Devo

Devo turned a joke about humanity going backwards into one of new wave's sharpest bands. Kent State art students Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis dreamed up the theory of 'de-evolution' in late-60s Ohio, and with Mark Mothersbaugh gave it a sound: jerky, robotic rhythms, nervy guitars and cheap synthesisers played with mechanical precision.

Brian Eno produced their debut, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, whose twitchy 'Jocko Homo' and deconstructed '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' sounded like nothing else in 1978. Freedom of Choice brought the synths forward and gave them a hit with 'Whip It', complete with matching red energy domes.

The Hardcore collections dig up the strange basement recordings that came first, while Mothersbaugh went on to score films and TV.