Reviews (page 8 of 8)
is devo dead yet? Please say yes.
total bullshit how did this even end up on the list? 34 minutes wasted
No absolutely not. The riffs were promising but everything else blew. 2/10
Twee platen terug hadden we al The Cars, nu krijgen we nog meer van die eind-jaren-zeventig-aanstellerij, maar dan nog veel erger. Punt is gewoon: deze lui kunnen geen muziek maken, en ze doen er ook geen enkele poging toe. Een beetje ironisch zitten klooien, dat kunnen ze. Het maakt mij niet uit hoor, doe je ding, maar: waarom moet ik er dan naar luisteren? Op de plaat van Ray Charles van gisteren doet iedereen z'n best, tot de triangelspeler aan toe. En hier gooit iedereen er aartslui met de pet naar. Val me er gewoon niet mee lastig, meer vraag ik niet.
Seriously it’s just noise. It’s not ‘groundbreaking’.
Nej fy fan. Hatar den här typen av musik. Skrikig och skräniga utan något att se fram emot. Covern på satisfaction suger och övriga låtar är provocerande dåliga. Antar att det är grejen, medvetet avskalat. Hatar det oavsett.
Not for me. 1/5 - SC
Not for me
This is the hundred fifteenth album I’m rating. I've only listened to Whip It, and I didn't like it. Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. Not Adding to my Playlist - Uncontrollable Urge, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Praying Hands, Space Junk, Monogoloid, Jocko Homo, Too Much Paranoias, Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy), Come Back Jonee, Sloppy (I Saw my Baby Gettin'), and Shrivel-Up. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - A lot worse than the original. All in all I liked 0/11 songs. You know its bad when the best song on the album is a bad cover of an actually good song by a good band.
Jättebra om man omedelbart vill ha huvudvärk
This was terrible. I can't believe there are people out there who would have purchased this album expecting to be entertained. I can't believe the band could write this and think it sounds good. Many of the songs just sound like a bunch of kids mucking around with instruments in a high school music room. It only gets a 1 star because I can't give it a 0.
Nope
Not for me
Hard to justify a rating for this one, it was kind of crap. Couldn’t get past the weird tones and voice-like singing, it feels like it’s trying too hard to be something and the musical element is then lost, 3/10.
It solidified which song I liked because the entire album was rancid to my ears and my overall sense of world judgement. To be fair, it's just a white guy shakily crying out lyrics over a weird 70s vibe rock beat. We love that right? I liked that it had spirit, something fun and forgettable kind of like a messy one night stand but it did drag on. It also left a bitter sad taste in my mouth which one night stands often do. Im glad i can leave this in 1993. The lyrics are unhinged, unserious but overall unfunny. It's giving 'look at me I'm edgy and you won't get it haha I'm so satirical right" - No. Fave Songs: - Praying Hands
This gets a 1/5 for the Satisfaction cover alone. The rest of the album was pretty bad too, but that was a particular low point of the album.
Nix für mich.
Very unpleasant to listen to and they ruined a great rock song by doing some weird new wave shit
This is the worst Talking Heads rip off I've ever heard.
Might be because I was in a bad mood this morning but this album made me irrationally angry
Na
Never heard from this band. nothing missing.
annoying
Pretty much pure crud all the way from start to finish...
Poor.
I never tried to listen to Devo because I always hated Whip It.. listening to this album changed nothing
Mongoloid, sloppy, the rest of it was really just not for me. Even those 2 weren’t very enjoyable.
This is odd. I don't really like the shout-singing with de-emphasized enunciation. For me, this is kind of cringy throughout. There are some really great instrumentals and backing music, but the singing brings it down a lot for me. Especially since that's what's emphasized in the balance and mixing. This is just a miss for me. There isn't really a whole lot that I like or enjoyed from this album, and I could have lived without hearing it. Favorite Song(s): Uncontrollable Urge
My ears are bleeding from the torture
Entendo que a banda foi além do padrão, o som é bem diferente e malucão, frenético, nervoso. Porém, a mim soou bem irritante. Passo longe.
Not surprised to see that the hack Brian Eno was behind this. Total shite.
Audio poison.
Don’t even know where to start with this one. No idea what to expect having never heard of them, but I mean what even was this!? Guitar riffs, okay. Random synth and noises, sure. Off beat talky singing, ehhh. All mixed together? I think this one’s for the bin for me. Too many repetitive riffs that overloaded my sensory-limited brain
New wave, new ass album
Did not like at all
Not for me. It doesn't deserve a 1/5 rating though, so I will give it a 1.5/5 rating.
I’m not sure how anyone can listen to this album normally. It’s just so bad. Top tracks: Uncontrollable Urge
1. urge - 1 2. zatizfaction - 0 3. praying - 0 4. junk - 0 5. mongoloid - 1 6. jock homo - 0 7. paranoiaz - 0 8. gut feeling - 1 9. come back jone - 0 10. zloppy - 0 11. zhriverl up - 0
certified shite.
One hit wonder? Can't listen to his voice for more than 1-2 songs.
I didn't think new wave could be so one-note? The music had its fun parts but the vocals man, so monotonous. Talk-singing does not work for all artists I'm afraid. Neither does making covers of very popular songs, only to remove nearly every ounce of soul that the originals had. I think the answer to the question "Are we not men?" should be "No, you are soulless monotonous robots."
Not for me...
