Devo -- "Whip It"
Back in the mid-90s, I found a copy of Freedom of Choice in a record bin at a thrift store, and I knew immediately that I had to take it home.
I'd never before listened to anything from the album besides "Whip It," which was a staple of my youth -- not because I heard it on the FM rock radio I grew up listening to but because I remember the music video, which, like many other videos of that day, just seemed weird to my corn-fed midwestern sensibility. The album boasts several good tracks and an inventive musical ethos, but "Whip It" is still the one track that stands out the most.
Devo was weird, and I am somewhat amazed when I think back to the era in which this was a popular song. At the time, we must have had a culture (I was oblivious to it, too young) that embraced odd, creative beats like the ones Devo put on display here. It was a good moment in pop culture history.
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