"Thirty years ago, people said that we were cynical, that we had a bad attitude," says Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh. "But now, when you ask people if de-evolution is real, they understand that there was something to what we were saying. It’s not the kind of thing you want to see proven right, but it does make it easier to talk about."

"The world is in sync with Devo," says his band-mate and co-writer Gerald Casale. "We’re not the guys who freak people out and scare them—we’re like the house band on the Titanic, entertaining everybody as we go down."

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