Peek-A-Boo

Devo were serious, yet, funny. This must be their funniest video. The music is very catchy, and Devo certainly popularized the used the synthesizers as bass, among other things. I suppose they lasted as long as they were creative - which is not to say about a lot of other bands. The things Mark Mothersbaugh does in movie scoring these days is totally different from Devo's music

Words, Missing Persons

Once upon a time, MTV was Music Television, a place where you watched videos. Eventually, it became a ~lifestyle~ channel. What lifestyle is that? A bunch of loser-behavior programming if you ask me.  Early 80's MTV rocked, I could not get enough of it. However, it does seem that segmented TV is a thing of the past. Speed, a channel originally created to broadcast car racing, will be phased out, just like MTV became a ~lifestyle~ channel.

As for Missing Persons...The video is excellent, the arrangement super. And the singer...not a beautiful woman by a stretch, but she conveyed the message. A Nina Hagen look alike, if you will.

The reality is that Lady Gaga, whom a lot of people consider a novelty, seems to have copied her look to a tee.

Enjoy