The Most Progressive and Perverse of Devo, According to Mark Mothersbaugh

“We should’ve been marketed as social scientists.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo by Richard Creamer/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Devo is an art movement.

Musically at the time, around 1973, my interest was to deconstruct what was considered rock and roll. For me, it started with the Rolling Stones’ “ Satisfaction.” That was ground zero for rock and roll. So I thought, Yeah, it’s time for rock and roll to say good-bye, and we’re starting something new. We thought it was sound and vision. We were talking about something specific.

Most progressive song There’s things other than sounds that were important to us — part of it was the lyrics. Songs like “Beautiful World” and “Freedom of Choice” have some of my favorite Devo lyrics: “It’s a beautiful world for you / But not for me.” It’s talking about rejecting the cliché of the culture.

My first year in college, in 1969, I read a book called The Population Bomb. It was a sociologist writing about how humans are replicating at such a fast pace that we will eat our way out of our home within the next 100 years. He predicted that by 2050, a virus will attack humans and will probably take out enough of us so that we don’t become a danger to destroying planet Earth. It still could happen — you don’t know.

When we got back home, we said to each other, “We can’t let this happen on the next tour.” So we started recording parodies of our own songs, and we called that collection of songs E-Z Listening Devo Muzak. We recorded more than an hour of songs. “Mongoloid” was arranged in the style of Leave It to Beaver, and we did “Jocko Homo” as a conga-line tune.

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