1450 Days After the End: A DEVO Tribute

by Zhir Vengersky

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1.	Private Secretary 04:13	lyrics	buy track
She was a private secretary Till her boss gave her the boot So we was married in Los Vegas And I wore my sharkskin suit She keeps it real wet and dirty And she's always home at night Cause she's my Private Secretary And she keeps my business straight Oh, she wash the clothes Takes dictation She's got a high school education! She bought a fur coat with my money Last week she wrecked the car But I don't mind the inconvenience Cause she always goes too far I turn my TV on the football And she gives my back a rub Well she don't need no liberation Her diploma's from the school of love There was a session in my office And I thought I locked the door She found my private secretary Naked on the floor So now last week I got the letter But the grammar was incorrect It read: "I gots a high paying job in Reno Cause I still gots my self-respect"
2.	I Been Refused 03:41	lyrics	buy track
Sitting after supper Watched the FBI Asked for a cigarette Got no reply Then you dropped your culottes Revealing rubber underpants Sweat was forming in my shoes But you ended our romance I BEEN REFUSED... Last Monday morning Minus twenty degrees Walked to unemployment On my knees Left without my money Tried to make my trial Judge said you're the porno king Go to jail for a while Bought a Kodak Brownie Developed film at home Took some shots of sister Pants were full of foam Took a couple back views Took some up front Three tries, wallet size I was looking at that-- Went topless bowling Tried to get some stuff It was a lesbo love scene Strictly treat 'em rough Everything created Under earth and sky Wants to be mated It must couple or must die Sitting after supper Watched the FBI Asked for a cigarette Got no reply Dogs in the ocean Pigs in the sea Well, come on baby And wakka-wakka-wakka with me I BEEN REFUSED I LOST MY SHOES
3.	Subhuman Woman 07:06	lyrics	buy track
MY WOMAN'S SUBHUMAN: She don't talk She don't walk She comes from space She got no face She's bald, she's cold She's eight years old She don't live for the future She's got a six mile sign That says "I love you" MY WOMAN'S SUBHUMAN: She cuts hair Stained underwear Her name rhyme She plays with lime She's bald, she's cold She's six years old She don't live for the future She's got a six mile sign That says "I love you" MY WOMAN'S SUBHUMAN: She can't fuck Lips like a duck She got no sense She loses it on the fence She's bald, she's cold She's eight years old She gonna live for the future She's got a six mile sign That says "I love you" SUB-HUMAN WOMAN
4.	The Rope Song 03:33	lyrics	buy track
I found a girl with a pretty face I tied a rope around her waist I know when she's in and when she's out Well there ain't nothing to guess about She covers her ears when i play my guitar She runs away but not very far Just push a button - retractable cord I pull her back when i get bored One word from her and she'd be free But she's exactly where she wants to be Magnetic Madonna she glows in the night Reciprocal pull, i flow to her light Woman i am bound to you But what do i want to do? Woman what do i want?
5.	Pigs Waddle 05:08	lyrics	buy track
Pigs waddle, birds fly Humans love, why can't I Eat the bird, eat the pig It's not funny When they won't let you do natural OH I JUST WANNA SLEEP BUT... I KEEP JERKIN BACK AND FORTH THEY WANT ME TO SLEEP BUT... I KEEP JERKIN BACK AND FORTH Girls screaming, kids knew Guns don't argue, why did you Beat the girls, beat the kids It's not funny When they won't let you do natural Lips open, the meat was good My love is rusting but If I could Meet thе lips, meet the meat Well It's not funny Whеn they won't let you do natural I poo, I pee Help me.
6.	Be Stiff 03:43	lyrics	buy track
ONE TWO BE STIFF! Be stiff, b-abies be stiff Fruit ooze is wetly lewd Stay dry in rubber boots and Be stiff, b-abies be stiff Cucumbers ripe and rude Bend over fixed to shoot and Be stiff, b-abies be stiff Breathe hard in metal suits Live right make lots of loot and Be stiff Be stiff, b-abies be stiff Wet women waste your food Go solo no no twos and Be stiff, b-abies be stiff Deep sleepers jerk the root Watch out for fruits and mutes and Be stiff, b-abies be stiff Breathe hard in metal suits, now Live right make lots of loot and Be stiff
7.	Androgyny 03:24	lyrics	buy track
Never saw another people Have as many fears as you Everybody got the willies What's the world coming to Earth revolves in solemn splendor Moon do circles, stars do shine In the land there walks a terror Robs the body, cheats the mind Drugs, pollution, sickness, evil Make it hard to stay alive Androgyny will make it harder Take away the primal drive Androgyny Oh my god, the mob, the wad Androgyny Let men and women be Death, starvation, crime and taxes Leave us little time for joy Androgyny will make it harder Do away with girl and boy Androgyny Oh my god the mob, the wad Androgyny Let men and women breed Men and women listen Let your bodies find the light Seek the power of the other Love will end the sexless night Men and women listen Let your bodies find the light Seek the mystery of the other Love will end the sexless night
8.	O No 03:01	lyrics	buy track
We were all alone Then she bit my bone I said let's sell the phone Try to get away I knew she was in heat She nailed at my feet Wet socks on the floor But it's all the same Last year we got sick Doctors did the trick Now I gotta use a stick But it's still the same Punk policemen fill the day Student teachers license plates Eat my dinner, words are gone I feel slipped away The moral is don't start Even if you're smart You don't have a chance It's all the same ROUGH AS A MATCH PAD DRY AS A CACTUS O NO YOU GO HOME
9.	All of Us 05:18	lyrics	buy track
I left home with a friend of mine Gone two years and I don't know why Now I'm happy all the time I can't think and I'm feelin' fine I got feelings but they don't show Don't ask me cause I don't know No no no no no ALL OF US Think you've heard this all before Now you're gonna hear some more I know a place where dreams are crushed Hopes are smashed but that ain't much All you stupids anyway We're all gonna die some day Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah ALL OF US Me leave home with booji boy Teeth fall out of china doll Poo poo man got jiffy-snipped Fat girl laughing - floppy tits Listen listen me no lie We like stuff what makes us cry Why why why why!? ALL OF US

