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Song Name: "37"

Artist: DEVO

Appears On: Hardcore Volume 2

Year Recorded: 1975

Years Performed: 1992 (Bob I Band)

Run Time: 2:57 (album version)

Writing Credits: Gerald V. Casale , Bob Mothersbaugh

Sung By: Bob Mothersbaugh (lead vocals) Mark Mothersbaugh
(and possibly Jim Mothersbaugh) (backing vocals)

Demo Versions: Official release is the demo.

Song Connections: Mongoloid (similar topic)

Trivia / Info:

  • Mark is one of the backing vocalists singing the word "thirty-seven."
  • Booji Boy's Basement has the live 1992 performance of "37" by The Bob I Band available on S016 and BBB05.
  • Co-writer Bob 1 said, " '37' is tongue in cheek angst about thinking that if I was dumb I wouldn't feel bad about the horrible atrocities of life", in an interview formerly posted at Booji Boy's Basement.
    [This song is speculated to also be about Nixon, the 37th president who was in power in 1973.]

Onstage Behavior: Unknown

Lyrics:

I'm envious of your I.Q. of
37, 37
you, you're the one
it's written all over your face
you, you're the one
I'd like to take your place
I'm envious of your I.Q. of
37, 37
your lack of brains just drives me crazy
it's the only way to get by and be lazy
you, you're the one
it's written all over your face
you, you're so dumb
I'd like to take your place
I'm envious of your I.Q. of
37, 37
from where I come it's the dumber the better
no one likes a real "go getter"


DEVO
Mark Mothersbaugh | Gerry Casale | Bob Mothersbaugh
Bob Lewis | Bob Casale | Jim Mothersbaugh | Alan Myers
David Kendrick | Josh Freese
Jeff Friedl | Josh Hager
Record Labels / Publishers
Booji Boy Records | Warner Brothers | Enigma | Devo, Inc. 
Stiff | Virgin | Rykodisk | Infinite Zero | Restless | Discovery | Rhino 
MVD Audio | The Orchard | Superior Viaduct | Futurismo
Production
Brian Eno | Ken Scott | Robert Margouleff | Roy Thomas Baker | DEVO 
The Teddybears | Greg Kurstin | Santi White | John King | John Hill | Mark Nishita 
Official Studio Albums
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1978) | Duty Now For The Future (1979) | Freedom of Choice (1980) | New Traditionalists (1981) | oh, no! it's Devo (1982) | Shout (1984) | Total Devo (1988) | SmoothNoodleMaps (1990) | Something for Everybody   (2010)
Other Albums
B Stiff EP (1978) | E-Z Listening Disc (1987) | Now It Can Be Told: DEVO at the Palace (1989) | Hardcore DEVO Vol. 1 74-77 (1990) | Hardcore DEVO Vol. 2 1974-1977 (1991) | DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years (1992) | DEV-O Live (1999) | Recombo DNA (2000) | Live In Central Park (2004) | DEVO Live 1980 (2005) | New Traditionalists: Live 1981 Seattle (2012) | Something ELSE for Everybody  (2013) | Miracle Witness Hour  (2014) | Live at Max's Kansas City - November 15, 1977  (2014) | Butch Devo and the Sundance Gig  (2014) | Hardcore DEVO Live!  (2015) | Art Devo 1973-1977  (2023)
Filmography
In The Beginning Was The End: The Truth About De-Evolution (1976) | The Men Who Make The Music (1981) | Human Highway (1982) | We're All DEVO (1984) | The Complete Truth About De-Evolution (1993) | DEVO Live (2004) | DEVO Live In The Land Of The Rising Sun (2004) | DEVO Live 1980 (2005) | Butch Devo and the Sundance Gig  (2014) | Hardcore DEVO Live!  (2015)
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