D-E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N - Mongoloid

Since we are talking about a revolution we are seeing today, we should give praise to one of the first bands after the disco era to catch my attention and start a revolution... Devo! I would watch my older brother record Devo's audio onto cassette tape (before the VCR was invented) from a mono tape recorder from Saturday Night Live and Fridays. If you never heard of Fridays, it was a funny sketch show like SNL but on Friday on competing network ABC. We all know who won that rivalry by now. My dorky brother, who actually when I look back on it, was real cool cuz he exposed me to Devo and their super creative marketing campaign called De-Evolution! Yeah, this one wild looking and hard sounding live electronic band takes over the world with their music, coroprate anthems, mascot named Booji Boy, and the cool fucking uniforms with the red pyramid pothead hats. Genious work how they just took over the networks and all the late night tv shows, which were really cutting edge back then, not like today's toned down crappy Carson Daily show. I eventually stole my brother's portable tape recorder and got hooked on Devo and SNL by bringing it to 4th grade class and getting all my classmates hooked on it too. It didn't get me chicks but it did provide me with some covert steez at a young age. Later that year I accidentally taped over the SNL Devo tape when I got hooked on the song "Pinball Wizard" by The Who and plugged in a microphone and started belting out the lyrics to "Pinball Wizard" with the song playing on the radio in the background. (old school lo-tech karaoke) I got beat up for for doing that but it was a really funny tape. He actually played it for me and laughed really hard at it before he started punching me... kinda evil but funny too. Anyway, this song "Mongoloid" is a favorite song by the masters Devo from way back. Hard music from a band of revolutionaries.