JP, I don't know if you or other younger folks recognize, "hold the pickles, hold the lettuce..." as the actual lyrics to a [edit: Burger King] commercial jingle of the 1970s. What struck me back then was how Devo took the cloyingly sweet jingle and made it sound insincere and even threatening! Paranoia about corporate control of media, maybe? Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they really aren't out to get you.
It was a Burger King commercial. At the time, McDonald's more or less refused special requests as they were all about speed and efficiency. Burger King sought to draw customers with their "Have It Your Way" campaign.
Great comment. The corporations have grown to dystopian level of power. American life is a lie. And this is why I get more appreciation for Devo's lyrics as time marches on. I only wish Devo was more blatant in their ire at US Militarism, the prison industrial complex, etc.
I wonder how McDonald's felt about them intertwining the Burger King jingle with having a Big Mac attack. 😂🤣. It wasn't a heart attack, it was from a McDonald's commercial, Big Mac attack meant a craving for one.
Growing up in the 60s & 70s, would easily remember the ad slogans used in Too Much Paranoias. Products like "Downy" constantly referred too annoying static cling, Mc Donald's Big Mac attack was constantly on the TV and, the Hold the pickles line was a famouse Burger King slogan in the 70s. I guess Devo was fed up with the constant barrage of BUY ! BUY!! BUY!!! being force-fed to us TV audiences. Four decades later the advertisement time on TV has more then doubled! I wonder wha a Devo song about commercialism would be like today.
The whole special order stuff was from a Burger King commercial from the 70s. BG was like...McD's doesn't. We will! Devo is like...that's the epitome of our free will? !!!
Loved seeing your cat chilling to "Too Much Paranoias" :-). I agree that the first song serves as kind of a reset (being it was the first track on Side 2 of the vinyl album, very appropriate. "Gut Feeling/Slap Yer Mammy" is one of my favorite Devo tracks. The intro reminds me of "Green Grass and High Tides" by the Outlaws, and the transition into "Slap Yer Mammy" is awesome in my opinion. Love the atonal squalls which come to the forefront near the end of "Gut Feeling". Thanks for the thoughtful reaction.
There is a RUclips recording of a very early Devo performance playing Gut Feeling/Slap your mammy. It's poor quality B/W video and the sound isn't the best but you can definitely feel it. They repeat that opening 5 bar riff about 40 times, starting with barely audible guitar and steadily building intensity - more dramatically than this album cut- before the vocals come out. It's worth a watch of you want to see proto-Devo coming out
This album was a gateway drug for soooo many of my friends back in the beginning of the 80's to get into metal, then thrash. Cause if you like Devo you will like the heavier stuff most likely, not that Devo isn't heavy! That was the attraction! The heaviness and the uniqueness of the riffs and everything!
As witnesses to the massacre at Kent State, I'd say members of Devo had real reason to be paranoid. Once you get that they are deconstructing rock, Devo falls into place. They are one band that made the jump from proto-punk into punk and new wave. Them drums do kick on "Gut Feeling."
I love the inordinate amount of Devo reactions on your site - Imore on yours than all the other reviewers of any Devo song combined. Plus it’s cool that you get how cool and innovative they are, especially when you pointed out the part about Bowie and Fripp on that other reaction.
Hi Justin - great reaction, thanks! A lot of the lyrics here are from old '70s commercials. The main one is a Burger King commercial with the jingle (set to a different tune) "hold the pickles" etc.. There was also one for Downy that had a woman wail, "I've been stuck with static cling!" So I think the song is about all the stuff advertisers say we have to be worried about, and that's the source of the paranoias.
I'm afraid of consuming the wrong thing, worry about it constantly. If a bad thing, I dare to swallow, nausea and cramps will surely follow. Turning that uneasy, queasy gut, to a overactive overworked sore and painful butt. And leaving the sufferer feeling empty and quite hollow. Peace and I am hopelessly' Devo' -ted to U.
@@fuckamericanidiot I'm confused, so you think their music is horrible and gets worse and worse with each album? and you don't recommend any other Devo album?
