Oh No! Another Poll -- This Time About DEVO!! OH NO!!! (closes 05/09/2007)

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Don't short out your Energy Domes (i.e., flower-pot hats) thinking this one through, spuds!

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo!	20
Duty Now for the Future	5
Freedom of Choice	4
Oh, No! It's Devo	3
New Traditionalists	2
Adventures of the Smart Patrol	1
E-Z Listening Disc	0
Total Devo	0
Smooth Noodle Maps	0
Shout	0

― Eisbaer, Thursday, 3 May 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

and IF you voted for anything after new traditionalists, kindly defend yer choice!

― Eisbaer, Thursday, 3 May 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

the debut might be the best rock album, but Oh No! It's Devo might be the most perfect technopop album of all time, or at least I can't think of one I like better, every single track is beautiful

it's all gold straight up to the Dr. Detroit 12" and if you'd put Hardcore Vol 1 & Hardcore Vol 2 on the list I'm sure more than one person would have voted for them

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 3 May 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

It's all so wonderful (well, not smooth noodle maps), but I had to pick "New Traditionalists"

― John Justen, Thursday, 3 May 2007 01:09 (eighteen years ago)

Absolutely EVERYTHING up through Oh No.. is brilliant, and may you drown in your own tepid filth should you beg to differ.

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 3 May 2007 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

everything up to and including e-z is great.

there should be another thread for solo/side stuff like the jihad jerry & the evildoers record.

― get bent, Thursday, 3 May 2007 04:21 (eighteen years ago)

I voted New Traditionalists but the full version of Devo Live really really needs to be on this list.

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 05:19 (eighteen years ago)

first one for me. could've gone with freedom of choice, though.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 3 May 2007 06:02 (eighteen years ago)

Oh No! I HAD to vote for "Oh No It's Devo!". (Which is the closest they ever got to pure and fully fledged synthpop and thus their best album)

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 3 May 2007 07:37 (eighteen years ago)

Oh No! It's Devo might be the most perfect technopop album of all time, or at least I can't think of one I like better, every single track is beautiful

I completely agree: it's all killer, no filler. I hope they play some of it when I (hopefully) see them here in Dublin next month.

― MacDara, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

The first album by a country mile. (Just the opening drumsticks and chords...) And everything slid down after that. Almost imperceptibly at times, but down nonetheless.

First band I ever saw live, and now I've got the chance to take my son to see them in Manchester. Sometimes I hate age.

(Good to see some Devo love)

― whatever, Thursday, 3 May 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

I'll say Duty Now For The Future, just 'cause it splits the difference before its guitar-dominated predecessor and its synth-dominated successor; and yet winds up being weirder than either. Call it their Panorama in relation to Freedom Of Choice's Heartbeat City and Are We Not Men?'s The Cars.

(But really, "Hardcore Vol. 1 & 2" should've been included.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 3 May 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, i was going to say 'where the hell are hardcores'?

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41C07W07CQL._SS500_.jpg

i love this full length live show release, the sound is fantastic, the banter very entertaining and a great track selection, so why it wasn't included is a complete mystery to me, and me alone !
but of course the best has to be the debut as it's one of the greatest albums ever made, simple as that.
(though i go with the general flow that up until Oh, No!, it's a solid run of brilliance)

― mark e, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

Are we not men, he is Dav-o

― cli0019, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

I love the Hardcore Devo takes the best

― bendy, Friday, 4 May 2007 01:15 (eighteen years ago)

no surprises here ...

― Eisbaer, Sunday, 13 May 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

"Oh No" is weak aside from a few tracks (Peek-A-Boo, That's Good, Big Mess) but a pair of b-sides are as good as anything on the album: "Find Out" and "Part Of You".

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 9 July 2010 01:44 (fifteen years ago)

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