Episode 41

Devo - Q: Are We Not Men A: We Are Devo
This is the groups first album made in 1978. This album was reciently repressed on colored clear yellow vinyl. I was so excited to get this album. I recognized many tracks on this album. The 2 that I recognize the most are Jacko Homo and the cover of (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction. I am personally not a fan of The Rolling Stones. As a matter of fact I don’t ever want to own anything from the group. I have of course heard all of the singles from the group on the radio. So, when I heard this cover from Devo back I can’t remember when I loved it. This version is not the sleazy sexy version of The Stones. The group changed it into something square and geeky. The nerds never get any appreciation or the girls for that matter. It is just a fantastic song made for those that deserve the song. The other song is just saying that “We are Devo” and we are all welcome to be a part of it. It is brilliant in its own right. The other songs that I learned about from this album much later in life are Mongoloid, Uncontrollable Urge and Come Back Jonee. I am not sure where I heard any of these three songs but I recognize them at any rate. I remember that my best friend has an original copy of this album from his mother I think. I have always liked the band, as I said, and coveted his copy of this album. I never actually told him this because I knew that I would find a copy of it someday. Apparently that day has come.

I like the story about how they came across the logo on the front cover too. Here it is from the Wiki page about the album:
“According to an essay by Jerry Casale included on the Complete Truth About De-evolution DVD, the cover of their debut album is based on an image of the famous professional golfer Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodríguez that they had found on a golf strap. According to Casale, David Burnam, the manager of business affairs at their label Warner Bros. Records, decided the image could not be used because "he was a golf fan and felt we were making fun of Chi Chi." The band offered to contact Rodriguez personally but were faced with time constraints, due to the forthcoming production of their album. The head of the label's art department, Rick Serini, recommended an artist who could airbrush and alter the face in the picture, while Mark Mothersbaugh offered up a picture he'd procured from a local newspaper that morphed the faces of United States presidents John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. These ideas were morphed with the original "Chi Chi" Rodriguez image to create the cover of the album.
As a footnote to the story, the band did manage to get Rodriguez's permission to use the original photo. Since the "morphed" album sleeves were already in production by that time, Serini claimed it would cost the band $2,500 to halt production and reinstate the image originally intended by the band, which forced the band to keep the morphed version. According to Casale, "we were able to come out with something that by the corporate interference and misunderstanding of the business side of Warner Bros. Records, actually unwittingly produced something far more DEVO than the original [image]."
The original golf strap image was eventually used for the cover of the "Be Stiff" single.
The European version of the album, released by Virgin Records, uses alternate cover art taken from the film The Truth About De-Evolution”

How To Destroy Angels - How To destroy Angels EP
There is not much about this group as of yet since they just released their first EP. It was released as a free download through the groups’ website. The group features the lead of Nine Inch Nails – Trent Reznor and his wife along with Atticus Ross. The music is only so so in my opinion. I think that I will give it a few more listens even still. What I have found out is that the group is named after a 1984 Coil single of the same name.

Day Of Fire - Losing All
This album was released a few months ago and I finally got the chance to get it. Three of the tracks were co-written with Daughtry. I don’t think that these tracks are any better than the rest of the album by any means. I can’t say that this album is better than the previous two. It is different for sure but I really liked the previous 2. I also couldn’t expect the group to keep writing the same album over and over again. I have only listened to the album a whole whopping 1 time. I think that the album is good and it can only get better with continued listening. Then have a nice modern version of playing classic rock in a Christian view. They make some really great classic sounds in a modern light. I really like the good classic rock so to have a modern way to listen to classic sound makes me really happy.


That is all for now, signing off.