i remember my aunt owning New Traditionalists when i was a kid. it's not like i played it alot, but i'm sure i have heard it at least a few times. i'm sure growing up, no one in my family was into Devo.
i didn't really get into Devo until the early 90's. the little hick town i grew up in, even tho they had a couple record stores. Devo wasn't really a band you could walk into a store and pick up any album that wasn't Greatest Hits or Greatest Misses. which kinda sucked. the one record store did stock alot of awesome stuff, but being it was a mom and pop shop, they didn't really carry a discography of them. just the ones they liked (which was Duty Now For The Future & the 2 compilation tapes)
cut to some years later when i found Pioneers Who Were Scalped at the local library. that's what started me to go further into Devo's catalog. i even managed to find some guy from Ireland or Scotland thru some cd trading page and scored a triple disc of more of the rare tracks, like the E-Z Listening Cassettes and whatnot.
and then finally came the time i got to see DEVO
it was the Q&A / FOC tour. we only went to the Q&A show. it kinda sucked that our tickets cost more then the length they played, but it was so worth it. we got great balcony seats and it was great. then a couple years later, we found out they were playing a free show in Burlington that day. infact they were due to go on stage in 3 hours. we got our crap together and we hauled ass to the show. i mean it was free. why not! Mark's voice was so rough. he had a cold or something (yet the band blamed The Human Centipede for it) but this time i managed to get at least 5th or 6th row back from the stage. and was totally blown away by how many people around me were also singing along. that insane panic attack of LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO just to get to the show made it all worth it. we missed the songs they played from the newer album (at the time) but we could hear them as we walked down the street.
that show contained my favorite #1 guitar solo i ever seen
during the last part of Mr DNA when it goes into the long note, buddy broke all 6 strings on his guitar. that was awesome!