Contemporaries of Talking Heads, Pere Ubu and The B-52s, Midwestern avant-punk pranksters Devo were a conceptual art critique of dumbed-down consumerist America, whose subversive anti-pop parodies proved so catchy that they eventually had no choice but to became a real pop group. Corporate capitalism will eat itself, every time.
Mark Mothersbaugh, Jerry Casale and their two younger brothers, both called Bob, pioneered a vivid mash-up of jerky robo-pop rhythms, primitive electronics and kitsch sci-fi imagery that attracted early celebrity fans including Brian Eno, David Bowie and Neil Young.
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That said, there’s plenty here that remains fierce, funny and attractively wonky. Social Fools itself, Come Back Jonee and Penetration In The Centrefold are all Eno productions, sharing some of the same wired power-pop mania as his Talking Heads collaborations.
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