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For a band with some fairly serious things to say, Devo has a silly way or saying things: the jerky rhythms of the music, the quirky lyrics and the weird cos tumes and choreography have led most people to view Devo as just another bunch of harmless eccentrics. But Devo as a scien tific B-52s just doesn't wash. From the consummate cynic ism of "Mongoloid" to the angrily libertarian "Freedom of Choice," Devo's songs have ex pressed a rather unfashionable world-view — that America is becoming mechanical and un free due to its citizens' apathy and neglect. Devo has not neglected the causes of the decline into slav ery. In its version of "Satisfac tion," the band talked about consumption as a mind- numbing, all-consuming drug. With "Smart Patrol," the band dealt with the tendency of fac tory work to turn people into robots. Now comes New Traditional ists. In many respects, it is prob ably the finest thing the band has ever done. The music is better than ever — more controlled, annoying when it has to be and comfort able when it serves the purpose. Although they never reach the heights scaled by bands like En gland's Cabaret Voltaire or San Francisco's Chrome, Devo does a respectable job in the ex perimentation department without sacrificing some claim to mainstream appeal. The modest radio success of "Workin' in the Coal Mine" (a free single included with the LP) attests to that. But Devo hits its stride in songs like "Jerkin' Back and Forth" and "Beautiful World." The former succeeds on the strength of its pulsing drive — when Devo performed it on "Fridays," its sheer rock sizzle had the audience on its feet. "Beautiful World" operates on an entirely different basis. The song is slow, about as pretty as Devo ever gets and a master piece of subtle understatement. After wafting through a list of platitudes about the beauty of the modern world, Mark Mothersbaugh adds to the "beautiful world" chorus the words "for you." In that one phrase, much of the Devo message is summed up and stated devastatingly. And while this measure of con tempt for its audience could be Go-Gos bring back 60s By Daniel Puckett Battalion Staff The Go-Gos have finally suc ceeded where many have failed; they have shown that an all woman group can be fun with out being tarty. Beauty and the Beat is the Go- Gos' debut LP, and it is better than we deserve. If you've heard the band's Top Forty hit, "Our Lips Are Sealed," — and who hasn't? — you know what the album sounds like in gen eral. Infectious, happy pop music pours off every groove, bathing the ear in an almost uninter rupted flow of good melodies, good words and good vibes. Nearly every song is a minor classic of teen-age gum-chewing music; "We Got the Beat" is a good example of the genre. A little angst creeps in from time to time — "Automatic" dis plays a little anger, a little sor row, but always cute anger and precious sorrow, like your little sister in junior high crying on the phone because Matt Dillon isn't taking her to the prom. OK, that's a bit condescend ing, but it's hard to take such a happy band seriously when they try to get heavy. Basically, the Go-Gos excel at party-hearty music, music to file next to the B-52s and the Silicon Teens. One song comes close to being serious: "This Town" has a sound reminiscent of those early-Sixties instrumentals ("Ex odus," "Telstar") some of us may vaguely remember. But the Go-Gos ruin the heavy-reverb bass effect with cute lyrics about being in the in-crowd and don't you wish you could be like us? Although good, the album's isn't perfectly consistent. Aside from the silliness of "Automa tic", the Go-Gos do occasionally have problems with weak mate rial. But do you remember LPs from the Sixties? They all had one or two good songs and the rest of the tracks were total dreck. And so we get Sixites ex ecution of an album which is self-consciously reminiscent of the decade before last. Even if you didn't like the Six ties — and I found hippies re volting and most of that de cade's music abominable — you should enjoy the good-time re vamp the Go-Gos give the period on Beauty and the Beat. disturbing, the lyrics are not aimed at the mass audience but rather at the band itself. Devo is a band which laughs at itself, loud and often. Highly articulate, they speak a jargon as absurd as any the Pentagon has dreamed up. Proficient rock musicians, they play a style of music more bizarre than any heard on American radio. But Devo is a paradoxical band. Most critics said it would never have a hit, and it recorded "Whip It." Most critics said it could never top its first album, and its fourth just may be its best. I recommend New Traditional ists. 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