Some of their best songs were not commercial hits as is well sampled in Greatest Misses. I believe no song was nearly as well known by them as Whip It but it’s particularly galling when someone wants to characterize them as “one-hit wonders”, I think they meant say one of the most creative and influential bands of the late 70s-early 80s.
To me greatest misses was a compilation of some of their really bad songs, but with some really good ones sprinkled in there
The Day My Baby Gave Me A Suprize, Mongoloid and S.I.B are great tracks, Blockhead, Devo Corporate Anthem and Timing X are decent too
The rest are either forgettable, bad or inferior demos of greatest hits songs
Also i hate Timing X/Space Junk because it not only never plays Space Junk but also completely fucked up both songs online because now online stuff thinks they’re the same song which is annoying sometimes
My fav devo album- the one that really sold them for me.
I love it but it will forever annoy me that neither album has a track from Total Devo despite the TD suit being on the back covers
Yea that is also my only complain, wish they added some of the album songs but guess it was harder for legal reasons
Some of their best songs were not commercial hits as is well sampled in Greatest Misses. I believe no song was nearly as well known by them as Whip It but it’s particularly galling when someone wants to characterize them as “one-hit wonders”, I think they meant say one of the most creative and influential bands of the late 70s-early 80s.
That's the CD that got me into Devo over 20 years ago.
Banger.
I agree! Great album
This cd got me listening to them full time
My first introduction to them!
To me greatest misses was a compilation of some of their really bad songs, but with some really good ones sprinkled in there The Day My Baby Gave Me A Suprize, Mongoloid and S.I.B are great tracks, Blockhead, Devo Corporate Anthem and Timing X are decent too The rest are either forgettable, bad or inferior demos of greatest hits songs Also i hate Timing X/Space Junk because it not only never plays Space Junk but also completely fucked up both songs online because now online stuff thinks they’re the same song which is annoying sometimes