Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

First Released: July, 1978
Recorded: 1977-1978
Tracks: 11
Label: US: Warner Brothers / UK: Virgin

Track listingEdit

1. Uncontrollable Urge (3:08)
2. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (2:38)
3. Praying Hands (2:47)
4. Space Junk (2:13)
5. Mongoloid (3:42)
6. Jocko Homo (3:38)
7. Too Much Paranoias (1:56)
8. Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy) (4:54)
9. Come Back Jonee (3:46)
10. Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin') (2:37)
11. Shrivel Up (3:05)

(Track timings from US Warner Brothers CD release)

1979 Virgin UK reissue adds:

• (Picture disc LP and a letter from the desk of General Boy)

• Flimsy Wrap (3:35) single track flexi disc

2009 Warner Brothers remastered reissue adds:

• DEVO live at The London HMV Forum, London, England, May 6, 2009.

A special concert performance of Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

12. Uncontrollable Urge (Live) (3:26)
13. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Live) (3:07)
14. Praying Hands (Live) (2:48)
15. Space Junk (Live) (2:17)
16. Mongoloid (Live) (3:38)
17. Jocko Homo (Live) (4:32)
18. Too Much Paranoias (Live) (2:26)
19. Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy) (Live) (4:19)
20. Come Back Jonee (Live) (4:21)
21. Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin') (Live) (2:25)
22. Shrivel Up (Live) (3:05)

PersonnelEdit

DEVOEdit

• Bob Casale - rhythm guitar, additional keyboards, occasional backing vocals
• Gerald V. Casale - bass guitar, additional keyboards, lead vocals
• Bob Mothersbaugh - lead guitar, backing vocals
• Mark Mothersbaugh - keyboards, occasional guitar, lead vocals
• Alan Myers - drums

ProductionEdit

• Brian Eno - producer
• Patrick Gleeson - engineer
• Conrad Plank - engineer

Album Art and DesignEdit

• Barbara Watson - photographer
• Devolved comuta-posite cover graphic courtesy of Devo Inc.
• John Cabalka - design (graphic supervision)
• Erik Munsön - design (package production design), AKA "Eric Monson"

TriviaEdit

• DEVO, especially G.V.C. , were involved with the production, mixing, and album art

• Recorded at Konrad "Conny" Plank's home studio in Neunkirchen-Seelscheid , ESE of Cologne (Köln), Germany (Deutschland)
• The Spanish title was translated as "P: Somos Nosotros Hombres? R: Nosotros Somos Devo" -- (Discogs)

Tour SetlistEdit

1. Wiggly World
2. Secret Agent Man (Q/A Japan shows, then DNFTF tour*)
3. Pink Pussycat
4. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
5. Too Much Paranoias
6. Praying Hands
7. Uncontrollable Urge
8. Mongoloid
9. Jocko Homo
10. Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
11. Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin')
12. Come Back Jonee
13. Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy)
14. DEVO Corporate Anthem (tape playback)
15. Red Eye Express (vocals by Booji Boy)
16. The Words Get Stuck In My Throat (vocals by Booji Boy)

Live TriviaEdit

• This is the full normal set list. On several occasions, one or several songs were absent and the order was changed
• On 11/15/78, I Need A Chick (sung by Booji Boy) was played as the last song of the set
• One undated circulating tape shows that In Heaven Everything Is Fine replaced The Words Get Stuck In My Throat at least once

Live BehaviorEdit

See article "Outfits: 1978."

Yellow protective suits (with the word "DEVO" on breast) worn with 3D glasses

The yellow suits were taken off during Jocko Homo (in some instances pants were removed during Uncontrollable Urge), revealing the black shorts, socks, knee/elbow pads, and T-shirts (also emblazoned with "DEVO")

Red helmets were added after the song ended. Mark as Booji Boy wore the latex head mask and the black undersuit

ChartsEdit

Album - Billboard (North America)

External Links:Edit

•  Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (Master Release) -- Discogs
• Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! at MusicBrainz
• Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (Overview) -- AllMusic
• Are We Not Men? We Are Devo! -- Wikipedia