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Instrumental Name: Booji Boy's Funeral

Artist: DEVO

Appears On: Hardcore Volume 2, DEVO Live 1980

Run Time: 3:59

Year Recorded: 1977

Year Released: 1991

Years Performed: [1] 1980 (as film playback), 2014 (as audio playback)

Writing & Performance Credits: Mark Mothersbaugh as Booji Boy

Alternate Versions: with lyrics this is called Tunnel Of Life

Demo Versions: Official release is the demo.

Song Connections: Mechanical Man (same synth opening line), Tunnel Of Life (version with lyrics)

Trivia / Info:[]

  • "Booji Boy's Funeral" is the soundtrack for the second half of the 1980 interstitial tour film, and begins as Booji is taken to the hospital. This music fades into the film's soundtrack from the instrumental titled "Booji's Industrial Death."
The next scene is Booji Boy’s un-bandaging at the hospital, still backed by the instrumental soundtrack "Booji Boy's Funeral"/“Tunnel of Life.”
The music continues, and after about one minute and ten seconds, Booji appears with his head damaged but healing, and sings his “Tunnel of Life” lyrics.

References:

Links:

https://musicbrainz.org/work/8b34e26c-31a9-42fb-9a27-40fd2af60a82
https://www.discogs.com/artist/12834-Devo?searchParam=Booji+Boy%27s+Funeral
https://www.allmusic.com/song/booji-boys-funeral-mt0034119668


https://open.spotify.com/track/76DQGo96ZcGJDSNrheHqIl
https://www.last.fm/music/Devo/_/Booji+Boy%27s+Funeral/+albums
https://music.apple.com/us/song/booji-boys-funeral/1102701305


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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 
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)
Compilations / Live 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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