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June 6, 2020
45 RPMs 44: Devo ~ (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
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Fifty-five years ago today, on June 6, 1965, The Rolling Stones released their single, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, in the United States and once again, as they say, the rest is history.
Twelve years later, my very favorite version of the song was released by the American new wave band Devo with their rendition of (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction as a single
in 1977 (links below). It was initially a self-produced recording on their own label Booji Boy Records. The song was re-recorded with Brian Eno
as producer for their first album, and that version was also released
as a single in 1978, this time by Warner Brothers Records, after it was
played for approval by Mick Jagger. Steve Huey of AllMusic stated that the cover version "reworks the original's alienation into a spastic freak-out that's nearly unrecognizable". The Devo version of the song was featured in the 1995 Martin Scorsese epic crime film Casino.
However, Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, plunking on a home-kitted Telecaster taped up with a frequency pedal, whose scrawny, delicate body must be protected from the world’s harmful rays by goggles and a billowing yellow Tyvek radiation suit, makes a more convincing argument as a person thwarted by both love and capitalism. He has become an acomplished composer of film scores.
However, Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, plunking on a home-kitted Telecaster taped up with a frequency pedal, whose scrawny, delicate body must be protected from the world’s harmful rays by goggles and a billowing yellow Tyvek radiation suit, makes a more convincing argument as a person thwarted by both love and capitalism. He has become an acomplished composer of film scores.
But the San Francisco new wave band, The Residents had released their version of (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction a year earlier in 1976 (links below). Perhaps this was the inspiration for Devo.
This recording is a Japanese pressing released by Warner Bros. Records a year and a half later in November of 1978.
45 rpm record front cover
The
quirky music video for the song and several others from this album
received significant airplay on the newly formed television channel, MTV.
A notable feature of the video was dancer Craig Allen Rothwell, aka Booji Boy and Spazz Attack (link below).
Devo ~ (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
45 rpm record back cover
Devo ~ (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
45 rpm record sleeve
45 rpm record back cover
Britney Spears also covered (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction; it is a sexy and highly produced but pretty wimpy version (link below).
45 rpm record sleeve
Devo formed in 1973. Their classic lineup consisted of two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs (Mark and Bob) and the Casales (Gerald and Bob), along with Alan Myers. The band had a No. 14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single Whip It, the song that gave the band mainstream popularity.
Devo ~ (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
45 rpm record
Devo ~ (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
45 rpm record
45 rpm record
The name Devo comes from the concept of 'de-evolution'
and the band's related idea that instead of continuing to evolve,
mankind has actually begun to regress, as evidenced by the dysfunction
and herd mentality of American society.
45 rpm record
Tracklist:
Side 1:
A - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, written by Mick Jagger-Keith Richard* - 2:28
Side 2:
B - Uncontrollable Urge, written by Mark Mothersbaugh - 2:15
Companies, etc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Made By – Warner-Pioneer Corporation
Credits:
Producer, Artwork By [Graphic Concept] – Devo
Notes:
White label promo with insert in Japanese and English.
Both 見本盤 (translation: "Sample Disc") and 見本品 (translation: "Not For Sale") printed on labels.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Side A label): P-343W1
Matrix / Runout (Side B label): P-343W2
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): P-343W-1 1-A1
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): P-343W-2 1-A1
Price Code: ¥600
Side 1:
A - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, written by Mick Jagger-Keith Richard* - 2:28
Side 2:
B - Uncontrollable Urge, written by Mark Mothersbaugh - 2:15
Companies, etc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Made By – Warner-Pioneer Corporation
Credits:
Producer, Artwork By [Graphic Concept] – Devo
Notes:
White label promo with insert in Japanese and English.