@@UnemployedClown1This is arguably their best album, either this or Duty Now. Their Hardcore stuff 74 to 77 is my favourite, their first album is a bit overproduced but I still love it, Duty Now....I love it too; Freedom of Choice is pretty good, has some great songs on it; New Traditionalists the cracks really start to show, but it has a few songs that I'm fond of; Oh No! I maybe prefer it slightly to Nu Tra; Shout stinks; Total Devo stinks; Smooth Noodle Maps stinks; Something for everybody stinks..... watch us work it was okay. They literally said it themselves in 1976 - "The beginning was the end" - they were prophets.
@@fuckamericanidiot I mostly agree with you completely. 1974-1980 were their best period. IMO Duty Now is their best from start to finish, then Q: Are we not men, and then Freedom of Choice. Though Freedom of Choice lagged in the last half of the album unless you have the international release with the bonus tracks. NT and OhNo! only have a few good songs and then all their shit after that stinks. Smooth Noodle Maps is disgusting and makes me want to puke. I think Something for Everybody could have been better if they didn't 'research group' the hell out of it (making it mediocre at best)....it does have a couple songs I like though and it was nice to hear a new album that didn't suck 100%.
Now what you need to do is watch the 1978 performance of Too Much Paranoias from the Paris TV broadcast to see the amphetamine-fueled electricity Devo possesses. In fact, the entire show (which is up on RUclips) is a picture-perfect snapshot of Guitar Devo (my favorite Devo, natch) The precision is absolutely obscene.
Something to remember about Jocko Homo is that they used to play the "Are we not men. We are DEVO" part over and over and over and over until the audience rioted, and they were kicked off the stage. It's almost like they are saying that people have an inner-monkey, their devolved selves, and the song will bring that out. RIOT! Show your true selves.
I remember Devo back in the MTV days when MTV actually played music videos. Some really classic videos with all their quirky motifs. I had a compilation of vids on Beta (LOL), that included segues between songs with Timothy Leary, Loraine Newman and others. Hilarious! and at times actually beautiful! (E.g. Its a Beautiful World). But oh my, poor Boogie Boy at the factory...LOL!
Gut Feeling is similar to Mongoloid in that it simple sounds are layered one by one to build the 'music'. It is interesting that you didn't like Mongolid but you did like Gut Feeling.
“Hold the pickles…” is the old Burger King slogan - weird that it’s juxtaposed with “Big Mac attack” (MacDonald’s slogan). Part of Devo’s criticisms of consumer culture.
I adore Jocko Homo, aware that you did not…I know JH so well that Mark’s vocal inflection on every line is as internalized as my DNA. In addition, I love, love, love Gut Feeling-Slap Your Mammy. The role that this LP played in my listening cannot be overstated. The 70s were so full of prog rock, endless meandering guitar solos, proto-metal, and pseudo-sensitivity/schmalz that this release was ELECTRIFYING. God, I loved it, still do, and X-Ray Spex and all those bands with singers whom you believe can’t sing (Bob Dylan, anyone?). I’m wondering if you just had to be there. :)
THIS. OMG. You might be around my age because I was maybe 12 and all I heard, all the time, was deeply "important" bombastic prog rock, or fucking whiny nostalgic yacht rock, or just... schmaltz. I was totally bored by music at that point. Then my mom's BF gave me a bootleg tape of DEVO and my jaw literally dropped! It was an electric feeling. Just, screw all that, let's deconstruct music and turn it around, mix it up, and be beautifully weird. I fell in love with the strangeness and the fact that it was so anti-70s, in a great way.
@@slbgraphics2 BOMBASTIC, exactly. On top of endless prog, the DJs at my local rock radio station challenged one another, in all seriousness, to see who could play Stairway to Heaven most often. It all got so flipping dull and samey-samey.
As someone who isn't too far off in age from JP, I didn't have to be there, but oh how I wish I could've been! I think about this music and how "weird" and off-putting it sounds to many and I can't help but think of how cool it would've been to hear it when it first came out. I'd like to say it would've blown my mind in a good way, but maybe I would've thought it was awful then? Idk. I just know that I appreciate it now and I have since the early 00s when I first heard it.
"Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce..." was the commercial jingle for Burger King during the 70's. Not sure how much relevance it actually has to the song.
Too Much Paranoias is my favorite on the album. The riff is brutal, but I also love the breakdown sectio. It sounds like machinery literally breaking down.
