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DEVO
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Albums
Nitrous Nightmare (Halloween Live '75)
2026 · Album
Somewhere With Devo (Live)
2026 · Album
Time Bomb (Live)
2025 · Album
Fits The Bill (Live)
2025 · Album
Total Devo
2025 · Album
Smooth Noodle Maps
2025 · Album
Art Devo
2024 · Album
Snake Eyes (Live Tokyo '80)
2023 · Album
Live In New York 1980
2023 · Album
New Traditionalists (Live In Seattle) (1981)
2023 · Album
Hardcore (Collector's Edition)
2023 · Album
That's What I Say (Live)
2023 · Album
Hardcore Devo, Vol. 1 1974-1977
2023 · Album
Hardcore Devo, Vol. 2 1974-1977
2023 · Album
Something Else For Everybody (Unreleased Demos and Focus Group Rejects 2006-2009)
2023 · Album
Greatest Hits (Live)
2023 · Album
Are We Not Live? (Remastered) (Live At Orpheum Theater, 17th July 1980)
2022 · Album
Live 1981
2022 · Album
Gut Feeling (Live)
2021 · Album
Ruled By Paranoia (Live)
2020 · Album
The Smart Patrol (Live)
2020 · Album
Gut Feeling (Live)
2020 · Album
Devo - Live American Broadcast - 1977 (Live)
2020 · Album
Live American Broadcast - 1977 (Live)
2020 · Album
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Devo is an American new wave band from Akron, Ohio, formed in 1973. Their classic line-up consisted of two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs (vocalist Mark and lead guitarist Bob) and the Casales (bassist Gerald and rhythm guitarist Bob), along with drummer Alan Myers. While the band is best known for their 1980 single "Whip It," their only top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, they continue to have a loyal following.
Devo's music and visual presentation (including stage shows and costumes) mingle kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor and mordantly satirical social commentary. The band's namesake, the tongue-in-cheek social theory of "de-evolution", was an integral concept in their early work, which was marked by experimental and dissonant art punk that merged rock music with electronics. Their output in the 1980s embraced synth-pop and a more mainstream, less conceptual style, though the band's satirical and quirky humor remained intact. Their music has proven influential on subsequent movements, particularly on new wave, industrial, and alternative rock artists, as well as an internet microgenre originally known as "devo-core". Devo (most enthusiastically Gerald Casale) was also a pioneer of the music video format.