Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Produced by Brian Eno, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! was a seminal touchstone in the development of American new wave. It was one of the first pop albums to use synthesizers as an important textural element, and although they mostly play a supporting role in this guitar-driven set, the innovation began to lay the groundwork for the synth-pop explosion that would follow very shortly. It also doesn't hurt that this is arguably Devo's strongest set of material, though several brilliant peaks can overshadow the remainder. Of those peaks, the most definitive are the de-evolution manifesto "Jocko Homo" (one of the extremely few rock anthems written in 7/8 time) and a wicked deconstruction of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," which reworks the original's alienation into a spastic freak-out that's nearly unrecognizable. But Q: Are We Not Men? also had a conceptual unity that bolstered the consistent songwriting, making it an essential document of one of new wave's most influential bands.

Where is "Whip It"

Strong hat game.

Probably got the fifth star because I listened while going for a run and it helped me along

So nice I listed to it twice. It's only 35 minutes long. I had this, on vinyl. In 1980. Maybe even earlier.

Great album! It was like a crazy mix of the ramones and the beach boys

Great satire delivered in solid music

What a waste of time and energy. Why this is on the list, I have no idea but it needs to be removed. It's just utter shit.

Devo arrive at their first album fully formed - a bunch of geeky clowns dismantling rock 'n' roll on record, all in service of a sinister, shadowy credo that humanity is going backwards. You're never too sure whether they're joking or not, and that ambivalence lurking in the heart of Q: Are We Not Men? forms a huge part of their appeal. The other is their weird, stiff, hysterical motorik music. There's not a bad track here, and many real highlights. Strange sounds, played with intent and determination.

Like listening to a blueprint of what was to come in 1980s.

This album kicks ass. 70s pop-punk with fat riffs and some ethereal 80s sounds that were clearly ahead of their time.

invested 34 minutes during my morning ablutions to discover i do not like Devo. that talk-singing with shitty surf rock riffs doesnt do it for me. i cant believe i listened to the whole thing

Irritating for the most part and I felt like it was an inside joke that I didn’t get.

Starts with the fucking Devo guy singing "yeah, yuh-yuh-yeah yeah yeah!" over and over, moves on to the least essential Rolling Stones cover in history, and somehow goes downhill from there. All of the thumbs down. Best track: Space Junk

dunno if i'm a man or devo any more.

Super fun and energetic. Could see most of these songs being in a movie soundtrack.

Smithers, have the B-52's killed.

10/10 I love new wave

But Q: Are We Not Men? also had a conceptual unity that bolstered the consistent songwriting, making it an essential document of one of new wave's most influential bands.

For me, listening to this album for the first time all the way through was a bit like discovering as a kid that your dad cheats on his taxes or keeps porno mags under the bed, in other words that he's a not a superhero, but just a regular flawed human being. The problem is, I've had Devo's greatest hits collection for a decade or so and I guess a part of me was expecting that kind of unabashed brilliance from their debut album. Completely unfair. Most of Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! is merely very good rather than brilliant. One nice surprise is that, even though the songwriting isn't for the most part at the level of masterpieces like Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy or Jocko Homo, the production completely slaps. For a pop album, QAWNMWAD easily boasts the most well thought out synth patches of 1978. Yes, getting an appropriate synth sound is easier when your stock in trade is satire, like Devo, or tongue in cheek pop deconstruction, like The Cars, but the range of decent synth sounds on QAWNMWAD is impressive nonetheless. I suspect a lot of that is producer Brian Eno's doing. He also does a beautiful job of balancing the various elements of Devo's sound. The guitars are crisp and the vocals have just the right amount of echo and reverb. I love the way the bass is processed on Mongoloid, with a clean, springy sound up front with almost imperceptible tweaks that create depth. Eno's production manages to be both immediate and deep. You can elect to groove along on the surface, but there's a lot going on in these tracks if you care to drill down. Another thing I gained an appreciation for is the basic musicianship of the band, which is apparent even in the lesser tracks. Drummer Alan Myers is the glue that holds the band together. His big robotic beats are a major part of Devo's sound, and he handles the tricky time signatures and section shifts with aplomb. Singer Mark Mothersbaugh is a maniac--I love his phrasing and energy, which never flags. It's not easy to do full on satire and rock out at the same time. But what about the songs themselves? Well, most of the compositions, like Come Back Jonee, are built on short snippets with layered, interlocking rhythms. Much of the interest comes in these tunes comes from the performances, the arrangements, the production touches, and the amusing and thoughtful lyrics, which is admittedly far from nothing. But these songs feel like an additional section or two or some twist would have pushed them into classic territory. The one discovery here is Too Much Paranoias, which is possibly just as nuts as Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy although a lot less commercial. Yes, it's built on one riff, but the melody is practically atonal, and there's that improvised bridge in the middle of the tune. Pure insanity, in a good way. I dunno. Yes, Devo's style is unique and a lot of fun. The playing, production, and arrangements are first rate. And there are a handful of outright classics on this album. But I can't give this a 5/5 because of there are just too many songs that feel like underachievers.