Check out Planet Earth , Freedom of Choice and Smart Patrol/Mr DNA . Three of my favorite Devo tracks. on Planet Earth watch the video. Devo- Devolution take a satirical look at society and life with a dose of sarcasm. musically they were WY ahead of the time.
On Too Much Paranoias, the lines Hold the pickles hold the lettuce/Special orders don't upset us/All we ask is that you let us/Serve it your way is a reference to an old Burger King jingle from back in the day.
This music really appealed to me when I was young and full of nervous energy. Kind of fun to relive it, but not my normal vibe now. Mongoloid is awesome tho. Several stellar tracks on the following albums. A good live show also.
The Cat miming was the star of this! Track 1 was how Budgie would've sounded had they been a new wave band. Track 2 was a depressing Sub-standard normal song. If i were you JP, I would take advantage of the change of abode to possibly introduce a new element to the channel , namely Let the audience vote!!! in this case, between a song by The B-52s and one by Devo. Call it OrlandoVision. The winners get the Album Reaction. But we'd need to hear every track on the LPs to choose the best track to vote for. Doh. Better still ...we'll make it a random choice. Albums come from same year of course. Not inspired? No , nor me. Still I'm glad i can say I'm almost half way thru my first Devo album. Can't say it's blown me away. Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional LP does though. Diolch!
You HAVE to see one of the live performances of "Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy" from the late 70s. And your cat's reaction to "Too Much Paranoias" was priceless. 😛
Great analysis. I dont agree eith some criticisms, but fair. Thanks for reviewing what nobody else is. More devo. Id like to hear freedom of choice album.
Tongs of love. IIRC it was still medical procedure to use tongs to assist in the delivery of babies (sometimes squishing their heads in the process). The intro of "Gut Feeling" reminds me of Neil Young's "I'm the Ocean" and, for some reason, Matt Mays "Cocaine Cowgirl".
A completely different genre but a band I listened to at the same time were The Cars. Definitely a more traditional band but for some reason both bands take me back to my high school years. How about giving The Cars an in depth listen as well?
Gates of Steel and Girl U Want are 2 favorites from their main era. Then there was their last studio album released through Enigma called Smooth Noodle Map (1990) and I can't really pick a favorite song off it - I just listen to the whole album every time. Probably not a popular choice among DEVOtees, but I've never been an 'early stuff only' purist with any band I like.
Hold the pickles hold the lettuce was the theme song in the Burger King commercial of the 70s. The paranoia is the society that makes and eats such things, thats why they are Devo.
The next devolutionary step you might try is some *Nurse With Wound* (but only after some more Devo, I hope). *Pleasant Banjo Intro With Irritating Squeaking Noise* might not be the very best introduction to the possibilities this band snuffles around in, but it's quite quick. ruclips.net/video/Ib4l1y2LOuI/видео.html
Have I mentioned the Australian band whose lead singer was a boy called Shirley? (Because his mates decided he looked like Shirley Temple, and gave him her name.) They don't have many pretensions, but are more than competent, and seem to have this "fun" thing quite well figured out. Try *Jukebox in Siberia* for an unlikely party track, for instance. ruclips.net/video/wav75lqhxQg/видео.html (They don't always play in this style, just in case you think you have them sussed after hearing this. They generally have an attitude that's similar, but their music is more varied.) In the unlikely event that you ever react to a *Skyhooks* song, I vote for *Smut* (which has slightly filthy lyrics, and a less rockabilly rhythm.)
If you want to be surprised (possibly), try some *John Zorn* . Here's some nice Latin-jazz (so no surprises), but on another day you'll find him playing the heaviest metal you've heard for a while. (Look for his collaboration with Mike Patton, for instance.) ruclips.net/video/Ajl28OdWqtc/видео.html
Justin, we have totally different tastes ! Gimme "Mongoloid" and "Jocko Homo" over "Too Much Paranoias" which I find really noisy and annoying. "Gut Feeling" is just okay but kinda boring in its second half. I prefer the remaining three songs, especially the last two "Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin')" and "Shrivel-Up".
Love "Gut Feeling" but "Satisfaction" was the most interesting track on this album. Too bad you don't remember how this band pushed people's button when it was new.
