Word: devoe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...props that get to Gerald Casale, co-founder and video director of Devo, one of the first and funniest of new-wave video bands. "Directors take these songs by groups who have nothing to say, and try to contrive a handle by repeatedly using an object and implying it is some kind of totem. The number of girls on MTV picking up wine glasses and lockets and earrings and breaking them or stepping on them with high heels cannot be believed...
...beat. And though their chants ("We are from the Jonzun Crew/We are from your planet too") take on a cartoonish quality, they appear determined to try something new. Their Latin-infused "We are the Jonzun Crew," with its opening "Who are we?" draw obvious parallels to new wave weirdos Devo, who sacrificed quality to novelty early in their career...
...Yale duo of Helen Hyde and Sue Doten might also prove unassailable in the breaststroke events, unless Crimson freshman Susan Kim can slip between them in the 50-yard contest. "New Wave" Kim, a precocious sprinter who dons Devo glasses and a gold lame vest before her races, could also place in the 100-yard individual medley...
Other strong Crimson performances came from freshman Susan Kim, and sophomores Kathy Davis, Maureen Gildea and Terri Frick. Representing the new wave of swimming, Kim cavorted around behind the starting blocks in a gold lame vest and Devo-style glasses before winning the 100-yd. IM and the 50-yd. breaststroke with times of 1:05.46 and 34.37. And although they were recovering from the flu, Davis, Gildea and Frick all managed to pull out wins with gutsy performances...
...stations in a torrent as remarkable for its suddenness as for its size. There's been no similar topical fascination in rock music since the Beatles set off the psychedelic-drug-song craze in 1967. Listen to the titles: "Generals and Majors" (XTC), "World War" (The Cure), "Cold War" (Devo), "Battleground" (Joe Jackson), "Life During Wartime" (Talking Heads). There are songs about war in the Middle East, songs about nuclear war, political songs against war, jingoist songs for war, songs that use war as a metaphor for everything from love to race relations. Our songwriters have war on the brain...