[Dr. Sivana]

I think the group DEVO was meant as a parody version of Kraftwerk.

No, Devo was a New Wave band with roots in punk. While Kraftwerk was trying to be Andy Warhol and Marshall McLuhan in its futurism (and taking it seriously), Devo was parodying bourgeois pop culture in a different manner, and were pretty much on the edge of being a novelty band. Their early backers were Brian Eno and Iggy Pop. Different branch of the electronica tree.

"Whip It!" doesn't quite catch the zeitgeist of the group. That would come more from "Jocko Homo", "Mongoloid" and "Freedom of Choice". Their music videos were often quite creative, my favorite being "Love Without Anger" which features Barbie happily throwing things at Ken in stop-action before tearing Ken's head off.

[CJ Wolf]

Big Devo fan here. Whip it is not the song they should be known for.

[mikeus_maximus]

Are we not men?

I knew people who knew people who knew them in Akron. With DEvo, Donny Iris, Michael Stanley, and others, Akron/Northern Ohio was just on the verge of becoming like Athens Georgia (B-52s, REM) in regards to US New Wave scene.