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DEVO RULEZ!!!!

 

we're through being cool

eliminate the ninnies and the twits

going to bang some heads

going to beat some butts

time to show those evil spuds what's what

if you live in a small town

you might meet a dozen or two

young alien types who step out

and dare to declare

spank the pank who try to drive you nuts

time to clean some house

be a man or a mouse

waste those who make it tuff to get around

if you live in a big place

many factions underground

chase down mister hinky dink

so no trace can be found

put the tape on erase

rearrange a face

we always liked picasso anyway

mash 'em

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Album Description

With the success of "Whip It", and the associated album Freedom of Choice, Devo attracted a new, more pop-oriented audience that was less interested in Devo's artistic theories and intelligent lyrics. In response, New Traditionalists was aimed to be a much darker, deeper and serious album. The leadoff track, "Through Being Cool" is a direct attack at Johnny-Come-Lately fans who didn't understand Devo's message.

 

Devo also developed a new look for the album, eschewing the Energy Dome headgear, and replacing it with the plastic "New Traditionalist Pomp", modeled after John F. Kennedy's famous hairstyle. On stage, Devo wore what were called "Utopian Boy Scout Uniforms", consisting of a gray button down shirt, gray slacks, and black patent leather shoes. They also wore a blue V-neck tee shirt with the New Traditionalists logo on the black sleeves. This can be seen in the US and Australia album cover. On the European cover, Devo wears a "Sleevless Maxi-Turtleneck Sweater". The T-Shirts, Turtlenecks, and plastic versions of the Pomps were available through Devo's fan club catalog.

 

Most of the songs on the album are very dark, and the lyrics lacking the irony and wit that Devo was known for. The exception to this is "Beautiful World". At first listen, the song seens very upbeat and happy, until the line "It's not for me," which reveals the more cynical side of the song. On "Enough Said", Devo becomes political, making fun of world leaders and the political process: "Take all the leaders from around the world / Put them together in a great big ring / Televise it as the lowest show on Earth / And let them fight like hell to see who's king."

 

The "Working In the Coal Mine" single was recorded during the 1980 sessions for Freedom of Choice, and used in the soundtrack of the 1981 film Heavy Metal. Because Devo felt the rest of the soundtrack album was "corporate rock", they insisted that "Coal Mine" be released as a single. The album also included a poster, drawn by a member of the Church of the Subgenius.

 

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Music Videos

Devo made three music videos for the album. "Through Being Cool" had Devo take a limited role, and focused on a team of kids clad in Pomps and a Devo "Action Vest" attacking the uncool people with Spudguns.

 

In "Love Without Anger" Devo acts as a Greek Chorus to a bizarre love story between two humanoid chickens. It also features a stop motion video by Ivan Stang of Barbie and Ken fighting each other and removing each others body parts.

 

"Beautiful World" is considered to be Devo's greatest music video, setting the tune to a series of connected images from film archives. Scenes of beautiful women, futuristic cars, and other happy elements are slowly changed over into images of race riots, violence, and nuclear explosions.

 

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Tour

The New Tradtionalists tour was a large undertaking. Devo performed on treadmills in front of a Greek Temple style structure. Behind the members, between the pillars, small screens displayed rear-projected images. Devo carried an impressive sound system on the tour, as well. Sadly, the only professionally shot footage of the tour was destroyed due to an electrical short.

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I'm gonna find myself a girl

Who can tell me what laughter means

And we'll fill in the missing colors

In each other's paint-by-number dreams

And we'll put our dark glasses on

And we'll make love until our strength is gone

And when the morning light

Comes streaming in

We'll get up

And do it again

Amen

 

Get it up again

Amen!

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What has happened down here is the wind have changed

Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain

Rained real hard and rained for a real long time

Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

The river rose all day

The river rose all night

Some people got lost in the flood

Some people got away alright

The river have busted through cleard down to Plaquemines

Six feet of water in the streets of Evangelne

CHORUS

Louisiana, Louisiana

They're tyrin' to wash us away

They're tryin' to wash us away

Louisiana, Louisiana

They're tryin' to wash us away

They're tryin' to wash us away

President Coolidge came down in a railroad train

With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand

The President say, Little fat man isn't it a shame what the river has

done

To this poor crackers land.

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Hey, hey, mama, said, the way you move

gon' make you sweat, gon' make you groove

 

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Ah-ah, child, the way you shake that thing

gon' make you burn, gon' make you sting

 

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Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way

watch your honey drip, can't keep away

 

Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, ah, ah, ah

Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, ah, ah, ah

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Walkin' in the park just the other day, baby

What d'ya, what d'ya think I saw

Crowds of people sittin' on the grass

with flowers in their hair said, "Hey, boy, do you wanna score"

 

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And y'know how it is

I really don't know what time it was, whoa-ho-ho

So I asked 'em if I could stay a while

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Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, you don't have to go, oh-oh-oh-oh

You don't have to go, oh-oh-oh-oh

Oh, baby, babe, please, please, please, please

 

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, baby, ah-ah, I really love you, baby

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, darlin', oh, oh

Oh, baby, I still love ya so, oh, baby, I still love ya so

Oh-oh-oh, ooh, oh-oh-oh-oh-ah-ah, yeah

Fire, ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, oh, fire, ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Oooh-ooh-hoo, yeah/Fire

Oh, baby, baby, baby

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"Are we rolling, Jimmy?"

"Yeah rolling."

"Rolling on 1. One again."

brrrzzzrrrrzzrrzzz...

[cough] "Trying to get this airplane on here."

"Nah, not even....yea."

Du-na-nu nu-nu, Du-na nu nu-nu, Dun-Dun

Du-na-nu nu-nu, Du-na nu nu-nu, Dun-Dun

 

Hey hey momma, what you gonna do?...

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Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather

Whiplash girlchild in the dark

Clubs and bells, your servant, don’t forsake him

Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

 

Downy sins of streetlight fancies

Chase the costumes she shall wear

Ermine furs adorn the imperious

Severin, severin awaits you there

 

I am tired, I am weary

I could sleep for a thousand years

A thousand dreams that would awake me

Different colors made of tears

 

Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather

Shiny leather in the dark

Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you

Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

 

Severin, severin, speak so slightly

Severin, down on your bended knee

Taste the whip, in love not given lightly

Taste the whip, now plead for me

 

I am tired, I am weary

I could sleep for a thousand years

A thousand dreams that would awake me

Different colors made of tears

 

Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather

Whiplash girlchild in the dark

Severin, your servant comes in bells, please don’t forsake him

Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

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Hmm Yeaa (Ooh Ooh)

City Lights

It's on tonight Yea Yea (ooh ooh ooh ohh yea)

Out on the street, I'm looking for a celebration

Come roll with me, together we can crash the party and

Get on the floor, DJ please play my song

And we can do this all night long

Once again, it is on

 

I'm on a high

I feel like I'm on medication

I'm open wide, and we don't need no complications

Cause I feel alright

And all I see is red lights, and blue lights, and street lights

And it's real life, is that a sign

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