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Released
  
1981 (EP)1999 (CD)

Producer
  
Devo

Release date
  
1980

Recorded
  
1980

Artist
  
Devo

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

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Length
  
17:41 (EP version)73:52 (album version)

DEV-O LIVE(1981)
  
New Traditionalists(1981)

Genres
  
New wave, Punk rock, Post-punk

Similar
  
Devo albums, Punk rock albums

Devo live 1980


DEV-O Live is a live EP (and later live album) by American new wave band Devo. It was recorded during the Freedom of Choice tour of 1980, at The Fox Warfield Theatre. Initially only six songs from the show were released on an EP in 1981, intended for airplay use (largely for the King Biscuit Flower Hour). It featured the otherwise-unreleased "Freedom of Choice Theme Song" and a reworked version of "Be Stiff".

Contents

Devo were given consistent radio support by Sydney-based noncommercial rock station 2JJ, one of the first rock stations outside America to play their recordings. This paid off, as in August 1981, they found commercial success in Australia when the EP spent 3 weeks at the top of the Australian singles charts. Later in the year, they travelled to Australia and appeared on TV show Countdown.

In 1999, Rhino Handmade re-released DEV-O LIVE on a full album including the entire Warfield show, with the exception of "Pink Pussycat" (played after "Secret Agent Man"), "Satisfaction" (played after "Blockhead"), "Freedom of Choice" and "Jocko Homo" (both played after "Gates of Steel"), all of them appearing on audience recordings of the show. The Rhino edition was released in a plastic sleeve with a cover insert. It has subsequently also become available on the iTunes Store and Amazon.com, and in the Japanese box set This is the Devo Box.

Devo live italy 1981


EP

  1. "Freedom of Choice Theme Song" (Gerald V. Casale, Mark Mothersbaugh) – 2:46
  2. "Whip It" (Casale, Mothersbaugh) – 2:41
  3. "Girl U Want" (Casale, Mothersbaugh) – 2:56
  4. "Gates of Steel" (Casale, Mothersbaugh, Sue Schmidt, Debbie Smith) – 3:17
  5. "Be Stiff" (Casale, Robert Lewis) – 2:50
  6. "Planet Earth" (Casale, Mothersbaugh) – 2:32

Album version

  1. "Freedom of Choice Theme Song" (Casale, Mothersbaugh) – 2:46
  2. "Whip It" (Casale, Mothersbaugh) – 2:41
  3. "Girl U Want" (Casale, Mothersbaugh) – 2:56
  4. "Gates of Steel" (Casale, Mothersbaugh, Schmidt, Smith) – 3:17
  5. "Be Stiff" (Casale, Lewis) – 2:50
  6. "Planet Earth" (Casale, Mothersbaugh) – 2:32
  7. "Freedom of Choice Theme Song" (Casale, Mothersbaugh) – 2:46
  8. "Whip It" (Casale, Mothersbaugh) – 2:41
  9. "Snowball" (Casale, Mothersbaugh) – 2:42
  10. "It's Not Right" (Mothersbaugh) – 2:20
  11. "Girl U Want" (Casale, Mothersbaugh) – 2:56
  12. "Planet Earth" (Casale, Mothersbaugh) – 2:32
  13. "S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain)" (Devo, Mothersbaugh) – 4:06
  14. "Secret Agent Man" (Steve Barri, Sloan) – 3:17
  15. "Blockhead" (Mothersbaugh, Bob Mothersbaugh) – 3:25
  16. "Uncontrollable Urge" (Mothersbaugh) – 3:08
  17. "Mongoloid" (Casale) – 2:50
  18. "Be Stiff" (Casale, Lewis) – 2:50
  19. "Gates of Steel" (Casale, Mothersbaugh, Schmidt, Smith) – 3:17
  20. "Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA" (Casale, Mothersbaugh) – 4:08
  21. "Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy)" (Casale, Mothersbaugh, Mothersbaugh) – 4:12
  22. "Come Back Jonee" (Casale, Mothersbaugh) – 3:19
  • Note: The first six tracks of the CD are simply the contents of the original EP. These tracks are repeated later in the disc.

    • Personnel

  • Mark Mothersbaugh – guitar, keyboards, vocals
  • Gerald V. Casale – bass guitar, keyboards, vocals
  • Bob Casale – guitar, keyboards, vocals
  • Bob Mothersbaugh – guitar, vocals
  • Alan Myers – drums

    • Songs

    1Freedom of Choice Theme Song2:44
    2Whip It2:42
    3Girl U Want2:45

    References

    DEV-O Live Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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