Aderic I agree. Especially since Devo was the rebels of the 80s like Nirvana was the rebels of the 90s. (Music-wise). Still love both bands and what they've given us. Wouldn't mind if someone mashed both versions of this. Would be tough, but it would be fun at the same time.
I think a lot of people tend to forget that Devo was ACTUALLY one of the most brilliant bands when it came to criticizing society, culture, and government. So many punks love Devo cause of it.
+mraaronhd Well, Devo's early stuff really was punk, so that's totally appropriate. Devolution is real, I tell ya, and they've been here all the time trying to tell us about it.
@@coryanthony5134 Yeah hindsight allows Cobain look back and add distortion . It's really not better at all it's a grittier version of an exact copy. He should have changed up the tune a bit to make it his own, like DEVO did with their cover of the Rolling Stones classic Satisfaction.
Kurt has a famous-ish quote about DEVO: I'm paraphrasing Kurt: "... of all the underground bands that made it [famous/hit song[s]] DEVO were the most subversive." Subversive, indeed. Kurt understood that. Many music critics at the time, didn't get that about DEVO.
10+ for me, thered be no chance for me to figure out back then, no internet and its a freakin b side from a single. I just see some name that i dont know i would've assume its a friend that co wrote this song.
When I enjoyed this in 1980, listening to the 45 over and over while playing DnD, I never imaged people would still listen to it years into the future. It's my favorite Devo tune.
Dexenation Gracey go check out interviews, especially around the In Utero tour and before its release. They were huge into New Wave and had the idea of turning Nirvana into a New Wave band. In Utero was their step into transitioning into more poppy music.
Not really "new wave" though in the sense of what new wave music from the 80s actually sounded like. I think they just liked the way the term looked/sounded in brackets at the end of the word Polly.
I know most of insecticide is covers. So I knew nirvanas version of this song was a cover. I just assumed it was a vaselines song but now discovering it’s a Devo song, the words make so much sense. I love nirvana and Kurt so much and I love Kurt’s cover of this song but I must say this original turn around from devo wins.
Let them think what they like, people like us know different. Devo are, and will always be a massive influence on many bands to come. 'Duty now for the future'
It's nice you came back to say that and it's true what you say about 'satisfaction' but i think Nirvana did a great drum/guitar pounding version of 'turnaround' Just be happy in the notion that cool bands love the music that Devo deliver, and want other people to know about it. I'm pretty sure Devo are proud of the fact.
I've been enjoying the Nirvana track for the better part of 15 years now and only recently discovered it was a Devo track... Wow, I'm slow. Great video work here, though, Thanks!
Really good, never heard this or even knew that Nirvana covered it! Was never a really big fan, more my brother :-) In finding out the lyrics though I found this version, and I like it as well! The lyrics are great though and, considering Cobain covered it; it shows his philosophical inclinations in an endearing light. Though his glass half empty sort of approach always leaves me with a very sad feeling, for his sake.
Had no idea Nirvanas version is a cover! They're both awesome took me over 10 years to discover this original :/ sorry Devo I remember my parents playing this when I was a lot younger, great song
I listened to this single constantly when it came out, this song even more than Whip It. I always wanted to cover it, but it sounds like it’s been done already
Well, if Devo's label change their minds about their policy regarding content ID matches, you can always use audioswap before they pull the video. Just not 009 Sound System, please.
I searched for this track for years after hearing the Nirvana version. Could never find it because it's a B-side, not on an album. Great video work; if you hadn't said anything, I would have assumed this was the official video.
Punk evolved and mutated into many different forms eventually became hardcore rave, yet looking at the mostly sanitised corporate run society we live in today it is as if it never happened.
I didn't grow up with much of it... I remember seeing Pee Wee's big adventure when I was six or something, and that left a big impression. Large Marge scared the ever-loving snot out of me...
If you missed the description info, Devo's original version was on the b-side of their 7" single 'Whip It' released in 1980. Nirvana loved doing covers, you'd be surprised how many they did, AND of which are available on official, and unofficial releases..
