Devo – Hardcore (2013)
HardcoreMore than 20 years ago, Devo collected a vast slew of mid-1970s demos and released them as the two-volume Hardcore series. Booji Boy is teaming up with the Superior Viaduct boutique label to repackages the compilations Hardcore, Vol. 1 and Hardcore, Vol. 2 into one CD set.
The collections bring together a series of demos recorded in studios, basements and garages between 1974 and 1977, and the early recordings are described as featuring “rock’n'roll stripped bare of its collective cool and jerked back into propaganda fit for post-modern man.”
The first volume includes early takes of later classics “Jocko Homo,” “Mongoloid,” and their mechanically sexual cover of the Stones’ “Satisfaction,” along with rarities like “Uglatto.”
The second volume digs even deeper into the vaults and features raw performances of bubblegum-goof “Goo Goo Itch,” the decrepit and detuned swamp-blues of “All Of Us,” and more. The tweaked-up set also includes four previously unreleased rarities: “Man from the Past,” “Doghouse Doghouse,” “Hubert House” and “Shimmy Shake.”
Disc 1: Hardcore Devo Volume 1 (originally released as Rykodisc RCD-10188, 1990)
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
Disc 2: Hardcore Devo Volume 2 (originally released as Rykodisc RCD-20208, 1991)
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 *
* denotes previously unreleased bonus track
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