*Tom Brady showing his plastic surgeon this album cover* yeah I wanna look like him doc

PREFS : TOUT MOINS PREF : RIEN

wavy

Dug it. Dug it good.

No. 212/1001 Uncontrollable Urge 3/5 I Can't Get No Satisfaction 3/5 Praying Hands 3/5 Space Junk 2/5 Mongoloid 3/5 Jocko Homo 2/5 Toro Much Paranoias 2/5 Gut Feeling 2/5 Come Back Jonee 3/5 Sloppy 2/5 Shrivel-Up 2/5 Average: 2,45 Post-Punk is just not my thing. I know you want to do something different than the artistas before you. But how about making something that is enjoyable to listen to?

Certainly they transcend the novelty act trap (and memories) but don’t get to actual substance or any real merit beyond the occasional chuckle or non-negligible cleverness. “Satisfaction’ works pretty well and “Gut Feeling” is the closest to straight-up effectiveness in the New Wave/indie rock vein – but there’s a saminess has the satire wearing thin before too long. One likes the commitment to doing something different and pretty damn original without loving the output. In time, the funny hats would make it hard to take the music seriously; one wonders if they were taking the piss out of their fans or who took whom too seriously (or not seriously enough). One doesn’t think enough of the product to be inspired to consider the depth or poignancy of the social satire (consumer culture is a pretty fat target) or how this fares as performance art. (That it was on the radio makes pop music the main genre. Were they merely a less serious Talking Heads? Were they outdone by their spiritual heirs (e.g., They Might Be Giants, Dead Milkmen and Magnetic Fields)? 2.5 > 2

Fuck yeah

Unnngh - love this Devo album! I saw them live at a festival in Japan in like 2008, and they looked like a bunch of portly middle aged men in yellow jumpsuits and funny hats, but they sounded exactly the same. I was convinced they were miming and kinda bummed out, but then towards the end of the set the singer started to get slightly out of breath and it became apparent that they’re just awesome and can recreate their sound from the glory days at will…. 😆 Fave track - "Gut Feeling / (Slap Your Mammy)" is just so so good. Love the moody intro to "Mongoloid" too...

This was an awesome album. Great recommendation.

Kanonplatta med åtskilliga hits. Ägde skivan som ung och den gick varm på skivspelaren. Mongoloid är en av världens bästa låtar dessutom.

Seminal …. Fruits all through the 80s and beyond … with Devo and Dave Byrne/talking heads … Something was brewing

Hell yeah. Excellent album. I was a little disappointed looking at the tracklist to not see "Whip It," if that gives you any idea what kind of Devo fan I am. But the first track I recognized instantly from a Tony Hawk game, absolutely love "Uncontrollable Urge" and would never in a million years guessed that was Devo. Loved their rendition of Satisfaction, and overall it's just a really cool exploratory album. It's more punk rock than new wave, but you can hear the origins of new wave forming - this was made in 1978! That's so crazy to me. Just a really creative album, totally worth including. Also, funniest track title maybe of all time award goes to "Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin')." No way they could've known what that would mean 45 years later. Favorite tracks: Uncontrollable Urge, Satisfaction, Mongoloid, Jocko Homo, Come Back Jonee, Sloppy. Album art: Absolutely love it, iconic for sure. Bold, bright colors, a nice '50s utopian style portrait of a man's head on, what, a golf ball? Not sure the rhyme or reason to any of this, but it rocks. 4.5/5

Devo is so fucking weird in the right way.

