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Song Name: Blockhead

Artist: DEVO

Appears On: Duty Now For The Future, DEV-O Live (Re-release only), Live in Central Park, DEVO Live: 1980, Butch Devo And The Sundance Gig

Year: 1976

Performed: 1976-1977, 1979-1980, 1991, 1996-2007

Run Time: 2:58

Writing Credits: Bob Mothersbaugh/Mark Mothersbaugh

Sung By: Mark Mothersbaugh (lead), Gerald V. Casale, Bob Mothersbaugh and Bob Casale (backing)

Alternate Versions: None Known

Demo Versions: Blockhead ("Industrial" Demo), Blockhead (Demo)

Song Connections:

Trivia / Info:

  • Bob 1 originally wrote the song, and was inspired to call it Blockhead after seeing a TV commercial for a sinus decongestant. Mark wrote the lyrics.
  • The original demo recording, described by Bob 1 in an interview, was performed by himself on guitar and Mark hitting a fence post with a chain.

Onstage Behavior:

Lyrics:

Never leaves a gap - unfilled
Always pays on time, always fits the bill
He comes well prepared
Cube top, squared off
Eight corners, 90-degree angles
Flat top, stares straight ahead
Stock parts, blockhead
Never trips over, stands up on his own
He is a blockhead, thinking man full grown
He comes well prepared
Cube top, squared off
Eight corners, 90-degree angles
Flat top, stares straight ahead
Snake eyes, blockhead
Flat top, stares straight ahead
Stock parts, blockhead
Never trips over, stands up on his own
He is a blockhead, thinking man full grown
He comes well prepared
Cube top, squared off
Eight corners, 90-degree angles
Flat top, stares straight ahead
Snake eyes, blockhead
Cube top, squared off
Eight corners, 90-degree angles
Flat top, stares straight ahead
Stock parts, blockhead


DEVO
Mark Mothersbaugh | Gerry Casale | Bob Mothersbaugh
Bob Lewis | Bob Casale | Jim Mothersbaugh | Alan Myers
David Kendrick | Josh Freese
Jeff Friedl | Josh Hager
Record Labels / Publishers
Booji Boy Records | Warner Brothers | Enigma | Devo, Inc. 
Stiff | Virgin | Rykodisk | Infinite Zero | Restless | Discovery | Rhino 
MVD Audio | The Orchard | Superior Viaduct | Futurismo
Production
Brian Eno | Ken Scott | Robert Margouleff | Roy Thomas Baker | DEVO 
The Teddybears | Greg Kurstin | Santi White | John King | John Hill | Mark Nishita 
Official Studio Albums
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1978) | Duty Now For The Future (1979) | Freedom of Choice (1980) | New Traditionalists (1981) | oh, no! it's Devo (1982) | Shout (1984) | Total Devo (1988) | SmoothNoodleMaps (1990) | Something for Everybody   (2010)
Other Albums
Be Stiff EP (1978) | E-Z Listening Disc (1987) | Now It Can Be Told: DEVO at the Palace (1989) | Hardcore DEVO Vol. 1 74-77 (1990) | Hardcore DEVO Vol. 2 1974-1977 (1991) | DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years (1992) | DEV-O Live (1999) | Recombo DNA (2000) | Live In Central Park (2004) | DEVO Live 1980 (2005) | New Traditionalists: Live 1981 Seattle (2012) | Something ELSE for Everybody  (2013) | Miracle Witness Hour  (2014) | Live at Max's Kansas City - November 15, 1977  (2014) | Butch Devo and the Sundance Gig  (2014) | Hardcore DEVO Live!  (2015) | Art Devo 1973-1977  (2023)
Filmography
In The Beginning Was The End: The Truth About De-Evolution (1976) | The Men Who Make The Music (1981) | Human Highway (1982) | We're All DEVO (1984) | The Complete Truth About De-Evolution (1993) | DEVO Live (2004) | DEVO Live In The Land Of The Rising Sun (2004) | DEVO Live 1980 (2005) | Butch Devo and the Sundance Gig  (2014) | Hardcore DEVO Live!  (2015)
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