[.ca] Meet the Residents

oh sweet taste on my Ear.:
these guys are great.. they explore .. what is allowed and not allowed.. then push it further.. a say buy all the residents.. up till..the king and EYE..they get a little boring after that.. but I still own those as well..

Milk is good for you.:
Sounds like Norman Rockwell drawing a surrealist painting with only watercolor but with all the creative energy in his brain.

It All Starts Here...:
...5 years after the true beginning of the band. The first official release by The Residents (with the exception of the out of print and extremely collectible Santa Dog) is a masterpiece of the surreal. After experimenting in homemade studios with various toys, sounds, and tape effects (some glimmers of which are available on the out of print UWEB releases,) The Residents put together their first album. The sound has the stream of conscious effects that have been the collective's trademark ever since. The Residents in their most original, unadulterated form. The only reason this release does not rate 5 stars is that ESD, in their brilliance, decided to remove the 4 Santa Dog bonus tracks from the CD. Therefore, if at all possible, track down the original CD release (which includes the omitted tracks) on eBay or elsewhere.

Edgard Varese Meets "Uncle Meat":
Fans of the original Mothers of Invention surely remember Frank Zappa's habit of quoting, somewhere on their LP sleeves, the avant-garde founding father Edgard Varese's maxim, "The modern day composer refuses to die." Well, if you'll pardon the bad pun, meet the Residents - who launched their career as perhaps the best rock deconstructionists of the 1970s-80s with this bizarrely engaging series of montages that sound, after all is said and done, as if Varese himself had composed "Uncle Meat"...with a mind toward switching rhythm sections with Captain Beefheart's Magic Band. The peculiar thing of it is that even after all these years, the Residents may have deconstructed rock but every passage suggests they were doing it for rock's own good. And, they probably were, in the long run. Rolling Stone wrote perhaps the best valedictory (in "The Rolling Stone Album Guide") to the Residents' peculiar career: "The Residents are many things. Dull isn't one of them."

2 cents:
A friend recently said this: "In another dimension, the Residents ARE the Beatles." I don't think the Residents have ever been more aptly described.

• Boots
• Numb Erone
• Guylum Bardot
• Breath and Length
• Consuelo's Departure
• Smelly Tongues
• Rest Aria
• Skratz
• Spotted Pinto Bean
• Infant Tango
• Seasoned Greetings
• N-Er-Gee (Crisis Blues)