Friend, if you have a chance, listen to a song called Talisman by the Canadian band The Guess Who. It´s a very fine composition with also fine lyrics. Greetings from Brazil.
Once you have the whole album under your belt, you can carry it around easier. No, just maybe understand it better. Some WILL argue of it’s worth, so be it. I still dig this album. Get yer tongs tongs out… Edit: I remembered another you meh/ me love song, Question by the Moodies…
The build-up on "Gut Feeling" is a pale shadow of what they did live. Here is proof from one of their earliest 1977 shows at Max's Kansas City in New York, which supposedly were the shows that brought them to the attention of David Bowie and eventually Brian Eno. Proof also that they were a rock band-something that this studio album doesn't portray at all. ruclips.net/video/gYwL3SmcnB4/видео.html
Love the way your cat is looking at you like "What the actual F is my homie listening to? Oh, yes, Devo, a bit too normie for my taste." On a more serious note, I think Robert Smith has been infuenced by "Gut Feeling" for the melody of "A forest".
yeah, you're backward, man. casale (bob 2) was backup keyboard for mark. i don't recall a single track anywhere that bob 1 wasn't playing guitar. bob 2 was very musically versatile.
A mixed bag; the first track is mindless and horrific noise, but the second is actually trying to be music, and even succeeded on the whole. Now that fact alone hardly saves this abysmal album, but it's nice to know they could produce something tolerable if they really tried to.
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This album helped show me there were other people as weird as I was.
It’s punk. It’s dystopian sci-fi. It’s demented. We are Devo.
Likt it !
Are we not men?
Just like in "Mongoloid" or some songs from the later albums (S.I.B., Blockhead), the sinister bass line really sells "Too Much Paranoias".
Gut Feeling is one of their best songs of any album!
Gut feeling rocks. On their 2nd album Clock-out and Mr. DNA are crazy rockers with some insane slide guitar.
JP, I don't know if you or other younger folks recognize, "hold the pickles, hold the lettuce..." as the actual lyrics to a [edit: Burger King] commercial jingle of the 1970s. What struck me back then was how Devo took the cloyingly sweet jingle and made it sound insincere and even threatening! Paranoia about corporate control of media, maybe?
Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they really aren't out to get you.
It was actually Burger King ;)
It was a Burger King commercial. At the time, McDonald's more or less refused special requests as they were all about speed and efficiency. Burger King sought to draw customers with their "Have It Your Way" campaign.
@@pretzelcoatl-2102 ah yes, of course!
Great comment. The corporations have grown to dystopian level of power. American life is a lie. And this is why I get more appreciation for Devo's lyrics as time marches on. I only wish Devo was more blatant in their ire at US Militarism, the prison industrial complex, etc.
I wonder how McDonald's felt about them intertwining the Burger King jingle with having a Big Mac attack. 😂🤣. It wasn't a heart attack, it was from a McDonald's commercial, Big Mac attack meant a craving for one.
I Love the intro to Gut feeling , the build up is brilliant 👍
I liked Devo more as time went by but... Damn, Gut Feeling is still one of their best songs ever.
People in 1978 would have recognized the phrases "Hold the Pickles..." and "Big Mac Attack" from TV commercials.
Growing up in the 60s & 70s, would easily remember the ad slogans used in Too Much Paranoias. Products like "Downy" constantly referred too annoying static cling, Mc Donald's Big Mac attack was constantly on the TV and, the Hold the pickles line was a famouse Burger King slogan in the 70s. I guess Devo was fed up with the constant barrage of BUY ! BUY!! BUY!!! being force-fed to us TV audiences. Four decades later the advertisement time on TV has more then doubled! I wonder wha a Devo song about commercialism would be like today.
The whole special order stuff was from a Burger King commercial from the 70s. BG was like...McD's doesn't. We will! Devo is like...that's the epitome of our free will? !!!
Loved seeing your cat chilling to "Too Much Paranoias" :-). I agree that the first song serves as kind of a reset (being it was the first track on Side 2 of the vinyl album, very appropriate. "Gut Feeling/Slap Yer Mammy" is one of my favorite Devo tracks. The intro reminds me of "Green Grass and High Tides" by the Outlaws, and the transition into "Slap Yer Mammy" is awesome in my opinion. Love the atonal squalls which come to the forefront near the end of "Gut Feeling". Thanks for the thoughtful reaction.
