DEVO Titles on the Bloody Market

There are a few DEVO DVD’s on the market that most certainly deserve your utmost attention; one of which is The Complete Truth about De-evolution. This title is quite nifty, as it allows the viewer to experience DEVO from their humble beginnings in the great state of Ohio…to their rather bland “end” in the even greater state of California. The DVD collects every DEVO music video known to man, except for a select few, of which they were quite probably not able to successfully get clearance on. Funny how this was originally released on Laserdisc, and even more funny that DEVO founders Mark and Gerald give their candid and highly stylized commentary throughout the DVD’s duration, if one does so choose to listen.

These chaps had some stellar dance moves, and bonus features include DEVO live material…including their first performance while attending university in the great state of Ohio. I say that The Complete Truth about De-evolution is sincerely mega-neat and worth your extra special time. Funny thing about it is that my favorite DEVO video is their early Stones cover, or is it?

Moving onto the second DEVO DVD that I do so choose to write about, which is DEVO: Live in the land of the Rising Sun. It is DEVO in Japan for the first time in twenty-two years! Filmed in 2003, when the spuds were no doubt older, fatter, and hopefully wiser. You get all of the classic cuts played to groovy Japanese fans wearing energy domes. Songs like “Mongoloid” and “Whip It” never fail to impress. It is a fun and rocking good time, Mark and Gerald wax political in abstract ways as part of the bonus section. In between live performances, Mark and Gerald boast of their sexual conquests of Japan in the early ‘80’s, which is really scary due to the candid nature and the frighten images you’ll have in your head of members of DEVO actually involved in the physical act of love, not something you would expect from a group of Aliens raised in Ohio.

You can get these awesome titles through Netflix or Amazon, maybe ask your mom and dad to buy them. Because, when it comes to good music…it’s pretty much a toss-up between T-REX and DEVO, so the choice is yours to make…

Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh

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