Hardcore Devo: Volume One is the first of two collections of demos by the American new wave band Devo. It was originally released in August 1985, on the label Rykodisc. It was out of print for over twenty years; however, it was re-issued on Superior Viaduct[3] in 2013 both as a vinyl release (May 2013) and a CD containing both volumes and bonus tracks (July 2013).
The Hardcore Devo albums are collections of 4-track basement demos recorded by the band between 1974 and 1977. Some tracks are earlier versions of some of Devo's best known tracks that would later be re-recorded and used on subsequent Devo records (e.g. "Jocko Homo", "Mongoloid"), but a majority of the tracks were never re-used and remained unreleased until the Hardcore Devo compilations.