Ty HD :)
There is a RUclips recording of a very early Devo performance playing Gut Feeling/Slap your mammy. It's poor quality B/W video and the sound isn't the best but you can definitely feel it. They repeat that opening 5 bar riff about 40 times, starting with barely audible guitar and steadily building intensity - more dramatically than this album cut- before the vocals come out. It's worth a watch of you want to see proto-Devo coming out
The “special orders” riff is from an actual McD jingle.
Props for listening to it Gut Feeling.
This album was a gateway drug for soooo many of my friends back in the beginning of the 80's to get into metal, then thrash. Cause if you like Devo you will like the heavier stuff most likely, not that Devo isn't heavy! That was the attraction! The heaviness and the uniqueness of the riffs and everything!
As witnesses to the massacre at Kent State, I'd say members of Devo had real reason to be paranoid. Once you get that they are deconstructing rock, Devo falls into place. They are one band that made the jump from proto-punk into punk and new wave. Them drums do kick on "Gut Feeling."
I love the inordinate amount of Devo reactions on your site - Imore on yours than all the other reviewers of any Devo song combined. Plus it’s cool that you get how cool and innovative they are, especially when you pointed out the part about Bowie and Fripp on that other reaction.
Hi Justin - great reaction, thanks!
A lot of the lyrics here are from old '70s commercials. The main one is a Burger King commercial with the jingle (set to a different tune) "hold the pickles" etc.. There was also one for Downy that had a woman wail, "I've been stuck with static cling!" So I think the song is about all the stuff advertisers say we have to be worried about, and that's the source of the paranoias.
I'm afraid of consuming the wrong thing, worry about it constantly. If a bad thing, I dare to swallow, nausea and cramps will surely follow. Turning that uneasy, queasy gut, to a overactive overworked sore and painful butt. And leaving the sufferer feeling empty and quite hollow. Peace and I am hopelessly' Devo' -ted to U.
Devo's music definitely gets better and better with each album, this album is more experimental. Highly recommend the "Duty Now for the Future" album!
Yup :) Duty Now For The Future continues what these last two tracks were doing. More of the melodic stuff, more rocking out :)
Literally the opposite is true. Good Lord. Devolution is real.
@@fuckamericanidiot I'm confused, so you think their music is horrible and gets worse and worse with each album? and you don't recommend any other Devo album?
@@UnemployedClown1This is arguably their best album, either this or Duty Now.
Their Hardcore stuff 74 to 77 is my favourite, their first album is a bit overproduced but I still love it, Duty Now....I love it too; Freedom of Choice is pretty good, has some great songs on it; New Traditionalists the cracks really start to show, but it has a few songs that I'm fond of; Oh No! I maybe prefer it slightly to Nu Tra; Shout stinks; Total Devo stinks; Smooth Noodle Maps stinks; Something for everybody stinks..... watch us work it was okay.
They literally said it themselves in 1976 - "The beginning was the end" - they were prophets.
@@fuckamericanidiot I mostly agree with you completely. 1974-1980 were their best period. IMO Duty Now is their best from start to finish, then Q: Are we not men, and then Freedom of Choice. Though Freedom of Choice lagged in the last half of the album unless you have the international release with the bonus tracks. NT and OhNo! only have a few good songs and then all their shit after that stinks. Smooth Noodle Maps is disgusting and makes me want to puke. I think Something for Everybody could have been better if they didn't 'research group' the hell out of it (making it mediocre at best)....it does have a couple songs I like though and it was nice to hear a new album that didn't suck 100%.
Big thumbs up for Gut Feeling! Great intro and song.
Gut Feeling was the love song of my first marriage. Great track! Can't wait till you get to Duty Now for the Future.
Now what you need to do is watch the 1978 performance of Too Much Paranoias from the Paris TV broadcast to see the amphetamine-fueled electricity Devo possesses. In fact, the entire show (which is up on RUclips) is a picture-perfect snapshot of Guitar Devo (my favorite Devo, natch) The precision is absolutely obscene.
Something to remember about Jocko Homo is that they used to play the "Are we not men. We are DEVO" part over and over and over and over until the audience rioted, and they were kicked off the stage. It's almost like they are saying that people have an inner-monkey, their devolved selves, and the song will bring that out. RIOT! Show your true selves.