Q: Is this yet another classic album produced by Brian Eno? A: Why, yes it is.

This album rules. Super fun, very unique, lots to love about it. I sometimes like how subtle the electronic instrument use is, other times I feel like it could be a little more emphasized, but overall a solid record.

listened on my lunch break, deserved a more sincere listen and review sorry bout it. Liked what I was hearing 3.5/5

Really fun record that still feels timely, with exciting angular melodies and often quite funny lyrics. Only mildly dated by its production. Can hear the influence in a lot of today's post punk. Fave track: Too Much Paranoias

What a treat - so easy to enjoy the punchy and unique stylings and fun instrumentation. Seems completely original and innovative compared to some of the other rock and post-punk outfits of the time. Weird and a total joy. Fave track: Come Back Jonee

Perhaps the most bizarre album I have ever enjoyed - it really is very strange. I'm not sure it is one of the best 1001, or one of the most important 1001, but it is certainly interesting and I am glad to have heard it. Pretty much every track has the germ of a pop song in it, but then buried under many layers of bizarreness.

This is one of those albums I bought recently because everyone should own this record on vinyl. For novelty and nostalgic reasons, Devo is one of those one-of-a kind bands that had an interesting concept and took it as far as they could. I first saw them on TV (SNL or Fridays?) around this time and well, they were hilarious! Personally, I liked them best on the early albums, as their sound was fresh and exciting on the debut, but loses steam towards the end. Still an enjoyable listen and you can't help, but visualize those goofy hats.

This is very much music of its era, the late 70s where electronic music and synthesisers were becoming quite common. Music was changing,to me this wss the foundation of the 80s pop sound. There are similarities with Talking Heads. This is fun, humerous music and less confrontational than the contemporary punk sound coming from the Clash, the Pistols and Iggy Pop. it is fun to listento, but sounds very 70s

Q. What does SHACK eat for breakfast? A. Lamb chops.

I don't think I've ever listened to a Devo album all the way through before. As someone who grew up with MTV, they made such a big visual impact on my young eyeballs that the music has always been somewhat secondary. And I'm still not positive if I'm supposed to take the music itself seriously... but I kinda don't care. There's a general tone and feeling that came through while listening to the collection of songs here that I enjoyed overall. I don't like the Stones cover and I agree with Craig that the songs aren't as strong as I'd hoped for, especially thinking in comparison to that album we listened to recently from The Cars. But again this one is more about the feeling and it gave me a good one. Plus, I got to have a meeting with Mark Mothersbaugh once and he couldn't have been nicer. Their offices had weird instruments laying around and was exactly what I hoped it would be. Towards the end of the meeting, Mark had to leave to go talk to David O'Russell about scoring one of his films and asked if I'd rather go in his place. Ha. Top 10 moment in my entire film endeavor.

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Hold the lettuce, hold the cheese. More Devo, please! Every song is a lemme here that spanker again!

I've known it for a long time. I love it. It's a classic. ARE WE NOT MEN we are devo

Now we're talking! I've been a huge fan of this wonky-pop classic since I was about 18. Just brilliant stuff. Favourite tracks: Uncontrollable Urge, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Praying Hands, Mongoloid, Jocko Homo (that 7/8 time signature is TOO good), Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy, Shrivel-Up.

