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1980 - Freedom Of Choice.
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May 14, 1980 - 2025: 45 years of: Freedom Of Choice.

Oh yeah, it's DEVO !

The new decade of the 80s shall now go under serious evolution. Forget disco and Motown pop, after 1979's Duty Now For The Future LP, the brothers-in-arms of DEVO are now fully in command.

The hip-ness of "Girl U Want" and "It's Not Right" electrifies the dance-floors. The hard hammering of "That's Pep !" and grittiness "Ton O' Luv" is where rockabillia-punk becomes suburb-pop. Killer pop-art vibes are shouted on the titletrack for "Freedom Of Choice", while the space-synths of "Cold War" and "Snowball" drives harder.

Hitting a Gram Slam with the cult-single poprock to pop-culture "Whip It", the band now swallows the mainstream. With a handful of bogginess, addictive hooks and unorthodox fashion statement ...DEVO is the reason to warrant MTV.

RIAA-certified Platinum, American teens were now fully entangled in the new wave of DEVOlution ...what a lovely era. Kickstarting the 80s with a bang, the band shall soon provide another electro-choc: 1981's New Traditionalists LP.

RIP Alan Myers (1954-2013)
RIP Bob Casale (1952-2014)

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Freedom Of Choice = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGINIsLnqU
Girl U Want = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4-2onb62y8
Whip It = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_QLzthSkfM
Freedom Of Choice = full LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5bqKafk9HA&list=OLAK5uy_k7x1HfmEFD-65XUSbCRWkvp7OKMKGqsTY
Live and interview on Mike Douglas in 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1AdD6EfVuQ
Live in 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iily9_GF564
some guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jVN7V-yGeE