This song showed me that the revolting talked about might be desire of writing something unique or new and desire increases when reading something like this but I shouldn't want to step away from what holds me close to other people which is an alike mind. There are only so many feelings and so many combinations of them being good or bad in "x" context from my pov, so pretty much all has been said because there have been billions of thinkers, and everyone is influencing everyone so the dream synopsis police force and the silent police force and the protalking dialogue education making a change police force are all talking even though they don't want to, when they are all arguing what they're really doing is influencing each other very peacefully with gifts, as they debate endlessly and feel enraged sometimes, the gifts of sending your influences to others, the gift of spitting off the edge of the world is unstoppable. So yeah, when we get this ugly feeling of human vanity or whatever philosophical cynicism related to art expression and diffusion it's a way of not letting go of an immature as in the realization of today's world is similar to yesterday's so we always need art (when we fail to see this realization) and think yesterday's was eternal and there's no need for more or to keep consuming, we forget that we aren't only telling the same exact story, we're telling the same story but more sophisticated if we do it right, because if done right, our art has travelled a lot of history, because it stands on the last pillar lifted by the last great movement or the last waking conscious state of an era: sci fi literature, videogames, films, technology mixed art as in the digital or virtual technology. But we're not that special or important that it's the last frontier, this frontier will pass so it's good to keep writing and expressing, we are just doing what I like to do: time capsule of letters so our children and grandsons and daughters can have the pleasure of writing stories, like I am having pleasure writing this text of story/essay/whatever the heck this is. Writing and reading is one of the greatest gifts of life, only a blinded man by the desire of wanting to see it all, has the urge to be there in the final days, final countdown, Armageddon, apocalipse, our final rescue, or final countdown, whatever you want to call it. That's why I don't really like the second testament. Either I'm not ready for that truth because I get worked up and start trying to visualize and theorize and predict wrecklessly or I directly think it's sorta bad writing because I really don't know how to read it or what to do with it as in what influences to take from it for my life. I better just ignore it,, and probably all scriptures and ideas about the end of times. The only one I'll listen to is scientist's when they talk about the sun's lifetime and how and approximately when it will explode. 2:17 939
I grew up with the nirvana version and i love it so much but i like this better. Theres something about it. So its time. Im sure its why kurt loved it.
Yeah most of the comments here on the other pages have been about which is the better version. I have no preference myself as I think both bands are cool. Devo's original version was of it's time and is very much the Devo sound. Nirvana's version is a great tribute and rocks out the song good and proper, as you would expect from them. I made a video for the Nirvana version which you can see by clicking were it says 'This is a video response to Nirvana - Turnaround' underneath this Devo video.
Yo me acabo de enterar hoy de que ésta canción es de DEVO, hasta ahora había pensado que era de NIRVANA sin saber que era una versión, y la verdad es que me ha gustado bastante la original, y después de escucharla me he dado cuenta de que NIRVANA la versionearon muy bien llevándola a su terreno .
Thanks to rp61wasinnocentok for sharing. I used to play this B-side wonder at the local pizza joint when I was around 15. Better than 'Whip it', I always thought. Devo rocks!
Anybody watching this who is not BOTH a fan of Nirvana as well as Devo doesn't get the point of this song, or understand what punk rock is about... ;-)
Thank you. Devo was so punk rock, they came across as geeks. But their entire catalog is one big finger in the eye of the mainstream, jock culture of America that punk rock/alt culture (at the time, not the weak-ass "Hot Topic" version foisted on today's youth market) also intended to destroy. Having had the pleasure of seeing both the original Devo lineup (December 1982) and Nirvana (June 1991), I can honestly say that Devo changed my life much more...to the point I could actually appreciate Nirvana when they came along (though not at first; too much of a Melvins ripoff/wannabees for me).
![Devo - Gates of Steel (Live on Fridays 1980) [HQ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/PBoj-JzQDnc/mqdefault.jpg)
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I never knew Nirvana's version was a cover. I like both versions!
Aderic I agree. Especially since Devo was the rebels of the 80s like Nirvana was the rebels of the 90s. (Music-wise). Still love both bands and what they've given us.
Wouldn't mind if someone mashed both versions of this. Would be tough, but it would be fun at the same time.
Me either
I hate this comment, just really lame.
@@SYCHO-DELIC How lame is it?
Me too. But Kurt wasn't smart enough to write lyrics like this.
I think a lot of people tend to forget that Devo was ACTUALLY one of the most brilliant bands when it came to criticizing society, culture, and government. So many punks love Devo cause of it.
+mraaronhd Well, Devo's early stuff really was punk, so that's totally appropriate.
Devolution is real, I tell ya, and they've been here all the time trying to tell us about it.
+mraaronhd Devo were all I ever wanted from the internet before the internet even existed.
+Dorelaxen devolution is a choice
don't consent
people still arguing to this day whether or not Devo was 'punk', SMH (O_o)
As a "punk" i like devo for the music.
Never knew this was actually Devo’s song. I can definitely see why Kurt liked it decided to cover it!
