No one noticed my youngest brother. He was a mongoloid. He was indeed happier than you and me. He wore a hat. He had a job. He brought home the bacon... seriously. No one knew. He was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's at the age of forty. His disability prevented him from understanding that his ailment was terminal. He thought he was sick and would get over it soon. I sat by his side for years whenever I could until the end... This song is a masterpiece. Thank you Devo.
Thanks for sharing those memories .. And it's great that you found in this Devo song, something so relatable and which perfecty encapsulated the reality of the situation with your brother .. Glad to know that he was so happy in his life .. Wayne
your brother...he instructs me clearly, although we never met! I don't know his name and I've never had his company. I will not live in fear, thanks to your brother
@@jesterstudiokj I'm pretty sure that I would have been like how you think you would have handled it, and I would probably have given up quite early on .. Your brother was pretty special.
when you first learn about devo, you think they're just weird for the sake of it. but as time goes on, you find out what their message is, and what their lyrics mean, and you realize that they're being weird because this is what you have become, and they are putting the mirror up to your face. when they say "we are devo", they are not introducing themselves, they are describing the human race. we are not men. we are devo
So like here we are in the 70s and we’re listening all this different shit like kiss you know and all that other crap that they were playing and then all of a sudden Devo.… And you thought Debo was the best band all through the 70s the 80s clicked on the end and then you were still thinking all through the 80s that this is your favorite band Devo.… 1990 happen
So like here we are in the 70s and we’re listening all this different shit like kiss you know and all that other crap that they were playing and then all of a sudden Devo.… And you thought Debo was the best band all through the 70s the 80s clicked on the end and then you were still thinking all through the 80s that this is your favorite band Devo.… 1990 happen happened.… And you still got a thing for this band I mean you’re still claiming this to be your favorite band all through the 90s.… So you’ve got the name is now in your peripheral rearview mirror and now you’re looking at the year 2000.… Devo is still itching you where are you scratch.… I find this completely unbelievable almost to the point to where it’s unbelievable.
Just recently discovered DEVO and binged through all of their albums. I don't know why but I keep coming back to this one in particular. This might be my absolute favorite DEVO song.
1977... quite a few bands were pioneering the 80's before the 80's actually happened. I still think Ultravox summed up the entire 80's in 1980, before the decade had even managed to shape itself an image.
Devo a mis un peu de lumière, d'émerveillement et d'humour dans une période d'obscurité et de lassitude quand j'étudiais à l'université. En l'écoutant de nombreuses années plus tard, ma sensibilité et l'admiration que je lui portais, grandit. Une écoute difficile au début, il prête sa beauté et son intelligence écorchée, jusqu'à ce qu'il vous entraîne inéluctablement dans son univers. Chaque écoute dévoile un peu plus de son mystère et de sa féérie biscornue
Thank god I’m a mongoloid, after ingesting large quantities of spuds and proper mutation techniques I now qualify as a full blown mongoloid. Thank you Devi 🙏🤘
Thank you Devo and especially this song ...... along story ... a happy youth ... but a spunky girl stole my heart with this song .... giving me the finger to come dance with her .... didnt ever think it meant dance together for ever ....💋👄💓💝💝💝🎼🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Absolutely amazing band. Saw them on snl and bought the album a few days later. Great lyrics and music. Great show as well . Glad I grew up at the time I did.
Played a festival at shitty holiday park in uk 2009, one of them cheesy places, like on dirty dancing.. I was plastered n turned thunder at bar, bob1 was stood there. You go before me I said, I fkn love u fellas, I'd only come to see devo. (Truth). Now here u are I'm a nervous fkn mess, I won't bother n ask for inconvenient autographs n pic shit......he looked me in eye n said...would you like a picture in a bogart.style voice??? I said fuckin yehhhhh..... the pic has him pointing at me, like I'm his Idol, the star...hilarious ..and a great memory
This brings back a flood of memories from my youth when I was an Annashuved - pineapple head in Swedish - with my punk rocker spiked hair cut, leopard print tight pants, and I thought I was totally cool. Wonderful time! I saw Devo live in Dallas, Texas USA, Blondie, the Cars, Elvis Costello, XTC, The Talking Heads, David Bowie, B'52, Joe King Carrasco, The Pretenders, and I even saw the Sex Pistols and got back stage and on their tour bus at the Lone Star Ballroom in Dallas. I saw most of the bands in Austin, Texas where I went to school at UT Austin, Raoul's was our local punk rock dive.
