DEVO Can U Take It? LIMITED EDITION (500 Copies) Unauthorized No TMOQ SEALED
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DEVO Can U Take It?
New & Sealed Vinyl Record
Record Label: Rubber Robot Records ?– RR-001
Unauthorized Live Album. Strictly Limited Edition (First Edition - Only 500 Copies). Packaged in white jacket with yellow photo wrapped around cover which gives the "TRU DEVO BIO."
Condition: New and still sealed in it's original shrink-wrap. Corners are sharp. Spine, top and bottom are solid. Mint!
Side One
1. Wiggly World
2. Pink Pussycat
3. Mongoloid
4. Smart Patrol
5. Mr. DNA
6. Sloppy
Side Two
7. I'm A Potato
8. Can U Take It?
9. Stop, Look, & Listen
10. Come Back Jonee
11. Gut Feeling
12. Red-Eye Express
13. Words Get Stuck
Review: Released in 1979, Can U Take It? was Rubber Robot's first Devo release. This LP offers rare studio demos from 1974-1977 (including "Can U Take It?," which eventually ended up on Rykodisc's very legal 1991 collection Hardcore Devo, Vol. 2) as well as live performances that were probably recorded in 1978 and 1979; regrettably, Rubber Robot fails to list venues, cities, or exact recording dates. What we do know is that the sound quality is generally decent -- not audiophile quality, but decent -- and that Devo sounds inspired on live performances that range from "Jocko Homo," "Wiggly World," and "Sloppy" to "Come Back, Jonee" and "Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA." Devo's performances make for a lot of goofy, wacky fun and, yet, there is a method to the madness. For all its goofiness and eccentricity, Devo had an important message -- one that was anti-fascist and discouraged mindless conformity. Like George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic, Devo knew how to use madcap humor to get a serious point across. If you were an enthusiastic Devo collector back in 1979, Can U Take It? was worth searching for.
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