Track listing[]
All songs written and composed by Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale, except where noted.
| Side one | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Shout" | 3:15 | |||||||
| 2. | "The Satisfied Mind" | 3:07 | |||||||
| 3. | "Don't Rescue Me" | M. Mothersbaugh | 3:07 | ||||||
| 4. | "The 4th Dimension" | 4:24 | |||||||
| 5. | "C'mon" | 3:15 | |||||||
| Side two | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 6. | "Here To Go" | 3:18 | |||||||
| 7. | "Jurisdiction Of Love" | M. Mothersbaugh | 3:00 | ||||||
| 8. | "Puppet Boy" | 3:10 | |||||||
| 9. | "Please Please" | 3:04 | |||||||
| 10. | "Are You Experienced?" | Jimi Hendrix | 3:08 | ||||||
Total length: |
32:48 | ||||||||
| 1996 Infinite Zero CD reissue[3] adds:[4] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 11. | "Growing Pains" | 3:45 | |||||||
| 12. | "Shout" (EZ Listening Muzak Version 1) | 4:12 | |||||||
Personnel[]
DEVO[]
- Bob Casale - additional keyboards, occasional backing vocals
- Gerald V. Casale - keybass, lead vocals
- Bob Mothersbaugh - lead guitar, backing vocals
- Mark Mothersbaugh - keyboards - fairlight computer, lead vocals
- Alan Myers - programmed drums
Production[]
- DEVO - production
- Robert Casale - engineering
- Ed Delena - additional engineering
- Mike Shipley - mixing (except "Are You Experienced?")
- Steve Marcussen - mastering
- Jim Mothersbaugh - technical assistance
- Will Alexander - programming consultation of fairlight computer instruments
- Al Hovarth and Bill Wolfer - additional emulator programming
Album Art and Design[]
- DEVO - Graphic Concept
- Vigon Seireeni - Art Direction
- Karen Filter - Photography
- Effective Graphics (Compton, CA) - Computer Graphics
- Zachary Chase (Boy) and Alex Mothersbaugh (Girl) - Cover Kids
- Clacton and Frinton (Los Angeles, CA) - Chinese-American Friendship Suits
- Elliot Roberts and Bill Gerber (Lookout Management, Los Angeles, CA) - Career Direction
- Neal Levin, C.P.A. - Special Mention
Tour[]
Due to total lack of financial support from Warner Brothers, there was no tour for this album. On the tours of 1988 through 1991, however, Shout did appear during the Somewhere With DEVO suite and Here To Go was played at a charity concert in 1991.
Promotional video[]
- - video available to buy, LaserDisc only. Commentary track also on DVD.
RU Experienced?[]
- DEVO & TELEMUSIC CORP. [5] [6]
- present
- R U EXPERIENCED
- LENGTH 3:26
- Director – Gerald V. Casale
- Tech. Director/Producer
- Graeme Whifler [7] [8]
- Producer – Susan Fitzgerald
- c1984 Warner Bros. Records
- Extra info -
- Production photos available in the official books DEVO: Unmasked/DEVO: The Brand and in the photo album by Graeme Whifler “Devo & Elfman Shoots,” flicker.com.g
- “...We did it on a VAX computer at NYIT when there was no such thing as morphing. We just used an interpolation pattern and matted in the mouth - the moving singing Mark's mouth…" - Jerry (1993 video commentary track)[1]
- "...I also worked with Devo, utilizing some of the earliest morphing software, I enjoyed connecting with musicians who were exploring new ideas and new technology." - Rebecca Allen[2]
- General Boy announced that the "Are You Experienced" video had been released in November.[3] Mark said that it had been completed the night before it debuted on TV.
Promotional ads[]
Honda Motors[]
- Elite Scooters TV spot - Dailymotion.com. Uploaded by Timmy_Ramone.
- Directed by Jerry, Edited by Larry Bridges for ad agency Dailey & Associates.
- Poster - [9][10]
- Bob Stevens photographed Devo for the Honda poster. The same Bob Stevens has also been credited with running Telemusic at the time of the “R U Experienced” video.[11][12]
- DEVO: The Brand says this was done in 1983. The TV spot premiered in spring 1984 and was aired for a few years.
Coca-Cola[]
- Diet Coke TV spot
- DEVO’s segment directed by Jerry
- DEVO wear an all-white outfit with an Energy Dome. The shirt/pant combo is the same as in the scooter advertising – including a black cinch waist belt and a red and black “DEVO” ball logo opposite the “Shout” white on black patch.
- The TV spot was aired for a few years.
- See: Carbonated beverage promotion (TV commercial outfits)
Trivia[]
- The Fairlight CMI sampling synthesizer was used extensively by Mark on this album.
- Zach was the stepson and then adopted son of Timothy Leary. [4]
- Unlike oh, no! it's DEVO and Total Devo, Shout did not have a Virgin Records catalogue release number - the album was released around the globe by “the bunny”.[5][6]
- Lyrics were included on a Shout poster.[7] The standard album release did not include printed lyrics. The 1984 release in Japan included translated lyrics and the 2008 CD box set release included transcribed lyrics printed in English and in Japanese, with some errors.
Notes and References[]
- ↑ Hardware likely included a VAX-11/780 or VAX-11/750 at the NYIT Computer Graphics Lab founded in 1974 by Dr. Alexander Schure, who hired Ed Catmull to head “The Lab.” Source:
https://history.siggraph.org/animation-video-pod/nyit-demo-by-new-york-institute-of-technology-nyit/
- ↑ Rebecca Allen with Erkki Huhtamo, "i always like to go where i am not supposed to be". Women, Art, and Technology. Judy Malloy, editor. MIT Press, p.235, (2003).
- ↑ “FROM THE DESK OF GENERAL BOY”
"Letter from General Boy - To My Beloved Loyal Mutattos - Info on DEVO in 1984/1985." DEVO-Obsesso.
devo-obsesso.com/html/paper-itempages/documents/gboy_beloved.html (https://archive.ph/VwbRs#selection-471.0-477.28)
“...Here’s a list of what’s happening in the life of DEVO: (a) November 15, 1984, the ‘Are You Experienced’ video was released featuring Zach & Alex, the “Shout” album cover kids...”
- ↑ archive.nytimes.com. NYT Obituary and correction. by Laura Mansnerus. June 1st and 7th, 1996. Timothy Leary, Pied Piper Of Psychedelic 60's, Dies at 75. "Formerly a stepson, Zachary was adopted by Mr. Leary. He is Zachary Leary, not Chase."
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/master/52782-Devo-Shout
- ↑ “New Release Information: Artist: DEVO”, “...Label: WARNER BROS”.[1][2]
- ↑ devo-obsesso.com/html/paper-itempages/posters/posters-shoutlyrics.html (https://archive.ph/19f07)
Links[]
- External Links
- Shout (Devo album) -- Wikipedia
- Shout (Devo album lyrics) -- Genius Lyrics
- Internal Links
- 1984 - Outfits
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