the R&R Hall of Fame & not Devo ?!. . .
(without Google) can anybody name more than one “Roxy Music” song?
(or even name one of their songs?)
So that's a ROLAND SH-101 He is "playing". It was my very first synthesizer and it's monophonic meaning it does not play chords so there is no way in hell this was not lip synced or pre recorded....it also did not have MIDI so anything you programmed in would eventually skip a beat and screw your entire song up if you were recording .
But dang, didn't it look cool?
It's a GOOD thing that America is getting out of Iraq. We need to quit pissing away billions of taxpayers money over there - - THAT will be a good thing too! THIRD PARTY NOW!
This sounds lip synced
does Letterman always look old? this was 32 years ago
Best band I ever saw live.
These guys were under great pressure from the record company, Warner Bros. I think, to put out another 'Whip It', this song seems to be that.
That's basically the main reason why they dropped out their Art Punk/Performance Art status.
I was 10 when this came out. Devo was the first record I ever bought. This is still a really good song.
@redheadedgolem - well, they don't make that mistake anymore. They're playing live everywhere they go. They've got a great publicist. They've hit Colbert, Letterman, and even Regis & Kelly. I love they're still around.
Ah, every time I hear this song from Devo, can't help thinking of thee good ol' days of the 80's... And of the movie, REVENGE OF THE NERDS 1&2.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARK MOTHERSBAUGH DEVO LEGENGDS !
Guess who belongs in the hall of fame?
They're in mine....just not in that BS one in Cleveland.
I'm seeing them for the very last time this Saturday night! So effing Psyched. Then New Order on Wednesday 11/15 and ECHO and the Bunnymen on 11/20. Life be good.💯
Just saw them 2 nights ago. Incredible performance. These guys still have it. Seeing Depeche Mode next week!
good.
What new and old fans need to do is every so often just listen to the albums and realize how damn good the songs were . They weren't doing all the visual stuff because they were covering for a lack of writing and playing skills. It was a way to supplement it. They are a top notch rock band
Gotta love the head knock gestures by Motherbaugh! Knock!!
Long live DEVO, New Wave, and early 80s!
DEVO AND RAINBOW BRIGHT IS THE 80'S MAN!
Cool as hell.
Well, they did share the same era of styles and looks.
I asked Mark about the origin of the band's name. Mark told me that humankind was de-evoluting and that things were going to break down. He also said to me, "If we are around thirty years from now, look me up and see if I wrong." Mark was (and remains) a prophet of sorts. Besides all that, Leonard and Sheldon like this song.
ahead of their time....devolution is happening now :-(
Heh, DEVOlution...
ya think?
James Parsons Duncker They were students at Kent State when the Ohio National Guard shot and killed four students during a protest. That's when devolution began for them.
BTW, those shootings were the inspiration for another song called "Ohio", by Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
David Thaler yes. art students at kent
Especially with all the Liberal Dumbass's protesting and rioting
i discovered this band last year... thanks youtube! they are great
Last best album imo. It's a shame they couldn't have stayed more artsy and Avant garde like the first 2 albums.
I'd love to see Devo play uncontrollable urge at the rock and roll hall of fame.
And "Big Mess!"
too bad it was lip synced and not "live."
Who gives two shits?
I haven't seen everything that man has ever created but I have seen Devo and although my first degree is in science I know that there must be a God because THAT thing called Devo cant happen by accident in a random universe that makes no sense. Purest art man can make - live sound and visual with a backstory.
The Human Metronome on Drums!
HAPPY NEW YEAR ! 2018 ! great DEVO fans !
New Wave.Totally new wave!
DEVO next future legends !
I love Mark's Billy Bibbit hair-doo. This is pure geek sugar. LOVE IT! And to think, they are from my old hometown -- AK-RON!
Buh buh buh buh buh bbbbbbbillly!
Why are they miming? This isn't American Bandstand.
Definately some Klaus Nomi influence in Mark's performance.
I guess its possible. But Devo was around before he became popular.
I'm glad you pointed that out. KLAUS inspired so many people, including BOWIE
You have it backwards... Klaus Nomi was probably influenced by Devo.
So far ahead of their time.
Oh no it's devo...
Please welcome devo
Hell yeah! I saw this live when it happend - they are so super fun!
I saw these guys in Akron before MTV came along. There was a weird crowd in the audience those nights. Punk was pure then.