DEVO Freedom Of Choice (Official Music Video)

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  • Опубликовано: 16 янв 2025

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  • @SoulSleepOfficial
    @SoulSleepOfficial 2 месяца назад +68

    Who here after the outcome of the election in 2024? This song speaks..

    • @DeltaKT
      @DeltaKT Месяц назад +7

      Pinned, epic.

    • @Scarletpimpanel73
      @Scarletpimpanel73 Месяц назад +7

      Down right prophetic.

    • @ToniaGlitched
      @ToniaGlitched Месяц назад +2

      @@capbubba I don't think that's what the song is supposed to mean... that's not even the right quote

    • @clocksurfer
      @clocksurfer Месяц назад

      Yep.

    • @johnturtle6649
      @johnturtle6649 Месяц назад

      @@ToniaGlitched I agree. Lots of people use old things with topical meanings without understanding or even being born then. As propaganda.

  • @patdthomas
    @patdthomas 6 лет назад +195

    Skateboards, donuts and Romans. Only Devo could pull this off.

    • @johnjeffery6638
      @johnjeffery6638 8 месяцев назад +10

      Well it was 1979...

    • @roel.vinckens
      @roel.vinckens 4 месяца назад +4

      Just another great Tuesday back in the day.

    • @lazlokovacs2263
      @lazlokovacs2263 2 месяца назад +2

      Shopping centers with Roman columns and fountains with acrylic flamingos. Overlapping images of Greco-Roman busts, palm trees, lilac-colored kitchens on beaches at sunset. Before this became reality, Devo was already real.

    • @adamjg4
      @adamjg4 Месяц назад +2

      ...and weird masks with swimming goggles too.

  • @jebidiahmorales227
    @jebidiahmorales227 3 года назад +31

    Freedom of choice is what you got.
    Freedom from choice is what you want...

    • @larrymaxwell8565
      @larrymaxwell8565 4 месяца назад +3

      From the mother ship devo ,beam me up!

  • @chrispydrummer
    @chrispydrummer 10 месяцев назад +29

    that extra 8th note in the intro always throws me off. Like they started on the and of 4 when recording. Brilliant.

  • @CoreyGallant-h7x
    @CoreyGallant-h7x 9 месяцев назад +93

    We need this on every tv in America

    • @JohnLRice
      @JohnLRice 8 месяцев назад +8

      Agreed, unfortunately most people have short attention spans and will switch channels before the end of the song and miss the really important part. 🤦‍♂

    • @djn48
      @djn48 4 месяца назад +3

      We need this on every TV in every English-speaking country. Then we need it translated into other languages and played on their TVs as well.

    • @onomehtenialb
      @onomehtenialb 2 месяца назад +1

      Im trying hard now.. Every 3rd night I post it on Twitter

    • @jeremyyoung4415
      @jeremyyoung4415 2 месяца назад

      Im guessen that's where we got tricked.

    • @DonnaBarrHerself
      @DonnaBarrHerself 13 дней назад

      ​@@jeremyyoung4415We didn't.

  • @gornhorror
    @gornhorror 12 лет назад +412

    at least 50 years ahead of their time. There is a very special place for Devo in music history. Very unique.

    • @rebeccawalter645
      @rebeccawalter645 2 года назад +1

      Can you say more about DEVO being 50 years ahead of their time? What do you mean?

    • @mjt1517
      @mjt1517 2 года назад +18

      @@rebeccawalter645 devolution, man...we're devolving as time goes on.

    • @bryanprince5276
      @bryanprince5276 2 года назад +1

      Wouldn't That Mean. In A Way That is.. THAT This SONG Came out In "73" ??? Which it didn't...

    • @DJAlgorhythms
      @DJAlgorhythms Год назад +6

      It’s “devolved” gracefully.

    • @something2061
      @something2061 Год назад +6

      @@bryanprince5276 No, they mean that they're still ahead of their time

  • @FeonaLeeJones
    @FeonaLeeJones 3 года назад +1171

    This song is super relevant right now...."This is often misinterpreted as a song celebrating personal freedom. It is actually a commentary on how people really want choices made for them. The song's statement is made in the last chorus, "Freedom of choice is what you've got, freedom from choice is what you want."

    • @Rhythmattica
      @Rhythmattica 3 года назад +52

      Thank you.,.. This isn't a political song, it should be seen as thought provoking.... But alas, someone will tie it to some political party or situation out of anyones personal scope.

    • @Positive_Pronouns
      @Positive_Pronouns 2 года назад +27

      Thanks for the insight, Vladimir Putin would be proud.

    • @jonoedwards4195
      @jonoedwards4195 2 года назад +2

      Ahahahhaa!

    • @johnnycjnr
      @johnnycjnr 2 года назад +40

      People don't want and can't think for themselves

    • @blue23song31
      @blue23song31 2 года назад +17

      Said every dictator in the history of the world. Good grief..🤦‍♂️

  • @josephshinko3725
    @josephshinko3725 10 месяцев назад +76

    This song, album and video stoked me even more because I skateboard.
    Still skating at 58.

