Saturday 27 October 2007

Secret Agent Man


My fellow contributors, I know that this track and its clip are long lost gems we have endeavoured to track down, ever since they were featured on Rage sometime in the wee small hours, back in the 1980s. Of course the song predates the time in which we saw the clip, but I haven't experienced such a perfect symbiosis of sound and vision on youtube since watching Fad Gadget's "Collapsing New People". The unpolished clip matches the raw sound, and reminds us of how Devo were before the inevitable blandness set in. The way the song begins, with those ugly, experimental industrial sounds, replete with imagery of Devo in their disturbing Dr Who style "auton" masks, simply marvellous stuff....

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