we first heard fresh on the broadcast of the winter olympics, remember? and it was awesome, remember? a perfectly good single for a comeback album. i like it, as a strong lead to a pretty good album.
my friend bearzbub said please baby please is their "goody two shoes" take, and yeah, the percussion does go there. they tend to stick to what "devo" sounded like through most of the album, though. it's interesting that devo didn't attempt to do anything new with this album. sounds almost backhanded, but i think it is the only approach they should take. a band like devo is so unique in sound and packaging...it's what [they] do. and it's what we want them to do.
except the track, sumthin', which comes off as son of "whip it".
other tracks have simple 80's synth lead-ins, sounding like old video games, at times, but now layered over with giant bass and percussion. i told you about seeing devo live, right? the dreadfully painful vibrations because the volume was so incredibly high? several of these tracks would be perfect in that setting. (see them live, and hope they play several from this album.)
toward the end of the album, no place like home is a shockingly restrained tune. and you know who they sound like here? alphaville. seriously. i think i love this track. finally, march on: the call to arms that wraps up the album. devo has always led an army, and the war continues, apparently.
so yeah, march on.
no place like home, devo
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