    • @hazelrah321
      @hazelrah321 5 месяцев назад +7

      I'm 58, never skated, love DEVO!❤

    • @chrhadden
      @chrhadden 5 месяцев назад +7

      same here. 50 been a skater since 85 and I AINT NEVER GOING TO STOP! 215 Philadelphia Pa

    • @damianb2374
      @damianb2374 3 месяца назад +2

      the canyon jump (was that the term?) in the keyhole bowl was year zero for me. Had heard they did it but to see it in a video of a great band: no way. Insane.

    • @chrhadden
      @chrhadden 3 месяца назад

      @@damianb2374 i would call it a channel but close enough. im saying even now i would be hype if i saw them do that. it was dope

    • @chrhadden
      @chrhadden 3 месяца назад

      ruclips.net/video/BoSWUo0OKzg/видео.htmlsi=5pH3nSfZp8Fq20kL i skate too 50yrs old

  • @jamesgallagher3317
    @jamesgallagher3317 5 лет назад +14

    Bring back the 80’s

  • @bdg77
    @bdg77 8 месяцев назад +113

    Why did it take me 40 years to realize how cool Devo was/is.

    • @imfallibleK
      @imfallibleK 7 месяцев назад +15

      Who cares so long as you finally made it. Hooray!

    • @blogobre
      @blogobre 7 месяцев назад +12

      I think Devo made weirdness cool. Glad you finally realized you weren't normal.

    • @Greenmile.
      @Greenmile. 6 месяцев назад +9

      So you're late to the party. The good news is that you can still catch a Devo concert if you want to and they still give quality performances.

    • @retrodemon263
      @retrodemon263 6 месяцев назад +10

      It’s ok Spud! We’re all DE-VO!

    • @Booklook111
      @Booklook111 5 месяцев назад +3

      You made it to the party! 🎉 🥳

  • @WinslowLeach1974
    @WinslowLeach1974 3 года назад +262

    DEVO is one of those very rare bands where you can let loose and just enjoy the beat and the melody, or you can decide to look a little deeper and be amazed at what you uncover. We're all DEVO.

    • @erossinema8797
      @erossinema8797 2 года назад +6

      I always preferred to look a little deeper, which is why disco often got on my nerves. I looked deeper and it was so insipid.

    • @julz404
      @julz404 2 года назад +5

      You could literally say this about any band ever

    • @WinslowLeach1974
      @WinslowLeach1974 2 года назад +4

      @@erossinema8797 I think there's a small handful of good disco groups, but I generally agree, that's pretty much a big reason why there was that huge backlash in the late 70s/early 80s, labels flooding the market with countless generic empty-calorie disco groups.

    • @simonelwell9148
      @simonelwell9148 Год назад +3

      Only those of us sensibly silly ..... and appreciative of a catchy beat !

    • @terryprater8115
      @terryprater8115 Год назад +3

      @@julz404 Not really. The lyrics of many bands' songs mean nothing. I'm not saying that that is a bad thing. Most people love a song with a great beat and a feel-good riff & chord progression. You could throw any word salad in there and many people would still love it. However, I personally like a song better if it has a meaning of some kind.

  • @BrianWolters2112
    @BrianWolters2112 3 года назад +71

    How relevant is "Freedom of Choice, is what you got...Freedom FROM Choice, is what you want?" That speaks!

    • @HotRod12667
      @HotRod12667 3 месяца назад +3

      Explains the love affair some people have with totalitarian government. Some people just don't want freedom. (shrugs)

    • @72hermit
      @72hermit 3 месяца назад +2

      Relevant for ANY election year!

    • @Nick-f9z2c
      @Nick-f9z2c 2 месяца назад +2

      2024 election year
      What do you want...

  • @lauriediandrea715
    @lauriediandrea715 3 месяца назад +16

    Devo was definitely ahead of their time. Nerdy geniuses, not just songs, the videos as well.

  • @rundoetx
    @rundoetx Год назад +85

    Devo for the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame!

    • @josejones7025
      @josejones7025 6 месяцев назад +8

      They should be in the Hall of Fame

    • @brians736
      @brians736 5 месяцев назад +6

      I had been saying that for years, but now my own selfish desire is to see them NOT be inducted. The Rock HOF has become an absolute joke, and it is no longer deserving of Devo's inclusion.

    • @larrymaxwell8565
      @larrymaxwell8565 4 месяца назад +1

      They are the hall of fame come on rock!😊

    • @darinsmith4414
      @darinsmith4414 4 месяца назад +2

      @@brians736 Hi, it's Sad but it was Proven* when they Inducted Radiohead and the Cure BERORE Devo and Kraftwerk Who Laid the Foundation for both of those bands and Many Others*-Insulting***. Thanks

    • @calvalita
      @calvalita Месяц назад +1

      Absolutely qualified for the fame company of creatives

  • @morganmachen
    @morganmachen 6 месяцев назад +25

    Did we not have the coolest youth culture ever?!!

  • @ZulcanPrime
    @ZulcanPrime 9 лет назад +224

    I can tell that I am getting old when I remember watching this on tv during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Devo were a big hit with fans down under. And I am one of those fans.

    • @nonyabiznessses102
      @nonyabiznessses102 5 лет назад +7

      The Cutting Edge always came from unexpected places. Be proud.

    • @unstoppableExodia
      @unstoppableExodia 5 лет назад +2

      I sometimes wish I had been born ten years earlier. If I had I'd have been able to exploit soft cannabis cultivation laws during the nineties that meant a person could grow up to 10 plants without going to court if caught.

