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Devo - Devo Live: The Mongoloid Years Audio CD

A fair review of the Devo "Devo Live: The Mongoloid Years" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Devo reviews here, or go back to the Devo tabs.

Devo Band: Devo
Title: Devo Live: The Mongoloid Years
Rating:
Release Date: 1992-09-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 2: Too Much Paranoias 3: Praying Hands 4: Uncontrollable Urge 5: Mongoloid 6: Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA 7: Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy 8: Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin') 9: Come Back Jonee 10: Clockout 11: Soo Bawlz 12: Space Junk 13: Blockhead 14: Subhuman Woman 15: Bamboo Bimbo 16: Beulah 17: Jocko Homo/I Need a Chick

We were all Mongoloids
How wonderful to be this free from political correctness! How many times has this album used the term mongoloid?.


Archival Release of Early Live Shows
They were a ferocious unsigned live act. When you thought you were safe from Devo, they fire off this compliation of early live shows. This CD shows the development of their songs and concepts. They perform all A list material with an in your face attitude. The tune Beulah was meant to annoy and provoke the audience, which they follow up with a long medly of Jocko Homo/I Need A Chick. They provoke and then follow up with a statement of purpose/Manifesto. These guys had guts!.


IS HE NOT A MAN?!?!?!?!
This album will either excite or enrage you. If your looking for something like whip-it, don't look here. The best part is the concert from 1975, it's like a beautiful train wreck. Hearing the band do an angry version of "Jocko Homo" was the best part and having the audience of stoned hippies almost turn on them was another golden moment.


De-Evolution In Audio
They know how to piss off an audience. Oh, those spudboys. It's pefect for this to be in reverse chronological order, as we see the beginnings of chaos in Devo's famous 1977 performance at Max's Kansas City that sent 'em into the big time. Then we time warp to a show where Devo nearly gets into a fist fight after only a few songs. Poor spuds couldn't figure out what they were listening to!

The last part of the album, however, is the beautiful part. 1974, Devo's first gig. As the audience cowers, Devo verbally rapes them with constant shouts of "Are we not men?" Diving into the wonderfully vulgar "I Need A Chick" they are only stopped when the power is cut. Turning up your volume high-as-it-will-go and you'll hear Mark, Gerry and some of the local spuds almost kill each other.

Oh, yes, indeed. Devo Live: The Mongoloid years is well deserving of 5 stars, even with its tape hiss and 4 track sound. It's a testament to De-evolution.

DUTY NOW FOR THE FUTURE!.


Are we not men?!! Yes, you are!!
It's fuzzy, distant, has annoying crowd noise, and just doesn't hook you in like the squeaky-clean studio version. Ok, I'll say this right away: I hate live music. However, the above two sentances are thrown out the window for this album. This ROCKS in every way.
This was Devo at their earliest, wildest, and most carefree. Long before the "I'm so agitated, I'd cry if you died!" Enigma years and long before "Whip It" forever shot them into the mainstream, the DEVO boys wore panty hose on their heads, pounded out noise on their guitars and synths, pissed off annoyed crowds, and LOVED it.
The CD gets better as it goes along, as each of the three gigs is more hostile than the next. Listen to Mark taunt the audience in the middle of "Praying Hands". It's a riot.
The last half of the album (their first ever live gig, 1975 AD) is worth the price alone. Not giving a flying futz about anything, they assault a whole audience of stoned hippies with noise blasts, intentionally-horrible singing, and the grand finale: a seemingly never-ending version of their anthem "Jocko Homo". Listen closely as the audience just can't answer the simple question: Are we not men? Just as things get out of control (a man gets on stage and threatens to beat the french fries out of the band),they end with the gleeful playground song "I Need A Chick".
Now, listen closer as ever before as a man snaps at Devo to get off the stage. Gerald Casale, always the hothead, snaps right back at him and they almost get into a fistfight, as a female accomplice of Gerry's tries to keep the situation under control. Even a roadie jumps in the fracas, delivering an insanely funny line, which cannot be repeated here.
No doubt, this is THE live album to have and it's nothing like the very happy laid-back "Now It Can Be Told: Devo Live At The Palace", recorded over 10 years later. Browse around the world wide wiggly web, and if you see this masterpiece, grab it up!! And remember, this is a man's CD. . . . no Booji Boys!.


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