Finally I am able to post videos and this thread is my total no 1 genre.

So let me walk through four of the most influential New wave bands on me....and you may notice a pattern.

The band I have loved for many years and I simply cannot dislike any song of theirs, So I actually got into Devo with a mix of someone I knew made Devo in-jokes and I barley understood what they meant let alone what Devo was...until I researched it and found this which blew my mind from the start on the noises being made to my ears.


This happened after years of listening to this band which I found the tv show Adam and Jo go Tokyo.


Polysics is heavily influence by Devo as well as a Japanese band call P-Model, which is like a Japanese Kraftwerk, I think is the best way I can explain it.

Of which Polysics has opened for Devo many times over the last 10 years (something I wish I could see. Polysics THEN Devo!?)

http://devo-obsesso.com/images/lates..._poly-hiro.jpg

In college....I actually had a new wave jacket. I had D.E.V.O badges along one side of my chest, I others like Blondie, random stuff I liked. I was THAT guy at college with his long hair.......in 2007! awww yeah.

At the same time as this I found a little indie band that...well...... just look at them and you will see why I liked them. Also their Italian?!



They were not at all famous and have gone dark, however I still remember them. Oh no Its POK is a play on the "oh no its Devo" Album, which is a fanatic album.

So in my college days I was wearing Devo T shirts and badges while just going on about Devo to my punk friends, so much so they knew to look for Devo gear for me cos they knew Id just snatch it up. I snagged the uncommon Devo Anthology "Pioneers who were scalped." has a sort of holographic CD case.

So basically everyone knew I liked Devo so much so people would shout out in the street (these are streets of Scotland in 2007) "ARE WE NOT MEN!" which of course I had to shout back "WE ARE DEVO!" or even get an occasional "SPUD BOY!" which friends took as an offence until I explained and said "Their just a fellow spud."

One time on a date with my girlfriend at a local cafe/bar we enjoyed going to a dude I half knew from college stopped by our table and noticed my Devo T shirt (oh which I just realised I have not seen in 5 years) and said the weirdest...yet maybe the worst thing. "Oh Devo? uhh...yeah...did they not like cover Rage Against the Machine "Beautiful world?"
...." nooooo....Rage Against the Machine covered Devo.

Anyway I have ranted enough let me leave you with this.

Polysics sounded really good. im not that into Devo but Polysics intrigues me.

Yeah Polysics in the grand scheme is vastly different from Devo despite being a huge influence on them. However I am sure I can interest you in a Devo Energy domed Robot breaking free from his tv filming to play pranks on people in Polysics cover of Styx Domo Arigato Mr Robot.

Which much like their homage to Devo....they reeeealy go beyond just a cover with this.


Also I am digging your song, I need to dig into lost sound, has some nice female scream singing much like Jessika from Jack off Jill.

You sure can, that was great. :yeah:

I'll definitely look for more stuff from Polysics meanwhile keep the good music coming! If you liked the lost sounds i recommend their album Rat's Brains & Microchips it's their best album imo.

In another year or so times Polysics is going to have been around for 20 years! That is hard to consider as I was following from 2000 onwards.

Polysics is another band I just listen to all of their stuff and not any of it is bad to me at least. In some cases their music is hard to define like this one, which has a Devo homage at the start before opening you up to their hard rock electro synth new wave sound.



Which that songs name reminds me of the similar named new wave band of great works.


Then there is another phenomenal band that do some great new wave work still needs to make a peak in this thread.

I was in an art gallery with a girl enjoying everything and walked into a sort of little art area that all the stuff was for sale at decent prices. What I was on the wall was old 45s record made into functional clocks, each one was punny. The one I wanted the most but did not have £20 was one made out of the 45 of this song.

Early Simple Minds - a song from Empires and Dance







For some reason, I listen to Beauty Stab more than Lexicon, but that's me...

A great lack of Thomas Dolby, let me change that.

I am going to avoid the two known hits of Dolby's and go for the great back catalogue of his work.






And of course who could EVER EVER forget this great tune of Thomas Dolby.

I seriously like The Flat Earth



Sorry about the original poster's signature on this video's first few seconds, but this is the video to an under-rated single.

I do believe I do not really know those two Thomas Dolby tracks and now I do. THANK YOU!

...........something old and something new......and its both DEVO.....

Something I found pretty true when I was making friends in college and listening to this...OK it was walking home drunk after a college friends house party.......FINE it was after 14 hours of getting drunk at one friends house since classes finished at 10am......


Oh man it is actually a harder task deciding ONE track on the last two Devo albums to showcase. Their newer two albums are more likely to tantalise the ears of people who do not enjoy their older stuff. It is so much like their old stuff yet completely different.

Ok so I figured that Devo had already found which track it was the first and most fresh song of their on the first new album.

I present Devo - Fresh


and now I shall indulge in the era of Something for everybody as I want to share my time all this.

So I came into Devo 15 years into no new albums (1990 smooth noodle maps hurt them hard as it was a flop, I like it....) so I was sure no new devo albums or even songs. BOOM Dell XPS laptops burst my ears with a new sound a new sound I was on my computer with my dad watching tv behind me and I went "Is that Devo?! sounds like Devo....that HAS to be DEVO!!!" so we got a new single.


Then three years later Fresh exploded as a new live song and I was watching ****ty youtube recordings of their new song it was FRESH!! Followed with another set of ****ty youtube recordings of their next song.


I was on-board and now just salivating at a new album. They even had that video playing behind them on stage, so I knew they just had to have some investments going.

THEN! as the announced THEIR WHOLE NEW ALBUM! They dropped WHAT WE DO!


I was in heaven! and when I got my hands on that album on my lunch at my job...working in a charity shop. I PUT THAT SUCKER ON AND IT WAS ON AAAAALLL DAY! Tuesday June 15 2010 was an amazing day for me.