Beautiful World - Devo

In the early 1980's a new TV station, KBDI began broadcasting in the town where I grew up. As the second PBS affiliate in the Denver market, they were free to offer alternatives to the more mainstream fare, including Dr. Who and a radical new concept they called FM TV. This may have been the first regularly scheduled airing of music videos, before even Betamax, when home movies were still mostly made on Super 8, and some years before MTv.

Devo were among the pioneers of this format and this song was my favorite of theirs. Others who impressed me were Depeche Mode and a band whose name escapes me. In the next post I'll show my second favorite from those days.
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