Shout Music Cd

Devo - Shout

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Shout      Artist : Devo      List Price : $12.98 USD        Your Price : $12.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2005-06-14      Studio : Collectables      Label : Collectables      Avg. Customer Rating : (5 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Shout      Listen up spuds      Rating:      This album is not one of devo's great ones but it is still devo! I can't realy say a bad word about this band but unfortunately not as inspirational as some others ,like "duty now for the future"! Still a must for hardcore devo fans.     Customer Reviews for Shout Cd      The Truth About the De-evolution of Devo      Rating:      I was stationed at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, in 1984, when I first saw this record (now, finally, on CD, for you completists). After the first spin on my turntable, I wanted to shout. Something like "give me my money back!" or such. If you listen to Devo's 1989 live record "Now It Can Be Told," Mark makes a comment (after an acoustic numer) that the audience might wonder why the band was sitting down. "After 15 years in the music business, it's kind of hard to sit down," he wryly remarked. And, yet, this album, which has a few catchy tunes -- "The Satisfied Mind," "Here to Go," and their cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Are You Experienced?" -- is mostly *all* filler. The song "Puppet Boy" is simply embarrassing. This is hard to fathom, given how solid "Oh, No! It's Devo!" was. But, when a band over-relies on synthsizers and computers, this is what invariably happens: Devo managed to devolve within two years the same amount music itself took twenty years to do. The proof in the pudding that Devo just ran out of ideas is their album "Total Devo," which was four years in the making, but sounded like it was four weeks. "Smooth Noodle Maps" was slightly better, the the fact of the matter is, this latter record had no memorable hits, and "Shout" and "Total Devo" had at least a couple each. I am pleased to announce, however, to anyone who's seen the Dell Computer (talk about "de-evolution": A Microsoft based computer!) commercial with their new song "Watch Us Work It," knows that Devo can experience flashes of sheer brilliance every so often (the song is an amalgam of "The Super Thing" and "Enough Said"), but for 23 years, they've been unable to muster enough creativity for an entire album.