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Devo - (I Can’t Get Me No) Satisfaction (1977 single version)
It’s slower than the Brian Eno-produced version on Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo, but it feels funkier and Mark Mothersbaugh is more present, less detached on this recording. I’d say the difference between the two tracks is that the album version plays like a “clever” new wave cover and this one is a deliberate, statement-making kind of cover: Devo’s herky-jerky delivery exposes something neurotic and not quite right with the unsatisfied narrator. I mean, listen to that “babybabybabybabybabybaby” line.
listen you dim shill, there are things you need to at least hear once in your life and this is one of those things. i don’t give a fuck if you don’t like it but for god’s sake put it under your belt so people like me don’t consider you a whisp character.
