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Survey: Devo or Oingo Boingo?

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Postby pikeprof » Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:03 am

Given that Devo warped me at a very early age with their "satisfaction" and "truth about "devolution" videos on Saturday Night Live-ensuring that a young man from Central Wisconsin would become a person in need of serious help someday, I have to go with D
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Postby devildog » Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:11 am

The sheer significance of Devo is overwhelming. However, Oingo Boingo was well known on the East coast. Heck, they played at my college's spring fling in 1988. But the historical significance of a bunch of boys from Akron Ohio who vividly inspired coun
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Postby pikeprof » Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:21 am

I must put a caveat to my vote for the spuds-I think Oingo Boingo-or Boingo-aged better-I really don't like later Devo and I personally think they peaked with "With Freedom of Choice"(kind of like how the Grateful Dead peaked in 1970 with the double threa
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Postby ExRat » Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:38 am

Devo gets my vote.
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Postby KYYX4ever » Wed Aug 18, 2004 1:02 pm

OINGO BOINGO !! ( "Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me" !)

not discounting Devo, though--like 'em.

i think we had mentioned previously that Oingo Boingo was more of a West Coast thing. yes.
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