The “Devotees Album” is a collection of Devo cover songs that various bands sent in to L.A. radio station KROQ during the summers of 1978 & 79. Most of the songs are awful, but if you peel back the awfulness, You'll find some interesting things. You have to admit that each of the bands had conviction. This was back in the day before any Knucklehead pink boy with a computer & pro tools could poot out a crappy cover song between bong hits.
This comp was put out by Rhino Records when they were still a novelty record company, and not the mega-reissue powerhouse that they are today.
2 comments:
Cool. I'm looking forward to hearing this. What a great blog. Have you ever heard of Claw Hammer? They covered the whole album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Not Devo!
http://www.secondhandsongs.com/medium/19513
I have it somewhere. Anyway thanks for the music.
Mark
Thanks for the kind words. Clawhammer's "Ramwhale" LP is one of my all time favorites. Great live band. I do miss them.
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