DEV-O Live

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DEV-O LIVE
Live album by Devo
Released	1981 (EP)/1999 (CD)
Recorded	1980
Genre	Post Punk / New Wave
Label	Warner Brothers/Rhino Handmade
Producer(s)	Devo
Devo chronology
Freedom of Choice (1980)	DEV-O LIVE (1981)	New Traditionalists (1981)

DEV-O LIVE is a live EP (and later live album) by the New Wave band Devo. It was recorded during the Freedom of Choice tour of 1980, at the 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". In 2005, Rhino Handmade re-released it on a full album including the entire Warfield show (with the exception of "Pink Pussycat", which mysteriously no longer exists).

It was recently added to the iTunes Music Store, although it is incorrectly described as being the soundtrack to the DVD of a show in 1996 (and released in 2005).

[edit] EP Tracklisting

1. Freedom of Choice Theme Song – 2:46
2. Whip It – 2:41
3. Girl U Want – 2:56
4. Gates of Steel – 3:17
5. Be Stiff – 2:50
6. Planet Earth – 2:32

[edit] 2005 Rerelease Tracklisting

1. Freedom of Choice Theme Song – 2:46
2. Whip It – 2:41
3. Girl U Want – 2:56
4. Gates of Steel – 3:17
5. Be Stiff – 2:50
6. Planet Earth – 2:32
7. Freedom of Choice Theme Song – 2:46
8. Whip It – 2:41
9. Snowball – 2:42
10. It's Not Right – 2:20
11. Girl U Want – 2:56
12. Planet Earth – 2:32
13. S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain) – 4:06
14. Secret Agent Man – 3:17
15. Blockhead – 3:25
16. Uncontrollable Urge – 3:08
17. Mongoloid – 2:50
18. Be Stiff – 2:50
19. Gates of Steel – 3:17
20. Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA – 4:08
21. Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy) – 4:12
22. Come Back Jonee – 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.

[edit] External links

• Devo Live Guide - Comprehensive guide to Devo's live performances.

Devo discography

Albums: Be Stiff EP | Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo | Duty Now for the Future | Freedom of Choice | DEV-O Live | New Traditionalists | Oh, No! It's Devo | Shout | E-Z Listening Disc | Total Devo | Now It Can Be Told: DEVO at the Palace | Smooth Noodle Maps | Devo's Greatest Hits | Devo's Greatest Misses | Hardcore Devo: Volume One | Hardcore Devo: Volume Two | DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years | Adventures of the Smart Patrol | Pioneers Who Got Scalped | Recombo DNA | The Essentials | Whip It and Other Hits | Devo Live 1980 | Live in Central Park

Side Projects: P'Twaaang!!! | Devo 2.0 | Army Girls Gone Wild | Mine is Not a Holy War

Home Video: The Men Who Make the Music | Human Highway | We're All Devo | The Complete Truth About Devolution | Devo Live | Devo Live In The Land Of The Rising Sun | Devo Live 1980