@Jay Sharp No one will ever read this lol
@@comisariavecinal4c944 wrong again... for at least the fifth time.
I didn't know that it was covered by Nirvana... just think, how fortunate I am to be able to experience an interpretation of a masterpiece by a master
@@billmcginley you can find it off Incesticide, just a straight up pop/punk version but still cool!
I might not have listened to this song twice if Nirvana hadn't covered it.
Like Hod THIS
thankful for both versions
so fucking good
Like Hod kurts version was way better lol
Me too
@@coryanthony5134 Yeah hindsight allows Cobain look back and add distortion .
It's really not better at all it's a grittier version of an exact copy.
He should have changed up the tune a bit to make it his own, like DEVO did with their cover of the Rolling Stones classic
Satisfaction.
nirvana verison is disgusting
I finally understand the message of this song.
I didn’t realize Devo were so existential and sarcastic.
@Todd Smith Listen! What do you think DEVO is about? Check out their catalog - you won't regret it! Cheers!!
I knew from the start, that's why I loved them!
Kurt has a famous-ish quote about DEVO: I'm paraphrasing Kurt: "... of all the underground bands that made it [famous/hit song[s]] DEVO were the most subversive." Subversive, indeed. Kurt understood that. Many music critics at the time, didn't get that about DEVO.
What is the message?
When I first heard the nirvana version I knew the message immediately and it was pretty scary.
took me over 10 years to discover this original :/ sorry Devo
+talkshowhost85 lol my case was 20... not "discover" but knowing it was Devo's
I remember in81was15im52now still love ☺️
10+ for me, thered be no chance for me to figure out back then, no internet and its a freakin b side from a single. I just see some name that i dont know i would've assume its a friend that co wrote this song.
When I enjoyed this in 1980, listening to the 45 over and over while playing DnD, I never imaged people would still listen to it years into the future. It's my favorite Devo tune.
kurt new a good song when he heard one.
wish he actually wrote any good songs too
@@TotalFuckingHateLithium, Serve the Servants, All apologies, In Bloom, Drain You, Smells Like Teen Spirit, On a Plain… Hello?
Never thought Nirvana were New wave fans, interesting song for them to cover
they had a song called Nobody knows I'm new wave
Dexenation Gracey go check out interviews, especially around the In Utero tour and before its release. They were huge into New Wave and had the idea of turning Nirvana into a New Wave band. In Utero was their step into transitioning into more poppy music.
Dexenation Gracey Kurt listened to everything. He probably just liked the lyrics of the song and thought he could take it a step further.
welllll... they did make a version of New Wave version of Polly
Not really "new wave" though in the sense of what new wave music from the 80s actually sounded like. I think they just liked the way the term looked/sounded in brackets at the end of the word Polly.
What a great song. I had not heard this in years and grateful to find it.
Both the DEVO and NIRVANA versions are incredible
Nirvana's cover of this song is as amazing as Devo's cover of The Rolling Stone's 'Satisfaction'.
Devo gave another dimention of that song. They make another think which si amazing
I love Devo and Nirvana so much.
De-volution
50 years of Devo 🖤
This is Treasure to Nirvana fans :-)
Devo made the best videos of all time. This video shows clips from most of their vid's.
You are the only one who agrees with me!
DEVO IS PUNK!
Devo was awesome.. nirvana did a great cover of turnaround from devo.
I know most of insecticide is covers. So I knew nirvanas version of this song was a cover. I just assumed it was a vaselines song but now discovering it’s a Devo song, the words make so much sense. I love nirvana and Kurt so much and I love Kurt’s cover of this song but I must say this original turn around from devo wins.
I remember my parents playing this when I was a lot younger, great song
Let them think what they like, people like us know different. Devo are, and will always be a massive influence on many bands to come.
'Duty now for the future'
Has a bit of a "Turning Japanese" vibe with that main riff, doesn't it?
It's nice you came back to say that and it's true what you say about 'satisfaction' but i think Nirvana did a great drum/guitar pounding version of 'turnaround' Just be happy in the notion that cool bands love the music that Devo deliver, and want other people to know about it. I'm pretty sure Devo are proud of the fact.
Nice video. I like both this version and Nirvana's.
Took me more than 30 years to find out this excisted... He changed absolutly nothing, except for the sound... I was quite stunned....
DEVO ROCK !
Had no idea Nirvanas version is a cover! They're both awesome
Awesome song & artist my favorite band true pioneers of Punk, Synth & New Wave Scene of the late 70's & early 80's! :)
I've been enjoying the Nirvana track for the better part of 15 years now and only recently discovered it was a Devo track... Wow, I'm slow. Great video work here, though, Thanks!
