×
Others found DEVO's sound, imagery, and material threatening; Rolling Stone, for example, called the group fascists. But such criticism missed the point: DEVO dramatized conformity, emotional repression, and dehumanization in order to attack them, not to pay tribute to them.
People also ask
Oct 12, 2023 · A decade earlier, an audience member had accused Devo of placing subliminal messages — “submit and obey” — in its first film, “In the Beginning ...
Aug 29, 2018 · We were roundly criticized and called "sell-outs" by the rock press for creating self-designed merchandise. We were attacked by preeminent music ...
While they did not release any studio albums during this period, Devo sporadically reconvened to record a number of songs for various films and compilations, ...
Dec 10, 1981 · And while the public mostly ignored them, the critics were picking at Devo like vultures going after a dying cow.
Feb 1, 2024 · Talking Heads was killing it hard for much longer but stopped functioning as a group much earlier. Granted, their music didn't have Michael ...
Missing: controversy | Show results with:controversy
Oct 19, 2023 · Co-founder and bassist Gerald Casale talks about the Kent State Shooting, giving demo tapes to Iggy Pop, squashing the band's now-mythical beef ...
Missing: controversy | Show results with:controversy
Feb 11, 2016 · DEVO and Wall of Voodoo, in my opinion, are not similar. Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) and the gang started more-or-less as a punk band.
Sep 4, 2018 · Initial contemporary criticism of Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! often focused on what was perceived as a robotic effect or lack of ...