{"id":377511,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/377511/?format=json","airdate":"2019-09-06T15:01:34-07:00","show":6282,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/6282/?format=json","image_uri":"http://coverartarchive.org/release/d4bfdd53-f9ac-35d8-b30d-f750b4420af4/9552855097-250.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Jocko Homo","track_id":"f81504fe-0315-31d2-92fe-93fc50b113bb","recording_id":null,"artist":"DEVO","artist_ids":["d2db1078-c170-4e22-b261-14f3ad60a690"],"album":"Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!","release_id":"d4bfdd53-f9ac-35d8-b30d-f750b4420af4","release_group_id":null,"labels":["Warner Bros. Records"],"label_ids":["c595c289-47ce-4fba-b999-b87503e8cb71"],"release_date":"1990-01-01","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"The title of the track is taken from a 1924 anti-evolution tract called Jocko-Homo Heavenbound by B. H. Shadduck, where it is explained as meaning \"ape-man.\"  The song revolves around an idiosyncratic descending guitar riff and absurdist lyrics.  The song's verses primarily concern themselves with the view of de-evolution, noting foibles in human society. Most versions include a bridge that begins with \"God made man, but he used the monkey to do it...\"  This is a response and reference to the Uncle Dave Macon song \"The Bible's True\" (1926), an anti-evolution song.  <br><br>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.  https://bit.ly/2k3tZer","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}