I have bought Devo’s debut in 1979 after the track “Mongoloid” somehow made it into the Friday-Top-Ten of the wicked local Disco “Kaisersaal”, which was called ‘Ballhaus Vaterland’ (“Fatherland Ballroom”) before. I had wrongly perceived the album as punk- like everything that was gloriously going on one’s nerves. The subversion that emanated from the album …
