Covers
Bands
Members of Gerty Farish, Fat Day and Pissed Officers had a Devo cover band. They played two shows in Cambridge, MA.
Mongoloid: A tribute band based in San Francisco. Send snail mail to LOID, 3025 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94114
The Devo Babies: See the video on MuteWeb.
Covers of Devo tunes
- Sepultura
- Covered "Mongoloid", which is available on the bonus CD for the Roorback album.
- We Are Not Devo
- We Are Not Devo is a compilation album of cover songs by SNFU, Face To Face, The Aquabats, Ridel High, Don Knotts Overdrive, Possum Dixon, Voodoo Glow Skulls, The Vandals, Red Faced (members of Face To Face and Red 5), Jughead's Revenge, Supernova, Lagwagon, and One Hit Wonder. It's on Centipede Records #CR-003 (POBox 691691, West Hollywood CA 90069) and features interior artwork by Mark. The tracks are about 50/50 straight grunge-ified cover/imaginative weirdness.
- Shihad
- ... is a band from New Zealand that covered "Gates Of Steel".
- Sweaty Nipples
- Covered "Freedom of Choice" on a radio promo sampler called CRZD Management Sampler.
- Greasy
- Has a "Devo megamix"
- My Monkey The Uncle
- Did "Devo Corporate Anthem" and e-z listening versions of "Mongoloid" and "Gates of Steel" on General Boy Records.
- Skankin' Pickle
- A ska band, did "Gates of Steel" on The Green Album
- The Cocktails
- "Devo Corporate Anthem" on a 7". All horns.
- The Clockouts
- "The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize"
- D.I.
- A Californian hardcore band, covered "Uncontrollable Urge".
- The Goovie Ghoulies
- "Gates of Steel" (available from Lookout Records).
- Econochrist
- "Uncontrollable Urge".
- Devo 7"
- There is a Devo cover 7" featuring Cocktails and Chrome Cranks on Insipid, an Australian label.
- Love Gutter
- "Mongoloid"
- Willy Porter
- "Whip It" on the Gag Me With A Spoon comp.
- Sin 34
- "Uncontrollable Urge" on Do You Feel Safe?
- The Trenchcoats
- An acapella group, did "Whip It" on their 1994 album, Your Joy. It is also available on their 1993 concert video, and the '94 National Harmony Sweepstakes compilation disc (they won, incidentally). You can contact them at PO Box 1444, Tacoma, WA 98401-1444.
- Big Daddy
- "Whip It"
- The Chipmunks
- "Whip It".
- Poison Idea
- "Blockhead" on Religion and Politics, Vol. 1
- Wreckless Eric
- two versions of "Be Stiff" on his eponymous album. (Repertoire Records, REP 4217-WY)
- The Mummies
- "Uncontrollable Urge" on a Sub Pop 7". Also "Girl U Want".
- The Didjits
- "Mr. DNA" on Full Nelson Reilly.
- Pussy Galore
- "Penetration In The Centerfold"
- Def Dames
- "Whip It" (5 versions, 1991 Zoo Entertainment)
- The Del Rubio Triplets
- "Whip It" on "Full House" and "These Boots Were Made For Walking" on "Pee-Wee's Playhouse". They also performed "Whip It" on an episode of "Sliders".
- The Devotees Compilation
- This was a project that happened soon after Q:Are We Not Men? was released. Bands were asked to cover songs from the first album and Jerry picked the best. Very rare, very weird. One band used a touch tone phone for "Jocko Homo".
- Soundgarden
- "Girl U Want" on the SOMMS (Satanoscillatemymetallicsonatas) disc included with some pressings of BadMotorFinger. Some import (non-US) singles for "Fell On Black Days" include "Girl U Want" as a B-side. Since the SOMMS disc is very hard to find, you ought to grab the single if you intend to ever hear the song.
- Hot Glue Gun
- "Girl U Want"
- Superchunk
- "Girl U Want" on the Freedom of Choice compilation, an "Artists of today cover the hits of the Eighties" deal.
- Nirvana
- "Turnaround", (a "Whip It" B-side) on the Incesticide and Hormoaning comps.
- Flourescent Echo
- "Beautiful World", a B-side of their ltd. ed. 12-inch "Piranha Dance" single.
- The Funk Junkies
- "Uncontrollable Urge"
- Clawhammer
- The whole Q:Are We Not Men? album. (which became Q:Are We Not Men? A:We Are NOT Devo!, on the Sympathy For The Record Industry label.) Mark "supervised" the recording [probably more like "watched"] and an essay of his appears on the CD case's back cover. NOTE: It's HORRIBLE unless you can stomach the guy's voice, and most people can't.
- 16 Volt
- "Freedom Of Choice" on the Shut Up Kitty comp.
- Big Drill Car
- "Freedom Of Choice" on their Batch LP.
- Lene Lovitch
- "Be Stiff" on the The Stiff Years, Vol. 1 comp.
- Robert Palmer
- "Girl U Want" on Honey.
- Flop
- "I'm a Potato"