For all you hopeless romantics out there, on this special Valentine’s Day edition of Weirdo Wednesday, we give you the gift of perhaps the weirdest band of the entire 1980s (which is saying something), the legendary Devo. And while “romantic” is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when people think of Devo, there was certainly no shortage of subversive, tongue-in-cheek innuendos in many of their songs, perhaps none more suggestive than the first song off their first album: “Uncontrollable Urge”. The band’s herky-jerky/mechanical delivery of the song captured beautifully here in this performance from the early 80s, only makes the song that much more absurd and hilarious (which is a good description for the goofy opening skit as well). Granted, absurdity and hilarity were always kind of Devo’s thing…that, and “romance”, of course ????.
