... Jocko Homo” became the unofficial Devo anthem. The title was taken from a virulent anti-evolution religious pamphlet, while the song's chorus and bridge question-answer exchange cited by Mothersbaugh was referenced from the Island ...
... Devo's earliest days , the group experimented with machine rhythm . " Our first drummer was my youngest brother Jim ... Jocko Homo " -self - released on the group's own Booji Boy label - were relatively torpid compared with their later ...
... Jocko. Homo'. Devo's manifesto, 'Jocko Homo', was directly inspired by the brutal existential horror film The Island of Lost Souls. As such it represents the zenith of the band's association with obscure religious literature and pseudo ...
... Jocko Homo.” The answer is D-E-V-O, which stands for “deevolution,” a kind of cosmology the Ohio band developed to ... Jocko-Homo Heavenbound that Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh found sometime in 1970, and de-evolution was born. Given the ...
... Jocko Homo”. “In the past, this information has been suppressed,” says the military leader, sitting at the end of a ... Devo,” squeaks Booji Boy. Watch this film now and it stands as a reminder that the conceptual Ohio group were years ahead ...
... Jocko Homo , " one of Devo's earliest sin- gles released on their own label , Booji Boy , in the US in 1977 , the band can be heard employing the synthesizer at its most “ subversive , ” to use Mothersbaugh's term . The accompanying ...
Peter Buckley. DEUS DEVO DEVO DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS. ROCKARCHIVE.COM influences were to the fore here , ranging from ... Jocko Homo " ( 1977 ) , was a kind of explanation of the band's overall concept : ' They tell us that we lost our tails ...
... Devo at the Palace , Restless 772755-2 , 1989 . Greatest Hits , Warner Bros. 926449–2 , 1990 . P'Twaaang !!! ( as ... Jocko - Homo Heavenbound , 5th ed . Rog- ers , OH : Jocko - Homo Publishing Co. , 1924 . Springer , Cole , et al ...
... DEVO ! ) ' Jocko Homo ' starts out in a jerky 7/8 beat , into a 4/4 and back with a bizarre synthi - snarls , and sounds like a cosmic assembly line out of kilter . But , as Devo say , ' it's all just wind in sails ' unless you hear it ...
... Devo aesthetic to the narrative . Notice , for instance , the Maerthean allusion in the phrase " primate behavior ... Jocko Homo " serves as the centerpiece for both works . Such patterns of repetition , one might even say repetition ...