Both 見本盤 (translation: "Sample Disc") and 見本品 (translation: "Not For Sale") printed on labels.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Side A label): P-343W1
Matrix / Runout (Side B label): P-343W2
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): P-343W-1 1-A1
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): P-343W-2 1-A1
Price Code: ¥600
Devo – (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Label: Warner Bros. Records – P-343W
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Promo
Country: Japan
Released: Nov 1978
Genre: Rock
Style: New Wave, Synth-pop
Label: Warner Bros. Records – P-343W
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Promo
Country: Japan
Released: Nov 1978
Genre: Rock
Style: New Wave, Synth-pop
Viewfinder links:
Brian Eno (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction lyrics
Mick Jagger
The Residents
The Rolling Stones
Net links:
YouTube links:
Devo ~ (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Devo ~ Uncontrollable Urge
The Residents ~ Satisfaction
Britney Spears ~ (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Rolling Stones ~ (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Official Lyric Video) Devo ~ Uncontrollable Urge
The Residents ~ Satisfaction
Britney Spears ~ (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
November 1, 2014
1,000,001 CDs 3: Dalis Car ~ The Waking Hour (30 years later)
cover image, Daybreak by Maxfield Parrish
cover design by Mick Karn
photo of album cover by Styrous®
cover design by Mick Karn
photo of album cover by Styrous®
Thirty years ago this month, November, 1984, Dalis Car released their studio album, The Waking Hour. I
discovered it at a record store a couple of blocks from my studio a few
months later in 1985. I was blown away by the music. It is atonal at times,
dissonant at others. New Wave, Avantgarde or Experimental, no matter how you describe it, it is truly unique with very strange moods that have kept me intrigued for three decades.
Dalis Car was formed in 1984 by Peter Murphy (formerly of Bauhaus), Mick Karn
(formerly of Japan) and Paul Vincent Lawford
(rhythm construction) shortly after Murphy and Karn
left their bands. They took their name from a Captain Beefheart song from his album, Trout Mask Replica.
The duo only recorded one album, The Waking Hour (UK No. 84), and released one single, The Judgement is the Mirror (UK No. 66). The cover of the album features a detail from the Maxfield Parrish painting, Daybreak.
photographer unknown
The duo only recorded one album, The Waking Hour (UK No. 84), and released one single, The Judgement is the Mirror (UK No. 66). The cover of the album features a detail from the Maxfield Parrish painting, Daybreak.
CD back
The
recording of the album took place in unusual circumstances, as neither
Karn nor Murphy spent much time together in the recording studio,
preferring to send tapes back and forth between each other, to work on
alone. It was the only studio album by Dalis Car; it was released in November, 1984.
All in all, like it or not, The Waking Hour is a surreal acoustic adventure that will never be forgotten once experienced.
In August 2010, Peter Murphy announced on Twitter that he and Karn were planning to head into the studio in September the same year to begin work on the second Dalis Car album. The project was cut short, however, when Karn was diagnosed with cancer. He died on 4 January 2011, thus ending the reunion. Five of the tracks they did record were released on April 5, 2012 as an EP entitled InGladAloneness.
The music on the album is cerebral and pretty much disjointed and disturbing as opposed to joyous or narrative. The songs need careful consideration to comprehend most of the time. It is not music to dance to; although it is not loud and raucous, there is nothing quiet about it. It considers the topic of each song with a cold, analytical eye that put me off on first listening. The instrumentals are by Mick Karn with vocals by Peter Murphy. The songs were written by Karn and Murphy. It took me a while to get used to the album but once I did, I loved it.
All in all, like it or not, The Waking Hour is a surreal acoustic adventure that will never be forgotten once experienced.
In August 2010, Peter Murphy announced on Twitter that he and Karn were planning to head into the studio in September the same year to begin work on the second Dalis Car album. The project was cut short, however, when Karn was diagnosed with cancer. He died on 4 January 2011, thus ending the reunion. Five of the tracks they did record were released on April 5, 2012 as an EP entitled InGladAloneness.
CD interior, Daybreak by Maxfield Parrish
the music
The music on the album is cerebral and pretty much disjointed and disturbing as opposed to joyous or narrative. The songs need careful consideration to comprehend most of the time. It is not music to dance to; although it is not loud and raucous, there is nothing quiet about it. It considers the topic of each song with a cold, analytical eye that put me off on first listening. The instrumentals are by Mick Karn with vocals by Peter Murphy. The songs were written by Karn and Murphy. It took me a while to get used to the album but once I did, I loved it.