Not available on Apple Music France :(
Got exhausted by the fifth track. I feel like relapsing to noise again. Was reading a vn the other day, it had a very nice earthquake sound effect with falling trees and metal-on-metal sounds. Would prefer listening to 35 minutes of that instead
I hate the album cover, I hate the album name, I have the band's name, I have the image they uploaded to represent themselves on spotify, I hate the image they uploaded to their "About us" section on spotify, I hate every single song in the album and I hate each and every track name in this album
The best thing I can say is that it was music and a short album
Not an album I’d ever listen to.
Did not care for this album.
Not my style - 1/5
Not my taste
Fuck this album
I could only listen to the first few songs before I noped out.
New wave is absolutely terrible
Not a fan.
Its okay not my style at all. Didnt like anything in this album
This album is a bigger disappointment than your dad going out for a gallon of milk and never coming home. While it wasn't quite as bad as Echo and the Bunnyman I somehow hate it just as much. Not a single track on this album has a highlight. No part of this album was memorable in anyway. This is what happens when a group gets Eno to do production and then rejects the majority of his ideas. Album should be titled "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Drivel"
no
I’m not sure if I’ve heard of Devo before. I did a bit of googling and it looks like the singer dresses similarly to the singer of TWRP, but I imagine that must be a coincidence. Anyway, let’s give this a listen! Songs I already knew: none Favourites: Praying Hands I’ve never been a fan of this era of punk, and Devo has unfortunately not changed this. The music just isn’t interesting enough to me, the vocals are too simple, and it generally struggles to keep my attention. Also, it does bear saying that there are some really strangely named tracks here. I don’t really want to name them specifically as it seems somewhat offensive, but you can look that up if you’re interested. Overall, this just wasn’t my kind of album.
I get why everyone hates this
cool... not sounds dumb
1/5. Boring and annoying. I listened to it three times just in case but could not latch onto anything worthwhile. Like it sounds like they are having fun but it’s just a worse talking heads. It’s not great honestly.
Properly, and I mean super properly, shite
I always wondered why people got really into Devo. This made me wonder why more. Half-ass sounding cover of Satisfaction. Some really high instrumental notes were cut off by vocals coming in. The yelling and stuttering syncopation were just not for me. Whole album sounds unenthusiastic and lacks emotion. Not insufferable, but not good.
I thought I may quite like this after the first track, but the rest is catastrophic. Also, some very questionable song titles. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: Uncontrollable Urge Date listened: 11/03/23
Is this music?
Im sorry that i can not vote 0 star. It was terrible.
uh, this album was decidedly not for me. it was a struggle to finish listening. i like new wave and i like punk, but devo's album missed the mark completely for me. it was just weird--maybe too punky? the only devo song i know, "whip it," is much more synth than punk, so that abrupt difference didn't help either. i do try to find a positive thing in every album: the heavy guitar sound ran the album.
Not very good. Might have influenced a music genre but it was pretty hard to listen to. I would not willingly listen to a single song on this album again.
Bad
Now I know exactly why this album didn’t ring any bells. P.S. I’m very curious as to the justification for including this album in this list. Maybe someone got confused with the Albums to Die From list.
vermoeiend
Tja, wat moet je hier nu weer van vinden? Ik heb het geprobeerd in ieder geval...
Hier was ik al heel snel klaar mee. Verschrikkelijk!
This was something else, and not in a good way. The lyrics were terrible.
This album belonged in the 80s. I don’t mean that as a compliment. Truly the worst cover of (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction ever.
talking heads with an ironic adult daycare aesthetic. the sonic equivalent of drinking a cup of warm gravy: an absurd concept that's unpleasant to get through.
Uhhhhh. Why is this even a thing? “Satisfaction” was wayyyyy too forced and when you have to force satisfaction on someone, it just ain’t it. and Mongoloid made me vomit up my ☕️ Let’s just pretend this album doesn’t exist, k?
It's a feat to be as consistently obnoxious as this album. Judging people by their music taste is a stupid thing to do, but I genuinely don't understand why this would ever be on a list of "albums you must hear before you die".
so bad
I thought I would like this album but I did not. I think it's just where I am in life - the quirky paranoia new wave just isn't where I'm at right now. Full respect to Devo though - maybe when I was 18 it might have struck the right chord, I could easily imagine that. But I am now in the demographic where I'd rather listen to the episode of 99% Invisible that discusses the story behind the album art than listen to the album itself.
No words
Really couldn't get into this album at all
I gave up at the beginning of the sixth track, having finished only the first one. I'm really not sure what they tried to accomplish with this album, or why people would like it. I can see that not taking themselves seriously is part of their whole thing and also how the approach to music was something new and maybe even interesting at the time. Their approach to songwriting and structuring may have been influential for later new wave and alternativ bands. But it just sounds godawful. It seems entirely soulless and devoid of any emotion or really anything that makes me want to hear any of it.
Man, this album was obnoxious.
отстой полный
Agradable muy depeche o talking heads etc irrumpidor del pop, nada muy destacable
This has got to be the most repetitive albums of all time. It's like it was designed to make me irritated. They repeat the same 4 words per song and there is no progression in the backing track, only a constant tune played over and over and over again. Thankfully most songs are less than 3 minutes, a testament to how vapid this album is.
Getting to the end of this album was a labor. Will actively avoid listening to any part of this album ever again
Why would I listen to DEVO when I can listen to Oingo Boingo? Any track off of Dead Man's Party or Only A Lad is miles ahead of this. The only good DEVO songs are on Freedom Of Choice anyways.
nope
Nomás por destrozar I can't get no satisfaction.
La verdad es que dos estrellas ya se me haría mucho.
Rotete
1.5
CLASSIC.