Necessary Response (with Gerald Casale)
The Words Get Stuck In My Throat (live)
Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin') (demo)
Goo Goo Itch (alternate version)
The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprise (demo)
Bushwacked (Prosthetic version)
Girl U Want (demo alternate version)
Turn Around (demo alternate version)
Snowball (demo alternate version)
Conscious Mutation (with Mark Mothersbaugh)
Gates Of Steel (demo alternate version)
Planet Earth (demo alternate version)
Whip It (demo alternate version)
Cold War (demo alternate version)
That's Pep (demo alternate version)
Mental Warfare (with Gerald Casale & Mark Mothersbaugh)
Ton 'O Luv (instrumental demo)
Make Me Dance (Labeled 'Make Me Move')
Gotta Serve Somebody (live)
Psychology Of Desire (demo)
The 4th Dimension (alternate Rough mix)
Here To Go (alternate Rough mix)
Some Things Don't Change (Rough mix)
Big Adventure (Rough mix)
Love Is Stronger Than Dirt
We Are Unique (with Gerald Casale & Mark Mothersbaugh)
The Only One (with Toni Basil - demo)
Some Things Never Change (demo)
Before Baby Doll There Was Satan (with Mark Mothersbaugh)
Sad Song (unreleased instrumental)
Later Is Now (Nstrumental)
It's Not Nuclear Bombs You Must Fear (with Booji Boy)
The Somewhere Suite (Studio version demo - CD)
Review: Bands often work so hard to get the right producer and sound as slick as possible. But sometimes those initial ideas with fewer cooks in the kitchen sound a lot more exciting. This collection of Devo studio demos and unreleased tracks culled from cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes, multi-tracks and DATs - spanning their independent label era - is no exception. It's raw, rough and ready in a way that takes you back to the 70s and makes you want to dig out some double denim. Re-recorded in a state-of-the-art studio you'd probably feel very much in the present. It's a mammoth collection with over two-and-a-half hours of material and was originally released in 2000, but this four LP deluxe version is the most eye-catching way to spend time digging through the New Wave icons' stuff and understand why they were admired by the likes of David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Neil Young at this early stage of their career.
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