Editing Devo (section)

=== 1982–1987: ''Oh, No! It's Devo'', ''Shout'', and Myers' departure ===
''[[Oh, No! It's Devo]]'' followed in 1982. Produced by [[Roy Thomas Baker]], the album featured a more synth-pop-oriented sound than its predecessors. According to Gerald Casale, the album's sound was inspired by reviewers alternately describing them as both "[[Fascism|fascists]]" and "[[clown]]s".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/article-11426-lsdevo-is-like-the-house-band-on-the-titanicrs.html |title=Devo Is Like the House Band on the Titanic |last=Sculley |first=Alan |website=[[Shepherd Express|Express Milwaukee]] |date=June 30, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130220113139/http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/article-11426-lsdevo-is-like-the-house-band-on-the-titanicrs.html |archive-date=February 20, 2013 |access-date=December 6, 2022}}</ref> The album's tour featured the band performing seven songs in front of a 12-foot high rear-projection screen with synchronized video, an image recreated using [[Chroma key|blue screen]] effects in the album's accompanying music videos. Devo also contributed two songs, "[[Theme from Doctor Detroit]]" and "Luv-Luv", to the 1983 [[Dan Aykroyd]] film ''[[Doctor Detroit]]'', and produced a music video for "Theme from Doctor Detroit" featuring clips from the film interspersed with live-action segments.

The band's sixth studio album, ''[[Shout (Devo album)|Shout]]'' (1984), which featured extensive use of the [[Fairlight CMI]] digital [[sampler (musical instrument)|sampling]] synthesizer, was received poorly, and the expensive music video they'd produced for their cover of [[the Jimi Hendrix Experience]]'s "[[Are You Experienced (song)|Are You Experienced?]]" was criticized by some as being "disrespectful", all of which caused [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]] to buy out the remainder of Devo's contract.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Jerry Casale |date=October 8, 2020 |title=No. 198:Jerry Casale/Devo- Part 2 |type=[[YouTube]] video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhwmvLaZmDE&t=3930s&ab_channel=DeanDelray |access-date=November 6, 2022 |time=72m 56s |publisher=Dean Delray}}</ref> Shortly thereafter, Myers left the band, citing creative unfulfillment.<ref name=Myers>{{cite magazine|title=Alan Myers Obituary |url= https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/alan-myers-devo-drummer-on-whip-it-dies-20130626|magazine=Rolling Stone|date= June 26, 2013|access-date=July 19, 2013}}</ref>

In the interim, Mark Mothersbaugh began composing music for the TV show ''[[Pee-wee's Playhouse]]'' and released an elaborately packaged solo [[Compact Cassette|cassette]], ''[[Muzik for Insomniaks, Volume 1 and Volume 2|Musik for Insomniaks]]'', which was later expanded and released as two [[Compact disc|CD]]s in 1988.