Album Cover Art

Let's continue with our look at the Gigwise.com list of the dirtiest and sexiest album covers, this time #4 on their list (Gigwise comments in quotes):


4. Devo: ‘Hardcore Devo – Vol 1’ – "General madcaps Devo haave always been a band that have loved to play with imagery and ‘Hardcore Devo – Vol 1’ is no different. In some kind of S&M ritual a naked woman goads the band members who are in full body strait jackets writhing on the floor. Very disturbing stuff!"

Hardcore Devo: Volume One (1990) is the first of two albums of demos released by the post-punk/new wave band Devo. It is currently out of print.

The Hardcore Devo albums are a collection of 4-track basement demos recorded by the band between 1974-1977. Many tracks are earlier versions of some of Devo's best known tracks, which would later be re-recorded and used on subsequent Devo records [eg. 'Jocko Homo', 'Mongoloid']. However, a majority of the tracks on the two albums are demos which were never re-used and remained unreleased until the Hardcore Devo compilations.

I say, whip it...whip it good!