Jupiter - Mongoloid (Devo Cover) video free download

From '' KROQ Devotees Album ''

Label: Rhino Records -- RNSP 301

Format: Vinyl, LP

Country: US

Released: 1979

Tracklist

A1 Knife Lust - Shrivel Up

A2 Jupiter - Mongoloid

A3 The View - Uncontrollable Urge

A4 The Firemen - Jocko Bozo

A5 The Deadliners - Mongoloid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcq9VQIpS1Y

A6 The Bakersfield Boogie Boys - Okie From Muskogee

B1 Lonnie And The Devotions - Jocko Homo

B2 The Doguloids - Blockhead

B3 The Touch Tone Tuners - Jocko Homo

B4 Y-22 - Music Inspired By Space Junk

B5 The Sordes - Mongoloid

B6 Bohonian Plimquins - Gut Feeling

This is a compilation of a Devo songs contest winners from KROQ-FM in Los Angeles during the Summers of 1978 and 1979.

This Lp was compiled from tapes sent in by KROQ listeners during the summers of 1978 and 79

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"Mongoloid" is the first single released by Devo in 1977, on the Booji Boy Records label. It was backed with the song "Jocko Homo." "Mongoloid" also had one of the first music videos made using collage.

"Mongoloid" would later be re-recorded by Devo and appeared on the album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! in 1978.

It is also a staple of Devo's live shows.

Song description

"Mongoloid," like many of Devo's early songs, was built on a motorik beat.

The song opens with a 4/4 electric bass line, which is then joined by drums, and electric guitar.

Over this, a swooping synthesizer line is played on Minimoog, using the pitch bend to create a spooky effect.

The synth is not used as a lead instrument during the song, but only the opening and closing.

The doubled vocals are sung simultaneously by both Gerald V. Casale and "Bob 1" (Bob Mothersbaugh).

On the original single, the vocals are deliberately sung in a nasal fashion.

Other versions

For Devo's debut album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, "Mongoloid" was re-recorded.

This version contains much more involved synthesizer playing throughout the song rather than during the opening and closing.

An "E-Z Listening" version of "Mongoloid" was made for playing before concerts and appears on the 1987 E-Z Listening Disc.

In 2002, Devo performed a techno version of "Mongoloid" at a special show for the writers and producers of the cartoon Rugrats (for which Mark Mothersbaugh composed the theme song).

It has more recently been sampled by electronic outfit Layo & Bushwacka for the track "Love Story," which was rather successful in Europe and Australia.

Covers

"Mongoloid" has been one of the most frequently covered songs in the Devo catalog:

Zvoncekova Bilježnica, a Serbian hardcore/postpunk band covered this song for their 1992 album Inžinjeri ljudskih duša in Serbian language with different lyrics.

Demented Are Go, a Welsh psychobilly band, covered it on their 1993 album Tangenital Madness on a Pleasant Side of Hell.

Australian ska band The Porkers covered this song for their 1994 album, Grunt!

Thrash metal group Demolition Hammer covers the song on their 1994 album Timebomb.

Sepultura covered the song on their 2002 Revolusongs EP.

A slightly altered version of the chorus serves as the theme music of the Androsynth race in the Star Control computer games.

In 2007, Datarock performed an acoustic version of the song for Like A Version, a segment on the national Australian radio station, Triple J.

Possum Dixon performed a Spanish cover, "El Mongoloido", on We Are Not Devo, the Devo tribute album released in 1997.

The Belgian rock band The Assassinators plays a cover version of the song.

Additionally, in the Flemish film Ex Drummer, the main character's band The Feminists do a version of "Mongoloid" in rehearsals and in concert. This version was recorded by Belgian band Millionaire.

There is a bluegrass version of the song, recorded in Cleveland, Ohio, by the Hotfoot Quartet in 1980 and released as a 45 rpm single on the Black Snake label.

A choral version of the song, both a cappella and with instrumental accompaniment, was released by the German band Popchor Berlin in 2002 on their EP-1" album.

Rummelsnuff, a German industrial/punk band, covered "Mongoloid" on their first record Halt Durch! in 2008.

"Mongoloid" was also covered by an early incarnation of the band October Rising, when they were known as the "Star Spangled Bastards".

The Chilean band Los Mox covered this song on their album Con Cover.

The Sky Fades Away, a Russian post-punk band covered this song.