The Residents
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Topic: The Residents
Posted By: LilithFC
Subject: The Residents
Date Posted: March 07 2020 at 22:46
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Hey! Stupid hyena fool here. I am here to say this: Does anything enjoy The Residents? I just got into them, and I am listening to Duck Stab at the moment, I know that Primus and The Idiot Flesh had done covers of them, any albums besides DS that are good for a beginner?
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: March 07 2020 at 22:57
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Too many to count. They released over 70 albums! Just start at the beginning with Meet The Residents and then work your way through Third Reich n Roll up to Eskimo and Commercial Album. If you still can't get enough just keep going :) -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: LilithFC
Date Posted: March 07 2020 at 23:39
| Oh!! Thank you! |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: March 08 2020 at 09:40
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You're welcome. I still haven't heard all their albums but they aren't all good. TCat has written some great reviews for this band here on PA. ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: March 08 2020 at 09:43
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If you want to hear a great album that was released a little more recently, try Coochie Brake, another of their better albums, but released in 2011 ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: March 08 2020 at 10:18
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An album that I like is "Not Available". It's a different type of album to "Duck Stab" in that it is more like a prog album rather than the weird little tunes of "Duck Stab" (or "Commercial Album"). It's the album that first got me into The Residents.
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: March 08 2020 at 10:40
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You should also look into the music of Snakefinger (Philip Charles Lithman - 17 June 1949 (London, UK) - 1 July 1987) who played guitar with The Residents, and whose solo albums have The Residents instrumentation. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: March 10 2020 at 03:14
| Recently I bought some late albums : Animal lover, Freak show and Demons dance alone. Still strange but very melodic. Really like them. |
Posted By: Junges
Date Posted: March 11 2020 at 07:03
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Are there some Residents' albums past 80s worth listening to, except the one already mentioned? ------------- 
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: March 11 2020 at 08:13
I don't have it (too expensive nowadays), but their 2007 album (2 CD) : Night of the hunters sounds promising  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djrgRw_DXUY&list=PLDE809619D5FFFBFE&index=4 |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: March 11 2020 at 09:23
Most of the better ones were released post 2000: Wormwood, Demons Dance Alone, Animal Lovers, Tweedles, Coochie Brake (I mentioned that one earlier), are probably their best out of the most recent ones. Their most recent one "Intruders" was pretty good, but I have to hear it some more to decide if it is one of their best. This only includes their proper albums, not including the many promos, EPs and fan releases that they have released, some of which were good. ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow"> |
Junges wrote:Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 11 2020 at 09:50
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I like the "Mole Trilogy". but their most brilliant work is "Eskimo" -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 11 2020 at 10:25
Hmmm, I don't know where to start. Check out Video Voodoo. Probably still only available and out of print on VHS. Their older stuff seriously bores me. But the Molly Harvey area really caught my ear with HAVE A BAD DAY.I think my favorite album to date is Animal Lover. The song Inner Space always brings tears to my eyes. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 11 2020 at 10:51
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I think the first albums I heard of The Residents was The Third Reich 'n Roll, and my first exposure was mu. I soon got Eskimo, and that made me a fan. I really loved Eskimo when I was still not really into any other The Residents albums. The one I have returned to the most is Not Available. I also like Fingerprince, Duck Stab / Buster & Glen, Mark of the Mole and The Tunes of Two Cities a lot (rather surprised to see at PA that Mark of the Mole isn't higher rated). So mostly I have been into the 1977 through 1982 period. An early exposure of mine to The Residents was via music videos: As for some post 80s The Residents music, I haven't heard that much of the discography, but I liked Demons Dance Alone and Animal Lover considerably. |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: March 12 2020 at 08:47
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My two favorites are Eskimo and Commercial Album but there discography is rather large and there's a lot I haven't heard. ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: Tendiwa
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 10:03
| I haven't really listened to Residents for a couple years. Yesterday I've listened to Duck Stab / Buster & Glen again. Some really strong moments, but sometimes I get the feeling of them just trying to be as silly as possible. Maybe it needs some more getting used to. And I just finished listening to Not Available for the first time in 12 years according to Last.fm. I forgot how in its own deranged way this album is actually beautiful at moments. |