History Music / QAreWeNotMenAWeAreDevo

* AudienceParticipationSong: In live performances of "Praying Hands," Mark Mothersbaugh interrogates audience members on what they are doing with their hands.

''Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!'' is the 1978 debut album by Music/{{Devo}}. It's best known for its iconic title and the band's reworking of Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" that The Stones described as better than the original in legend. While musically a guitar-based PostPunk[=/=][[NewWaveMusic New Wave]] album, it was also an early example of Punk-era artists using synthesizers as textural instruments, and the band's following albums would focus more on electronics as they [[{{Pun}} devolved]] into NewWaveMusic and SynthPop.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Devo is usually quite blatant about this. Certain entendres can be found in "Praying Hands" and "Uncontrollable Urge".

''Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!'' is the 1978 debut album by Music/{{Devo}}. It's best known for its iconic title and the band's reworking of Music/TheRollingStones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" that The Stones described as better than the original in legend. While musically a guitar-based PostPunk[=/=][[NewWaveMusic New Wave]] album, it was also an early example of Punk-era artists using synthesizers as textural instruments, and the band's following albums would focus more on electronics as they [[{{Pun}} devolved]] into NewWaveMusic and SynthPop.

* CoverVersion: Music/TheRollingStones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction".

* VariantCover: European editions used a still from Devo's short film, ''The Truth About De-Evolution'', for the cover.

At the time it received mixed reviews and sold poorly, but it has been VindicatedByHistory as one of their best and most essential albums, along with ''Music/FreedomOfChoice'' (1980), and as one of the key New Wave and Post Punk albums. It was listed at #442 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]].

# "Gut Feeling"/"(Slap Your Mammy)" (4:54)
## "Gut Feeling" (4:04)
## "(Slap Your Mammy)" (0:51)

* SiameseTwinSongs: "Gut Feeling" and "(Slap Your Mammy)" were not listed as separate tracks until the CD release, as they fade right into each other and create a cohesive song.

# "Gut Feeling/" (Slap Your Mammy)" (4:54)

# "Satisfaction" (2:40)

[[AC:Side Two]]

!! Mongoloid tropes:

* IAmSong: "Jocko Homo", to the uninitiated, seems like the band is simply announcing their name, and on some level it functions as an anthem. The implied message, however, is that "we're ''all'' Devo."

--> ''There's too much paranoias''\\
''There's too much paranoias''\\
''My momma's afraid to tell me the things she's afraid of''

* RecordProducer: Music/BrianEno. This was one of Eno's hat trick of notable production credits in 1978, along with Music/TalkingHeads' sophomore release ''Music/MoreSongsAboutBuildingsAndFood'' and the four artist ''No New York'' compilation. Notably however, Devo resisted Eno's attempts to alter the way the music on the album sounded, preferring to stick to the arrangements on the original demos, much to Eno's irritation. Mark Mothersbaugh later went on to regret this, noting that Eno's attempted synthesizer contributions were actually pretty "cool" yet were only used on a few songs at most. Music/DavidBowie also provided additional production contributions, remixing most of the album's tracks, but remained uncredited. He also provided backing vocals to much of the songs on the album, but like most of Eno's contributions, these went unused as well; Mothersbaugh still has the original master recordings of Bowie and Eno's unused parts on-hand, so time will tell if these will ever get used in a later remix of the album or not.

* RecordProducer: Music/BrianEno. This was one of Eno's hat trick of notable production credits in 1978, along with Music/TalkingHeads' sophomore release ''Music/MoreSongsAboutBuildingsAndFood'' and the four artist ''No New York'' compilation. Notably however, Devo resisted Eno's attempts to alter the way the music on the album sounded, preferring to stick to the arrangements on the original demos, much to Eno's irritation. Mark Mothersbaugh later went on to regret this, noting that Eno's attempted synthesizer contributions were actually pretty "cool" yet were only used on a few songs at most. Music/DavidBowie also provided additional production contributions, but remained uncredited: he most notably provided backing vocals to much of the songs on the album, but like most of Eno's contributions, these went unused as well. Mothersbaugh still has the original master recordings of Bowie and Eno's parts on-hand, so time will tell if these will ever get used in a later remix of the album or not.

* RecordProducer: Music/BrianEno. This was one of Eno's hat trick of notable production credits in 1978, along with Music/TalkingHeads' sophomore release ''Music/MoreSongsAboutBuildingsAndFood'' and the four artist ''No New York'' compilation. Notably however, Devo resisted Eno's attempts to alter the way the music on the album sounded, preferring to stick to the arrangements on the original demos, much to Eno's irritation. Mark Mothersbaugh later went on to regret this, noting that Eno's attempted synthesizer contributions were actually pretty "cool" yet were only used on a few songs at most.

* RecordProducer: Music/BrianEno. This was one of Eno's hat trick of notable production credits in 1978, along with Music/TalkingHeads' sophomore release ''Music/MoreSongsAboutBuildingsAndFood'' and the four artist ''No New York'' compilation.

* VariantCover: European editions used a still from Devo's short film, ''The Truth About De-evolution'', for the cover.