Song · Devo
“Puppet Boy” by Devo
From the album Shout (1984)
“Puppet Boy” by Devo appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1984. It was first released in 1984 on the album Shout. Its best result is #80 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1984. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #153 alternative song of 1984.
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"Puppet Boy" comes off Shout, Devo's sixth album, which Warner Bros. put out in October 1984, two years after Oh, No! It's Devo. Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh wrote it, the band produced it themselves, Bob Casale engineered and Mike Shipley mixed.
Shout kept Devo in synth-pop mode and leaned hard on a shiny new toy, the Fairlight CMI Series IIx sampling synthesizer, but the sessions were the first where creative differences and real tension crept into the band, and most of the members have since said they weren't happy with the result. The album flopped, Warner Bros. dropped them, drummer Alan Myers left, finding too little to do among the drum machines and programming, and Devo went quiet for four years.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 80 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1984 | 106 |
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