New Traditionalists (studio album) by Devo

New Traditionalists by Devo
Year: 1981
Overall rank: 5,871st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 67 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (102nd)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (866th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,871st)

Devo bestography

New Traditionalists is ranked 4th best out of 38 albums by Devo on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Devo is Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! which is ranked number 781 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,292.

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New Traditionalists track list

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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 67 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.8/100, a mean average of 71.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.2.

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85/100
From 05/16/2022 11:02
Fantastic album, my favourite by Devo. Got to see them on the tour for this album, they opened with Going Under. Highly recommend as a first listen.
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From 01/16/2019 08:52
This album rocks, and that's what there is to say about that. There are two or three dud tracks: Pity You and Love Without Anger in particular don't have the same energy as the rest of the album, but they've still got a little something to them. Race of Doom comes on a little hard to start side 2, maybe, but hard is good. The rest is brilliant. Great songwriting throughout, a record made to dance to--we played it at parties back in the day and danced like art-school teenagers which is what we were. Just great power pop, which is what Devo was.
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From 06/30/2017 05:02
Devo devolved.
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From 11/13/2016 05:44
My all time favorite Devo album. Working in the Coalmine is the big hits, but there are so many songs on this album that I find superior such as Through Being Cool, Race of Doom and Beautiful World
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Best Albums of 1981
1. Moving Pictures by Rush
2. Computerwelt [Computer World] by Kraftwerk
3. Discipline by King Crimson
4. Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
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