a
brief discography of DEVO's
standard album releases
Click thumbnails at right to see a chronological
look at DEVO's fashion aesthetic throughout the years.
Coming Soon: quotes from past reviews and
commentary from the members of DEVO.
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Be
Stiff EP |
DEVO's first vinyl EP on STIFF Records. Features early versions of songs released on their first album the following year. |
1977 |
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Q:
Are We Not Men?
A: We Are Devo! |
What
impresses immediately is the *quality* of the sound that
the band & producer Brian Eno...have achieved. Devo work on
a
powerful, abrasive cut and thrust, which also happens to be
utterly danceable." - J.B., Melody Maker, 9/2/78 |
1978 |
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Duty
Now For The Future |
A
guitar can only do what a guitar does. It's like only one tiny
piece of a synthesizer. On this album we did much more with
the guitars, too. Sometimes you don't know that they're guitars.
- Gerald V. Casale, BAM Magazine, 5/18/79 |
1979 |
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Freedom
Of Choice |
The
songs are just DEVO's way of
addressing popular subject matter.
-Gerald V. Casale, Jetlagg Magazine, 9/80 |
1980 |
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DEV-O
Live EP |
The band is in great form, the crowd is filled with enthusiastic spuds and spudesses, and the recording itself is polished and tight, giving plentyof volume to the synths.
Crapple's Album Guide |
1980 |
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New
Traditionalists |
New
Traditionalists offers a comment and launches an
attack on the stylistic and substantive trend towards
romanticizing the past. - BAM Magazine, 9/25/81 |
1981 |
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Oh,
No! It's DEVO |
Time
Out For Fun is basically what the album is all about. We decided it was time to enjoy what we were doing.
So for this album, everything on it was fun, all things we enjoyed doing.
-Mark Mothersbaugh, BAM Magazine, 12/3/82 |
1982 |
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Shout |
Coming
Soon: quotes from past reviews and
commentary from the members of DEVO. |
1984 |
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EZ
Listening Muzak |
Are
you not Devo? Doesn't matter: This is wonderful party
music. 70 CD-only minutes in spectacular sound. Buy it.
- High Fidelity, 9/87 |
81/87 |
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Total
Devo |
Sonically,
the crystalline production is their finest work to date. It is richly layered layered, with provocative keyboard work and propulsive drum beats, spiced with sampled vocal manipulations,
and loaded with lead vocalist Mark Mothersbaugh's Midwestern nasal twang.
- Spudette Lewis, Music Connection, 8/8/88 |
1988 |
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Now
It Can Be Told |
This is a great live album, capturing Devo in the late 80s and covering a wide range of their hits. The sound quality is excellent and the performance too. Some highlights - the opening country & western version of Jocko Homo - with Mark remarking to the audience afterwards "I'll bet you didn't realise that was such a sad song". -
Noxious (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
1989 |
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Smooth
Noodle Maps |
On
the precipice of a new age, Devo is back from the computerized drawing board with new ideas, banking on a calculated combination
of emotion, intellect, wit, and rhythm to point us foolish humans
over the hump towards
a better future. - P.P., Stereo Review, 12/90 |
1990 |
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Greatest
Hits
(Warner
Bros.) |
Greatest Hits plays exactly like its title suggests--Devo's radio hits at their finest. While they may never have succeeded in completely de- evolutionizing man, music, or machine, Devo brought an urgency.
- Steve Gdula (Review copyright Amazon.co.uk) |
1990 |
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Greatest
Misses
(Warner
Bros.) |
This compilation, released concurrently with Greatest Hits , collects some of the band's stranger experiments, early album tracks, and a few rarities, such as the Booji Boy releases of Be Stiff and Mechanical Man (both available on the Hardcore compilations) and a U.K. B-side, Penetration in the Centerfold. ~Steve Huey, All Music Guide |
1990 |
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Hardcore
Devo Vol. 1 |
Disinfecting
rock of it's dirt, streamlining its all-too-human edges, Devo created perhaps the most repellent rock in history.
-Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 12/15/90 |
70s/91 |
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Hardcore
Devo Vol. 2 |
Like its predecessor and true to its title, Hardcore DEVO Vol. 2 is an indispensable item for any hardcore Devo fan.
~Steve Huey, All Music Guide |
70s/91 |
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Devo
Live:
The Mongoloid Years |
Along with Iggy & the Stooges' Metallic K.O., Devo Live: The Mongoloid Years has to be one of the most confrontational live albums ever.
Certainly not a CD for the faint of heart.
~Greg Prato, All Music Guide
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70s/92 |
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Pioneers
Who Got Scalped |
The
Kent State classmates were always prolific songwriters with a lot of strong material and the ability to roll with all the punches
that the recording industry was wont to throw at them…and damned
if Pioneers doesn't make you wonder if there's not another
great album left in them before they return to the primordial ooze.
~KEN LIECK – The Austin Chronicle |
2000 |
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Recombo
DNA |
Wonderful stuff that would have been lost in time were it not for an astounding compilation such as this. It is a must for any serious Devo fan.
~Aaron Badgley, All Music Guide |
2000 |
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The
Essentials |
Largely viewed as a goof band by many the first time around, Devo's stature as one of rock's most respected and influential artists has grown considerably over the years, especially due to a wide variety of alt- rockers covering Devo tunes over the years. The music on The Essentials shows how leaders Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale were among the finest song writers of the entire late '70s/early '80s new wave era.
~ Greg Prato, All Music Guide
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