I remember Devo back in the MTV days when MTV actually played music videos. Some really classic videos with all their quirky motifs. I had a compilation of vids on Beta (LOL), that included segues between songs with Timothy Leary, Loraine Newman and others. Hilarious! and at times actually beautiful! (E.g. Its a Beautiful World). But oh my, poor Boogie Boy at the factory...LOL!
Gut Feeling is similar to Mongoloid in that it simple sounds are layered one by one to build the 'music'. It is interesting that you didn't like Mongolid but you did like Gut Feeling.
“Hold the pickles…” is the old Burger King slogan - weird that it’s juxtaposed with “Big Mac attack” (MacDonald’s slogan). Part of Devo’s criticisms of consumer culture.
The live version from France of these two songs are just visceral DEVO.
I adore Jocko Homo, aware that you did not…I know JH so well that Mark’s vocal inflection on every line is as internalized as my DNA. In addition, I love, love, love Gut Feeling-Slap Your Mammy. The role that this LP played in my listening cannot be overstated. The 70s were so full of prog rock, endless meandering guitar solos, proto-metal, and pseudo-sensitivity/schmalz that this release was ELECTRIFYING. God, I loved it, still do, and X-Ray Spex and all those bands with singers whom you believe can’t sing (Bob Dylan, anyone?). I’m wondering if you just had to be there. :)
THIS. OMG. You might be around my age because I was maybe 12 and all I heard, all the time, was deeply "important" bombastic prog rock, or fucking whiny nostalgic yacht rock, or just... schmaltz. I was totally bored by music at that point. Then my mom's BF gave me a bootleg tape of DEVO and my jaw literally dropped! It was an electric feeling. Just, screw all that, let's deconstruct music and turn it around, mix it up, and be beautifully weird. I fell in love with the strangeness and the fact that it was so anti-70s, in a great way.
@@slbgraphics2 BOMBASTIC, exactly. On top of endless prog, the DJs at my local rock radio station challenged one another, in all seriousness, to see who could play Stairway to Heaven most often. It all got so flipping dull and samey-samey.
As someone who isn't too far off in age from JP, I didn't have to be there, but oh how I wish I could've been! I think about this music and how "weird" and off-putting it sounds to many and I can't help but think of how cool it would've been to hear it when it first came out. I'd like to say it would've blown my mind in a good way, but maybe I would've thought it was awful then? Idk. I just know that I appreciate it now and I have since the early 00s when I first heard it.
"Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce..." was the commercial jingle for Burger King during the 70's. Not sure how much relevance it actually has to the song.
Too Much Paranoias is my favorite on the album. The riff is brutal, but I also love the breakdown sectio. It sounds like machinery literally breaking down.
I can hear Mothersbaugh saying, "You want a guitar solo? OK, I'll give you a fuckin' guitar solo!"
Check out Planet Earth , Freedom of Choice and Smart Patrol/Mr DNA .
Three of my favorite Devo tracks.
on Planet Earth watch the video.
Devo- Devolution take a satirical look at society and life with a dose of sarcasm. musically they were WY ahead of the time.
First heard thier cover of satisfaction on the radio. Coolest cover I ever heard.
top tune, way ahead of time
This came from a play in college from devo that they they played the rubber bowl with the rolling stone
Gut Feeling is maybe my favorite Devo track! the build is so great! Then dropping into Slap yo mammy!!!
On Too Much Paranoias, the lines Hold the pickles hold the lettuce/Special orders don't upset us/All we ask is that you let us/Serve it your way is a reference to an old Burger King jingle from back in the day.
Yup.
Gut is easily the best track on the album
Agree
The album is a spitting image of my grandfather when he was young. Born in 1917. Half Irish and Chickasaw Indian.
Got a gut feeling is my favorite Devo song.
Gut feeling intro was used on the weather channel for the weather on the 8s
This music really appealed to me when I was young and full of nervous energy. Kind of fun to relive it, but not my normal vibe now. Mongoloid is awesome tho. Several stellar tracks on the following albums. A good live show also.
Nostalgic. I hear these songs in the supermarket from time to time.
I have respect for them.
