Hardcore Devo Live!

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Hardcore Devo Live!
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Live album (CD, LP, DVD, Blu-ray)by
Devo
ReleasedFebruary 24, 2015
RecordedJune 28, 2014
Venue Fox Theatre, Oakland, California
Genre Experimental rock
Length74:59 (CD/LP)
84:42 (DVD)
Label MVD Audio (CD/LP)
MVD Visual (DVD)
Director Keirda Bahruth (DVD)
Producer Devo
Devo chronology
Something Else for Everybody
(2013)		Hardcore Devo Live!
(2015)		 50 Years of De-Evolution 1973–2023
(2023)
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Hardcore Devo Live! is a concert film and live album, showcasing Devo's June 28, 2014, performance at the Fox Theatre in Oakland, California on the 2014 Hardcore Devo Live tour. [2] The tour commemorates the 40th anniversary of the band and pays tribute to former band member Bob Casale, who died February 17, 2014. [3] The set list exclusively focuses on songs written between 1974 and 1977, before Devo had a recording contract. Many of the songs had not been performed by the band since 1977. [2] While the music is largely performed as a quartet, the band is augmented offstage by Brian Applegate on additional keyboards and bass guitar.

Contents

The show is performed in two-halves; the first, focusing on earlier material, is presented with the band seated, in street clothes, with minimal lighting, as if the audience were watching them rehearsing in a basement. After "Midget", the band puts on blue coveralls, as worn in early live shows, adding songs that would later appear on Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1978) and Duty Now for the Future (1979). The band is joined on the final song of the night, "Clockout", by Bob Casale's son Alex on bass.

Interviews with the surviving band members, as well as V. Vale and Toni Basil, are interspersed into the performance. [4] A "Concert-Only" option is available on the DVD and Blu-ray releases.

Track listing

Adapted from the album's liner notes.

No.TitleWriter(s)Original demo recording dateLength
1."Mechanical Man" Mark Mothersbaugh 19756:00
2."Auto Modown" Gerald Casale 19742:07
3."Space Girl Blues"G. Casale19742:01
4."Baby Talkin' Bitches"G. Casale, Bob Mothersbaugh 19752:42
5."Fraulein"M. Mothersbaugh19753:45
6."I Been Refused"G. Casale19742:44
7."Bamboo Bimbo"G. Casale, M. Mothersbaugh19753:50
8."Beehive"G. Casale, Peter Gregg 19742:48
9."Midget"G. Casale, B. Mothersbaugh19753:27
10."Satisfaction" Mick Jagger, Keith Richards 19774:01
11."Timing X/Soo Bawls"M. Mothersbaugh19763:59
12."Stop, Look, and Listen"M. Mothersbaugh19762:45
13."O No"G. Casale, M. Mothersbaugh19743:00
14."Be Stiff"G. Casale, Bob Lewis 19742:59
15."Uncontrollable Urge"M. Mothersbaugh19773:42
16."Social Fools"G. Casale19753:20
17."Jocko Homo"M. Mothersbaugh19755:18
18."Fountain of Filth"G. Casale, Bob Casale 19774:14
19."Gut Feeling"M. Mothersbaugh, B. Mothersbaugh19774:13
20."U Got Me Bugged" (Booji Boy)M. Mothersbaugh19753:10
21."Clockout"G. Casale19764:54
Total length:74:59

Note

DVD extras

Personnel

Credits adapted from CD liner notes: [5]

Devo

Additional musicians

Technical

Credits adapted from DVD liner notes: [6]

Technical

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References

  1. ↑ Jeffries, David. "Hardcore Devo Live! Review". AllMusic . Retrieved February 15, 2021.
  2. 1 2 "HARDCORE DEVO LIVE! DVD / Blu-Ray / LP / CD via PledgeMusic!". clubdevo.com. August 5, 2014. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
  3. ↑ Greene, Andy (March 27, 2014). "Devo to Play 'Experimental' Music on Upcoming 'Hardcore Devo' Tour". Rolling Stone . Retrieved February 15, 2021.
  4. ↑ Jones, J.R. "Hardcore DEVO Live!". Chicago Reader . Retrieved February 15, 2021.
  5. ↑ Devo (2015). Hardcore Devo Live! (CD liner notes). MVD Audio. MVD6526A.
  6. ↑ Devo (2015). Hardcore Devo Live! (DVD liner notes). MVD Visual. MVD6523D.
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