Freedom of Choice or Freedom from Choice?

[EndersDame]

I am currently rocking my but off to Devo right now! My cooler older roommates introduced me to them last year. when they first talked about them I thought they sounded kinda cool but silly. I am listening to Freedom of Choice and realized that they have a kinda philosophic/satirist/subversive side to them.

I am 23 a don't claim to be a Punk historian (students all last semester "seemed to be one" I thought it was hilariously ironic myself as my generation takes its cues from an era 30 odd years ago for what is cool. ) But in some ways I think that they wedre in some ways more revolutionary than hardcore punk rock. And what they say about us rather having freedom from choice because they don't have to think for themselves and can just kinda exist; kinda was ahead of its time in this era that spawned Fox News.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SDdq59WPCI

[Iggo]

1. In Ancient Rome, There was a Poem...

:thumbsup:

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. The early days.... before the flower pots, even

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmf7r_37eA

[LynzM]

3. I don't know the Devo version...

But A Perfect Circle did a version fairly recently, on a whole protest CD. Good stuff, too. :D

[Symarip]

4. Devo is one of my favorite bands.

Most Devo fans I've met are usually pretty big into Oingo Boingo. Check out their early stuff from 79-83. There's definitely a similar feel in music and tone in lyrical content.