    • @shawnhapney8784
      @shawnhapney8784 4 года назад +4

      Cheers from Northeast Ohio, USA Sir!

    • @demelza32
      @demelza32 3 года назад

      What Australia is losing, "freedom of choice" in 2021!

    • @erossinema8797
      @erossinema8797 2 года назад +1

      After their huge hit in the USA , "Whip-IT" there was no stoppin them. I did not know who they were before that. They were way ahead of their time

  • @aspjake123
    @aspjake123 2 года назад +24

    Song is very applicable to today's time! Don't be a sheeple, go out and make your choice instead of someone else doing it for you.

  • @cyb3rDracul
    @cyb3rDracul 5 лет назад +302

    A victim of collision on the open sea
    Nobody ever said that life was free
    Sank, swam, go down with the ship
    But use your freedom of choice
    I'll say it again in the land of the free
    Use your freedom of choice
    Your freedom of choice
    In ancient Rome
    There was a poem
    About a dog
    Who found two bones
    He picked at one
    He licked the other
    He went in circles
    He dropped dead
    Freedom of choice
    Is what you got
    Freedom of choice!
    Then if you got it you don't want it
    Seems to be the rule of thumb
    Don't be tricked by what you see
    You got two ways to go
    I'll say it again in the land of the free
    Use your freedom of choice
    Freedom of choice
    Freedom of choice
    Is what you got
    Freedom of choice
    In ancient Rome
    There was a poem
    About a dog
    Who found two bones
    He picked at one
    He licked the other
    He went in circles
    He dropped dead
    Freedom of choice
    Is what you got
    Freedom from choice
    Is what you want

  • @KJ-of6lf
    @KJ-of6lf 3 года назад +73

    Freedom of Choice, is what you got
    Freedom from Choice is what you want
    2021: more relevant than ever

    • @XI_Daisy_XI
      @XI_Daisy_XI 3 года назад +2

      Yeah, say it! ✨🍩🍩🍩✨

    • @rogbrogb5341
      @rogbrogb5341 2 года назад +2

      All I need is a half hour of Korporate News.
      Achtung!

    • @JacosJuvenile
      @JacosJuvenile 2 года назад +1

      Deprogam

    • @rogbrogb5341
      @rogbrogb5341 2 года назад +1

      @@RockBrentwood
      The next thing I say will be true.
      The last thing I said was false.
      BZZZZZt!

    • @synthoelectro
      @synthoelectro 2 года назад +3

      people are idiots now, not all, just those who don't care about the choice we once had.

  • @FranktheTank70
    @FranktheTank70 5 лет назад +473

    I've said it once and I'll say it agsin, DEVO are the most underrated band of all time.

    • @tadams1767
      @tadams1767 4 года назад +10

      XTC are the most underrated imo

    • @squirtgun100
      @squirtgun100 4 года назад +5

      Right on! SO underrated! Awesome band!

    • @Hayley23074
      @Hayley23074 4 года назад +4

      Saw them live in Brisbane Aust in 1981. Terrible on stage. Far from being underrated based on what I experienced.

    • @tadams1767
      @tadams1767 4 года назад +1

      Steve Austin Devo or XTC?

    • @squirtgun100
      @squirtgun100 4 года назад +4

      Steve Austin I saw them about seven years ago in Chicago and the crowd never stopped jumping up and down screaming the entire concert! They nailed it! Great show and great energy.

  • @johnbruno3285
    @johnbruno3285 2 месяца назад +16

    My God man. November 12, 2024 and this song is about 40 something years old and still better than the crap they're putting out today.

    • @Alaninbroomfield
      @Alaninbroomfield Месяц назад +2

      What? You don't like the auto-tuned uninspired re-hashed devoid-of-any-creativity garbage of today's music?

  • @omegaseamaster1550
    @omegaseamaster1550 6 лет назад +13

    long live DEVO

  • @Locke350
    @Locke350 3 года назад +51

    “Freedom of Choice is what you got, freedom from choice is what you want.” That’s pretty much the issue for every single conformist out there.

    • @brendangeraghty8865
      @brendangeraghty8865 Месяц назад

      No, he's singing "Freedom from choice is what you got. Freedom of choice, is what you got".

    • @Locke350
      @Locke350 Месяц назад +1

      @ You must be trolling as the lyrics I mentioned were in the *outro* of the song.

  • @markfrancis6508
    @markfrancis6508 6 лет назад +15

    a lot of brave men and women died so you and I can listen to Devo kids.

  • @johnwillis971
    @johnwillis971 29 дней назад +2

    I was 12 years old in 1978 when I discovered DEVO. From SOCAL into metal and punk they always crossed all barriers of the music industry and I was always accepted as a huge DEVO fan. Guiding me as a young student in the de-evolution process my life would never be the same. DEVO FAN FOREVER 🇺🇸

  • @bennyshambles
    @bennyshambles 12 лет назад +66

    Exactly, spot on. That's why in the video the group of young men ride skateboards into a clothing store and march out in matching outfits, proceding to turn all bystanders into clones to join their marching army; they all become homogenized. The song is basically a critique of facism; it speaks to the human desire for and susceptiblity to mass conformity.