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"DEVO CLAN RETURNS TRIUMPHANT--Devo makes a triumphant return to the site of last year's spectacle... This is your chance. This year's performance will degenerate in the Governance Chambers (as is altogether fitting). Seats will be at a premium, so get there early... Don't miss 'Private Secretary,' 'I Been Refused,' 'Sub-human Woman,' 'The Rope Song,' 'Pigs Waddle,' 'Be Stiff,' 'Androgyny,' 'O No' and 'All of Us' as performed by Gerald and Robert Casale, Robert Lewis and James and Mark Mothersbaugh... the incredible Devo..."

So it was on the 23rd of April, 1974--1,450 days after the National guard murdered four and wounded nine at Kent State University--that those five spudmen took the stage in the Governance Chambers, and introduced themselves as DEVO. The set they played was comprised of nine original compositions and a band which seemed set up like a rock group, but the music and visuals betrayed. This was not rock and roll, rather it was a Mad Magazine and Wacky Packages parody thereof. Most of the audience members, thankfully, were of the avant-garde hipster type who were used to John Cage or Morton Subotnick. They understood the intent and the concept, and received it warmly.

The events of the Second Creative Arts festival faded into a footnote in DEVO's history, remembered only by those who were there. Out of the setlist that night, only "Be Stiff" was taken with DEVO when they got their break. Some 46 years afterwards, someone going through the DEVO archives came across an almost-complete recording of the concert by accident. A USB drive containing the recording was given to none other than Bob Lewis himself. On April 13, 2021, he uploaded the recording to YouTube and donated it to the archival group Booji Boy's Basement. For the first time in nearly five decades, the beginning of the end was heard by human ears.

And it came to pass that a young musician by the name of Zhir Vengersky was told of the recording. He listened to it from start to finish every day for nearly three months. By the 77th listen he had resolved to produce and record a cover of every song performed at the show, in tribute to the band that induced the greatest positive mutations in his formative years. This is that tribute.

credits

released July 18, 2021

All lyrics and music by Gerald Casale (1-6, 8, 9), Robert Lewis (1, 3-7, 10), and Mark Mothersbaugh (8)

Songs performed and produced by Zhir Vengersky

Album art by Zhir

Special thank you to Malcolm Tent, Sophia Swengel, Bob Lewis, Raine Eera, Jade Dellinger, Rachel Anderson, and everyone who listened to and approved of the covers as I worked on them.

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Zhir Vengersky San Diego, California

Zhir Vengersky is the latest devolution of a long, proud family lineage of brain-eating apes which eventually settled in the Southern California region. In his formative years he was exposed to the music of art nerds before him. The effects were immediate and obvious. Zhir creates music for people who live in places that don't exist. ... more

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