Mark Mothersbaugh
Also Known As: Mark Mothersbug, DEVO, DEV-O
Biography: Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (/ˈmʌðərzbɔː/; born May 18, 1950) is an American musician and composer. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder, lead vocalist, and keyboardist of the new wave band Devo, whose "Whip It" was a top 20 single in the US in 1980, peaking at No. 14, and which has since maintained a cult following. Mothersbaugh was one of the primary composers of Devo's music. In addition to his work with Devo, Mothersbaugh has made music for television series, films, and video games via his production company, Mutato Muzika. He composed the music for the 13-year run of the animated series Rugrats and its three related theatrical films. He has created film scores for Wes Anderson and for Marvel Comics films. As a solo musician, Mothersbaugh has released four studio albums: Muzik for Insomniaks, Muzik for the Gallery, Joyeux Mutato, and The Most Powerful Healing Muzik in the Entire World. In 2004, he received the Richard Kirk Award at the BMI Film and TV Awards for his contributions to film and television music. In 2008, Mothersbaugh received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Kent State University, his alma mater. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Mothersbaugh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Sound
Place of Birth: Akron, Ohio, USA
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Human Highway
Overview: The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-10
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Butch DEVO And The Sundance Gig
Overview: DEVO live at the Sundance Film Festival 1996. At the time it was billed as their last ever show but it actually ended up kickstarting a revival of the band which resulted in many tours and a new studio album in 2010.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-19
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Devo Live in the Land of the Rising Sun
Overview: New wave geniuses who helped define an era with their quirky, futuristic, and revolutionary style are back, entertaining the Japanese crowds who love them as much today as they did 25 years ago. Devo have been through a lot over the years, developing their parody of humankind's plight of conformity in their theory of devolution after member Gerald Casale witnessed the Kent State killings of student protesters in 1970, but they haven't wavered in their innovative sounds and pioneering visuals.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-05
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Beauty Is Embarrassing
Overview: Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work designing some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his word paintings featuring pithy and and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted onto vintage landscape paintings have made him a darling of the fine art world. The movie chronicles the vaulted highs and crushing lows of an artist struggling to find peace and balance between his professional work and his personal art. This is especially complicated for a man who struggles with the virtues he most often mocks in his art...Vanity, ego and fame.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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The Spirit of '76
Overview: Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to study this "ideal" civilization. 70's jokes, props and stars abound.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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DEVO | Live
Overview: The film details an entire live performance from Devo's 1996 reunion tour with Lollapalooza, opening for Metallica. The band performs a stripped down set consisting of songs from their first three albums, filmed at Irvine Meadows, California.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-24
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DEVO The Complete Truth About De-Evolution
Overview: Now, the complete truth can be told...Devo, the seminal New Wave audio-visual concept band made a career out of setting to music video their Dada-gone-camp theory of de-evolution and its riotous rebuke of corporate culture. Punk/New Wave mad scientists Devo were among the few bands to understand the music video's potential as art form during its infancy in the eighties. Their brilliant and bizarre videos were compiled on VHS and then on laser disc; that long out-of-print disc, The Complete Truth About De-Evolution, has finally arrived on DVD, which should please longtime fans of this eclectic outfit.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-19
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Arise! SubGenius Recruitment Film #16
Overview: A brain-crushing collage of music and video presented in the form of a religious recruitment video. The topics covered (in deadpan narration) are basic psychology, the origin of the human race, spiritualism, religious dogma, UFO's, the end of the world, and the group's figurehead, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott
Overview: His filmmaker son probes the professional and private lives of his remote but fascinating father: bandleader, composer, inventor, and electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-17
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The World According to Allee Willis
Overview: Take one look at award-winning songwriter / artist Allee Willis and you see someone unafraid to be themselves. Dressed in a cacophony of prints and colors, her signature asymmetrical haircut and famed parties at her real-life Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Allee didn’t waste any opportunity to tell you what she was about. But privately, Allee struggled with not fitting established gender and sexual norms. She buried herself in her work, until true love manifested her ultimate masterpiece - self-acceptance.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-15
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Devo | Live In Benicàssim
Overview: Recorded live @ Benicassm Festival, July 2007.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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3-DEVO
Overview: 3-DEVO took place on October 30, 1982, at the Warner Beverly Hills Theater in Beverly Hills, California. It was filmed and transmitted live in 3-D to college campuses around the country. This is the original broadcast, not the late rebroadcast that was edited significantly.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-30
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Are We Not Men?
