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1980 - Freedom Of Choice.
2010 - Something For Everybody.
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May 14, 1980 - 2025: 45 years of: Freedom Of Choice.

Oh yeah, it's DEVO !

The new decade of the 80s shall now go under serious evolution. Forget disco and Motown pop, after 1979's Duty Now For The Future LP, the brothers-in-arms of DEVO are now fully in command.

The hip-ness of "Girl U Want" and "It's Not Right" electrifies the dance-floors. The hard hammering of "That's Pep !" and grittiness "Ton O' Luv" is where rockabillia-punk becomes suburb-pop. Killer pop-art vibes are shouted on the title-track for "Freedom Of Choice", while the space-synths of "Cold War" and "Snowball" drives harder.

Hitting a Gram Slam with the cult-single pop-rock to pop-culture "Whip It", the band now swallows the mainstream. With a handful of bogginess, military beat, addictive hooks and unorthodox fashion statement ...DEVO is the reason to warrant MTV.

RIAA-certified Platinum, American teens were now fully entangled in the new wave of DEVOlution ...what a lovely era. Kickstarting the 80s with a bang, the band shall soon provide another electro-choc: 1981's New Traditionalists LP.

RIP Alan Myers (1954-2013)

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Freedom Of Choice = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGINIsLnqU
Girl U Want = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4-2onb62y8
Whip It = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_QLzthSkfM
Freedom Of Choice = full LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5bqKafk9HA&list=OLAK5uy_k7x1HfmEFD-65XUSbCRWkvp7OKMKGqsTY
Live and interview on Mike Douglas in 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1AdD6EfVuQ
Live in 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iily9_GF564
some guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jVN7V-yGeE

June 15, 2010 - 2025: 15 years of: Something For Everybody.

THEY'RE BACK !

In an unprecedented twist of events, an 80s icon shall hit gain in the current new millennium drought. Through thorough focus-groups and aggressive marketing-campaigns ...2010 shall now be devolutionized.

DEVO'S BACK !

The ultimate bitch-slap, as "Fresh" kicks our sorry asses. Fully electrified, this is "What We Do", as fast jabs of "Please Baby Please" and the head-shot kill of "Don't Shoot (I'm A Man)" rumbles the ground. More pristine power-pop implodes, as the robotic "Human Rocket" sets the rules in this controlled-chaos. Forever caught in a web, the hardrockin' of "Sumthin" and electro "March On" both keeps the beat to a tee.

Dormant during the 90s, following 1990's Smooth Noodle Maps CD, in a tornado of colors and sounds, the modern millennial trends were clearly not ready for this assault.

See it, hear it, feel it, taste it ...World, please welcome back in a new newwave-format: DEVO's dearly digital delight.

RIP Bob Casale (1952-2014)

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What We Do = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp2tQ75pTD0
Something For Everybody = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DhIjT6T_qo&list=OLAK5uy_kipOXo6S8VR1Jng4WvCw6HaLgLPYHv5KY
The DEVO research campaign:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDfBmn8beLs&list=PLDQljHwGEbGvuqQ7taB8ggpCFTdFQb8fK
The DEVO Inc. business-plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WpUtYkAD_s&list=PLDQljHwGEbGsaX0k3ylPD9sdE2hlTZiKW
Live at Vancouver Olympics in 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwW0YPcuAqA
Interview at Coachella in 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNlfGgzl2oM