  • @japeyelnoc3276
    @japeyelnoc3276 4 месяца назад +12

    Love'em or hate'em, no denying they are unique. Nothing like them before or since. One of my all-time favorite bands!

  • @nolanleblanc
    @nolanleblanc 2 месяца назад +10

    Happy now? Freedom from choice is what you got.

    • @tubian323
      @tubian323 2 месяца назад

      "Democracy basically means government by the people, of the people, for the people, but the people are retarded"-Osho🤣🤣

    • @mattdylan664
      @mattdylan664 2 месяца назад +1

      in what way? Roe V Wade returned Freedom OF Choice to each state, or you hate affordable gas and groceries? the fact Trump didn't involve America in any new wars from 2016-2020 ? the fact that in 2019 under Trump the dollar had the spending power of $1.23 in 2024? maybe you hate the fact he puts Americans and not Ukraine or Israel first? that he made America energy independent for the first time in 40 years? imagine voting for a candidate based on their ability to lead and keep the peace instead of their skin color or gender..madness ! 🤡🤡🤡oh wait are we going to pull the fascist/nazi/everyone i disagree with is a 'racist' nonsense?
      because fact check - it was Democrats who started the KKK , and Joe Biden who eulogized Klansman Robert Byrd in 2011 and the Democratic party who fought to keep slaves as well as who funded the 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, and who in more recent times demanded free citizens of America wear useless face masks and take experimental drugs for a virus with a 99.97 percent survival rate and nearly every liberal marched in lockstep , yet we're the cult? haha right. ps fun fact , the only areas Kamala won in 2024 were those with no voter ID required. gosh i wonder why 15 million democrat voters just decided not to show up this election...couldn't be because they never existed to begin with and the 4 am mail drops on November 6 2020 were fraudulent, nah that would be too logical 🤣

  • @stevelibby6852
    @stevelibby6852 Год назад +27

    This is going to mean something more in 500 years, I bet.

  • @hbcheser5979
    @hbcheser5979 7 лет назад +15

    Most favorite DEVO video of all

  • @rockystelone21
    @rockystelone21 Месяц назад +6

    Who here have this album? Raise your hand

  • @adamjg4
    @adamjg4 Месяц назад +5

    The magnet of conformity is what this song is about.

  • @brianjacobsen5762
    @brianjacobsen5762 6 лет назад +17

    Freedom from choice. These guys knew.

    • @chrhadden
      @chrhadden 5 месяцев назад +3

      thats because there has always been no shortage of sheeple

  • @whosoever9198
    @whosoever9198 3 года назад +44

    Their musicianship and writing ability has been so overlooked.

    • @woodoven
      @woodoven 2 года назад +7

      i pity the fool who overlooks DEVO

    • @ronj9448
      @ronj9448 2 года назад +1

      Even Neil Young lifted from them - for his Rust never sleeps album.

  • @tomparker-s7j
    @tomparker-s7j 5 месяцев назад +6

    this song is relevant today in the political climate

  • @russellsimonds7148
    @russellsimonds7148 3 года назад +11

    It's what you got! .
    Freedom FROM choice is what YOU WANT....
    says volumes

  • @bobbysands6923
    @bobbysands6923 6 лет назад +61

    Only one Devo. No one dared tried to imitate them. Saw them twice. Wow, they were great.

    • @richardkey4289
      @richardkey4289 3 года назад +2

      Soundgarden covered ' girl u want' , they did their own thing to the song, it's cool.

    • @ibmsst
      @ibmsst 3 года назад +1

      I hope to see them one day!

    • @do0ranfrump260
      @do0ranfrump260 3 года назад +7

      Well, Weird Al did do that one song,"dare to be stupid".

    • @rickh3714
      @rickh3714 2 года назад +1

      Shihad. Gates of Steel.

    • @Rocket1377
      @Rocket1377 3 месяца назад

      Weird Al Yankovic did, and he created the perfect Devo song. Dare to be Stupid.

  • @swanstep
    @swanstep 3 года назад +144

    That opening booming metallic pulse is *still* one of the greatest, most unique drum sounds ever. In a way it's surprising that it didn't become as much a feature of later records the way the Phil Collins' gated reverb drum sound from around the same time did.

    • @antagonizingusername
      @antagonizingusername 3 года назад +16

      Probably because they used a fairly obscure and unique synthesizer for it, I recall Mark saying that the drum beat was the only damned thing they were able to get out of it that they considered worthwhile.

    • @jonoedwards4195
      @jonoedwards4195 3 года назад

      @@antagonizingusername Aahahhahah!
      Yank KOOKS, Bet You Rule nohow

    • @garethbaus5471
      @garethbaus5471 2 года назад +1

      @@antagonizingusername with modern technology it would probably be fairly easy to cut out a sample of that one sound, and clean up the audio before reusing it in new songs without having to buy that specific model of synthesizer.

    • @ironmartysharpe8293
      @ironmartysharpe8293 2 года назад +1

      This is definitely a great tune , It should have had the same air time as the tune Whip it

    • @sweeeetteeeeth
      @sweeeetteeeeth 2 года назад

      i feel like i've heard a similar tom sound in some earlier depeche mode songs

  • @jasonrubin9114
    @jasonrubin9114 Год назад +12

    Devo...defies genre categorization... yet was the wellspring for so many music genres.

