129. "Fresh" by Devo
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "I've seen lots of nifty bands on this list in the first 70 songs, but where the hell is Devo?!" That's exactly the question I had in 2010 the day they released Something for Everybody, their first album in 20 years. The album got off to a rip-roaring start with "Fresh." Who wouldn't like a song about sweet and tangy vapors? It's useless to resist its power!
I'm not sure what they are trying to say by singing about fresh smells while a pair of hands scoops up a sunbeam that emanates from a woman's bikini-clad backside with cartoon eyes that cry. Is this song about the joyous smells of a well-balanced diet or the putrid fumes of female fruity farts? I don't know, and it doesn't matter. It's Devo. And that means the song doesn't have to make sense. I just has to sound good. The video doesn't have to make sense either. If it's got zoom-in footage of a cat and a dog and a man dressed in a cat suit, the interwebs approve.
I will go out on a limb here and state, without offering any proof at all, that this has to be the fruitiest music video of all time. Their live performance of the song on David Letterman, however, had nary a fruit or vegetable in it. Instead, they promoted everyone's favorite fungus by wearing mushroom-shaped hat-masks.
Yep. Devo's still got it. I'm not sure that "it" is, but--Damn! That smells good!
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