This makes me appreciate the Nirvana version more, but this is still good to hear.
What an awesome B-Side!
Finally all these years knowing the cover and hearing this and it's wonderful.
2020:
Take a step outside the country
Then you turn around
Take a look at where you are
...Revolting, indeed.
omg i never even knew the nirvana version was a cover!!
I love both versions of this song X X
hahah what a shock to find out nirvana covered this
Really great job at editing. Very funny and appropriate images.
Plus, it's one of Devo's best and underrated songs.
I agree
Oh what a video!
Really good, never heard this or even knew that Nirvana covered it! Was never a really big fan, more my brother :-)
In finding out the lyrics though I found this version, and I like it as well!
The lyrics are great though and, considering Cobain covered it; it shows his philosophical inclinations in an endearing light.
Though his glass half empty sort of approach always leaves me with a very sad feeling, for his sake.
I love Devo, and I love Nirvana. How could you not?
This was put together by myself.
It's made up from all of Devo's videos, give or take a few.
There is no official video for this track.
You did a really good job. I'm enjoying your video compilation
Brilliant job. Thank you .
Had no idea Nirvanas version is a cover! They're both awesome
took me over 10 years to discover this original :/ sorry Devo
I remember my parents playing this when I was a lot younger, great song
Great video-essence of Devo !
Nirvana made this song sound like a Sonic Youth song...
a very good b side by devo.
Yeah it is !
I listened to this single constantly when it came out, this song even more than Whip It. I always wanted to cover it, but it sounds like it’s been done already
I dig this just as much as Nirvana's cover of it. I do prefer the Nirvana distortionalized version more though. :)
Devo was ahead of their time.
fantastic montage!
In my Nirvana playlist with their cover. Thanks for the upload!
Well, if Devo's label change their minds about their policy regarding content ID matches, you can always use audioswap before they pull the video. Just not 009 Sound System, please.
Always loved this song, along with Find Out and Dr. Detroit which were never on records.
Bought the Whip It 45 when I was 13 in late 1980 and this was the b side I got hooked on, actually I wore it out.
All devolved yetis should meditate on this video. High bulldada content alert! Carry on, spuds.
I like Nirvanas version better, but I'm glad this exists, so that cover can exist
the best from Devo's music videos, aresome
Well, Nirvana and Devo both have punk rock influences. This does not surprise me. lol
80's imagery is creepy...
God I love this stuff...
Fun fact.... This was the side B of "Whip It". So I always knew this was the original version and yes that means I'm old.
Nirvana and his good references 👌
I searched for this track for years after hearing the Nirvana version. Could never find it because it's a B-side, not on an album. Great video work; if you hadn't said anything, I would have assumed this was the official video.
The NASA-themed Eggo Waffle commercial that YT showed me before this was a perfect lead-in for Devo.
Punk means freedom. -Kurt Cobain
Punk evolved and mutated into many different forms eventually became hardcore rave, yet looking at the mostly sanitised corporate run society we live in today it is as if it never happened.
Well done rp61 - excellent video! Duty now.
I didn't grow up with much of it... I remember seeing Pee Wee's big adventure when I was six or something, and that left a big impression. Large Marge scared the ever-loving snot out of me...
Devo was popular back in the 1980s 🎶🙌💃👠😂
I agree I remember in81was15im52now still love this song
I remember in81was15im52now still love this group,hadn't heard this in years ☺️
Wtf?? I had no idea Nirvana's version was a cover! No wonder it seemed kinda out of their style. I always thought it was a little different
If you missed the description info, Devo's original version was on the b-side of their 7" single 'Whip It' released in 1980. Nirvana loved doing covers, you'd be surprised how many they did, AND of which are available on official, and unofficial releases..
@@rp61productionsyeah Nirvana did some inspired covers 😊
Damn they might be really freaking 80's, but this video is sooo reminds me of the 90's.
Thanks, I'm going to check it out now if I can find it on youtube.
This just feels like one big acid trip
HAHAHAHAHAH Devo is de father of nerd music? lol holy dung! It's amazing.
IT IS AMAZING! TAKE A GOOD LOOK!!!
