Devo 2.0 (W/Dvd) (Dig)

Devo 2.0 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 14, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Walt Disney Records
• ASIN: B000CQ75L4
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #180,869 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. That's Good

2. Peek A Boo

3. Whip It

4. Boy U Want

5. Uncontrollable Urge

6. Cyclops

7. The Winner

8. Big Mess

9. Jerkin' Back 'N Forth

10. Through Being Cool

11. Freedom Of Choice

12. Beautiful Choice

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: DEVO 2.0
Title: DEV 2.0
Street Release Date: 03/14/2006
Domestic
Genre: CHILDREN'S

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's a gateway, October 21, 2006

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E. Fox "teacher 84" (Charlotte, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Devo 2.0 (W/Dvd) (Dig) (Audio CD)

I found an old Devo's Greatest Misses cassette in my garage recently and had been playing it in my car while taking my elementary-aged daughters to school. While the tape brought back great memories for me, my kids hated Devo. Then on a trip to Wal-Mart I found DEV2.0, noticed it was produced by the folks from Devo, bought it, and have been playing it for the last two weeks in the car--and my daughters like it!

Although I can't bring myself to sing "Boy" U Want and I shake my head in disbelief when I hear the focus of "Uncontrollable Urge" changed to a passion for snack foods, I consider this CD a gateway to the harder Devo recordings I plan to introduce as the months progress.

Now, if only I can get the kids interested in Zappa, too....

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Oh No! It's Devo!...For the Kids!, October 10, 2006

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Mal Rorrer "The Directive" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Devo 2.0 (W/Dvd) (Dig) (Audio CD)

One of the stranger, more subtly subversive DEVO products ever unleashed on an unsuspecting public.

Like the long-out-of-print RYKODISC " DEVO-E-Z listening" CD, which contained Devo's self-produced muzak versions of their own songs, performed in various styles and genres, DEVO 2.0, is another experiment of exposing Devo to society at large...Or at least, more specifically this time --- your kids.

Given that Mark And Bob Mothersbaugh and Bob Casale write and produce music for some chidren's programming and movies nowadays, it oddly seems appropiate. The difference here is, that this album is not subversive Devo background music but a sort of greatest hits of DEVO, re-interpreted, along with 2 new tracks and with pre-teens making up this "band": 3 boys, 2 girls. The girl lead singer has a Gwen Stefani vibe in her performance.

Not to be missed with this CD package, is the DVD that comes with it. Full of videos for most of the songs on the CD, it shows the kids performing in front of computer animations, shown on plasma TV's, which sync up and go along with the music...reminscent of what was done by the actual Devo back with the "oh no! it's Devo!" album tour in concert back in the 80's. Also, on the DVD...a big Bonus for Devo fans...Interviews with Gerry Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh, the braintrust of the REAL DEVO, conducted by the Dev2.0 band members itself. Worth a few chuckles, is the apparently Disney-produced "history" of Devo, a commercial included on the DVD as an extra that attempts to explain DEVO to the younger generation. funny...

You may not agree that Dev2.0 as Gerry Casale says, is the next generation of DEVO, much like Star Trek with its assorted off-shoots, but if you have previous knowledge of Devo from the older eras, it is highly ironic and funny to know that this product is being sold, as we speak, in some Disney stores and Targets...and corporate irony and humor are 2 things that Devo does with a sense of style like no other band. If you look at this album as a "sellout", you have missed the point, in my opinion. I was originally appalled, but after seeing a commercial air in the Disney store for it and how kids reacted, I totally get it.

If you are a big longtime Devo fan with kids, and can appreciate the irony of a Disney + DEVO collaboration and already have all of the real Devo releases, you should check this out. As expected, in the typical "Kid's bop" fashion, lyrics to most of the songs are rewritten to be more appropiate for the younger/pre-teen set. A few songs, have some subtle tweaking here and there musically as well.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We ARE all DEVO, July 12, 2006

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Michael Osborn (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Devo 2.0 (W/Dvd) (Dig) (Audio CD)

DEVO 2.0 is a project by DEVO. There are two disks, a CD and a DVD. They claim in the interview on the DVD that DEVO has always yearned to be more than just a band and the idea of them being the "puppet masters" behind other artists fronting as DEVO is not new. Indeed as mentioned in the other reviews here, DEVO released two albums of genuine and earnest MUZAK versions of a collection of their songs. Also they played as the musicians on TONI BASIL's debut album in 1982 `Word of Mouth" while she covered four of their songs (Space Girl Blues, Be Stiff, Pity You and Love's Little Red Book).
While they claim that the members of DEVO 2.0 will be capable of playing their own instruments by the time of their summer 2006 tour, DEVO does in fact play all the instruments on the CD. The DVD has both the DEVO 2.0 music videos with colorful new DEVO cartoons playing on monitors in the background, and the option of watching those cartoons by themselves with only the DEVO soundtrack. They compliment each other and I found both enjoyable to watch. And if that weren't enough, DEVO 2.0 covers two new DEVO songs, Cyclops, and The Winner.