Devo: Are We Not Men? (1978)

(Full title -- Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!)

Now, in order to talk Devo, we really do need some stage-setting. It's all about context.

Early '80s, a midwestern suburb north of Chicago. My high school was near Lake Michigan; rich kids living near the Lake, the rest of us further inland. Almost universally white. High stress environment, nightmares about the SAT and getting into the right Big Ten college and the cool fraternity/sorority, maybe even a private university out east. The sort of...