Description
Tracklisting
- “Through Being Cool”
- “Jerkin’ Back ‘n’ Forth”
- “Pity You”
- “Soft Things”
- “Going Under”
- “Race of Doom”
- “Love Without Anger”
- “The Super Thing”
- “Beautiful World”
- “Enough Said”
New Traditionalists was originally packaged with a bonus 7″ single of the band’s cover of “Working in the Coal Mine.” According to a 2008 interview with Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo had originally intended to include the song on the album but were thwarted by Warner Bros. The band was then approached by the makers of the animated film Heavy Metal and asked if they had a song to donate for a sequence in the film involving a house band in outer space. Devo offered them the unused “Working in the Coal Mine,” and as a fluke the song ended up being the only charting song on the soundtrack album. Since the song was now a “hit,” Warner Bros. pressed up thousands of two-sided 7″ singles and included them with initial copies of the LP. Most CD and cassette pressings of New Traditionalists include “Working in the Coal Mine” as a bonus track, although the recent 2005 issue from Collectables Records contains only the album’s original tracklist.