I’ve got nothing but love for Devo. They were very important to me as a teenage misfit and their live shows are still a blast today…
The Cat miming was the star of this!
Track 1 was how Budgie would've sounded had they been a new wave band. Track 2 was a depressing Sub-standard normal song. If i were you JP, I would take advantage of the change of abode to possibly introduce a new element to the channel , namely Let the audience vote!!! in this case, between a song by The B-52s and one by Devo. Call it OrlandoVision. The winners get the Album Reaction. But we'd need to hear every track on the LPs to choose the best track to vote for.
Doh.
Better still ...we'll make it a random choice. Albums come from same year of course. Not inspired? No , nor me. Still I'm glad i can say I'm almost half way thru my first Devo album. Can't say it's blown me away.
Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional LP does though.
Diolch!
You HAVE to see one of the live performances of "Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy" from the late 70s. And your cat's reaction to "Too Much Paranoias" was priceless. 😛
The " hold the pickles " line is from a burger king commercial
Glad you liked these tracks better, but I hope the others grow on you 🙂
Great analysis. I dont agree eith some criticisms, but fair. Thanks for reviewing what nobody else is. More devo. Id like to hear freedom of choice album.
Tongs of love. IIRC it was still medical procedure to use tongs to assist in the delivery of babies (sometimes squishing their heads in the process). The intro of "Gut Feeling" reminds me of Neil Young's "I'm the Ocean" and, for some reason, Matt Mays "Cocaine Cowgirl".
The break is a detuned guitar run through an Electro-Harmonix Frequency Analyzer.
A completely different genre but a band I listened to at the same time were The Cars. Definitely a more traditional band but for some reason both bands take me back to my high school years. How about giving The Cars an in depth listen as well?
The Cars was a band that other bands loved to listen to.
There were some great breakouts in 1978 - Devo, The Cars, Dire Straits, Van Halen, I probably left out a few...
Interesting, that guitar riff and tone at the beginning of Gut Feeling / Slap Your Mammy made me think of House of the Rising Sun by The Animals.
And the breakdown in the middle of Too Much Paranoias made me think of an electronic version of Moonchild.
Gates of Steel and Girl U Want are 2 favorites from their main era. Then there was their last studio album released through Enigma called Smooth Noodle Map (1990) and I can't really pick a favorite song off it - I just listen to the whole album every time. Probably not a popular choice among DEVOtees, but I've never been an 'early stuff only' purist with any band I like.
Two much paranoias is positively intestinal
One correction- the lyrics actually say “sniffy linings,” not “silver linings.” 😁
Thanks. It's weird, all the lyric sites say "silver", bu you're correct it's "sniffy".
Devo fans are called spuds.
I'm a spud.
Hold the pickles hold the lettuce was the theme song in the Burger King commercial of the 70s. The paranoia is the society that makes and eats such things, thats why they are Devo.
i love Gut Feeling specially the beginning
The next devolutionary step you might try is some *Nurse With Wound* (but only after some more Devo, I hope).
*Pleasant Banjo Intro With Irritating Squeaking Noise* might not be the very best introduction to the possibilities this band snuffles around in, but it's quite quick. ruclips.net/video/Ib4l1y2LOuI/видео.html
Have I mentioned the Australian band whose lead singer was a boy called Shirley? (Because his mates decided he looked like Shirley Temple, and gave him her name.) They don't have many pretensions, but are more than competent, and seem to have this "fun" thing quite well figured out. Try *Jukebox in Siberia* for an unlikely party track, for instance. ruclips.net/video/wav75lqhxQg/видео.html (They don't always play in this style, just in case you think you have them sussed after hearing this. They generally have an attitude that's similar, but their music is more varied.)
In the unlikely event that you ever react to a *Skyhooks* song, I vote for *Smut* (which has slightly filthy lyrics, and a less rockabilly rhythm.)
If you want to be surprised (possibly), try some *John Zorn* . Here's some nice Latin-jazz (so no surprises), but on another day you'll find him playing the heaviest metal you've heard for a while. (Look for his collaboration with Mike Patton, for instance.) ruclips.net/video/Ajl28OdWqtc/видео.html
And then there's *Oceansize* in heavy mode that I'm almost certain you'll love. Try *A Homage to Shame* ruclips.net/video/DNcwOSY9tZo/видео.html
Justin, we have totally different tastes ! Gimme "Mongoloid" and "Jocko Homo" over "Too Much Paranoias" which I find really noisy and annoying. "Gut Feeling" is just okay but kinda boring in its second half. I prefer the remaining three songs, especially the last two "Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin')" and "Shrivel-Up".
