Album · Devo
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! by Devo
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! is an album by Devo, released in 1978. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 65 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction”, on 36 lists with a best position of #12.
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, the debut by Akron, Ohio's Devo, hit the racks in August 1978, on Warner Bros. in North America and Virgin in Europe, and it sounds like rock and roll run through a malfunctioning assembly line. Brian Eno produced, recording mostly in Cologne, West Germany, between October 1977 and February 1978.
Two sets of brothers, Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh and Gerald and Bob Casale, plus drummer Alan Myers, lock into twitchy, dissonant art punk laced with electronics, all of it preaching their tongue-in-cheek gospel of de-evolution with a deadpan grin and a sci-fi kitsch streak a mile wide. "Jocko Homo" and "Uncontrollable Urge" twitch like live wires, and their herky-jerky rewiring of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" strips the song down to nerves and gears. Critics have kept it on their best-of lists ever since.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction | 36 | #12 | – | 1989–2024 | |
| 2 | Jocko Homo | 15 | #58 | – | 1977–2013 | |
| 3 | Uncontrollable Urge | 10 | #92 | – | 1992–2026 | |
| 4 | Mongoloid | 3 | #470 | – | 1988–2003 | |
| 5 | Come Back Jonee | 1 | #1739 | – | 2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.