Imagine the balls it takes to take one of rocks quintessential cool songs and cover it in the most uncool way. And I'm doing so, make it incredibly cool in a completely different way. Devo is all punk in style. Damn expectations, damn coolness. Let's be angular. Let's make weird sounds. Let's sing the Burger King motto. Their declarative Jocko Homo stretches out like Bohemian Rhapsody, changing rhythms and tones, doing odd time signatures and riff counts, all to the backdrop of the call and response "Are we not men? We are Devo!" Uncontrollable Urge is a top tier punk track and a hell of a way to start off an album. These guys are the most confident dorks I've ever heard. And they paved a way for future dork bands like Weezer and Pavement. Every second of this was weirdo gold.

LOVE Devo. 5*

Splendid! We are ALL Devo! Ground breaking album. Classic whether you like it or not. Major game changer in the scope of modern rock.

Always loved this album.

There are two kinds of people in this world: fans of Devo and those who don't understand Devo. We are all Devo. Personal enjoyment: 5/5 Relevance to this list: 5/5

In it's time and today, Q. Are We Not Men?, Devo's debut album, is one of the most unique offerings in tbe world of weird New Wave, or any rock album. Full of quirky rhythms, strange lyrics, and espousing the theory of Devolution, it is not for everyone. Only the truly cool will get it.

29/05/2025 I'm surprised how much i actually like this album.

Great fun

Ye ye ye ye get’em Devo. Sounds like a lost Talking Heads album. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it having never really listened to Devo before. Jocko Homo got kind of grating but the rest is straight 🔥

It's weird and it's subversive and best of all you can dance to it. The world needs more music like this.

Devo is such a fun band and this debut album is full of catchy tunes.

I'm very torn. This damn app doesn't allow for half stars. Is this a 4 star album? Or is this a 5 star album? My gut says it deserves 4.5 stars but that's not an option. This is a real Sophie's choice... but worse. My only real criticism of the album is they could cut a song or two... and not because those songs are bad. They just don't live up to the classic level of the rest of the album. The problem is they're both right at the end which leaves the album on a strange note. For that reason... I'll give it a (see star number below). This album has everything I want in a rock album. It's catchy. It's weird. It's funny. It's abrasive. It's original. It sounds good. It has variety. It has a strong point of view. It has great album art. The intros to every track are iconic. And it kicks the ever-loving piss out of whip it. I wish i had discovered it at 16 instead of 26. When I make music, this is what I aspire to create. Highlights: Uncontrollable Urge, Space Junk and Come Back Jonee are just so catchy Jocko Homo is hilarious with it's "are we not men?" chorus Their rolling stones cover is so great and weird. I really believe that these men are dissatisfied. Mic jagger on the other hand is doing just fine... satisfied even. I love the dissonance of Too Much Paranoias Gut Feeling is just a rollercoaster I never want to get off Mongoloid and Praying Hands... they're just great fuckin' tracks Stop what you're doing and listen to this album.

meeega fed. Mere postpunk end new wave. Jeg hørte den to gange, det har jeg ikke gjort med et nyt (for mig) album siden Sparks. Space Junk 👌👌👌👌

still so baffling to me that eno produced this, i love the stories that the band hated everything he said to do and just waited for bowie to show up to remix the album. anyways its one of the best of all time

THIS SHIT ROCKS! THIS IS MY JAM! THANK YOU DEVO! Fav ones: Uncontrollable Urge, Mongoloid, Gut Feeling.

Are we Not Men? We Are DEVO

Fucking incredible. I think jocko homo could be the number one song I wish I wrote. It gets me fucking amped

YAH FUCK YEAH WOW YEAH UH HUH

RAD!!

Very good!

Uncontrollable Urge - 5/5 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - 5/5 Praying Hands - 4/5 Space Junk - 4/5 Mongoloid - 5/5 Jocko Homo - 5/5 Too Much Paranoias - 3/5 Gut Feeling / (Slap Your Mammy) - 5/5 Come Back Jonee - 3/5 Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin') - 4/5 Shrivel-Up - 5/5 Average score: 4.4/5 (rounding up) one of my fav albums from one of my fav artists. when i say i enjoy post-punk, *this* is what the fuck i'm talking about it's wacky and weird and goofy in the best of ways. even my least fav tracks are fun in their own ways, and the better tracks make up for them tenfold. because of this, i felt it was deserving of a little boost in score the only complaint i've got is there aren't MORE albums by DEVO featured on this list!! this album is hands down my fav of their entire discography and deserves the highlight, but you're telling me that Freedom of Choice didn't make the cut as well?? c'mon now.