  • @KRAFTWERK2K6
    @KRAFTWERK2K6 5 месяцев назад +8

    Still VERY playable and relevant. Hasn't aged at all. Speaks for the quality of DEVO's body of work :)

  • @iankearns774
    @iankearns774 2 года назад +11

    Wish we still had freedom of choice. Still fighting for it but so many people I know seem are happy to have their decisions made for them.

  • @camarochild8270
    @camarochild8270 4 года назад +280

    It's 2020 and this video/song is more meaningful than ever...

    • @johncothren603
      @johncothren603 4 года назад +12

      Came here myself for the melodic medication

    • @bojangles2644
      @bojangles2644 4 года назад +9

      Video? You mean the song, yeah I agree. But I’m from the near future and we don’t have much of a choice anymore. Enjoy that quarantine dude. Luls 😉

    • @johncothren603
      @johncothren603 4 года назад +3

      @@bojangles2644not sure if I could if I lived in an urban area, fortunately I live in the Ozark foothills

    • @gregbors8364
      @gregbors8364 4 года назад +13

      We're *all* De-vo

    • @Five_31
      @Five_31 4 года назад +2

      We must think like them 🤖🤖🤖🤖

  • @SeeburgMusic
    @SeeburgMusic 10 лет назад +138

    FREEDOM OF CHOICE: IS WHAT YOU GOT----FREEDOM FROM CHOICE: IS WHAT YOU WANT.

    • @dennistyler8746
      @dennistyler8746 6 лет назад +12

      What the sheepeple want...to be led.

    • @nonyabiznessses102
      @nonyabiznessses102 5 лет назад +5

      @@dennistyler8746 Not precisely. They want someone ELSE to take the blame

    • @herrgrabarske
      @herrgrabarske 5 лет назад +3

      So few who see truth. So many who laugh in ignorance.

    • @davidbowman4259
      @davidbowman4259 5 лет назад +1

      @Art and Music Sod off, you stupid reich-wing bastard. We patriots whipped your sorry treasonous ilk150 years ago and 80 years ago, and we'll do it again. Not just mouth-breathing fascists have guns, you know. If anybody will be destroyed, it will be you.

    • @guyboost7311
      @guyboost7311 5 лет назад +6

      Yes just like today's Democrats
      who corrupt and want to give
      All the money to the
      Iran like the last in the house
      Obummer dud
      Thank GOD he's not there
      Abd we more corruption from
      Nancy Pelosi Maxine Waters
      AOC Illhan
      Drain The Swamp !

  • @DaffydLB
    @DaffydLB 2 месяца назад +7

    I swear this plays in my head nonstop Every election season

  • @terrybo8
    @terrybo8 8 лет назад +99

    this album, this song particularly was all I really needed to understand the world as a kid. bloody genius.

    • @christopherspillman3870
      @christopherspillman3870 10 месяцев назад

      Agreed, they sang about things I had heard growing up in my home and put it in terms I could wrap my young brain around. 🏁

  • @simonkormendy849
    @simonkormendy849 3 года назад +5

    The message conveyed by this song is just as relevant in 2022 as it was when the song was first released.

  • @simonkormendy849
    @simonkormendy849 2 года назад +5

    Devo were right on the money way back then, and they are still right on the money now.

  • @retrodemon263
    @retrodemon263 4 месяца назад +1

    There’s literally nothing cooler than this video.

  • @liketanyanot
    @liketanyanot 3 года назад +14

    No joke: the Febreeze ad before this played literally just said “ This is what freedom looks like. This is what freedom smells like.” This is my second time listening to it in a row. The first time was a maxi pad ad. Do with that what you will.

  • @dougtull4594
    @dougtull4594 6 месяцев назад +7

    One of the handful of bands that changed the face of music.

  • @9999999995914
    @9999999995914 10 лет назад +254

    DEVO WITH NO DOUBT , DOES BELONG IN THE ROCKANDROLL HALL OF FAME , FOR MAKING GREAT VIDEOS LIKE THIS ONE!!!!!

    • @larrywilliams67
      @larrywilliams67 10 лет назад +22

      SO VERY TRUE, I WISH I CAN GET SOME HELP , FROM SOME TRUE BRAVE DEVO FANS OUT THAT WOULD AGREE TOO, YES WE ARE DEVO!

    • @fredmarzino3663
      @fredmarzino3663 10 лет назад +14

      yes they, DEVO do, because DEVO IS THE BEST THERE IS.

    • @ProtoGhostal1701
      @ProtoGhostal1701 10 лет назад +21

      QUICK QUESTION... WHY ARE WE YELLING?

    • @larrywilliams67
      @larrywilliams67 10 лет назад +12

      The Volcano Worshpers Club QUICK ANSWER, BECAUSE, DEVO IS THE BEST!

    • @ProtoGhostal1701
      @ProtoGhostal1701 10 лет назад +15

      Larry Williams YES, BUT I HIGHLY DOUBT THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO YELL. BUT, IF YOU USE YOUR FREEDOM OF CHOICE, I GUESS THAT'S GOOD!

  • @Donati2151233
    @Donati2151233 10 лет назад +262

    Great satirists who saw the future. Freedom fades.

    • @synthmaniacmoog2607
      @synthmaniacmoog2607 5 лет назад +14

      As relevant today as it was then, if not more relevant.

