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Posted: 12/2/2007 3:10:58 PM EDT

if they could produce something as fantastically weird as Devo. I challenge you to find a better '80s video than Freedom of Choice.

Posted: 12/2/2007 3:13:44 PM EDT

[#1]

Were not the 80's the era where you could buy all kindsa cool EBR's for peanuts....what wasnt to love...shame I was born i the wrong country

Posted: 12/2/2007 3:33:09 PM EDT

[#2]

DEVO were, in fact, the product of a nobler time.

Posted: 12/2/2007 3:44:23 PM EDT

[#3]

It could have been weirder. Mark Mothersbaugh:

This is the short version: We got flown to Jamaica once, Bob Casale and I. I think it was around ‘77, about three or four weeks after the Sex Pistols broke up. We’re sitting there with Richard Branson, one of the richest men in the world, and we’re all in our 20s at the time. They had all this pot, so we’re like, OK. So we’re smoking pot. And they said, “What do you guys think of the Sex Pistols?” And we go, “They’re great.” We had partied with them on the last show they did in San Francisco. We were playing at some punk club, and they were playing the Winter Palace or wherever it was. They came over afterwards and blah-blah-blah. So they go, “Well, what do you think of Johnny Rotten?” We’re like, “Oh, he’s cool, we love everything he does.” They go, “He’s here in the hotel, and Johnny Rotten wants to join DEVO. And if you guys want to go down to the beach right now, we’ve got reporters from NME, Sound Magazine, and Melody Maker and they want to do a cover story about Johnny Rotten joining DEVO.”

Johnny Rotten as a nerd rocker....

Posted: 12/2/2007 3:58:15 PM EDT

[#4]

Judging by what Johnny Rotten did with P.I.L., this may not have been all that incongruous.

Posted: 12/2/2007 3:59:58 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
It could have been weirder. Mark Mothersbaugh:

This is the short version: We got flown to Jamaica once, Bob Casale and I. I think it was around ‘77, about three or four weeks after the Sex Pistols broke up. We’re sitting there with Richard Branson, one of the richest men in the world, and we’re all in our 20s at the time. They had all this pot, so we’re like, OK. So we’re smoking pot. And they said, “What do you guys think of the Sex Pistols?” And we go, “They’re great.” We had partied with them on the last show they did in San Francisco. We were playing at some punk club, and they were playing the Winter Palace or wherever it was. They came over afterwards and blah-blah-blah. So they go, “Well, what do you think of Johnny Rotten?” We’re like, “Oh, he’s cool, we love everything he does.” They go, “He’s here in the hotel, and Johnny Rotten wants to join DEVO. And if you guys want to go down to the beach right now, we’ve got reporters from NME, Sound Magazine, and Melody Maker and they want to do a cover story about Johnny Rotten joining DEVO.”

Johnny Rotten as a nerd rocker....

I think that would have been a legendary and entertaining disaster.

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:01:53 PM EDT

[#6]

This is another great 80s moument.

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:03:57 PM EDT

[#7]

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This is another great 80s moument.

Yep...a stunner...I have never seen that before

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:04:44 PM EDT

[#8]

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This is another great 80s moument.

BAN HIM!!!

That shit wasn't funny the first 1,000 times it was posted

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:04:54 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
This is another great 80s moument.

Fuck you and die.

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:05:12 PM EDT

[#10]

And you could pick up a M-16 for next to nothing.

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:05:49 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Quoted:
This is another great 80s moument.

BAN HIM!!!

That shit wasn't funny the first 1,000 times it was posted

Poor use of the rick roll in this thread, it actually belongs here....

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:06:15 PM EDT

[#12]

Ah yes, they were indeed a magnificent golden age...

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:06:43 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
This is another great 80s moument.

Another great feature of this site is the report button.

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:08:01 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:

Quoted:
This is another great 80s moument.

Another great feature of this site is the report button.

better be careful

Staff has posted in BIG RED LETTERS about reporting rick rolls in GD.

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:10:12 PM EDT

[#15]

Devo don't have nothin' on Swayze!

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:12:08 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Quoted:
This is another great 80s moument.

Another great feature of this site is the report button.

better be careful

Staff has posted in BIG RED LETTERS about reporting rick rolls in GD.

I had to do it at least once since I am always late to the party. This will be my last time I promise,... but I do remember him on TV during the 80s.

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:16:44 PM EDT

[#17]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:26:16 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
if they could produce something as fantastically weird as Devo. I challenge you to find a better '80s video than Freedom of Choice.

I'll see your Freedom Of Choice & raise you Beautiful World Possibly the best Devo song ever.

More '80s goodness
Gary Numan ..not sure if the song came out in in '79 or 80 but the video was an early MTV staple.

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:31:06 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg

YES Safety Dance!!!

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:36:25 PM EDT

[#20]

Freedom Of Choice is pretty weird, but nothing really beats Peek-A-Boo. 'Course, it's all Devo.

Also: the 80s were the era of Reagan. Who was totally awesome, and a sex machine to all the chicks.

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:37:00 PM EDT

[#21]

Back in '65 you could just order out of a magazine and it would be mailed to you direct..........

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:38:27 PM EDT

[#22]

Devo - R U Experienced?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qonTIZGu27w&feature=related

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:39:49 PM EDT

[#23]

DEVO was great.