Enjoyed this a lot! The very slightly increased tempo makes them look moving like something like giant herons or some extinct man sized dinosaurs - just: cool.
Whos's got a Devo hat (energy dome hat)? I'm wearing it right now and the video plays at 200 watt while video splash on the wall and people do dance like mad. This was one of the greatest band of my youth. They really meant something and still do. And this song is more than a song, is a true manifest.
I find this a joyous song and immensely and intensely humane. It’s a classic case of ‘laughing’ with, not laughing at what the mentally afflicted in the human sphere can accomplish- so clever, a clarion call to anyone who feels they failed, who is disappointed in their job, should rightly be ashamed that our perhaps not polythmatic human brethren are drawing down a wage, getting on with it, God love them. Great, Great tune
For all of the obscure pop bands you never hear Devo on the radio. Except for the song whip it, 15 records later Devo is a footnote in American music. My Sharona gets more airplay.
weeeeeell.. this is strange. i found here by chance examining the victory tune from a species from the nienties game "Star control" called the Androsynth... apparently they used the melody of the chorus in a strange 8bit version and now i cant get it out of my head how this song would sound in a 60s like 8bit tune... i am at the end of my sanity here, Ramen.
I don't know what this song means to anyone else...I love it. As a young teenager, I babysat a boy who was mongoloid. There were some hurdles in getting used to him. Ultimately, he was one of the sweetest, most loving and innocent people I have met. He encountered cruelty from neighborhood children and died young. Don't take me for someone who swallows the Bible verbatim, but it was Christ-like.
The meaning of this song is that a that time (now is worst!) the american society was in a devolution, a mental devolution, assimilation, uniformation.......
My friend's brother was a mongoloid and as I grow older I realize he was more normal than most people in society today and infinitely happier. Knew every Michael Jackson song by heart and Hulk Hogan was his superhero. Kid was awesome and liked to wrestle when I came over, but was strong as an ox and only wore underwear around the house so I usually passed.
What’s so funny to me is how, back in ‘78, I thought that this was such a New Wave/Punk kind of song. I mean, I’ve always loved this song and just about everything DEVO ever released. But I just couldn’t get over how new, different, unique and bizarre these guys were. Now (a lot due to DEVO’s influences) this song would come off as a three minute, radio friendly, pop tune made for all the masses (maybe I’m exaggerating , but you get what I mean).
Eh, this is still a super out-there song to the modern audience, it is so unlike anything anyone else has done. People REALLY listen to lyrics these days, and they would spot that nothing about this song is actually "friendly"! 🤣
@@aokottawa there’s the “Japanese Devo” of course - Polysics - but the similarities are only superficial, they wear similar clothes and have sort of the same high energy but that’s just about it
I was just watching a who video(sea and sand) and came apon this video. The who and Devo, two of my favorite bands back in the day. And now that I'm older I can honestly seperate the talented from the chumps. And the truly talented were Devo. Definitely original and one of a kind, and they're not dragging their seventy year old carcasses on stage trying to still preform!
I swear, the guy singing and playing the guitar on the right side, when the show close ups of him..He looks like the guy who played in the Chuck Norris movie called Hero and the Terror! He was the Terror! I swear it's him,or a spitting image
@@dj-um7el You might be right, but it definitely shaped the 80ies vibe and my childhood in it. If they produced this before 1980 I'm even more impressed!
1977 seen them, I had been lent an LP to tape the night before and that was all I had heard of them, the gig was great, much better than I expected, the sound was tight, instant, and clear, they sang a song then a two second gap of silence then straight into the next song over and over like a machine that does not vary or make mistakes, I spoke briefly to Bob Mothersbaugh 🎸asking him his thoughts on the UK, he said he hadn't seen anything of it yet but wanted to during time off between gigs, he did comment on the small portions of food at cafes and restaurants and how it rained all the time. I asked about his thoughts of Northern Ireland (our civil war at the time) and he said he knew little about it as the TV networks in the USA didn't report on much outside of the USA, remember this is before the internet and TV news was peoples only means of trying to find out what was happening anywhere in the world, so when you met someone from abroad you asked what it was like where they came from, whats happening there etc, he was pleasantly intense and seemed intelligent and not like other Americans I had met. Richard Hell & Wayne County spring to mind 💉💊
