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Devo - Shout Audio CD

A fair review of the Devo "Shout" 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: Shout
Rating:
Release Date: 2005-06-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Shout 2: The Satisfied Mind 3: Don't Rescue Me 4: The 4th Dimension 5: C'mon 6: Here To Go 7: Jurisdiction of Love 8: Puppet Boy 9: Please Please 10: Are You Experienced?

An underrated and quirky classic DEVO album!
While Freedom has a few really great songs on it, this album seems more. In some ways, I enjoy these recordings better than DEVO's Freedom of Choice album. . . free-spirited and Fun. DEVO really did seem to twist away the gates of steel on this album and shout to the ninnies and the twits that enough is enough. The songs on here are upbeat, optimistic, zany, and also very danceable. I find my toes tapping throughout a lot of this album. Shout also features a mutated cover of Jimi Hendrix's song, Are You Experienced, and, it is quite awesome.
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Listen up spuds
This album is not one of devo's great ones but it is still devo! I can't realy say a bad word about this band but unfortunately not as inspirational as some others ,like "duty now for the future"! Still a must for hardcore devo fans.


The Truth About the De-evolution of Devo


After the first spin on my turntable, I wanted to shout. I was stationed at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, in 1984, when I first saw this record (now, finally, on CD, for you completists).

Something like "give me my money back!" or such.

If you listen to Devo's 1989 live record "Now It Can Be Told," Mark makes a comment (after an acoustic numer) that the audience might wonder why the band was sitting down. "After 15 years in the music business, it's kind of hard to sit down," he wryly remarked.

And, yet, this album, which has a few catchy tunes -- "The Satisfied Mind," "Here to Go," and their cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Are You Experienced?" -- is mostly *all* filler. The song "Puppet Boy" is simply embarrassing.

This is hard to fathom, given how solid "Oh, No! It's Devo!" was. But, when a band over-relies on synthsizers and computers, this is what invariably happens: Devo managed to devolve within two years the same amount music itself took twenty years to do.

The proof in the pudding that Devo just ran out of ideas is their album "Total Devo," which was four years in the making, but sounded like it was four weeks. "Smooth Noodle Maps" was slightly better, the the fact of the matter is, this latter record had no memorable hits, and "Shout" and "Total Devo" had at least a couple each.

I am pleased to announce, however, to anyone who's seen the Dell Computer (talk about "de-evolution": A Microsoft based computer!) commercial with their new song "Watch Us Work It," knows that Devo can experience flashes of sheer brilliance every so often (the song is an amalgam of "The Super Thing" and "Enough Said"), but for 23 years, they've been unable to muster enough creativity for an entire album.


I Know It Is Bad, But I Still Like It
This is a good example. As a music collector I find bad music can be entertaining like a bad movie. I love the Hendrix cover. I enjoy it 100 times more than the original, but other than that, "Puppet Boy" and "The Fourth Dimension" are the only other songs that I really enjoy. That said "Here To Go", great lyrics, has made me appreciate it since it has been included in all their hits packages, and "Shout" is not bad. Even though I know the rest is bad I still listen too it and I don't even look at car accidents. Probably the worst Devo album, but one I still like.


underrated
If you found "Freedom of Choice" or (especially) "New Traditionalists" too synth-y, you'll have nightmares after listening to this one. Devo's "Shout" will not appeal to anyone who only liked their first album.

However, if you're not so close minded and like your old Devo with some nice sounding beats and keyboard riffs in place of live drums and spaghetti-western-faux-punk guitar, you'll absolutely love this.

It's nicely produced, for the most part. Yes, it's straining a bit here -- and it went right over the top with the upcoming crap fest "Total Devo" -- but for dancey synth pop, the production suits the songs like a glove.

And while the lyrics are lesser than those of other Devo albums (at least the ones before this), they're still noticably funny and intelligent, and considering what kind of music this is, it's a welcome plus.

That doesn't mean the music sounds like any other synth pop band -- it still sounds like Devo. Just not as odd.

If I were you, I'd listen to some samples or something first. Not many people I know like this. But, as it is, it's quite enjoyable.


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