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And you thought "Duck Stab" was crazy! The Residents' first album is an insane blob of avant-garde at its most complicated. Frank Zappa would gape at this nonsense. The first track, 'Boots' is nothing but ukulele and grainy talking that is not even comprehensible. This melts into 'Numb Erone', a nice, repetitive piano-driven beat. Probably the nicest thing found on this entire album. 'Guylum Bardot' is like jazz on LSD. The sax (the main element here) sounds warped and 'Numb Erone' plays in the background. The classic The Residents vocals kick in and go away very quickly. 'Breath and Length' sounds like a dog being hit with a baseball occasionally muffled by girls chanting nonsense. Truly ear-piercing noise, but interesting. 'Consuelo's Departure' is like 'Numb Erone', with a repetitive beat that is slightly altered throughout. 'Smelly Tongues' is like a continuation of the previous track, but with vocals singing about smelly tongues. 'Rest Aria' is a surprisingly somber piano-based song, and one of the longest on the album. Amazing. 'Skratz' is a minute and a half of weird music (if one can call it that) and nonsense vocals. 'Spotted Pinto Bean' sounds like a 30's ditty gone wrong. The pianist lost his sheets, the chorus doesn't like to start itself; it's all pure madness. 'Infant Tango' is like a funk song, but Residentified. Hellish, I say. Hellish. 'Seasoned Greetings' is one of my favorite songs on this album. There is a lot of weird stuff going on here: drugged brass, delayed percussion. The vocals at the end are great. This would have been a nice conclusion to this album, but we got one more. 'N-ER-GEE(Crisis Blues)' is like a pre-punk world all its own. Heavy instrumentation, guitar all over the place, real weird. And you ask why The Residents are so influential? PBSCHT. I have but one more thing to say to you: Prog on.

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