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"Jocko Homo" is the B-side to Devo's first single, "Mongoloid", released in 1977 on Devo's own label, Booji Boy Records and later released in the UK on Stiff Records. The song was re-recorded as the feature song for Devo's first album, ''Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!'' on Warner Bros. Records in 1978. The original version peaked at #62 on the UK Singles Chart. It is based on a chant from the 1932 movie ''Island of Lost Souls''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jocko Homo by Devo Songfacts )〕 "Jocko Homo" introduced the call-and-response "Are we not men?" / "We are Devo", and is generally considered to be Devo's anthem. The title is taken from a 1924 anti-evolution tract called ''Jocko-Homo Heavenbound'' by B. H. Shadduck, where it is explained as meaning "ape-man".〔(Bertram H Shadduck bio (1869-1950) )〕 The song revolves around an idiosyncratic descending guitar riff and absurdist lyrics. ==Song lyrics and themes== The song's verses primarily concern themselves with the satirical view of devolution, noting foibles in human society. Most versions include a bridge that begins with "God made man, but he used the monkey to do it..."〔"God made man but he used the monkey to do it Apes in the plan we're all here to prove it. I can walk like an ape, talk like an ape, do what a monkey do. God made man but a monkey supplied the glue."〕 The song also contains several call and response choruses, including the repeated chant "Are we not Men? / We are Devo!" "Jocko Homo", in its variations, has also contained other chants between the main verses and the closing chant. These include "We Accept You / We Reject You / One of us! One of us!" (a reference to Tod Browning's ''Freaks'') and "I've got a rhyme that comes in a riddle / O-Hi-O! / What's round on the ends and high in the middle? / O-Hi-O!", which references the state that Devo was started in, Ohio. The song begins in the unusual time signature of 7/8 time, but switches partway through to common 4/4 time for the call and response sections. The original version of "Jocko Homo" lacks all call and response choruses except "Are we not men?", as well as the "God made man" bridge. This demo version appears on the ''Hardcore Devo: Volume One'' compilation. The Booji Boy Records single version contains both the "O-Hi-O!" and the "God made man" bridge. The version on ''Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO!'' only includes the "God made man" bridge. Co-writer Mark Mothersbaugh attributes the line "Are we not men?" to the 1932 film ''Island of Lost Souls'', an adaptation of the 1896 H.G. Wells novel ''Island of Doctor Moreau'', from which the line actually originated. Mothersbaugh says of the film: "There were like, watered down, wussy versions of it in the later ''Islands Of Dr. Moreau'' stuff, but that was a really intense movie."〔http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3062〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jocko Homo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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