    • @guyboost7311
      @guyboost7311 5 лет назад +9

      Very True Like Today's Democrats
      And The last Fool in The
      House Obummer
      Gives lots of Money To Iran
      Who wants Take Away
      Your Freedom of Choice !

    • @blondearyanmohawkhairdoski9086
      @blondearyanmohawkhairdoski9086 5 лет назад +1

      FREEDOM NEVER FADES ; TENDER HEARTS GET BROKEN...THATS ALL...U KNOW GERALD, MARK, BOB1, BOB2 ALL ALLEGE TO BE SHAKEYS GIRL!?!?! DAMMIT MON, IM WAITING IN LINE...IM ALREADY PREGGO THOUGH...LOL...ROCK N ROLL!

    • @abramtaylor1
      @abramtaylor1 5 лет назад +7

      @@guyboost7311 Okay meathead.

    • @guyboost7311
      @guyboost7311 5 лет назад +5

      @@abramtaylor1 your the meathead
      People of Iran want Freedom
      Presdent John Kennedy is the last
      Of The good Democrats
      Not Today the all work for George Soros
      Who wants Take Away Our
      Freedom of Choice
      Because the c are power hungry
      Look at all the homeless
      in San Francisco under Nancy Pelosi Maxine Waters Feet
      While they live in Mansion
      Shame on Them
      They need to be replaced and locked up in jail
      And Shame on you
      you keep drinking the Kool aid !
      CBS NBC MSNBC ABC PBS and CNN all work for George Soros
      And that is what I call
      Corruption
      You're the meathead
      Because you want
      Freedom From Choice
      It's what you want !

  • @tnimbus
    @tnimbus 2 года назад +29

    All these years being a mad Devo fan (since the 70s) I have never before actually listened to these lyrics properly. Prophetic.

  • @seigfredancay4963
    @seigfredancay4963 5 лет назад +400

    Sci-fi kitsch on the surface, savage sarcasm beneath, devo's Dadaist disco-punk spectacle felt like the missing link between Kraftwerk, the Sex Pistols, and mad magazine.

    • @carlmarks8170
      @carlmarks8170 4 года назад +12

      I feel lucky to have been a 10 year old consumer of this Top 40 pop music
      Devo were an amazing, underrated cultural force!

    • @guyboost7311
      @guyboost7311 4 года назад +4

      DEVO in The Age COV19 Corina Virus Epademic from China !
      Please watch The Video That Fortold about The COV 19 Corrina Virus Epademic from China !
      Jocko Homo DEVO posted by
      Shaw Isreal Iskson
      From The True Pioneers Of Rock and Roll Music Videos
      DEVO is Still Ahead of Their Time
      Duty Now For The Future !

    • @michelleegarrett
      @michelleegarrett 4 года назад +13

      This might be the single best comment on this entire godforsaken website

    • @guyboost7311
      @guyboost7311 4 года назад

      @Michael Garrettruclips.net/video/Bp2tQ75pTD0/видео.html

    • @billmcginley
      @billmcginley 4 года назад +3

      Brian Eno produced at least one of their LP's- can't be bad

  • @mikewatkinson1996
    @mikewatkinson1996 5 лет назад +44

    This might be the most patriotic American music video ever.

    • @AufWiedersehen550
      @AufWiedersehen550 3 года назад +4

      It's actually not, if you get what the song is really about

    • @b00psn00t
      @b00psn00t 3 года назад +2

      The song is about capitalism lol so no

    • @AufWiedersehen550
      @AufWiedersehen550 3 года назад +3

      @@b00psn00t it's making fun of America

  • @ianhills5793
    @ianhills5793 7 лет назад +70

    Devo at their best. True artists with provocative and serious messages for everyone. So good.

  • @gilwood7530
    @gilwood7530 5 лет назад +5

    For 40 years those RAMS headphones crack me up ...I don't know why ...Just very 79 - 80 ...FOOTBALL PHONE from SI

    • @setdrift
      @setdrift 5 лет назад +1

      because if you had them you were cool

  • @markjettner635
    @markjettner635 Год назад +7

    Devos tunes are all very inciteful. Got me jerkin back an forth . Been there done that. Go Devo. Love ya work enjoy ya retirement. From a devotee🤠💪😎😃

  • @davidschlessinger9945
    @davidschlessinger9945 9 лет назад +64

    Devo helped define early 80s MTV. This is my favorite song of theirs

    • @DylanKarbo
      @DylanKarbo 5 лет назад +2

      nonya Biznessses What a wonderful comment.

    • @ThrillingTwo
      @ThrillingTwo 4 года назад +4

      Exactly.. Remember how MTV would use clips from Devo videos in their promo bumpers, especially the "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" video?

  • @mredmundo247
    @mredmundo247 6 лет назад +27

    Love the drums in this track. Perfection

    • @DJAlgorhythms
      @DJAlgorhythms Год назад +1

      I love how the guitar and synth kicks in off beat and stays perfectly in sync.

    • @sicks6six
      @sicks6six Год назад +1

      sounds like rat scabies new rose intro

  • @larrywilliams67
    @larrywilliams67 11 лет назад +55

    FREEDOM OF CHOICE , IS A GREAT CLASSIC ROCK ALBUM !!!!

