Now It Can Be Told: Devo at the Palace

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Now It Can Be Told: DEVO at the Palace
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Live album by
Devo
Released1989
RecordedDecember 9, 1988
Venue The Palace, Hollywood
Genre New wave
Length60:01
Label Enigma
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Total Devo
(1988)		Now It Can Be Told: DEVO at the Palace
(1989)		 Smooth Noodle Maps
(1990)
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Now It Can Be Told: DEVO at the Palace is a live album by American new wave band Devo, released in 1989 by Enigma Records. The album was recorded during their 1988 "comeback tour" in promotion of the Total Devo album. It contains performances of several cuts from Total Devo but largely focuses on earlier material and also contains one exclusive song, "It Doesn't Matter to Me".

Contents

Song arrangements

Music historian Andy Zax noted that the album presented reshaped versions of old songs from the band's repertoire as well as some new material, including a "twangy country ballad" version of "Jocko Homo" and the new composition "It Doesn't Matter to Me", "sounding like a long lost '60s folk-rock nugget". [1] The delivery of "Jocko Homo" prompted band member Jerry Casale to exclaim, "I'll bet you didn't know that was such a sad song."

"Going Under" was performed in a style similar to the E-Z Listening Disc (1987) version. The rest of the set was largely based on the original studio versions. (The only notable difference was in "Gut Feeling," where the fast "Slap Your Mammy" jam had been removed from the ending and was replaced by the song "Gates of Steel".) The album's closing track is an eleven-minute medley of "Shout", "Somewhere" from West Side Story and "Disco Dancer". A longer studio version totaling eighteen minutes later appeared on the Recombo DNA (2000) rarities compilation. The studio version features a longer instrumental section and the addition of an older Devo song called "Social Fools". "Disco Dancer" is nearly identical to the remixed version heard in the song's music video.

Artwork

The cover art and tagline were based on the 1971 book The Beginning Was the End . Initial vinyl pressings were double LPs that contained three sides of music and a fourth "blank" side with etched signatures from the band. The label of the fourth side was marked, "ATTENTION SPUDS! NO GROOVE! DO NOT PLAY!" [2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale, except where noted

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Jocko Homo"M. Mothersbaugh3:51
2."It Doesn't Matter to Me"M. Mothersbaugh2:52
3."Going Under" 4:17
4."Working in a Coal Mine" Allen Toussaint 3:59
5."Happy Guy" 3:22
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."That's Good" 3:31
7."Jerkin' Back 'n' Forth" 3:05
8."Girl U Want" 3:02
9."Whip It" 2:37
10."Baby Doll" 3:53
11."(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" Mick Jagger, Keith Richards 3:36
Side three
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
12."Uncontrollable Urge"M. Mothersbaugh3:28
13."Gut Feeling"M. Mothersbaugh, Bob Mothersbaugh 3:13
14."Gates of Steel"M. Mothersbaugh, G. Casale, Sue Schmidt, Debbie Smith 3:46
15."Somewhere With Devo (Suite includes "Shout" and "Disco Dancer")" 11:20
Total length:60:01

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. [2]

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Technical

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References

  1. ↑ Zax, Andy (2000). Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology (CD liner notes). Los Angeles: Rhino. R2 75967.
  2. 1 2 Devo (1989). Now It Can Be Told: Devo at the Palace 12/9/88 (LP liner notes). Enigma. 7 73514-1.
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