Song · Devo
“Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA” by Devo
From the album Duty Now for the Future (1979)
“Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA” by Devo appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1988 and 1996. It was first released in 1979 on the album Duty Now for the Future. Its best result is #254 on the KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1988). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,832 alternative song of all time.
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"Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA" welds two Devo titles under one slash, and it lands on Duty Now for the Future, the American new wave band's second album, which Warner Bros. put out in June 1979. Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh wrote it, and it was hardly fresh off the drawing board: the album drew on a backlog Devo had piled up from 1974 to 1977, and this one was already in their live set by November 1977.
Ken Scott produced and engineered it at Chateau Recorders in Hollywood, in sessions that stretched from September 1978 into early 1979, so the band came to the studio with the song long since broken in onstage.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 254 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1988) | 496 |
| 1996 | 416 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996) | 500 |
Also listed as: Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA.
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