I had a wish for last record store day.
That wish actually comes true on May 14, 2013. Not on record store day.
DEVO "Hardcore" will be issued on Vinyl!
In a Bundle (Deluxe Edition) that includes both Volume 1 & 2 on red vinyl (mail order exclusive) or you could get Volume 1 and/or 2 on black.
Thank you Superior Viaduct.
The following is from Superior Viaduct's website:
http://www.superiorviaduct.com/products/devo-hardcore-vinyl-bundle-deluxe
DEVO - Hardcore Vinyl Bundle (Deluxe Edition)
Deluxe version includes Volume 1 and Volume 2 on limited edition red vinyl and full-color poster. Mail-order exclusive, not available in stores. Available May 14th.
DEVO's Hardcore documents the group's beginning as pre-punk outcasts in the fertile Akron, Ohio underground rock scene. Spawned at the nearby college of Kent State, site of the infamous May 4 Massacre, DEVO formed as a conceptual art project armed with a radical philosophy of de-evolution. Brothers Mothersbaugh (Mark, Bob, and Jim) and Brothers Casale (Jerry and Bob) along with drummer Alan Myers soon whipped-up an otherworldly brand of "devolved blues" that could hold its own alongside the beatnik groove of 15-60-75 (aka The Numbers Band) or the primal rock poetry of the Bizarros.
Recorded on various 4-track machines and in tiny studios, basements, and garages between 1974-1977, Hardcore reveals their strikingly clear vision: rock n' roll stripped bare of its collective cool and jerked back into propaganda fit for post-modern man. It's no surprise that these transmissions would soon catch the eye and ear of Brian Eno who later produced their landmark 1978 debut album. Noisy synth, strangled guitar chops, and a primitive rhythmic thud power the early DEVO sound. Threaded beneath it all are lyrical themes of post-McCarthy paranoia, middle-class ephemera, and DEVO's long-running topic of choice: sex, or lack thereof.
Few moments in pop music history can match the grinding, pent-up energy of "Mongoloid" and the spastic bounce and sputter of "Jocko Homo" (two anthems presented in their earlier and superior versions here). Cult favorites like "Mechanical Man" and "Auto-Modown" make Volume 1 essential listening.
Volume 2 digs further into the band's cranial bunker with the caveman hit "Be Stiff," the space age surf-blues of "Clockout" and even a demented take on bubblegum pop, "Goo Goo Itch." This 2xLP set includes four previously unreleased tracks: "Man From The Past," "Doghouse Doghouse," "Hubert House," and "Shimmy Shake."
Superior Viaduct and Booji Boy Records are proud to present DEVO's Hardcore to a new generation of spuds, lovingly packaged with Moshe Brakha's stunning cover photography. As David Bowie said in 1977, DEVO is indeed "the band of the future."
Track Listing:
Volume 1
Mechanical Man
Auto Modown
Space Girl Blues
Social Fools
Soo Bawls
Satisfaction
Jocko Homo
Golden Energy
Buttered Beauties
Midget
I'm A Potato
Uglatto
Stop Look And Listen
Ono
Mongoloid
Volume 2
Booji Boy's Funeral
Can U Take It?
Bamboo Bimbo
A Plan For U
The Rope Song
Goo Goo Itch
Be Stiff
All Of Us
Baby Talkin' Bitches
I Need A Chick
U Got Me Bugged
Chango
Fraulein
Dogs Of Democracy
"37"
Bottled Up
Working In A Coalmine
I Been Refused
Fountain Of Filth
Clockout
Let's Go
Man From The Past
Doghouse Doghouse
Hubert House
Shimmy Shake
Cheers,
Frank FOE
