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''Smooth Noodle Maps'', released in 1990, is the eighth studio album by American new wave band Devo. It was Devo's last full-length studio album until the release of ''Something for Everybody'' in 2010, as well as the last Devo studio album to feature David Kendrick on drums. The album title refers to a kind of discrete mathematical system—a noodle map—which may exhibit chaotic behavior, similar to the standard map. The adjective smooth refers to the lack of kinks or discontinuities. This is referenced in the song "Devo Has Feelings Too," which include the lyric "snake through the chaos with a smooth noodle map." The front cover of the record (and the fold-out of the CD version) featured the members of the band emerging from a strange circle. The liner notes from the "Post Post-Modern Man" single revealed that the circle is actually a computer simulation of the planet Jupiter. This image of Jupiter was provided by Philip Marcus and Nicholas Socci. The album includes a cover of the early 1960s song "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew," transformed into a dance song. ==Promotional music video== Two videos were made for the album's first and only single, "Post Post-Modern Man." The first, which was directed by Devo bassist and co-songwriter Jerry Casale and was never officially released, saw the band driving a Lincoln Town Car along the desolate interstate 10 in Southern California. According to Casale, when the finished video was delivered to Enigma Records, they demanded the video include March 1990's Playboy Playmate of the Month, Deborah Driggs, in order to make it more marketable. After acquiescing to Enigma's demands, MTV then rejected the video because it used the Macro Post Modern Mix instead of the "college alternative track" they wanted to market, as featured on the original album. This resulted in a second video directed by Rocky Schenck which featured Devo in a spoof of Home Shopping Network, selling various Devo-related merchandise. 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「Smooth Noodle Maps」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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