Mark Mothersbaugh

Music.

Mark Mothersbaugh.

Lead singer of fucking Devo.

God, we're so fucking stupid.

Mike Campbell

Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo

Hey, it's Adam from Counting Crows, and I am here giving you the story behind the song.

The story behind the song is back for season four.

Oh, right

... let's call it, of Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo.

[laughs]

[laughs]

... talk singing over it.

Yeah.

You've made it too complicated, Mark Mothersbaugh.

Mark, d- read the assignment.

That's it in terms of actors in this episode.

As I said, there was just a little band called Devo, and Devo consists of Bob Casale, Gerald Casale, Robert Mothersbaugh, and Mark Mothersbaugh.

And seriously, if you don't know who Mark Mothersbaugh is, he has only created some great television themes over the years.

Davis Rules comes to mind immediately.

Rugrats.

[laughs]

So he comes, he brings a seven-inch copy of the Explosions, uh, seven-inch, and he shoves his way in and he shows it to Mark Mothersbaugh, and is like, "Hey, when I was 20 years old-"

Right

... "I made this record with my friends," and it had like, the Devo hat on it-

That's awesome

...

Mark Mothersbaugh was very chuffed by it and-

[laughs]

And the restaurant and stuff, and, um...

It was Bob 2 and Mark Mothersbaugh were in there.

I saw them for the show.

I chatted real briefly with them.

But whereas like how music's used in his sort of like films, it is truly sort of like exciting, and especially the track which you chose.

It's the Mark Mothersbaugh track, who's like Devo, and he's got all that influence as well, which is another truly sort of like fun project and sort of like it's...

That song is literally just pure sort of like fun, like bottled up really.

Yeah.

theme.

First of all, the score is by Mark Mothersbaugh, famous musician and noted video game musician.

I believe he did The Sims 2 and a number of other video games.

No shit.

guy from Devo.

Yeah.

What? No, Mark Mothersbaugh is a real, like, e-toy type of personality in terms of his music career.

He does a lot.

We're not going in the right direction.

But it's up to us, if you really listen to their lyrics, which are optimistic, and I think Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Cassell particularly really still embody, what are we going to do?

Can

I just tell a couple of

We were talking about coincidences.

You know, we had a fellow on the show a couple months ago named Silas Height.

And he's like either a cousin or a nephew of Mark Mothersbaugh.

And he had a recording.