Hardcore Devo: Volume Two

The Hardcore Devo albums are collections of 4-track basement demos recorded by the band between April 1974 and December 1977.{{Cite AV media notes |author=Devo |title=Hardcore |date=2013 |type=CD liner notes |publisher=Superior Viaduct |id=SV026 |location=San Francisco}} The early recordings were made using a TEAC 4-track recorder and incorporated guitars, Minimoog, bass guitar and homemade electronic drums, the latter built and performed by Jim Mothersbaugh.{{cite web |url=https://reverb.com/news/the-synths-of-devo |title=The Synths and Studio Techniques of Devo |author=DJ Pangburn |website=Reverb.com |date=August 13, 2020 |access-date=July 17, 2024}}

Some tracks are early versions of songs that Devo would later rerecord for their studio albums, including a few that became some of their best known (e.g. "Be Stiff"). However, the majority of the tracks were never revisited and remained unreleased until the Hardcore Devo compilations.

Hardcore Devo: Volume Two was out of print for years; however, it was re-issued by Superior Viaduct in 2013, both as a vinyl release (May 2013) and a CD containing both volumes and bonus tracks (July 2013).{{cite web |url=http://www.clubdevo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=4405:hardcore-devo-re-issued-on-12-vinyl&Itemid=27 |title=Hardcore DEVO Re-Issued On Vinyl and CD! |last=Pilmer |first=Michael |date=June 19, 2013 |publisher=clubdevo.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061816/http://www.clubdevo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=4405:hardcore-devo-re-issued-on-12-vinyl&Itemid=27 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=November 9, 2022}}

{{Track listing

| headline =

| extra_column = Recording Date

| title1 = Booji Boy's Funeral

| writer1 = Mark Mothersbaugh

| extra1 = 1977

| length1 = 3:59

| title2 = Can U Take It?

| writer2 = Gerald Casale

| extra2 = 1974

| length2 = 3:00

| title3 = Bamboo Bimbo

| writer3 = {{hlist|G. Casale|M. Mothersbaugh}}

| extra3 = 1975

| length3 = 3:16

| title4 = A Plan for U

| writer4 = G. Casale

| extra4 = 1974

| length4 = 3:11

| title5 = The Rope Song

| writer5 = {{hlist|G. Casale|Bob Lewis}}

| extra5 = 1974

| length5 = 3:21

| title6 = Goo Goo Itch

| writer6 = M. Mothersbaugh

| extra6 = 1976

| length6 = 2:17

| title7 = Be Stiff

| writer7 = {{hlist|G. Casale|Lewis}}

| extra7 = 1974

| length7 = 3:19

| title8 = All of Us

| writer8 = G. Casale

| extra8 = 1974

| length8 = 4:53

| title9 = Baby Talkin' Bitches

| extra9 = 1975

| writer9 = {{hlist|G. Casale|Bob Mothersbaugh}}

| length9 = 2:25

| title10 = I Need a Chick

| writer10 = {{hlist|G. Casale|Peter Gregg}}

| extra10 = 1974

| length10 = 2:51

| title11 = U Got Me Bugged

| writer11 = M. Mothersbaugh

| extra11 = 1975

| length11 = 2:45

| title12 = Chango

| writer12 = {{hlist|G. Casale|M. Mothersbaugh}}

| extra12 = 1975

| length12 = 3:10

| title13 = Fraulein

| writer13 = M. Mothersbaugh

| extra13 = 1975

| length13 = 3:06

| title14 = Dogs of Democracy

| writer14 = M. Mothersbaugh

| extra14 = 1976

| length14 = 3:25

| title15 = 37

| writer15 = {{hlist|G. Casale|B. Mothersbaugh}}

| extra15 = 1975

| length15 = 2:57

| title16 = Bottled Up

| writer16 = G. Casale

| extra16 = 1976

| length16 = 2:21

| title17 = Working in the Coal Mine

| writer17 = Allen Toussaint

| extra17 = 1977

| length17 = 3:13

| title18 = I Been Refused

| writer18 = G. Casale

| extra18 = 1974

| length18 = 3:32

| title19 = Fountain of Filth

| writer19 = {{hlist|G. Casale|Bob Casale}}

| extra19 = 1977

| length19 = 3:09

| title20 = Clockout

| writer20 = G. Casale

| extra20 = 1976

| length20 = 3:09

| title21 = Let's Go

| writer21 = M. Mothersbaugh

| extra21 = 1977

| length21 = 2:42

| total_length = 66:01

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Bonus tracks on 2013 Superior Viaduct re-release

| extra_column = Recording Date

| title22 = Man from the Past

| writer22 = G. Casale

| extra22 = 1974

| length22 = 3:22

| title23 = Doghouse Doghouse

| writer23 = G. Casale

| extra23 = 1974

| length23 = 2:40

| title24 = Hubert House

| writer24 = {{hlist|G. Casale|M. Mothersbaugh}}

| extra24 = 1975

| length24 = 1:50

| title25 = Shimmy Shake

| writer25 = B. Mothersbaugh

| extra25 = 1975

| length25 = 2:57

}}

Credits adapted from liner notes of Superior Viaduct 2013 reissue:

Devo

• Gerald Casale – lead vocals (2, 4–5, 7–8, 10–12, 16–20, 22–23), backing vocals (3, 9, 13), bass guitar, drums (16), acoustic guitar (23)
• Mark Mothersbaugh – vocals (3, 6, 12–14, 17, 21, 24), synthesizers
• Bob Mothersbaugh – lead vocals (9, 15, 25), background vocals (8), guitar
• Jim Mothersbaugh – drums (1–15, 18)

Additional personnel

• Bob Casale – additional guitar (8, 17, 19–20)
• Alan Myers – drums (17, 19–20)
• Bob Lewis – additional guitar (5, 8)
• Booji Boy – vocals (11)

Technical

Credits adapted from liner notes of original Rykodisc 1991 issue:{{Cite AV media notes |author=Devo |title=Hardcore Devo Vol. 2 1974–1977 |date=1991 |type=CD liner notes |publisher=Rykodisc |id=RCD 20208 |location=Salem}}

• Devo – engineers, mixing
• Bernie Grundman – mastering
• Barbara Watson – photography
• Lisa Laarman – design

Credits adapted from Devo: The Brand (2018)::{{cite book |title=DEVO: The Brand |publisher=Rocket 88 Books |year=2018 |location=London |isbn=9781910978016 |pages=24–25}}

• Devo – photo concept, art direction
• Moshe Brakha – photography

• Hardcore Devo: Volume One

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