"The new Netflix documentary 'Devo' is an eye-opening examination of an Ohio-born art-rock band that argues they were perhaps the most misunderstood band on the face of the planet. It debuts on the streaming service Tuesday."

"But behind the odd neck braces and knee pads were powerful art and literary ideas about where the country was going. They named themselves after the idea that modern society was entering a process of 'devolution.'”

"'We were seeing a world that was the antitheses of the idealized, promised future ginned up in the ’50s and ’60s.' Casale says in the movie. 'What we saw was regression.'”

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