Tonight's clip is the video of Devo's rendition of the Rolling Stones' classic "Satisfaction."
I look at this version as basically a "political" statement. It's not painting facial hair on the Mona Lisa, its creating a second painting below the original showing the model naked from the waist down. (For even more extreme "desecration" seek out the cover of "Satisfaction" by San Francisco art-rock freaksters The Residents).
It challenges without mocking, it defies without defiling. It walks some crazy line, somehow. It's art.
And it rocks.
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