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Monday, August 15, 2011

Devo - Jocko Homo & Mongoloid

I'd never heard anything so creepy and debased as their early single "Jocko Homo" and its flip side, "Mongoloid", brought around our house by a far more advanced friend.

Devo - Jocko Homo - 1977


Devo - Mongoloid - 1977



Sex Pistols - Bodies

The profanity hooked me first (I was fourteen), Johnny Rotten's "fuck this and fuck that/Fuck it all and fuck her fucking brat". More than the naughty words themselves, it was the vehemence and virulence of Rotten's delivery-those percussive "fucks", the demonic glee of the rolled rs in "brrrrrrat".

Sex Pistols - Bodies - 1977


Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen

The Sex Pistols swearing on television, "God Save the Queen" versus the Royal Jubilee, an entire culture convulsed and quaking-I simply did not notice.

Sex Pistols - Bill Grundy Interview - 1976


Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen - Live on Boat Trip Queen's Jubilee - 1977