Dalis Car
begins the adventure, with the song by the same name, with a staccato
snare then wanders with syncopated dissonance to tell the tale, "......
his words in monotonal hums," as the lyrics go.
Create and Melt features a tabla sound which gives it a beautiful East Indian feeling. is a dreamy piece with a fast, syncopated, staccato rhythm.
Moonlife is quietly dynamic, syncopated and as strange as any of the songs on the album. A slow, resolute stroll with a clarinet backing, it asks "What guides me through this moonlife? Tell me of the child you see. Teach me to prepare".
His Box is a fantastically beautiful mid-east sounding tune with a some dramatic touches worthy of the terms experimental and intriguing; it is really wonderful with great guitar work.
Cornwall Stone is by far the strangest song on the album. With no melody, it just kind of wanders around.
Artemis is an instrumental which sounds like the inside of a factory that is quietly humming away doing what factories do. It has no definite end nor does it fade out as songs sometimes do; it just stops as if the switch has been thrown off.
Create and Melt features a tabla sound which gives it a beautiful East Indian feeling. is a dreamy piece with a fast, syncopated, staccato rhythm.
Moonlife is quietly dynamic, syncopated and as strange as any of the songs on the album. A slow, resolute stroll with a clarinet backing, it asks "What guides me through this moonlife? Tell me of the child you see. Teach me to prepare".
His Box is a fantastically beautiful mid-east sounding tune with a some dramatic touches worthy of the terms experimental and intriguing; it is really wonderful with great guitar work.
Cornwall Stone is by far the strangest song on the album. With no melody, it just kind of wanders around.
Artemis is an instrumental which sounds like the inside of a factory that is quietly humming away doing what factories do. It has no definite end nor does it fade out as songs sometimes do; it just stops as if the switch has been thrown off.
There is a video of the song, The Judgement Is the Mirror, on YouTube (link below). In it Mick Karn (who resembles a cross between David Carradine and David Bowie) plays with (as opposed to plays) a laser disc (remember those?). The syncopated, almost atonal song declares:
"I question her around the clock
Hanging on her words
Hear myself say the world has stopped
The first step is the worst
The dance is new, momentum high
Like swelling waves around
Hear myself say the flow has stopped
I ask can I be found?"
Hanging on her words
Hear myself say the world has stopped
The first step is the worst
The dance is new, momentum high
Like swelling waves around
Hear myself say the flow has stopped
I ask can I be found?"
Track listing:
All songs written and composed by Mick Karn and Peter Murphy, except as indicated.1 - Dali's Car - 5:12
2 - His Box - 4:42
3 - Cornwall Stone - 5:19
4 - Artemis / Mick Karn - 4:37
5 - Create and Melt - 5:36
6 - Moonlife / Traditional - 4:56
7 - The Judgement Is the Mirror - 4:40
Personnel:
Dalis Car:
- Mick Karn – songwriting, mixing, production, cover design, and all other instruments than those listed
- Peter Murphy – vocals, lyrics, and production
- Paul Vincent Lawford – percussion
- Additional personnel:
- Matt Butler – engineering and mixing
- Stuart Breed – mixing
- Steve Churchyard – production, mixing, and engineering
- Fin Costello – album photography
- Rory Lonemore – engineering
- Maxfield Parrish – cover painter
- Sheila Rock – album photography
| Released | November, 1984 |
|---|---|
| Recorded | Spring and Summer 1984 at The Manor, Air London, and Hernplace Studios |
| Genre | Gothic rock |
| Length | 35:06 |
| Label | Beggars Banquet |
| Producers | Dalis Car and Steve Churchyard |
Links to Dalis Car music videos on YouTube:
Dali's Car
His Box (live)
Cornwall Stone
Artemis
Create and Melt
Moonlife
The Judgement Is the Mirror
Peter Murphy interview on YouTube
My sincere thanks to Peter Murphy, Mick Karn and Paul Vincent Lawford for the daring and vision to have produced this album in the first place.
Styrous® ~ November 1, 2014
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