    • @neithere
      @neithere 6 лет назад +1

      There was also a great jazz funk album by Throbbing Gristle...

    • @hewgrebe4771
      @hewgrebe4771 6 лет назад

      I have that on vinal. Good disc. Freedom of choice is a fun record.

    • @frogman3740
      @frogman3740 6 лет назад

      I have been corrected.
      I learned something!

    • @pa.encema2821
      @pa.encema2821 4 года назад

      better than their debut album, which is also a classic

  • @williambinkley8879
    @williambinkley8879 Месяц назад +2

    My favorite Devo song. I listened to it every day on my Walkman on the way to school.

  • @fultondegois2229
    @fultondegois2229 3 года назад +19

    Relevant in 2021

  • @markpoles2046
    @markpoles2046 10 лет назад +31

    FREEDOM OF CHOICE---DEVO IS THE WISE CHOICE THIS PLANET GOT!

    • @georgelarson8597
      @georgelarson8597 7 лет назад +2

      if anyone could put flowerpots on their heads and make a good fashion statement its devo. this song, and whip it, and that's good are timeless classics. long live the 80s/ long live devo.

    • @Meme_Lor
      @Meme_Lor 4 года назад

      @@georgelarson8597 they're not flower pots

  • @9999999995914
    @9999999995914 9 лет назад +18

    Happy New Year , Great DEVO fans !, and rest in peace to DAVID BOWIE !, DAVID BOWIE called DEVO the future of rock !, GOD speed to DAVID BOWIE !

  • @Ouroboros1958
    @Ouroboros1958 11 лет назад +65

    Thank you, Bob Casale and all the guys in DEVO for being the only band that I grew up listening to that ever saw the world through the same lens that I did. And still do.

  • @LouCarlozo
    @LouCarlozo 5 лет назад +33

    This video is one of the best arguments against the kind of jump-cut, super-slick music videos that dominate the stream-o-verse today. Look what Devo did with cheesy alien makeup, donuts, and ultra deadpan expressions. This video just never ever fails to crack me up--it also has a surreal visual narrative, and the song is unbelievably catchy. I am not man, I am DEVO.

  • @astrolopes
    @astrolopes 6 лет назад +4

    best video ever made really

  • @astrolopes
    @astrolopes 7 лет назад +4

    just gets better and better and better

  • @JamesBaw
    @JamesBaw 9 лет назад +22

    I;m 55 years old now. Wow was I a Spud Head in the early 80's. Still love these guys. That concert I attended in Houston seeing Devo was a super kick !

    • @Dorelaxen
      @Dorelaxen 9 лет назад +6

      +James Baw Just because you gotta grow up doesn't mean you gotta grow old. Stay young and keep on rockin'!

    • @UniteFoundation1
      @UniteFoundation1 8 лет назад +3

      +James Baw YOU BLESSED SOUL!!

  • @scientifico
    @scientifico 6 лет назад +16

    A million miles ahead of their time. They were like the wildmen of old the prophets and the seerers. And here we are fools with choice but wanting to be told what to do. Thank you Devo for keeping me ahead of the curve (as I swim in the shallow pool with idiots)

  • @_Bandit88
    @_Bandit88 5 лет назад +2

    A Perfect Circle.

  • @Gringo_In_Chile
    @Gringo_In_Chile 3 года назад +2

    I'll say it again in the land of the free . . . 🚧
    Freedom of choice
    Is what you got
    Freedom FROM choice 🚫
    Is what you want

  • @mksland3884
    @mksland3884 2 года назад +23

    Totally forgot about this song and now I can’t stop listening to it. It’s like new wave meets rock and roll!

  • @miahsbrokengarage
    @miahsbrokengarage 2 месяца назад +23

    Freedom From Choice is still what America wants in 2024. We're fucked.

    • @muckbringer
      @muckbringer 2 месяца назад

      It was a great victory. Freedom of choice! The Jab really throws you're "my body my choice" in the dirt eh? Just admit it, you have been gas lit.

    • @Nsnsnbdbxn
      @Nsnsnbdbxn 2 месяца назад +1

      @@muckbringerwhat the fuck are you celebrating

    • @tubian323
      @tubian323 2 месяца назад +3

      @@muckbringer So you want a choice for yourself but not for others?

    • @Rocket1377
      @Rocket1377 2 месяца назад +1

      Look up Project 2025. Anyone who is in favour of that doesn't want freedom, they want a dictator who will make their choices for them.

    • @DocJest2012
      @DocJest2012 2 месяца назад

      Only the weak and stupid are "fucked", comrade.

  • @larrycwik1960
    @larrycwik1960 8 лет назад +20

    One of the best songs ever. Thank you Devo.

  • @larrywilliams67
    @larrywilliams67 7 лет назад +2

    HAPPY NEW YEAR ! , 2018 ! , Grate DEVO fans !

  • @perryjacob8850
    @perryjacob8850 7 лет назад +5

    Classic Devo.

  • @monstergod888
    @monstergod888 8 лет назад +13

    Devo has the best music videos of all time!

  • @padistedor
    @padistedor 11 лет назад +10

    I listened to this song 10 times in a row. Best 30 minutes of my day! : )

  • @skipperson4077
    @skipperson4077 6 лет назад +23

    not only is this brilliant skateboarding and a largely unknown Rock Anthem but I especially enjoyed the March Of The Retails Workers at the end....

