Devo "Mongoloid", can't get this out of my head, for days. I need help.

I can related! That tune does have the potential to get in the ear, penetrate the brain and start breeding or somethin'.

About 5-6 years ago it happened to me. Listened to the song several times & thought about it frequently in between. Started singing the chorus regularly. At one point my three year-old pleaded in annoyance and desperation: "Daddy! No more mongoloid!"

 

I did not know that. Interesting

 

Consider yourself lucky, the song stuck in my head is "Chanson D'Amour", and I don't even like it.

 

This song haunted me the other day. Very infectious.

 

disturbing....

 

The first song my first band learned, back in 8th grade. Ah, memories.

 

I agree. The Stiff versions of things like Satisfaction have a groove which is missing on the Eno recordings.

 

Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Mongoloid forEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Until this thread, the Eno version was the only one I had ever heard .
Is there a release that has the earlier versions available ?

 

We played Mongoloid on the jukebox yesterday during happy hour. My favorite Devo. Given the time difference, probably really close to the original posting here.

 

Happier than you and me! Great song, great band. This song was great live!

 

Thinking about this post, maybe overthinking....but I sure hope Mongoloid got stuck in Steve's head while he was mastering it for SACD!

 

Everytime I see this thread pop up, it gets stuck in my head.

 

This one just came on the iPod in the car today (original version, of course). My wife just rolled her eyes. It's a song I ALWAYS stop at when shuffling and it annoys her.

 

Thanks goodness we do not use the term "mongoloid" these days.

In the 70s there was very poor acceptance/ understanding of Down Syndrome people and the term "Mongol" was typically used in a negative context.

I'm sure that Devo meant well by releasing this record but unfortunately many in society were not so enlightened.

 

I met this girl once who told me she was J Casale's girlfriend while they were recording Duty Now. She told me they all lived in some two story house together. They were completely childish practical jokers. After about a year she had had it with them and just packed up and left, unannounced, while they were away at the studio.

 

Aren't those versions also the ones on Hardcore? I'm 90% sure the Jock Homo on that is a stereo mix of the of the original video version, but I've never heard those compilations or the original single.

 

I am also afflicted.

 

Sad.

 

While I have no doubt that the song was (deliberately) intended to be both confrontational and controversial like a lot of Devo's early work - hardly surprising given the punk attitude of the time, Mongoloid has always been explained by the band in a positive light, not as an insult or a put down of those with Down Syndrome. They have always been at pains to pint out that despite "having one chromosome too many", the subject of the song does what any common spud does: "and he wore a hat, and he had a job, and he brought home the bacon, so that no-one knew" making him no different to the everyday worker drone. "His friends were unaware" and "nobody even cared" reinforce that the subject is nothing more than a normal member of society despite his affliction, not because of it and he is viewed in the same light as all of his peers. Nowhere in the lyrics is the subject seen in derision, looked down upon or made fun of.