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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Be wary of the hype!! , January 25, 2005
This is an awful CD, except for maybe a couple songs. For example, "Baby Doll" is good. Oh yeah, and "Don't Be Cruel" is kinda fun. Plus "I'd Cry if You Died" is possibly my favorite song about relationships (with lyrics perfectly balanced betweend emotional and impotent). Oh wait, "The Shadow" is tuneful, fun, and pretty invigorating. And "Plain Truth" and "Some Things Never Change" are truly powerful, if only because the words are coming from Devo. "Sexi Luv" is true Devo... WAIT A MINUTE!!! I guess this album is pretty good after all!!! I am a Devo fan, and I must say I recommend this CD if you come across it. Seriously.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Look! They Changed Their Clothes!, November 17, 2001
This album marks a drastic change in Devo's previous sound. Gone are the bouncy, immature, ironic humor laced lyrics of the albums before it. They are now replaced by more mashed up love lyrics. Devo sounds like they matured on this one.Low points: Most of the songs are just not so memorable. Most of it is bland synth-pop. High points: Baby Doll! Very catchy and a Swedish version was featured on the movie Tapeheads. Disco Dancer is a really energetic tune, especially the included 12" remix by Ivan Ivan. Some Things Never Change is a classic song of the Devo view on the fallability of the human race. This isn't a terrible album, but it's certainly not Devo's best. If you are looking for the more techno oriented Devo, try Smooth Noodle Maps. I recommend Are We Not Men? We are Devo!, Freedom of Choice, and New Traditionalists as better albums to start with. A note about the album art: They are posing naked on the back cover! I hear it's a parody of a Prince album. The front cover has a poorly pasted chin on David Kendrick's face. It's like sliding down his jaw! What happened was that Bob2's shirt was covering David's chin during the photo shoot. They didn't feel like posing for the same photo again, so they did a little last-minute "plastic surgery" on Kendrick. Some things never change.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
PREACHIN' FROM GUYS WHO AIN'T GOOD AT PREACHIN', April 26, 1999
This was the album that first started shaking my set-in-stone, leg-humping love for the Boys From Akron. Overall it's quite good; however, some of the songs on the album were borderline _preachy_...dig it! Instead of gnawing-at-your-throat lyrics that if you were so stupid that you didn't understand them you were probably the target of them, the listener is presented with songs that are _blatantly _preachy_, with all the _blatant_ social commentary of a Monkees' song. However, this is still a pretty good album, and well worth obtaining, especially for the loverly cover of "Don't Be Cruel"....
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Even for big DEVO fans, could it get any worse? Simply awful
I own all of DEVO's CDs, and as a longtime avid fan, I really, really tried to find something, ANYTHING, worth listening on this album, but, alas, I can't...
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Published on March 21, 2005 by G. Mitchell
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