Tape Deck's Mixtape: Track 15 · 12:38pm May 26th
Just a disclaimer: I'm pretty sure the song's not even supposed to be offensive.
(And this isn't a Parental Advisory warning or anything like that, but you'll see.)
Mongoloid by Devo. (From the 1978 album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!)
Mmmm...that drum intro...
Cover art explanation from our good friend Wikipedia 
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The cover was illustrated by Joe Heiner, based on an image of golfer Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodríguez that the band had found on a golf strap. According to Casale, David Berman, Senior Vice President of business affairs at their record label, Warner Bros., decided that the image could not be used because "he was a golf fan and felt we were making fun of Chi Chi." The band offered to contact Rodriguez personally but had time constraints, due to the forthcoming production of their album. The manager of the company's art department, Rick Serini, recommended an artist who could airbrush and alter the face of the picture, while lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh offered a picture he had procured from a local newspaper that morphed the faces of U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. These ideas were later morphed with the original image of Rodríguez to create the cover art of the album.
The band did eventually get Rodríguez's permission to use the original photograph. Since the "morphed" album sleeves were already in production by that time, Serini claimed it would cost the band $2,500 to halt production and reinstate the image intended originally by the band, which forced the band to keep the morphed version. According to Casale, "we were able to come out with something that by the corporate interference and misunderstanding of the business side of Warner Bros. Records, actually unwittingly produced something far more Devo than the original [image]." The original cover illustration, with Rodriguez's face intact, appeared on the picture sleeve for the "Be Stiff" single.
But what about Whip It? It reached #14 on the Hot 100 in 1980!
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Too obvious.
Someday, though, yes, it'll be on one of these.
A cool song. I had to google "mongoloid," and it's an old term for someone with Down Syndrome. In the song, the guy is just living a normal life, and no one knows that anything is wrong with him. What a strange thing to write a song about.
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Devo, in a nutshell.
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I’m sorry
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What? Nothing to be sorry about.
Whip yourself into shape there, buster.
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And I just realized that there's a bunch of silence tacked on at the end that definitely is not part of the song.
Weird.
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But what if I whip myself literally and I end up being sorry for being sorry?
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Then you'll be sorry.
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