Now It Can Be Told: DEVO at the Palace

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Now It Can Be Told: DEVO at the Palace
Now It Can Be Told: DEVO at the Palace cover
Studio album by Devo
Released 1989
Recorded December 9 1988
Genre New Wave
Length 60:01
Label Enigma Records
Producer(s) Devo
Devo chronology
Total Devo
(1988)		 Now It Can Be Told: DEVO At The Palace
(1989)		 Smooth Noodle Maps
(1990)


Now It Can Be Told: DEVO At The Palace is a live album released by American New Wave band Devo, recorded during their "comeback tour" in promotion of Total Devo. It did contain several cuts from the album, but largely focused on earlier material (although the disc also had one exclusive song; "It Doesn't Matter To Me". The cover art and tagline were based on the 1971 book "The Beginning Was the End".

Contents

[edit] Song Changes

The first part of the show was a bizarre semi-acoustic set, in which the band played heavily altered versions of earlier hits. The show's opener was a country version of "Jocko Homo", which was now significantly slower and had a vocal melody change. The sad ballad-esque delivery of the song prompted Mark Mothersbaugh to exclaim "I'll bet you didn't know that was such a sad song."

The next bizarre change occurred to "Going Under", whose arrangement was significantly toned down with all (obvious) synthesizer effects removed. The tempo was significantly slowed and several instrumental parts were added, turning the song into a near-jazz performance.

A similar treatment was given to "Working In A Coal Mine". However, in this case the lyrics were changed; the spoken "I am so tired... how long can this go on?" was changed to "I am so de-volved!".

The rest of the set was relatively normal relative to the original studio versions. (The only notable diffirence was in "Gut Feeling", where the fast "Slap Your Mammy" jam had been removed from the ending.) However, the album's closer is an eleven-minute medley of "Disco Dancer", "Shout" (one of only two songs from Shout ever played live), and a typically mutated version of "Somewhere" from West Side Story. Although this was an impressive feat for Devo length-wise, an even longer version eighteen minutes in length appeared on the Recombo DNA outtakes album, featuring a longer instrumental section and the addition of an older Devo song called "Social Fools".

[edit] Album Length

The description of the album as containing "More than one hour of uncensored sonic proof" is a deliberate joke on part of Devo. The album's length is 60 minutes and 1 second.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Jocko Homo" – 3:51
  2. "It Doesn't Matter To Me" – 2:52
  3. "Going Under" – 4:17
  4. "Working In A Coal Mine" – 3:59
  5. "Happy Guy" – 3:22
  6. "That's Good" – 3:31
  7. "Jerkin' Back 'N' Forth" – 3:05
  8. "Girl U Want" – 3:02
  9. "Whip It" – 2:37
  10. "Baby Doll" – 3:53
  11. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" – 3:36
  12. "Uncontrollable Urge" – 3:28
  13. "Gut Feeling" – 3:13
  14. "Gates Of Steel" – 3:46
  15. "Somewhere With DEVO" – 11:20

[edit] External links

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
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