SO GOOD. Every song is great. Was just listening to this the other day.

A fully realized and astonishingly fresh debut. Quirky fun and accomplished.

One of the best there ever was. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah YEAH!

you couldn't do devo today, because of woke

This is one of the albums I’ve been most excited about, and for good cause.

I really enjoyed this!

This album is Ohio rizz /pos (I'm so sorry) A super fun album from start to finish. I need to listen to more Devo. My favorite song on this is Shrivel-Up

That’s so Devo

This gets credited as being proto-new wave or something, but to me this is one of the best punk records of all time. This shit kicks so much ass. It hits the ground running and goes for half an hour and never lets up. I especially love the sudden end of the janky, schizoid Too Much Paranoias into the gentle, surfy intro to Gut Feeling which then builds back into an anxious screed. Absolutely brilliant. I’m a little surprised this isn’t more highly rated. This is the 6th 5 star album in a row for me. I am worried about the next few albums.

This is always my answer for “what one-hit wonder is actually great?” This band is incredible.

I love this stupid album. Their version of Satisfaction sticks in my head more than the Stones version. Heresy to some but I love it. And of course, thanks to Ridiculousness, Uncontrollable Urge is all over the place and I’m not mad about that. More people need to hear Devo beyond Whip It.

I hated Devo as a kid cause I only heard whip it and altough fun I simply thought it was kind of shitty. Little did I know that 40 years later I can say they got done dirty by mtv. Its one of the most underrated groups in history. I feel they are so versatile and amazing musicians. This album has so much variety and diffent sounds and music. This is an experimental confept album that even with a cover of the stones its simply breathtaking something really different and fresh still today. Really insane that it sound better today than I remember back in the 80s.

I like weird and Devo is pretty weird.

This is why post-punk will always be my favourite genre/era of music. Everything about it, those funky basslines, angular guitar riffs, tight drumming. It just hits some part of my brain and I love it so much.

This album was a favorite of Krist Novoselic of Nirvana. Truly unique at the time of its release.

I think it's really great that my generation progressed musically. Sonic Youth was created as a direct response to music to Devo (Devolve / De-Evololution). When I was coming up, Devo was barely more than a punchline, they were weirdos, wore weird hats, dressed in identical full-body uniforms. But, that may have been the point when they first started as an thematic art project. The concept being that the future of the world was all going to be run by machines & computers and something as personal and humanistic like music would all be made by robots. (uhhh, hello AI). But if you take the time to listen to this a few times, you begin to realize how amazing this band was. It wasn't until much after I had grown tired of noise rock / Sonic Youth-y stuff that I found this album and was surprised to find is so fun, weird, interesting and good. Gut Feeling has got to be one of my favorite tracks ever. Simple guitar looping that builds and builds until it explodes. Weird cover of Satisfaction and of course Uncontrollable Urge make this album memorable.

What an album! Their Humor is far out and their music is also odd. I love it!

- favs: praying hands, uncontrollable urge It reminds me a little of David Bowie in some ways and the B52’s!!! absolutely love Devo, such iconic band and this album is absolutely amazing. It belongs into my record collection :)

Devo is a national treasure and should be treated as such. Mothersbaugh has done so much for the art of music that it will take decades to fully understand his influence and contributions to the medium.

Devo is Dead Kennedys for nerds. I’m a nerd.

