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 …
Remember when nothing tops the excitement of the latest release from a hottest new band? Ripping past the sleeve plastic. Denting the cover sleeve from your enthusiasm. Touching the vinyl grooves directly with your fingers and slamming that album on your parents turntable. All done with the skill and precision of a butcher. Fuck it! …
David Thomas and his nourish gang of musical misanthropes have been haunting the edges of the alternative music scene since I first began reading Creem Magazine as a boy. An aspiring delinquent at the time, Thomas’s first band, the proto-punk legends Rocket From The Tombs, seemed like an unholy experiment that crawled out of the …
