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Devo's Freedom of Choice (Paperback)
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Devo's Freedom of Choice (Paperback)
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List price R358
Loot Price R249
Discovery Miles 2 490
You Save R109 (30%)
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Finally, after all that waiting, The Future arrived in 1980. Ohio
art-rockers Devo had plainly prepared with their 1979 second LP
Duty Now for the Future, and now it was go time. Propelled by the
new decade's high-tech, free-market, pre-AIDS promise, 1980's
Freedom of Choice would rocket what Devo co-founder Gerald Casale
calls his "alternate universe, hermetically sealed, alien band"
both into the arms of the Earthlings and back to their home planet
in one scenic trip. Before an artistic and commercial decline that
resulted in a 20-year gap between Devo's last two studio records,
Freedom of Choice made them curious, insurgent superstars,
vindicated but ultimately betrayed by the birth of MTV. Their only
platinum album represented the best of their unreplicable code:
dead-serious tricksters, embracing conformity in order to destroy
it with bullet-proof pop sensibility. Through first-hand accounts
from the band and musical analysis set against an examination of
new wave's emergence, the first-ever authorized book about Devo
(with a foreword by Portlandia's Fred Armisen) explores the group's
peak of success, when their hermetic seal cracked open to let in
mainstream attention, a legion of new Devotees, and plenty of
misunderstandings. "Freedom of Choice was the end of Devo
innocence-it turned out to be the high point before the s***storm
of a total cultural move to the right, the advent of AIDS, and the
press starting to figure Devo out and think they had our number,"
says Casale. "It's where everything changes."
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