brian caissie- the vault 1995-2006

I really wish I had my skateboard still...

just because it's not your custom, it doesn't mean you have to sign a petition to end it

I'm outraged, publicly! First Baby P, then MP's expenses and now the mass produced plastic trumpet, where will it end?!

Public outrage comes in many flavors, this one is Diet Outrage, the kind that everyone's talking about, but no one get's fired and/or hung for. Nonetheless it's still as annoying. The players I get, the residents I get, the officials I get, but the fan watching in his living room 2000 miles away is not someone who needs to be getting outraged by the sound of a Vuvuzela. So, please World, chill out.

ugh, I'm back. and so are DEVO.

Ok it's hard for me to give a balanced review of DEVO because I love them so much, maybe more than life itself. Seriously though, when I heard that after 20 years of inactivity these New Wave mentalists were making a new album I was worried I might cum in my pants. Lukily for those sharing my tube ride to work this morning that didn't happen, but "Something For Everybody" is AMAZING.

"Credibility" and "The 80s" rarely go together, especially when you're talking about pop music. At a glance DEVO epitomise all that is hated about pop music in the 80s; the synthesizers, the costumes, the stupidity. Luckily for us though they had that indescribably creditability of people who truly believed they weren't being fucking ridiculous, and you have to respect that- look at Bowie. And all this has flowed over from 20 years ago into their new album, which, I may have mentioned, is amazing.

"Something For Everybody" hasn't lost that 80s New Waveyness that DEVO are known for, it's still there in bucket-loads, but has been refined and polished so you know you're not just listening to the same old pap from 20 years ago repackaged. The best thing about this album is it makes Calvin Harris look totally incompetent, I mean he already comes off as a talentless arse, but this album really hammers home the fact that you can pastiche the 80s without being a fucking joke. This album is so typically DEVO, it's well thought out and produced and has such a unique sound to it that it's totally unmistakable with it's almost child like social commentary. Though if you can't be arsed to listen to the lyrics it still makes for a rip roaringly good party album, so what more do you want?

Anyway, this album is far better than you are and owning it will make you a better person, so buy it, buy it, buy it, buy it, buy it, buy it, buy it......