No one acknowledging their actual best song smart patrol/mr dna smh

Thanks for reminding me of that one! Yet another classic.

Pee-Wees playhouse!

Ooh, it's a good one but I'd offer my favorite, in contrast. "Planet Earth"

Haha, that's awesome. Thanks for the story.

Don’t care

I'm not sure that it's their best song, but I do think it's their best song/video combination. After hearing the song s number of times, the video made me hear it and understand it much differently.

Love the story of Mothersbaugh meeting John Lennon after the show

“I like to steal, and I like to kill!”

Oh, no!

I’d love to see an Oingo Boingo documentary, better than the one on the Farewell album DVD.

Devo will usually record their own cover versions since they’re getting made anyway so they might as well get paid while doing ironically insincere corporate shilling. Nineties kids will remember the commercials for Pringle Packs, which were a Devo-created parody song of “Whip It.”

That song gets me hyped. I’ll never not be happy when that song comes on.

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeahyeahyeahyehyayayayeah! 🤘🏻

Devocumentary

Chrissie Hynde and Joe Walsh were there too. All dropped out and founded bands.

Fun story behind that cover. Apparently their record company wanted them to get Jagger's blessing. Gerry and Mark found themselves in a New York hotel room playing the tape on a boom box for Jagger. Jagger sat "stone-faced" for a bit, then got up and started to dance.

One of my favorite covers of all time and a great example of a truly creative interpretation.

shit i meant to say Fyre. that and tiger king are recent, and i hadn't kept up with him since like '99. just glad to see he's still doing it

I was so bummed when Mike Schank died last year. Everyone in that movie seemed so earnest and inspiring. I’d put it up there with Crumb as a quirky docu character study.

>i was not aware he had also directed Tiger King

He didn’t, he was just an executive producer

That's a good question, as it is kind of fascinating. I've heard people complain about them changing some lyrics around to better suit Disney, but still, they got Disney to pay for a 14-year-old girl to cover "Uncontrollable Urge," which is pretty amazing.

Get your rat out, sweating like a beaver

This is a Devvo rap

I remember the group saying how happy they were to be in the movie Human Highway because they got to keep the costumes they wore for their performance of Jonee. All those years spent busting their butts and they couldn't afford to buy new threads.

Someone saw a rough cut and said that Mark kept turning it down cause it only focused on the band for a portion of it then kept on talking about Gerry's kinks and sexcapades and it's like dude, I don't give a shit about that side, the Devo image and ethos and music could fill a whole mini-series and the fans want to hear about that.

The whole New Traditionalists Album is fantastic. My two favorite songs of theirs are Worried Man and Come Back Jonee.