I'd like to subscribe to your binary newsletter. My PDA is prepared to accept information from your Bluetooth blue tooth.Flex wrote:Well, basically. There's, like, a lot of math involved when we get to this level.Dr. Medulla wrote:So the key to being rad is to choose to be through being cool?Flex wrote:If you listen to Devo you basically get an inside glimpse into how my mighty compu-brain synthesizes data.
Needless to say, I pretty much lead a totally rad life.
*cough*
DEVO News
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Dr. Medulla
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Re: DEVO News
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Wolter
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Re: DEVO News
Actually, part of my unpublished dissertation on nerddom involves the rejection of the poisonous notion of being "cool" in favor of being awesome.Flex wrote:Well, basically. There's, like, a lot of math involved when we get to this level.Dr. Medulla wrote:So the key to being rad is to choose to be through being cool?Flex wrote:If you listen to Devo you basically get an inside glimpse into how my mighty compu-brain synthesizes data.
Needless to say, I pretty much lead a totally rad life.
*cough*
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
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tepista
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Re: DEVO News
I was just thinking about the Normal a few days ago. After having not thought about them for 25 years.Marky Dread wrote:I like some of their early tracks sure enough but there are many more things I prefer. Magazine, PiL, The Fall, Wire, Cabaret Voltaire, The Normal etc...Dr. Medulla wrote:C'mon, man, Devo up to around '82 is great. Back in 1980, who didn't think the music of the future would sound like Devo robotica? Dystopian nostalgia with great tunes.
We reach the parts other combos cannot reach
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
Re: DEVO News
Strummer liking or disliking something should have no bearing on one's musical taste.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
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Silent Majority
- Singer-Songwriter Nancy
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Re: DEVO News
No, sorry, can't get past the vocals or the numpty clothes. The guitar sound's cool.
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Marky Dread
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Re: DEVO News
Whoever said it did?eumaas wrote:Strummer liking or disliking something should have no bearing on one's musical taste.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
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Flex
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Re: DEVO News
Those aren't things to get past, they're things to embrace.Silent Majority wrote:No, sorry, can't get past the vocals or the numpty clothes. The guitar sound's cool.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Marky Dread
- Messiah of the Milk Bar
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Re: DEVO News
Correct these are the strengths of Devo.Flex wrote:Those aren't things to get past, they're things to embrace.Silent Majority wrote:No, sorry, can't get past the vocals or the numpty clothes. The guitar sound's cool.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
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Wolter
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Re: DEVO News
Indeed. Someone needs to have some more PinkBoyism removed from them, ASAP.Marky Dread wrote:Correct these are the strengths of Devo.Flex wrote:Those aren't things to get past, they're things to embrace.Silent Majority wrote:No, sorry, can't get past the vocals or the numpty clothes. The guitar sound's cool.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
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Flex
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Re: DEVO News
You know, I hear there are pills for that now.Wolter wrote:Indeed. Someone needs to have some more PinkBoyism removed from them, ASAP.Marky Dread wrote:Correct these are the strengths of Devo.Flex wrote:Those aren't things to get past, they're things to embrace.Silent Majority wrote:No, sorry, can't get past the vocals or the numpty clothes. The guitar sound's cool.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Marky Dread
- Messiah of the Milk Bar
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- Joined: 17 Jun 2008, 11:26am
Re: DEVO News
They've been around for years I took some around age 7 and they cleaned me right out.Flex wrote:You know, I hear there are pills for that now.Wolter wrote:Indeed. Someone needs to have some more PinkBoyism removed from them, ASAP.Marky Dread wrote:Correct these are the strengths of Devo.Flex wrote:Those aren't things to get past, they're things to embrace.Silent Majority wrote:No, sorry, can't get past the vocals or the numpty clothes. The guitar sound's cool.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
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Silent Majority
- Singer-Songwriter Nancy
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- Joined: 10 Nov 2008, 8:28pm
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Re: DEVO News
I'm not familiar with the type of thing that is.Wolter wrote:Indeed. Someone needs to have some more PinkBoyism removed from them, ASAP.Marky Dread wrote:Correct these are the strengths of Devo.Flex wrote:Those aren't things to get past, they're things to embrace.Silent Majority wrote:No, sorry, can't get past the vocals or the numpty clothes. The guitar sound's cool.
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Wolter
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Re: DEVO News
Then you need to listen to more DEVO. Q.E.D.Silent Majority wrote:I'm not familiar with the type of thing that is.Wolter wrote:Indeed. Someone needs to have some more PinkBoyism removed from them, ASAP.Marky Dread wrote:Correct these are the strengths of Devo.Flex wrote:Those aren't things to get past, they're things to embrace.Silent Majority wrote:No, sorry, can't get past the vocals or the numpty clothes. The guitar sound's cool.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
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Marky Dread
- Messiah of the Milk Bar
- Posts: 58972
- Joined: 17 Jun 2008, 11:26am
Re: DEVO News
Pinkboy and Stupid = Cartoon magic.Silent Majority wrote:I'm not familiar with the type of thing that is.Wolter wrote:Indeed. Someone needs to have some more PinkBoyism removed from them, ASAP.Marky Dread wrote:Correct these are the strengths of Devo.Flex wrote:Those aren't things to get past, they're things to embrace.Silent Majority wrote:No, sorry, can't get past the vocals or the numpty clothes. The guitar sound's cool.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
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Rat Patrol
- Unknown Immortal
- Posts: 15431
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 9:23pm
- Location: A flat burning junkheap for twenty square miles
Re: DEVO News
[youtube][/youtube]
Older, fatter, but still good. Catches fire as it goes along.
(FYI: Audio/video slightly out of sync.)
Older, fatter, but still good. Catches fire as it goes along.
(FYI: Audio/video slightly out of sync.)