DEVO in Morningside Park 7/22/2004 setlist

The boys looked old, but they played hard and rocked my world. Here’s what you missed:

• good thing
• girl U want
• whip it
• satisfaction (guitar sounding eerily like Snakefinger’s licks on the Residents’ rendition of same. Extra points for “how white my shit could be.”)
• uncontrollable urge
• mongoloid
• blockhead
• jocko homo (including the “I’ve got a rhyme that comes in a riddle” interlude found on the version of the song on B Stiff)
• spud patrol/mister dna
• gut feeling/slap yo mammy
• gates of steel (Mark’s voice was starting to give out here, but I’m glad they played it.)

11 songs is a decent set, I think, for a show played for a thinning crowd of runners who were on for the “whatever happened to” gimmick. Hopefully tomorrow will be a little longer, but we’ll see. What could they do tomorrow that they didn’t do tonight to make me happy? Play B Stiff, that’s what.

Aside to dracunculus: seeing DEVO after completing the10K felt like a hero’s reward.

Aside to euthymia: yes, that was me prank calling you from the middle of what must have sounded like a DEVO show.

Aside to jennybloog and xris3: I’m really sad you weren’t there to enjoy the whole thing with me.