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:41:06 PM EDT

[#24]

No, it's not the damn Rick Roll

Devo: That's Good

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:43:32 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
This is another great 80s moument.

Try to grow up. I know it is hard for you - but give it a shot.

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:43:36 PM EDT

[#26]

Rickrolling in an 80's video thread is about the height of stupid.

I saw DEVO in 80' on the Freedom Of Choice tour.
It was one of the best shows I've ever seen.
As weird as they are, they were a great live rock band.

devo uncontrollable urge - live
Devo "Gates of Steel" LIVE 1980
Devo Live1973 Kent State University Creative Arts Festival (Ur DEVO)

Colonel Hurtz

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:46:47 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

More '80s goodness
Gary Numan ..not sure if the song came out in in '79 or 80 but the video was an early MTV staple.

Cars was released in 1980.

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:47:03 PM EDT

[#28]

A great performance on Sat Night Live (when they actually sang live)

Devo: Satisfaction (Saturday Night Live)

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:47:31 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Rickrolling in an 80's video thread is about the height of stupid.

I saw DEVO in 80' on the Freedom Of Choice tour.
It was one of the best shows I've ever seen.
As weird as they are, they were a great live rock band.

devo uncontrollable urge - live
Devo "Gates of Steel" LIVE 1980
Devo Live1973 Kent State University Creative Arts Festival (Ur DEVO)

Colonel Hurtz

Starting a thread about the 80s in the height of RicRolling is stupid.

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:51:53 PM EDT

[#30]

Link

link two

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:52:11 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Rickrolling in an 80's video thread is about the height of stupid.

I saw DEVO in 80' on the Freedom Of Choice tour.
It was one of the best shows I've ever seen.
As weird as they are, they were a great live rock band.

Colonel Hurtz

I saw Devo in concert in the early 80s. I've seen a lot in my life - but I count that night as one of the bizarre experiences I have ever had. The audience was a freakshow of its own.

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:52:26 PM EDT

[#32]

Take a listen to Gary Numan Hybrid and tell me Nine Inch Nails didn't rip off the sound.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TGi1zcm340&feature=related

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:53:06 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Quoted:
This is another great 80s moument.

Another great feature of this site is the report button.

better be careful

Staff has posted in BIG RED LETTERS about reporting rick rolls in GD.

Link?

Posted: 12/2/2007 4:59:50 PM EDT

[#34]

Two of my favorites from the 80's

Romeo Void

Wall Of Voodoo

Posted: 12/2/2007 5:10:30 PM EDT

[#35]

I'll see your Freedom Of Choice & raise you Beautiful World Possibly the best Devo song ever.

I'll add another from the 80's. Danny Elfman made good with all the HollyWeird soundtracks he ended up doing. Guy is very talented and a little off in the Devo kind of way.
Oingo Boingo
and who could forget
Talking Heads

The 80's rocked.

Posted: 12/2/2007 5:15:19 PM EDT

[#36]

Devo still plays shows once in while, they played Detroit last year. Iggy Pop still does shows too. Remember this one:Repo Man

Posted: 12/2/2007 5:17:59 PM EDT

[#37]

Whip It

the '80s were COOL; I miss them. C'mon, music like this, Reagan pasting Khadafi's tents, "Tear down this wall!", exhilarating times to live in.

Posted: 12/2/2007 5:23:26 PM EDT

[#38]

I'm a Devotee, got all their albums on CD, even some weirder ones.

during the 80's electronics were pretty wimpy, but the CD did come out in 1986. VHS still ruled as did 4:3 SDTV.

Cars were wimpy, even so called sports cars.

The 1989 import ban didn't happen till 1989 when most of the 80's was already over. HK94's could be had for $400 or so.

There was no internet, that kind of sucked.

Posted: 12/2/2007 5:29:16 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
I'm a Devotee, got all their albums on CD, even some weirder ones.

during the 80's electronics were pretty wimpy, but the CD did come out in 1986. VHS still ruled as did 4:3 SDTV.

Cars were wimpy, even so called sports cars.

The 1989 import ban didn't happen till 1989 when most of the 80's was already over. HK94's could be had for $400 or so.

There was no internet, that kind of sucked.

Weirder like the Residents? The Residents

Posted: 12/2/2007 5:30:38 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:

I'll see your Freedom Of Choice & raise you Beautiful World Possibly the best Devo song ever.

I'll add another from the 80's. Danny Elfman made good with all the HollyWeird soundtracks he ended up doing. Guy is very talented and a little off in the Devo kind of way.
Oingo Boingo
and who could forget
Talking Heads

The 80's rocked.

I've always been somewhat of an Oingo fan

yet more '80s cheese
Dead Or Alive
Adam Ant

Posted: 12/2/2007 5:33:48 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:

There was no internet, that kind of sucked.

Yeah, but we appreciated porn more, if only because of the embarrassment of handing over the magazine and cash to the nice old lady behind the counter at Eckerd's

Posted: 12/2/2007 5:56:48 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:

Quoted:

There was no internet, that kind of sucked.

Yeah, but we appreciated porn more, if only because of the embarrassment of handing over the magazine and cash to the nice old lady behind the counter at Eckerd's

"Ah, nothing special, how 'bout you?"

"Cool. Well, I guess I'll get these gummy bears, a pepperoni stick, Coke, and a Club - It's for my dad... it's his birthday."

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