Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
by Devo

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Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! by Devo
Year: 1978
Release date: 1978-08-28
Overall rank: 862nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 485 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1978 (17th)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (182nd)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (862nd)

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Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Uncontrollable Urge
Average Rating: 87 (113 votes)Comments: View 0
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(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Average Rating: 83 (110 votes)Comments: View 1
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Praying Hands
Average Rating: 79 (82 votes)Comments: View 0
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Space Junk
Average Rating: 78 (79 votes)Comments: View 0
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Mongoloid
Average Rating: 84 (105 votes)Comments: View 1
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Jocko Homo
Average Rating: 82 (91 votes)Comments: View 0
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Too Much Paranoias
Average Rating: 76 (81 votes)Comments: View 0
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Gut Feeling / (Slap Your Mammy)
Average Rating: 84 (94 votes)Comments: View 1
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Come Back Jonee
Average Rating: 79 (82 votes)Comments: View 1
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Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin')
Average Rating: 76 (78 votes)Comments: View 1
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Shrivel-Up
Average Rating: 79 (78 votes)Comments: View 0

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Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! rankings

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! rankings summary
Overall rank: 862nd | 1970s rank: 182nd | 1978 rank: 17th  Overall chart history
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From matterhornrider 08/28/2026 17:45 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
“Release date: 1978-08-28 (48th Year Anniversary)”
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From 04/21/2019 14:37 | #235335 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I cannot recommend this album with any more fervency than I already have. This is a classic in every sense of the word. This album has been an at least once per week listen for me for the last 40 years!!! (Perhaps I exaggerate a tad.) A remarkable achievement for a group of talented musicians. More than a novelty act, Devo had unestimatable music chops, most tellingly in the person of Mark Mothersbaugh (who has gone on outside the confines of Devo to create a vast musical footprint.) I won't belabor the point, just get this album!
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From 07/24/2020 22:26 | #256166 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Devo's debut effort shows off their influences quite prevalently. Punk, ska, surf rock, even some glam rock, though the theatrics aren't quite present. They never seem to slow down enough to give you a break, but I see this as more of a strength rather than something that takes away from the enjoyability of the record. The album is constructed in such a way that makes me realize one thing: they had a very clear goal in mind, to be Devo!
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From 03/25/2018 00:41 | #211646 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Deserves to be mentioned with the other Punk-New Wave era classics such as London Calling and Marquee Moon.
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From 10/17/2021 03:25 | #275106 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Devo wasn't Mark Mothersbaugh's band. It was Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale's band, and if you want to understand the band better, you really should check out a video on YouTube called Gerald Casale: An Oral History of Devo. It's a brilliant interview, and it puts this album (produced by Brian Eno in a studio in rural Germany) properly in context. I like some of their later, more synth-y and less guitar-y, albums better, but this one is still prime American art-pop of the era.
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From 11/22/2013 01:32 | #94027 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Devo's heaviest album, solid from start to finish - Eno produced
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