What are you listening to Part the Third

[blessingx]

Wait, there was a Devo assisted Disney Devo 2.0 (aka Dev2.0 or DEV2.O)?

When Disney Met Devo  https://www.runoutnumbers.com/blog/2015/9/13/oh-no-its-devo-20-when-devo-met-disney 

It's all about devolution after all. 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 04:54 PM by blessingx

[skullguise]

The more I listen, the more I love this; unique sound and she still has so much passion in her singing.  "This House" hits a bit hard, but all is great.

[Dusty Chalk]

11 hours ago, skullguise said:

The more I listen, the more I love this; unique sound and she still has so much passion in her singing.  "This House" hits a bit hard, but all is great.

Ohmigosh, I love "This House".  So melodramatic.  Right up there with "Winter Kills" in terms of depressing music.  (For some reason, I'm always reminded of an SNL skit of a desperate, drunk woman in her apartment, "I'll shout from my window, to anyone listening:  'I'm losing!'" 🤣 ) 

In my top 10 favourite songs with her singing, with "All Cried Out", "Where Hides Sleep", "Winter Kills", "Goodbye Seventies", and others.

I first discovered it as the B-side to "Love Letters", with a guitar solo instead of that bridge section.  This is that version:

 

[skullguise]

27 minutes ago, Dusty Chalk said:

Ohmigosh, I love "This House".  So melodramatic.  Right up there with "Winter Kills" in terms of depressing music.  (For some reason, I'm always reminded of an SNL skit of a desperate, drunk woman in her apartment, "I'll shout from my window, to anyone listening:  'I'm losing!'" 🤣 ) 

Hmmm, is that Gilda Radner in her satirical commercial for "Haley's Bristol Cream?"  She parodied the real commercial of a woman telling another woman to call a man and not wait for him.  So she tries it a couple times and the men are not available; she ends up yelling out to a stranger int he street, and you then see a bum in her apartment drinking with her....

Tried a quick search for the video, didn't find it.

[Dusty Chalk]

2 hours ago, skullguise said:

Hmmm, is that Gilda Radner in her satirical commercial for "Haley's Bristol Cream?"  She parodied the real commercial of a woman telling another woman to call a man and not wait for him.  So she tries it a couple times and the men are not available; she ends up yelling out to a stranger int he street, and you then see a bum in her apartment drinking with her....

Tried a quick search for the video, didn't find it.

Yeah, that sounds right!

[dsavitsk]

On 6/10/2025 at 12:08 PM, blessingx said:

 

Good God! How on earth am I going to unsee that?

[swt61]

21 hours ago, skullguise said:

The more I listen, the more I love this; unique sound and she still has so much passion in her singing.  "This House" hits a bit hard, but all is great.

Hmmm. Will have to give a listen. I'm a huge AM fan!

[blessingx]

2 hours ago, dsavitsk said:

Good God! How on earth am I going to unsee that?

😄 I'm from that part of Ohio and went to Kent State where the Casale brothers did also and dad taught. Devo was big in my life. I can't explain it, but 2.0 is unbelievably slightly growing on me. Slightly. Just listen to it 20 more times! Uncontrollable Urge switch from sex to junk food is kinda funny. 

[skullguise]

I thought Uncontrollable Urge wasn't too bad, maybe a bit too tame (I've always like the manic-ness that Devo brought to the stage).  I appreciate they did "the dance" where they line up and switch their feet back and forth.....

[Dusty Chalk]

20 hours ago, dsavitsk said:

Good God! How on earth am I going to unsee that?

Part of the problem is the earworminess of the original tune.  So, to start, pick a song that you find greater-than-or-equal-to in its earworminess.  To wit:

 

[dsavitsk]

21 minutes ago, Dusty Chalk said:

Part of the problem is the earworminess of the original tune.  So, to start, pick a song that you find greater-than-or-equal-to in its earworminess.  To wit:

 

I'll see your yellow song and raise you one red one...