DEVO – (I CAN’T GET ME NO) SATISFACTION (STIFF RECORDS)
If you search through music for a thousand years you are probably unlikely to ever come across a more accomplished and adept retuning of a song as cover version than you will Devo’s retooling of the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction.”
Barely recognisable from the original all the frills and showbiz fluff have been removed from the texture and the laughable sexual suggestions get rendered suddenly plausible as the delivery pays a lot of credit to the external lyrical content of the number and now it seems the listener is better placed to actually understand the weight and true meaning of the song, the true root cause of (the) man’s frustration.
Musically this is also a real departure from Devo as they act upon their most playful of urges and not only deconstruct the song but their instruments with it. Keef never had it so good.
In the long run circa now this is actually probably the more recognised version of the song as pop audiences and fanatics move on but music fans and experts continue place more value onto the musical explorations of Devo as opposed to the one track mindset of the Rolling Stones and their eternal efforts to shag the planet (the female half) and milk the cashcow dry. Just who had it better?
Released on the wonderful Stiff Records (and Booji Boy Records) in 1978 this single version of the song was a different recording to that what would eventually end up on their first album recorded by Brian Eno.
Featuring on the b-side is “Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Getting)” another song that would feature on their debut album in a different form. With its gigantic pop hook this could easily have been the a-side demonstrating all the elements that make a Devo song amazing.
The run out groove is inscribed with the legend “money talks people mumble” which you can take to the bank.
The subgenius salute you.
Thesaurus moment: panegyric.
DEVO
Stiff Records
If you search through music for a thousand years you are probably unlikely to ever come across a more accomplished and adept retuning of a song as cover version than you will Devo’s retooling of the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction.”
Barely recognisable from the original all the frills and showbiz fluff have been removed from the texture and the laughable sexual suggestions get rendered suddenly plausible as the delivery pays a lot of credit to the external lyrical content of the number and now it seems the listener is better placed to actually understand the weight and true meaning of the song, the true root cause of (the) man’s frustration.
Musically this is also a real departure from Devo as they act upon their most playful of urges and not only deconstruct the song but their instruments with it. Keef never had it so good.
In the long run circa now this is actually probably the more recognised version of the song as pop audiences and fanatics move on but music fans and experts continue place more value onto the musical explorations of Devo as opposed to the one track mindset of the Rolling Stones and their eternal efforts to shag the planet (the female half) and milk the cashcow dry. Just who had it better?
Released on the wonderful Stiff Records (and Booji Boy Records) in 1978 this single version of the song was a different recording to that what would eventually end up on their first album recorded by Brian Eno.
Featuring on the b-side is “Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Getting)” another song that would feature on their debut album in a different form. With its gigantic pop hook this could easily have been the a-side demonstrating all the elements that make a Devo song amazing.
The run out groove is inscribed with the legend “money talks people mumble” which you can take to the bank.
The subgenius salute you.
Thesaurus moment: panegyric.
DEVO
Stiff Records
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