Art Devo 1973-1977 (2024 Repress)

Futurismo present a standard LP version of DEVO’s highly celebrated and sold-out box set release - ART DEVO 1973-1977. Now available as a 3xLP in a new limited colour 'Space Junk'.

The release all hardcore Devo fans have been waiting for, ART DEVO is a vital collection housing unheard and obscure mind blowers sourced directly from the vaults of The De-Evolution Band. This anthology takes you from the band's initial conception in Akron, Ohio to the moment before the world woke up, in a collection of sonic and visual art that captures Devo at the dawn of industrial death.

In honour of their 50th Anniversary, ART DEVO showcases the mesmerizing evolution of a band on the brink of discovery, mining irony, wit and dark humour from the madness of a distorted modern world still coming to terms with aftermath of a collapsed economy and the Vietnam war. From 1973-1977 Devo would transform from an art project, pop art in the literal sense, into the group David Bowie would declare “the band of the future”. Here you will find the audio mutations of a band at the edge of greatness, initial concepts that gave birth to a new aesthetic that continually challenged preconceptions about music, art, performance, culture, composition and consumption...it was also the birth of Booji Boy. While the songs here may not be fully grown, raw even, these are the seeds of subversion that kickstarted Devo’s fifty year legacy.

This 3xLP version is housed in a gloss laminated wide spined sleeve, it comes in a choice of limited edition vinyl colours, it has a tracklist that has been curated by the band, and contains a fold-out poster containing rare imagery and liner notes by Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald V Casale.

Released: August 2024
Cat: FTRSMO49C
Label: Futurismo

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Tracklist

1 Exhibit [A] 1973-1976
2 Booji's Industrial Death
3 Total Love
4 Auto Modown (Early version)
5 Space Girl Blues (Early version)
6 Live Forever
7 Androgyny (Live at Kent Kove 74)+
8 Fraulein (Kent Kove 1974)
9 Bicentennial Birthday
10 Man From The Past
11 Midget/My Lai Mama (Kent Kove 74)
12 Shimmy Shake
13 All Of Us
14 Hubert House
15 The Tinkle Tune
16 Private Secretary (Kent Kove 74)+
17 I Don’t Know Why
18 Dixie
19 Pigs Waddle (Kent Kove 74)+
20 Death Of Lt. Casanova (Kent Kove 74)
21 Exhibit [B] 1975-1977
22 U Got Me Bugged (Instrumental version)
23 I Don’t Know What I Do Do
24 Huboon Stomp
25 Can U Take It (Early version)
26 Uncontrollable Urge (Early version)
27 Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
28 Falling In Love Again
29 Devo Corporate Anthem (Early version)
30 Shrivel Up (Early version)
31 Smart Patrol (Early version)
32 I’m Lost at Home
33 Untitled
34 Never Go Back
35 Secret Agent Man (Mark vocal)
36 Social Fools (Early version)
37 A Plan For U (Early version)
38 Nutty Buddy (Live at JB’s 76)
39 Dogs Of Democracy
40 Race Of Doom (Early version)
41 Space Junk (Early version)
42 Primal Satisfaction*
43 End Message