| Now It Can Be Told: DEVO at the Palace | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Devo |
| Cover: | devoliveatthepalace.jpg |
| Released: | 1989 |
| Recorded: | December 9, 1988 |
| Venue: | The Palace, Hollywood |
| Genre: | New wave |
| Length: | 60:01 |
| Label: | Enigma |
| Prev Title: | Total Devo |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | Smooth Noodle Maps |
| Next Year: | 1990 |
Now It Can Be Told: DEVO at the Palace is a live album by American new wave band Devo, released in 1989 by Enigma Records. The album was recorded during their 1988 "comeback tour" in promotion of the Total Devo album.
Music historian Andy Zax noted that the album presented reshaped versions of old songs from the band's repertoire as well as some new material, including a "twangy country ballad" version of "Jocko Homo" and the new composition "It Doesn't Matter to Me", "sounding like a long lost '60s folk-rock nugget".[1]
The album's closing track is an eleven-minute medley of "Shout", "Somewhere" from West Side Story and "Disco Dancer". A longer studio version totaling 18 minutes later appeared on the 2000 Devo rarities compilation Recombo DNA.[2]
The cover art and tagline were based on the 1971 book The Beginning Was the End. Initial vinyl pressings were double LPs that contained three sides of music and a fourth "blank" side with etched signatures from the band. The label of the fourth side was marked, "ATTENTION SPUDS! NO GROOVE! DO NOT PLAY!"[3]
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[3]
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