  • @johnmacinnis1696
    @johnmacinnis1696 2 года назад +4

    Devo rules.

  • @Scott231TSM
    @Scott231TSM 10 лет назад +510

    Skaters include Duane Peters, Tony Alva, Steve Olson, Steve Alba, Stacy Peralta, David Andrecht, Eddie “El Gato” Elguera, and Eric Grisham. Location: Marina Del Rey Skatepark - Marina Del Rey, California
    Year: 1980

    • @fatfreddyscat5173
      @fatfreddyscat5173 6 лет назад +22

      No Shogo Kubo, eh?!? Dayum I'm old. Hehehe. d;^)
      Grandparents didn't have a vacation destination one year and took me from NC to Upland Pipeline when I was 16. Very nice. Got to skate what I saw in "Skateboarder" magazine.

    • @68rbj
      @68rbj 6 лет назад +18

      Scott231TSM
      I had a Steve Olson board w/ Orange Gyros it was a bad ass board as well as my G&S SideCut
      LA in the 80's 🤙🤘👍🖕

    • @stephenfernald2490
      @stephenfernald2490 6 лет назад +15

      Scott231TSM thanks for this info. Been very curious about the skaters and location.

    • @powerstrokedude993
      @powerstrokedude993 6 лет назад +8

      I had the Mickey alba k-beam with tracker trucks and sims green juice wheels. Miss those days. Love this band and always will. Big part of my youth. And of course my favorite skaters back then would be Alan “Ollie” gelfand and of course Bert Lamar who was a very underrated skater. Owns his own golf club and apparel line.

    • @mrxdrno4266
      @mrxdrno4266 6 лет назад +6

      california Gods.......xD

  • @aboveaxis
    @aboveaxis 3 года назад +3

    well well.... here we are

  • @AiMR
    @AiMR 8 лет назад +7

    Devo were prophets.

  • @B-A-L
    @B-A-L 2 месяца назад +2

    DEVO is the only group that every single song on every album is there on its own merit and not just an album filler!

  • @KyleKing-vx4by
    @KyleKing-vx4by 11 месяцев назад +1

    I just LOVE the weird costumes in this video!! GREAT SONG!! I LOVE DEVO👍👍🌟🕺🌹❤️😎😎

  • @saveflatearth-now4490
    @saveflatearth-now4490 9 лет назад +161

    True music pioneers .

    • @borrismelenko7038
      @borrismelenko7038 8 лет назад +15

      AMEN ! and THANK GOD FOR DEVO !

    • @craigculhane4298
      @craigculhane4298 7 лет назад +4

      Borris Melenko devo was ahead of they're Time and nobody will ever see anything like devo again...

    • @Killuminati1blood
      @Killuminati1blood 6 лет назад +1

      Save FLAT Earth - now thats for true -stewie griffin

    • @Dildaphone
      @Dildaphone 3 года назад

      Pioneers that got scalped

    • @tvtitlechampion3238
      @tvtitlechampion3238 3 года назад

      Yeah they were!

  • @larrywilliams67
    @larrywilliams67 11 лет назад +86

    ALERT,ALERT , GREAT DEVO FANS, THE LATE GREAT DRUMMER OF DEVO , ALAN MYERS IS IN THIS CLASSIC VIDEO , AT THE 3:O7 MARK !!!!!! REST IN PEACE ALAN !

  • @jimbjimb414
    @jimbjimb414 5 лет назад +3

    This was the first time I ever saw a video with skateboarders!

  • @stampscapes
    @stampscapes Месяц назад +1

    I never get tired of this vid.

  • @thomasdeas1941
    @thomasdeas1941 5 месяцев назад +2

    Let us all rinse, and then repeat. Freedom of choice. Is what we want. Freedom of choice. Freedom of choice.

  • @IndianSteveo
    @IndianSteveo 11 лет назад +39

    R.I.P. Bob Casale (Bob-2)!

  • @sakusakusakuranyo
    @sakusakusakuranyo 10 лет назад +19

    Devo videos are always great and this song rocks.

  • @carlosaguilar6589
    @carlosaguilar6589 3 года назад +4

    This should be the anthem for right now bring it back

  • @48operations
    @48operations 4 месяца назад +1

    Devo is such a band’s band

  • @Gunnercv
    @Gunnercv 4 года назад +2

    I miss this era a lot

  • @alexc8123
    @alexc8123 3 года назад +3

    Bought this album when I was 10...10 yrs old playing with Legos and listening to DEVO.

  • @ThatsWhenItkickedin
    @ThatsWhenItkickedin 4 года назад +8

    Saw them twice, some best highlights of my life looking back. Wish I could go back in time, they saw the future

  • @ZootSuitWolf
    @ZootSuitWolf 8 лет назад +23

    One of the best parts of this vid was seeing all those cool skateboards from that past. Oh how I miss my Logan Earth Ski with the Bennett Trucks. Missed it so much I bought the Gravity re-issue Logan with some Tracker Trucks. I ride it from time to time busting some DEVO on tape with my old walkman. The only thing missing is the same skill and ability to ride like I did back then.

    • @betomoreno4478
      @betomoreno4478 2 года назад

      The important thing is you're riding bro, same here. This song is a skateboarding hymn