Decades later and those lyrics still fitting as glove
This song showed me that the revolting talked about might be desire of writing something unique or new and desire increases when reading something like this but I shouldn't want to step away from what holds me close to other people which is an alike mind. There are only so many feelings and so many combinations of them being good or bad in "x" context from my pov, so pretty much all has been said because there have been billions of thinkers, and everyone is influencing everyone so the dream synopsis police force and the silent police force and the protalking dialogue education making a change police force are all talking even though they don't want to, when they are all arguing what they're really doing is influencing each other very peacefully with gifts, as they debate endlessly and feel enraged sometimes, the gifts of sending your influences to others, the gift of spitting off the edge of the world is unstoppable. So yeah, when we get this ugly feeling of human vanity or whatever philosophical cynicism related to art expression and diffusion it's a way of not letting go of an immature as in the realization of today's world is similar to yesterday's so we always need art (when we fail to see this realization) and think yesterday's was eternal and there's no need for more or to keep consuming, we forget that we aren't only telling the same exact story, we're telling the same story but more sophisticated if we do it right, because if done right, our art has travelled a lot of history, because it stands on the last pillar lifted by the last great movement or the last waking conscious state of an era: sci fi literature, videogames, films, technology mixed art as in the digital or virtual technology. But we're not that special or important that it's the last frontier, this frontier will pass so it's good to keep writing and expressing, we are just doing what I like to do: time capsule of letters so our children and grandsons and daughters can have the pleasure of writing stories, like I am having pleasure writing this text of story/essay/whatever the heck this is. Writing and reading is one of the greatest gifts of life, only a blinded man by the desire of wanting to see it all, has the urge to be there in the final days, final countdown, Armageddon, apocalipse, our final rescue, or final countdown, whatever you want to call it. That's why I don't really like the second testament. Either I'm not ready for that truth because I get worked up and start trying to visualize and theorize and predict wrecklessly or I directly think it's sorta bad writing because I really don't know how to read it or what to do with it as in what influences to take from it for my life. I better just ignore it,, and probably all scriptures and ideas about the end of times. The only one I'll listen to is scientist's when they talk about the sun's lifetime and how and approximately when it will explode.
2:17
939
It probably took u like 10 minutes to write
In a sense, David Byrne wrote a Nirvana song
brilliant !
THISSS SOOOO COOOL
I grew up with the nirvana version and i love it so much but i like this better. Theres something about it. So its time. Im sure its why kurt loved it.
I totally agree, i just came from listening to Blockhead for the first time and it's one of their best
Nirvana defbrought me here while everybody else only knows "Whip It"
God bless you!
Awesome!!!!!
Yeah most of the comments here on the other pages have been about which is the better version. I have no preference myself as I think both bands are cool. Devo's original version was of it's time and is very much the Devo sound. Nirvana's version is a great tribute and rocks out the song good and proper, as you would expect from them.
I made a video for the Nirvana version which you can see by clicking were it says 'This is a video response to Nirvana - Turnaround' underneath this Devo video.
Great work
This is good. I like this.
Great video
Well done!
NEW WAVE YAY
nirvana do a pretty good cover of this
Cool video!
You got it, Hugh!
innovative... visionary.. original as original bike company
i gotta say
devo owns
but nirvana did a pretty good cover
Nirvana were awesome at covers.
Ouvir essa música nos dias de hoje é bizarro
Kinda sounds like that one song in a video game. I forgot what videogame. Anyone knows what video game I'm talking about?
Never mind it's Sonic Battle Title Menu Theme. Carry on.
Yo me acabo de enterar hoy de que ésta canción es de DEVO, hasta ahora había pensado que era de NIRVANA sin saber que era una versión, y la verdad es que me ha gustado bastante la original, y después de escucharla me he dado cuenta de que NIRVANA la versionearon muy bien llevándola a su terreno .
HA! I've never heard this, but i knew all the words.
Devo spelled backwards spells Oved. Coincidence? I think not.
What are you implying? That "sentence" made no sense.
Devo is for Devolution!
Maybe he was drunk like me!
Listen B-sides of Post Punk bands
Thanks to rp61wasinnocentok for sharing. I used to play this B-side wonder at the local pizza joint when I was around 15. Better than 'Whip it', I always thought. Devo rocks!
Anybody watching this who is not BOTH a fan of Nirvana as well as Devo doesn't get the point of this song, or understand what punk rock is about... ;-)
Thank you. Devo was so punk rock, they came across as geeks. But their entire catalog is one big finger in the eye of the mainstream, jock culture of America that punk rock/alt culture (at the time, not the weak-ass "Hot Topic" version foisted on today's youth market) also intended to destroy. Having had the pleasure of seeing both the original Devo lineup (December 1982) and Nirvana (June 1991), I can honestly say that Devo changed my life much more...to the point I could actually appreciate Nirvana when they came along (though not at first; too much of a Melvins ripoff/wannabees for me).