Disney
2006
Devo 2.0
About This Album
Rock bands have made a cottage industry out of remaking and re-imagining themselves ever since the Beatles decided to drop acid and grow mustaches, but Devo has taken this notion to a new and curious level with this album. Working in cahoots with Disney Sound, the group's founders, Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh, have helped spawn Devo 2.0, in which five spunky children between the ages of nine and 13 perform family-friendly versions of songs from Devo's back catalog. Actually, the kids only do so much performing on Dev2.0 -- while front-tween Nicole Stoehr handles the lead vocals and guitarist Nathan Norman and keyboardist Jackie Emerson sing backups, the music is produced and mostly performed by the original members of Devo, and while Stoehr often sounds like the 12 year old she is (albeit one with a few years of musical training), on a musical level this sounds like a slightly slicker variation on Devo's salad days, and it's a more enjoyable listen than anything Devo has released since 1982's Oh, No! It's Devo. But there's a tremendous level of disconnect for anyone who has more than a passing familiarity with Devo's body of work. There's an aggressive cheerfulness to Dev2.
Track List

Disc 1 (try tracks 1,3,4,5,6,10 and 11)

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