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| "Jocko Homo" | ||||
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 1977 Booji Boy Records release of "Mongoloid"/"Jocko Homo" | ||||
| Single by Devo | ||||
| from the album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! | ||||
| A-side | "Mongoloid" (1977 45 version) | |||
| Released | March 12, 1977 | |||
| Recorded | February 1977 | |||
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| Length | 2:54 (The Truth About De-Evolution version) 3:19 (single version) 3:41 (album version) | |||
| Label | Booji Boy Stiff (1977 45 version) Warner Bros. (1978 LP version) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Mark Mothersbaugh | |||
| Producer(s) | Devo (Booji Boy/Stiff version) Brian Eno (WB version) | |||
| Devo singles chronology | ||||
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"Jocko Homo" is the B-side to Devo's first single, "Mongoloid", released in 1977 on Devo's own label, Booji Boy Records and later released in the UK on Stiff Records. The song was re-recorded as the feature song for Devo's first album, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! on Warner Bros. Records in 1978. The original version peaked at No. 62 on the UK Singles Chart.
The title was derived from a 1924 anti-evolution tract called Jocko-Homo Heavenbound by Bertram Henry Shadduck, while its "Are we not men?"/"We are Devo!" call and response chant is a reference to the 1932 movie Island of Lost Souls. The song had been in Devo's setlists for several years prior to being recorded, and an early version was featured in the band's 1976 short film The Truth About De-Evolution.
- ^ Guarisco, Donald A. "Jocko Homo - Devo | Song Info". AllMusic.
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