Devo: Live in Los Angeles
Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 20 September 1980
I'M HERE to testify they've done it! Gone back, right along the de-evolutionary scale, down to the Bill and Ben stage. What an achievement! Five men jerking about onstage to a slow plodding beat with fed upside-down flowerpots on their heads, while 3,000 Little Weeds down below squeal their approval, shouting and whooping and enough apeshit to keep the garden green for centuries.
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