Hardcore Devo: Volume One

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Hardcore Devo: Volume One

Compilation album by Devo
Released	August1990
Recorded	1974-1977
Genre	Post Punk
Length	42:20
Label	Rykodisk
Producer(s)	Devo,
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Devo chronology
Devo's Greatest Misses (1990)	Hardcore Devo: Volume One (1990)	Hardcore Devo: Volume Two (1991)

Hardcore Devo: Volume One (1990) is the first of two albums of Demos released by the post-punk/new wave band Devo. It is currently out of print.

1 Overview
2 Track listing
3 Personnel
4 Production
5 Quotes About the Album
6 References
7 See also

[edit] Overview

The Hardcore Devo albums are a collection of 4-track basement demos recorded by the band between 1974-1977. Many tracks are earlier versions of some of Devo's best known tracks, which would later be re-recorded and used on subsequent Devo records [eg. 'Jocko Homo', 'Mongoloid']. However, a majority of the tracks on the two albums are demos which were never re-used and remained unreleased until the Hardcore Devo compilations.

[edit] Track listing

"Mechanical Man" – 4:23
"Auto Mowdown" – 2:01
"Space Girl Blues" – 1:52
"Social Fools" – 3:41
"Soo Bawlz" – 2:43
"Satisfaction" – 3:00
"Jocko Homo" – 2:56
"Golden Energy" – 2:32
"Buttered Beauties" – 3:38
"Midget" – 2:41
"I'm a Potato" – 2:38
"Uglatto" – 2:00
"Stop Look and Listen" – 2:33
"Ono" – 2:46
"Mongoloid" – 3:34

(The Track Listing is from the CD issue. This album was also available on Cassette, and there was also a limited vinyl issue in Europe.)

[edit] Personnel

Bob Casale - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Gerald V. Casale - Keyboards, Vocals
Bob Mothersbaugh - Guitar, Vocals
Mark Mothersbaugh - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Jim Mothersbaugh - Drums
Alan Myers - Drums

[edit] Production

Producers: DEVO

[edit] Quotes About the Album

"Disinfecting rock of it's dirt, streamlining its all-too-human edges, Devo created perhaps the most repellent rock in history."
-Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 12/15/90