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Devo – The Super Thing (1981) | Track profile | Dork

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Devo
New Traditionalists
The Super Thing

TRACK

The Super Thing

Release date: 26th August 1981

From New Traditionalists

About This Track

"The Super Thing" is a track by Devo, from the album New Traditionalists, released 26th August 1981. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Devo.

About the Artist

Devo

Devo

Lyrics

The Super Thing

Today

What does it take

To do the super thing? (Super thing)

I'll tell you

What it takes

A very simple thing (Simple thing)

Iron nerves

Like the pilot of a jumbo jet (Jumbo jet)

Or a girl

On the go

Who hasn't got there yet

Magnetic trumpets blowing

Synthetic saxophones

The evidence kept growing

From below

Hidden motivations

Buried in the past

Still give us strength

For the super thing

The red alarm

A rude surprise every time it rings (Time it rings)

Means it's time

To go beyond

The normal thing (Normal thing)

Pay attention

And be prepared

To do it right (Do it right)

The super thing

The thing

That makes you bigger than life

Magnetic trumpets blowing

Synthetic saxophones

The evidence kept growing

From below

Hidden motivations

Buried in the past

Still give us strength

To do the super thing

Won't you tell me what it takes

To do the super thing?

Won't you give me what it takes

To do the super thing?

[Guitar solo]

Signals

Start to travel

From a distant place (Distant place)

Lights go out

Electro shock

Then pleasure/pain (Pleasure/pain)

Sensations

Unfamiliar

Can make you sick (Make you sick)

It's a super-

Human thing

And it does the trick

Magnetic trumpets blowing

Synthetic saxophones

The evidence kept growing

From below

Hidden motivations

Buried in the past

Still give us strength

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Track details

From New Traditionalists

1981

Listen

Album

New Traditionalists

Release year

1981

—Jerkin' Back 'n' Forth
—Race of Doom
—Beautiful World
—Love without Anger
—The Super Thing
—Soft Things
—Through Being Cool
—Enough Said
—Going Under
—It's a Beautiful World (E-Z Listening version)
—Pity You
—Nu-Tra Speaks (New Traditionalist Man)
—One Dumb Thing
—Faster and Faster
—Modern Life
—Psychology of Desire (Demo)

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Gerald Casale, Mark Mothersbaugh
Producer: Devo