DEVO - NOW IT CAN BE TOLD (LIVE) - DOBLE ALBUM VINILO ORIGINAL 1989 EDICION ENIGMA RECORDS USA

La banda lanzó en 1988 Total Devo en Enigma Records. Este álbum incluye dos canciones para la banda sonora Slaughterhouse rock. La canción Baby doll se utilizó en la película Tapeheads, con nuevas líricas de Suecia, y fue acreditado a (y se muestra en un vídeo musical de ellos) una banda ficticia sueca llamado Cube-Squared. Devo siguieron a este álbum con una gira mundial, y lanzaron el álbum en vivo Now it can be told: Devo at the Palace.

En la primavera de 1989 Devo regalaron a sus fans más obstinados con un doble álbum en directo, 'Now it can be told', con tres caras grabadas en un concierto en Hollywood en 1988. En su mayor parte, el material del álbum está compuesto por temas de los primeros discos del grupo.

Track listing
1."Jocko Homo" – 3:51
2."It Doesn't Matter to Me" – 2:52
3."Going Under" – 4:17
4."Working in a Coal Mine" – 3:59
5."Happy Guy" – 3:22
6."That's Good" – 3:31
7."Jerkin' Back 'n' Forth" – 3:05
8."Girl U Want" – 3:02
9."Whip It" – 2:37
10."Baby Doll" – 3:53
11."(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" – 3:36
12."Uncontrollable Urge" – 3:28
13."Gut Feeling" – 3:13
14."Gates of Steel" – 3:46
15."Somewhere With Devo: Shout / Disco Dancer" – 11:20
 

Now It Can Be Told: DEVO at the Palace is a live album released by American new wave band Devo, recorded during their "comeback tour" in promotion of the Total Devo album. It did contain several cuts from the album, but largely focused on earlier material (although the disc also had one exclusive song, "It Doesn't Matter to Me"). The cover art and tagline were based on the 1971 book The Beginning Was the End.

The first part of the show was a semi-acoustic set, in which the band played heavily altered versions of earlier hits. The show's opener was a country version of "Jocko Homo", which was now significantly slower and had a vocal melody change. The sad ballad-esque delivery of the song prompted Jerry Casale to exclaim "I'll bet you didn't know that was such a sad song."

The next change was applied to "Going Under", which was performed in a style similar to the E-Z Listening Disc version.

The rest of the set was largely based on the original studio versions. (The only notable difference was in "Gut Feeling", where the fast "Slap Your Mammy" jam had been removed from the ending and was replaced by the different yet equally energetic song "Gates Of Steel".) However, the album's closer is an eleven-minute medley of "Shout", "Somewhere" from West Side Story, and "Disco Dancer". This is the second-longest track found in Devo's catalog; a longer studio version, totaling eighteen minutes, later appeared on the Recombo DNA compilation. It features a longer instrumental section and the addition of an older Devo song called "Social Fools".

Devo's performance of "Disco Dancer" is nearly identical to the remixed version heard in the song's music video.