Whip it...Whip it Good!

Here is a music review I came across for the new album by Devo. Yes, definitely the 80's are back in full swing, I have pulled out of the big box my white t-shirt in big black bold print donning "CHOOSE LIFE". I just had no idea that Devo still had something left in the tank.

Thank you to RIP IT UP and MD for this review.

DEVOSOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY (WARNER) REVIEWED 15.07.2010
Almost 40 years since their formation in Ohio and 20 years after their last studio offering, 1990’s Smooth Noodle Maps, comes this collection of a dozen new tracks by four of the five members of the original Devo line-up, complete with the expected pop-arty CD design and much-publicised reports that this has been tailored according to fan input on the band’s website (, in case you’re not a devotee), and while ageist media sorts might rant about the longevity of such ‘dinosaur’ acts the tunes here prove agreeable new expansions upon Devo’s ‘mechanised swing’ sound, with sprinklings of sci-fi strangeness, nutty satire and Mark Mothersbaugh oddballness. Worth a mention: the kick-off Fresh, which is just that; What We Do, a jokey attack, perhaps, on those who think they’re past their prime; Please Baby Please, a conspicuous shot at a hit song; Sumthin’, which sounds a little too much like their most well-known hit Whip It; the reflective (if no less boppy) No Place Like Home; and March On, the final happy-happy-happy cut. Less angry and edgy, of course, than 1979’s legendary Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (hey, it was 30 years ago!), but still freaky, fun and just far out enough for lifelong Devolutionists.
MD