Devo - Hot Potatoes: The Best Of Devo

Original Release Date

1993

Release Information

UK CD 1993 (Virgin - CDVM 9016)
Europe 2xLP 2001 (Simply Vinyl/Virgin - SVLP 320)

1 Jocko Homo 3:39
2 Mongoloid 3:45
3 Satisfaction (I Can't Get Me No) 2:41
4 Whip It 2:38
5 Girl U Want 2:57
6 Freedom Of Choice 3:28
7 Peek-A-Boo 3:01
8 Through Being Cool 3:13
9 That's Good 3:25
10 Working In A Coalmine 2:50
11 Devo Corporate Anthem 1:14
12 Be Stiff 2:33
13 Gates Of Steel 3:28
14 Come Back Jonee 3:24
15 Secret Agent Man 3:37
16 The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprise 2:42
17 Beautiful World 3:34
18 Big Mess 2:45
19 Whip It (HMS & M Mix) 7:42

Chart Placings

None

Credits

CD:

1-3, 14: Produced by Brian Eno
4-6, 13: Produced by Devo in association with Robert Margouleff
7, 9, 18: Produced by Roy Thomas Baker
8, 10, 12, 17: Produced by Devo
11, 15, 16: Produced and Engineered by Ken Scott for KoMoS Productions, Inc.
19: Produced by Devo in association with Robert Margouleff. Remixed by Psychoslaphead

Additional Credits

1-3: from Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!LP, released September 1978 (UK/US)
4-6, 13: from Freedom Of Choice LP, released May 1980 (UK/US)
7, 9, 18: from Oh, No! It's Devo LP, released October 1982 (UK/US)
8, 17: from New Traditionalists LP, released September 1981 (UK/US)
10: A-Side of Working In A Coal Mine 7", released August 1981 (US), October 1981 (UK)
11, 15, 16: from Duty Now For The Future LP, LP, released June 1979 (UK/US)
12: from Be Stiff 7", released August 1978 (UK)
14: A-Side of Come Back Jonee 7", released August 1978
19: Previously unreleased

Reviews & Opinions

PUNKY GIBBON: Pretty good standard-issue best of the Virgin/Warner Bros years, released to promote their CD twofer reissues of the first six Devo LPs (if you consider Dev-O Live an LP). 'Whip It (HMS & M Mix)' is exclusive. A nice starting place for neophytes.

Additional Notes

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Images

UK CD 1993 (Virgin - CDVM 9016). Click here for more

Europe 2xLP 2001 (Simply Vinyl/Virgin - SVLP 320)

 

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