Toni Basil

DEVO 'Recombo DNA' is a 2-CD collection packed to its aluminum-wafered edges with 42 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS* which have been carefully cultivated from the effusively illustrated tapeboxes of the Official DEVO Archive. These recordings cover the period just after their first independent Booji Boy singles to the year before they sign with Enigma Records. In other words, for the first time on this planet, The Archivists are proud to be able to officially present to you Original Demos, Alternate Takes, Rough Mixes, Unissued Masters and Other Audio Arcana from the years DEVO were signed to Warner Bros Records. Augmented with almost a dozen scrumptious pre- and post-WB-era delights, 'Recombo DNA' collects over two-and-one-half hours of Prime DEVO Double Helix Fun.

If you're looking for the roots of alternative rock or obscure college playlist fodder, look elsewhere; this is prime-time '80s pop chart glory, as seen on MTV (over and over and over). Though the songs here cover a breadth of style and genre (if not necessarily substance), there's a remarkable unity of purpose and hook-laden musical accomplishment that's sorely missed. If this collection woefully shortchanges hip-hop, it still underscores a distinctly irony-free era where style admittedly triumphed over substance, as opposed to the '90s, where style caricatured substance.

The Best Singles of All Time 200 is the most popular singles over forty years, since the 60s till 90s