Overview: A documentary about DEVO
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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DEVO | Whistler Medals Plaza
Overview: Whistler, BC, Canada - February 22nd 2010. DEVO live at the Winter Olympics 2010! Broadcast on MuchMusic in Canada
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-22
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DEVO | The Men Who Make the Music
Overview: Part concert film, music video collection, and propaganda piece, The Men Who Make the Music was DEVO's first home video release. Features live footage from the band's 1978 "Duty Now for the Future" tour.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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We're All Devo
Overview: Like The Men Who Make the Music, We're All Devo! has a storyline to tie the videos together. In it, the character of Rod Rooter (Michael W Schwartz) is reviewing Devo's music videos for Big Entertainment. Much to his chagrin, his daughter Donut Rooter (Laraine Newman) is a fan of the band. Donut discovers the videos after asking her father for money to get an abortion (though this is not explicitly stated). Two excerpts from the storyline were included in the "Complete Truth About De-Evolution" laserdisc and DVD (both out of sequence) but the rest is exclusive to this videocassette. "Theme from Doctor Detroit" was also not included, and is unique to this tape. (Wikipedia)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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DEVO
Overview: In 1980, new wave band Devo scored a hit with "Whip It" and gained mainstream success with their message of societal "de-evolution", formed in response to the 1970 Kent State shootings.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-21
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Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind
Overview: Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind visually documents the explosion of Grunge, the Seattle Sound, within the context of the underground punk subculture that was developing throughout the U.S. in the late 1970s and 1980s. This decade-and-a-half musical journey will be represented entirely through the lens of EMP’s oral history and permanent object collection, an invaluable and rich cultural archive of over 800 interviews and 140,000 objects - instruments, costumes, posters, records and other ephemera dedicated to the pursuit of rock n roll.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-09
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35000 Watts: The Story of College Radio
Overview: The students behind the mic and the bands they made famous tell the story of the youth and music culture that originated, and later flourished, on the airwaves of American colleges and universities, establishing a new generational voice and a new path to success for many alumni and artists.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-07-09
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Elvira's MTV Halloween Party
Overview: MTV Halloween special, hosted by Elvira, featuring skits and music videos.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-31
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Score: A Film Music Documentary
Overview: Music is an integral part of most films, adding emotion and nuance while often remaining invisible to audiences. Matt Schrader shines a spotlight on the overlooked craft of film composing, gathering many of the art form’s most influential practitioners, from Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman to Quincy Jones and Randy Newman, to uncover their creative process. Tracing key developments in the evolution of music in film, and exploring some of cinema’s most iconic soundtracks, 'Score' is an aural valentine for film lovers.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-16
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The Other F Word
Overview: What happens when a generation's ultimate anti-authoritarians — punk rockers — become society's ultimate authorities — dad's? With a large chorus of Punk Rock's leading men — Blink-182's Mark Hoppus, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, Rise Against's Tim McIlrath — The Other F Word follows Jim Lindberg, 20-year veteran of skate punk band, Pennywise, on his hysterical and moving journey from belting his band's anthem, 'Fuck Authority', to embracing his ultimately pivotal authoritarian role in mid-life, fatherhood.
Genres: Music Documentary Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-02
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In the Beginning Was the End: The Truth About De-Evolution
Overview: Several factory workers finish their day at work and get into a car. They drive to a club where they perform the song Secret Agent Man as a rock quartet. A man with a mask of a child named Booji Boy runs into a building where his father, a man named General Boy is waiting. Subsequently, a man gives a lecture by song on the subject of devolution.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Along for the Ride
Overview: A documentary chronicling the filmmaking career of Dennis Hopper.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-03
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Devo: Hardcore Live!
Overview: A concert film capturing Devo at the Fox Theatre in Oakland on their 2014 "Hardcore Tour," in which they performed 21 songs written and recorded before they signed with a major record label, many of which had never been performed live. The set is intercut with stories and commentary from the band members, as well as Toni Basil and V. Vale.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-24
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DEVO | Live in London
Overview: Live performance of DEVO's debut album, "Q:Are We Not Men? A:We Are DEVO" at the Forum, London in 2009.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-06
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Shakespeare's Plan 12 from Outer Space
Overview: William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", re-imagined in a child's vision of Hell. "Shakespeare's Plan 12 from Outer Space" is a festive yarn, comprised of the most homely and vulgar materials, while shamelessly thwarted buy the Bard's coarsest of jokes and grossest buffoonery.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Making of 'Bottle Rocket'
Overview: Interviews with individuals involved in the making of Wes Anderson's 1996 film "Bottle Rocket."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-16
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Derailroaded
Overview: A documentary on the life and music of manic-depressive, paranoid-schizophrenic cult music icon Wild Man Fischer.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-01
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Mystery Men
Overview: When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superheroes -- Mr. Furious, the Shoveler and the Blue Raja -- assemble a new super team to save him.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-06
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Punk and New Wave Years with Annie Nightingale
Overview: The programme includes The Damned’s set-smashing performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test and the Sex Pistols' anarchic trip on the Thames. It also features powerful live performances from Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Gang of Four, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Tubeway Army, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Soft Cell, The Selecter, Joy Division and the Au Pairs. In addition, there are gems from The New York Dolls, The Fall, Blondie, Pete Shelley, The Police, Devo, X-Ray Spex, Klaus Nomi, Laurie Anderson and many more.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-06
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DEVO | Live 1980
Overview: "This lone video artifact offers indisputable evidence that in 1980 Devo had reached a turning point. We were no longer just art monsters, we were mainstream performers too. " - Gerald V. Casale (from the back of the DVD case) August 17, 1980 Phoenix Theater, Petaluma
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-30
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Pray TV
Overview: A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of money in the guise of religious programming, which is actually just an excuse to sell merchandise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-23
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Devolution: A Devo Theory
Overview: Enter the minds of one of history's most misunderstood bands. With hits such as 'Whip It' & 'Freedom of Choice', they shared a trailblazing environmental message but were often mocked. 40 years later, we ask: were Devo right?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-03
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De-evolution: The Men Who Make The Music
Overview: Not to be confused with the longform video of the same name first released in 1981, this earlier film was filmed as a prototype for that later piece and features DEVO in greyish-blue janitor uniforms. It includes songs such as Huboon Stomp, The Words Get Stuck In My Throat and Too Much Paranoias.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Chi Chi & Devo
Overview: Members of pioneering New Wave band Devo and golfing legend Chi Chi Rodríguez recall how their paths crossed when Devo used an image of Chi Chi for their debut album.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-19
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SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Overview: Live from Radio City Music Hall, witness the concert of a lifetime with a star-studded lineup bringing together legendary Saturday Night Live hall-of-famers, iconic guests and surprise musical performances.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-14
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