Shrivel up people
I like Mongoloid and Gut Feeling
I disagree with some of your opinions, but I respect them. You're a great reviewer.
Thank you so much Eric, I appreciate you 🙏
Yeah Gut feeling - I covered that long time ago 😀
Devolution
Love "Gut Feeling" but "Satisfaction" was the most interesting track on this album. Too bad you don't remember how this band pushed people's button when it was new.
This album came out before he was even born.
Casale is pronounced Ca-sal-ee. Mark Mothersbaugh played keyboards on the track.
Gut feeling is very similar to The Stranglers for sure.
Gut feeling rules. The 5 bar chord progression...
Friend, if you have a chance, listen to a song called Talisman by the Canadian band The Guess Who. It´s a very fine composition with also fine lyrics. Greetings from Brazil.
Once you have the whole album under your belt, you can carry it around easier. No, just maybe understand it better. Some WILL argue of it’s worth, so be it. I still dig this album. Get yer tongs tongs out…
Edit: I remembered another you meh/ me love song, Question by the Moodies…
The build-up on "Gut Feeling" is a pale shadow of what they did live. Here is proof from one of their earliest 1977 shows at Max's Kansas City in New York, which supposedly were the shows that brought them to the attention of David Bowie and eventually Brian Eno. Proof also that they were a rock band-something that this studio album doesn't portray at all. ruclips.net/video/gYwL3SmcnB4/видео.html
Love the way your cat is looking at you like "What the actual F is my homie listening to? Oh, yes, Devo, a bit too normie for my taste."
On a more serious note, I think Robert Smith has been infuenced by "Gut Feeling" for the melody of "A forest".
Lol!
Jocko Homo is phenominal
Interesting that you would choose the two more inaccessible songs over Jocko Homo.
Very interesting indeed.
🧔 *strokes beard* "Iiiiinteresting..."
the future hasnt caught up to Devo
Oh, he's not going to like this. LOL
Too much people prefer the more normal song of that album. Not me.
Dude, you don't get this band. Period. Walk away.
I only love one album by DEVO. Oh No , It's Devo., ......every song is awesome!!!
Casal is on bass. Bob Motherbaugh was on keys. (or the other brother). They call 'em Bob 1 and Bob 2. Hilarious
yeah, you're backward, man. casale (bob 2) was backup keyboard for mark. i don't recall a single track anywhere that bob 1 wasn't playing guitar. bob 2 was very musically versatile.
I remember returning this (cassette) back to the record store after listening to it. Thought it was complete nonsense. Haven’t come around on it yet.
I hit the Don‘t Like button just accidentally, sorry for that. I made it undone anyway. 😉
A mixed bag; the first track is mindless and horrific noise, but the second is actually trying to be music, and even succeeded on the whole. Now that fact alone hardly saves this abysmal album, but it's nice to know they could produce something tolerable if they really tried to.
So because of this dichotomy I could neither like nor dislike this reaction, which is the best reaction I've ever given this band. 😆
Maybe you would like the second album better, but I think you are definitely a 70's rock guy, so no.
@@Alix777. yeah that's largely true, though I do like some punk and new wave bands. But nothing this extreme.
@@pentagrammaton6793 They are an extreme band, this is true 😅
Track 1.Ungainly discordant plop.
Track 2. Largely a 2nd rate Cure rip off...
Simply awful. All in all, this's been one bleak, bleak, Sunday.
This album was recorded before the cure were even a thing. Try again. Try harder. 🙄
@@seandrew7837 You beat me to it!!!
The Cure are no where close in terms
of creativity and musicality…
@@Katehowe3010 I hope Justin avoids doing any more albums from this lot...there is Heep and Gong to hear!
@@Katehowe3010 It sometimes seems that way... For every spritz of the good stuff, just around the corner there's a veritable deluge of crud.
@@seandrew7837 Haha, my old memories not what it was... But re the apparent similarity, The Cures ditty had a hell of a lot more élan.