Whoa this rules. It’s so deranged, it’s so fun. The drummer is so good! Easy sell: I’m a Devo Guy now.

an overtly fun and deceptively subtle shattering of rock and roll's base components and reassembled by people for whom many of its subtextual gut feelings (especially of libido) are but an abstract curiosity, but they think its cool anyway and worth studying and replicating and performing to its fullest extent. in that way it somehow becomes a comical peak of these subtextual gut feelings? i need to stop trying to comprehend this thread i think its getting away from me. album is crazy fun, the ratio of runtime to Ass Kicked Per Second absolutely slams many hard rock bands... there's so little in the way of rock as pure Motion and Energy when u have no times for things like self-aggrandizement ! no disrespect on self-aggrandizement ofc...but this scratches an almost wholly unique itch. made me think about early rock n rollers just as much as talking heads

Fuuuuuuck yeeeaaaahhh!! Satisfaction is one of the best covers of all time. This whole album is brilliant and daring and stupid and great. 5/5

Fantastic. What did people in 1978 think?

"Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!" Is the debut album by American new wave band Devo. New wave, post-punk, art rock, punk rock. Sure. The album was produced by Brian Eno. There were difficulties between the Eno and the band during the recording and David Bowie actually ended up re-mixing the album. Devo is Mark Mothersbaugh (vocals, keys, guitar), Gerald Casale (vocals, bass, keys), Bob Mothersbaugh (lead guitar, vocals), Bob Casale (rhythm guitar, keys, vocals)and Alan Myers (drums). The album had mostly positive reviews and is noted as being a seminal American new wave release. Commercially, it hit #68 in the US and #12 in the UK. Of note: the original cover was intended to have a picture of golfer "Chi-Chi" Rodriguez. They couldn't get his approval in time so they replaced it with a morphed face of presidents JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. "Uncontrollable Urge" kicks things off. Herky-jerky and anxious music and singing. Melodic and a nice chorus. A new wave guitar. Minimalist lyrics...Social Anxiety? Paranoia? Maturation? Maybe all of them. They perform one of the best covers of all-time with their version of the Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." Mechanical sounding. A cool, wavy bass. A nervous guitar. They give an anxious, original interpretation. And, they're performance of this song on Saturday Night Live is utterly spectacular. A creeping guitar intro opens "Mongoloid," a song they would probably rethink today. A mechanical beat. Very 80's sounding keys. Layered sounds. A background wah-wah guitar. It's about a man who has down syndrome and leads a normal life in de-evolved society. They continue the de-evolved theme in "Jacko Homo." A repetitive beat. More anxious guitar and keys. "Are we not men? We are Devo!" A fast and galloping guitar and bass begin "Come Back Jonee." They deconstruct Chuck Berry's "Johnny B Good" as Johnny is failing in a relationship. A great Johnny B Good-esque guitar solo. The album closes with "Shrivel-Up." Eerie guitar. Multiple sounds in the background. Kind of pyschedelic and reminded me of Ween. This is a great and original album. No bad songs here. They had been playing them for three years and it sounds like it. The music is melodic, mechanical, angular and unique. They create an anxious and paranoid atmosphere. Their next three albums are also good but this is their best. An album everyone needs to have. I'm off to find my red energy done hat and yellow jumpsuit.

Very deserving album to be on this list. It's hugely influential and also just plain fun to listen to.

since i can still rate the albums before joining the group, today is 7/10/2024, but this might be a top 5 new wave album oat, everything sounds fresh and good, it's a 10.

Twitchy aggro nerd destruction crew

Pure quality & brings back some great memories

My first time giving Devo a real listen and it is very funny and surprisingly really good. I'm not 100% sure this actually a 5 but I am sure that these guys are 100% committed to their bit and I respect the hell out of that so I am going to reward by rounding up.

This album is packed with great songs that also have that unique Devo sound. Robotic, energetic yet still sounding hand crafted. I don't know that they made a better album than this. Remains a standout.

Six. Or maybe seven. That's how old I was when I asked my mum for a Devo album for Xmas. God bless her she had to ask at the record store because she had no idea what a Devo was. Neither did I really, but my friends older brother listened to them and I thought they were cool. So I thought they were cool. And guess what kids, Devo were both cool and NOT cool at the same time. I still own this album, and it still gets play today. Standouts are the kooky (and somewhat divisive) version of 'Satisfaction' and the classic 'Mongoloid' - a ode to diversity and equality, and the fantastic slow build of 'Gut Feeling'. Five devolving stars.