Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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0:00 Intro
1:44 Whip It
4:30 Snowball
7:13 It's Not Right
9:34 Girl U Want
12:30 Planet Earth
15:09 S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain)
19:13 Secret Agent Man
22:32 Pink Pussycat
25:58 Blockhead
29:20 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
32:38 Uncontrollable Urge
35:45 Mongoloid
39:12 Be Stiff
42:04 Gates of Steel
45:28 Freedom Of Choice
49:10 Jocko Homo
54:00 Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA
1:00:48 Gut Feeling / Slam Your Mammy
1:04:58 Come Back Jonee
1:08:48 Tunnel Of Life
1:14:00 Devo Corporate Anthem

"Although hard to fathom nowadays, there was a time when there was no MTV. In fact, rock music visuals on TV were usually delegated strictly to the weekend, when you had to burn the midnight oil to catch Saturday Night Live, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, the Midnight Special, or Friday's. And mostly, it was either straight-ahead live performance footage, or else blah lip-synched stuff, with the musicians playing to an empty arena on the afternoon of a show- This all changed with Devo - The five spuds from O-HI-O seemed to have an agenda (in no particular order) - to make you think, laugh, and build homemade energy dome hats - and this seemed to occur whenever a Devo TV appearance occurred. One of the first groups to film conceptual video clips (who could forget the classic, striking shorts for 'Whip It', 'Freedom of Choice', and 'Satisfac­tion'), Devo was also one of the new wave era' great live bands, as evidenced by this very DVD.
Even if you missed catching Devo live and 'in the flesh', you had a decent chance to sample 'em on the tube, as they were one of the few acts to appear on all of the aforementioned programs. Only problem was that bands were only given a handful of songs to perform on these shows. ­That's where 'Live 1980' comes in handy - It's becoming rare nowadays for full-length shows to have survived from this era, but that's what ya get here - a full-length live set, just as 'Whip It' was beginning to make Devo a household word.
And while all the group's 'hits' up to this point are included, hardcore spuds will enjoy such
run-throughs of the obscuri­ties 'It's Not Right', 'Pink Pussycat', and 'Swelling Itching Brain'. So let's get in the right time frame, shall we? Darth Vader has just told Luke Skywalker that he's his pop, the hostages are about to be released in Iran, many were left wondering just who shot J.R., the U.S. hockey team has taken home the gold, and Space Invaders mania is still sweeping the country. Good, now it's time to slide the disc into the player...'
- Greg Prato 2005

Filmed live in Petaluma, CA - 1980.
Audio by Chris Seylar and Big Round Sound Productions.

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