Guest La Parka Es Mi Papa Posted June 17, 2003 Report Posted June 17, 2003 So I've been hearing all about The Residents lately, and I've read quite a bit about them, but I've never actually heard anything from them. Can anybody recommend me a few songs to download?
Guest saturnmark4life Posted June 17, 2003 Report Posted June 17, 2003 I'm a fairly new fan on account of VERY limited availability in the UK. What I have thus far - Demons Dance Alone Our Finest Flowers (20th anniversary) Icky Flix Wormwood - Curious tales from the bible Roadworms (reworkings of wormwood tracks) I have seen nothing to dissuade me they could be the greatest non-Smiths band ever. I've heard Duck Stab is good shit, I really want that one. I want it ALL. As for tracks, The Weatherman Kick A Picnic (icky flix version) The Gingerbread man Make Me Moo Caring Dinah and the unclean skin Abraham Fuck, you can't go wrong IMO. I would suggest getting wormwood before roadworms, so you can truly appreciate both. But any of it.
Guest La Parka Es Mi Papa Posted June 18, 2003 Report Posted June 18, 2003 Thank you very much. It's also good to see the Smiths getting some love.
Guest Mystery Eskimo Posted June 18, 2003 Report Posted June 18, 2003 friends of P Isn't that the Rentals?
Guest saturnmark4life Posted June 22, 2003 Report Posted June 22, 2003 So have you got any tracks yet? Thoughts? Sorry, I take every possible opportunity to plug The Residents now. Mmmmm...Residents....
Guest La Parka Es Mi Papa Posted June 22, 2003 Report Posted June 22, 2003 I found Duck Stab in a used CD store for three bucks, so I picked it up, and I'm seriously digging it. I suggest the tracks The Laughing Song, Semolina, and Weight Lifting Lulu, in particular.
Guest King Of The Homeless Posted June 23, 2003 Report Posted June 23, 2003 (edited) Eskimo is a trip. A whole album of Inuit (or at least Inuit-inspired - I didn't do a lot of research) chants. Be careful with your choice of substance accompaniment, though - "The Spirit Takes A Child" has scared the fuck outta me a couple times. Edited June 23, 2003 by King Of The Homeless
Guest Agent of Oblivion Posted June 23, 2003 Report Posted June 23, 2003 Bach is Dead is my favorite track off Duck Stab. Good shit.
Guest Incandenza Posted July 8, 2003 Report Posted July 8, 2003 The Third Reich n Roll. What allmusic says: Technically the third album from the group, though released as a follow-up to Meet the Residents, this 40-minute assault on the music of the '60s follows Picasso's dictum of all artists killing their (aesthetic) fathers. Two side-long medleys of songs both classic ("Papa's Got a Brand New Bag") and obscure ("Telstar") are destroyed, deconstructed, mangled, spat on, spit out, ground up, and injected with gleeful humor. If there's any concept here, it's that the brain-numbing catchiness of pop music was fascism in disguise, keeping teenyboppers docile while selling them rebellion, hence the cover art of a gestapo-uniformed Dick Clark holding a carrot. Whether it's only much-suppressed love for these songs (as they went on to return again and again to the themes and artists examined here, including James Brown, "Land of 1000 Dances," and "Double Shot"), it's up to the listener to decide. Mostly any fan of the group will spend many hours trying to decode all the songs here, all the time with a smile on their face. (Officially, there are 29 songs, but there could be more). It's amazing.
Guest saturnmark4life Posted July 9, 2003 Report Posted July 9, 2003 God fucking dammit, when i found a treasure trove of their shit in Manchester that's one of the ones i didn't get. I'll order it then.
Guest Edwin MacPhisto Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 I just picked up the Residents' novice primer, Petting Zoo. It's already bizarrely delightful, and I like how the disc is kinda designed to start very accessible and get progressively weirder. Clever sequencing. For $5, I'm not going to complain. There was a heap of used stuff, too--Fingerprince, God in Three Persons, Demons Dance Alone, and Eskimo among the many.
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