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Devo should be taken seriously
By Daniel Puckett
Battalion Staff
Forget what you've heard ab
out Devo; they're not what you
think.
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. At worst, it'll make you
laugh; at best, it'll make you
think.
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