23 March 2023

Band: DEVO
Active: 1973–1991, 1996–present
Albums: 9 – with Something For Everybody
as the most recent one (2010).

Track/clip: JOCKO HOMO
From their 1978 debut LP
Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

The song introduced the call-and-response “Are we not men?” / “We are Devo!” and
took its title from a 1924 anti-evolution tract called Jocko Homo Heavenbound
by Bertram Henry Shadduck, where it is explained as meaning ape-man.

In the video, Devo collaborator  Mark Mothersbaugh plays a professor, lecturing
to a class of students in surgical masks, caps, and 3-D glasses. As the song progresses,
the class begins to riot.

Roll the tape.

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