What does /mu/ think of the Residents?

>>69972002
objectively good band, what should we say

>>69972002

They were good in the 70s. After that they became a meme

>>69972002
>Make the least amount of music in the 70s
>Almost all of it turns out to be good/worth listening to
>Rate of releasing music vastly increases from then
>Only two real records worth listening to since

Huh, what a surprise.

Also nowhere near as experimental/"out there" as people make them out to be (most of their songs are still rock music but with timbres not common in rock) but their good stuff is still good music either way.

>>69973132

agreed.

Commercial Album wasn't bad though

anyone think Beefheart was involved with them at all?

>>69972002
their 70s material (especially Meet The Residents and Eskimo) was really great, they've made some OK music since then but nothing special

>>69972002
One of my favorite bands. I've been on a big Residents kick lately

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Fingerprince [Ralph, 1976]

With its mechanized vocal sounds and displaced melodies, this is the kind of vanguardy post-pop pastiche Frank Zappa might be putting together if he hadn't left his brain at the bank in 1971. Most of my informants prefer Meet the Residents or (especially) Third Reich n' Roll, with its disrespectful but familiar quotes from the likes of "It's My Party" and "96 Tears," but I find this current album more listenable--Another Green World with a chip on its shoulder, sort of. B

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen [Ralph, 1978]

Much to my annoyance, I not only find myself nyaahing along to these weird, misanthropic, exuberantly absurdist post-art-rock fragments, I find myself giggling. Just the thing to divert precocious but obnoxious ten-year-olds. A-

Subjects for Further Research [1980s]: Once I listened with respectful pleasure to the mechanical, displaced nature of these anonymous San Francisco cutups, but when Ralph took me off the mailing list around 1981, presumably for lack of enthusiasm, I didn't complain. Later Rykodisc sent me God in Three Persons, an obscure or banal fable about pain 'n' pleasure narrated by an avant-garde cousin of Stanard Ridgway, and Enigma sent me The King and I, in which the same fella casts aspersions upon Elvis Presley in between covering his songs. Some will tell you these are great works. Which is why I myself am no longer dying to hear their much-praised Gershwin-Brown tribute George & James.

Everything Rocks and Nothing Ever Dies [1990s]

>>69974125

wonder what he thought of Not Available or Third Reich

>this is the kind of vanguardy post-pop pastiche Frank Zappa might be putting together if he hadn't left his brain at the bank in 1971

what did he mean by this?

>>69974161
Something about how Zappa lost it in the early 70s. Which I mean, he did. Once the counterculture movement wound down, he just turned into a butthurt idiot who complained about everything he didn't like for the next 20 years until croaking from his shitty health habits.

>>69974216
Complaining? Have you ever heard of satire?

>>69974216
>later career Zappa
>be a guy in his 40s making albums with words like pee-pee and fart on them

One of the most important music acts in experimental music. 70s stuff is essential up to the Commercial Album. I love em.

>>69972002
Poseur band for boring, tasteless hacks trying to look interesting.

>>69974419
Also applies to:
>>69974466
Oh, and by the way, does this sound like a genuine country/cowboy song to you?
https://youtu.be/VNvMb6xbmBs

>>69974600

damn...

What are some post 70's albums from The Residents that are good? The only one I've listened to is God In Three Persons and it was pretty good

they're kinda cute, kinda sexy

>>69974600
It seems that /mu/ has taught you well. You even remembered to use the big words: poseur, tasteless hacks.

>>69975462
God in Three Persons, Demons Dance Alone, Animal Lover

>>69975594
It's true, stay mad you're the top 40 of the "art" world.

Degenerate pedophiles.

>>69975839

>pedophiles

Thats pretty harsh

>>69975839
>>69975920
You can only say that to the about old Residents, remember they change members.

>>69975953
>>69975920
>>69975839

what's this about? Was one of their members a pedo or something?

>>69976142
The first The Residents demo had an old lady sucking a boy's dick for the cover

>>69975839
could you please elaborate on this

>>69976198
>>69975920
Can you stop falling for an obvious bait and abandon this pointless thread?

>>69975795
What are your top 40 artists if The Residents are so terrible? By the way, saged.

>>69976223

>bait

yeah but

>That same year another tape was completed called Baby Sex. The original cover art for the tape box was a silk-screened copy of an old photo depicting a woman fellating a small child. (Considered artistically rude at that time, it would be viewed as child pornography today).

>>69976245
LMAO, do you even know what a sage is?

>>69973132

some of their best albums are from the 2000s-now...

>>69973397

what are some rock bands that are more experimental than The Residents?

>>69976276

>Considered artistically rude at that time

that's the key phrase, things were different back then, people weren't so terrified of that stuff, but either way it was probably just the band trying to be shocking or saying "fuck you" to pop or something.

>>69976388

>that's the key phrase, things were different back then, people weren't so terrified of that stuff

I get what you're saying, but its still pretty unnerving that someone went looking for an image like that to put as a cover, even if it was as a "fuck you" to someone.

>>69975462
Mark of The Mole, Coochie Brake, Mushroom, Chuck's Ghost Stories, The Rivers of Hades, The Ughs!, Tweedles!, the list goes on and on...

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>>69976142
They had an early demo with a woman giving a baby a blowjob on the cover, it got banned.

>>69975953
Half of them are still there, Flynn and Fox.

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>>69977373

This was discussed in another thread a few days ago too.

Don't know what to feel about it, I think its pretty sick and honestly changed my opinion on them.

>>69977654
Why would it change your opinion on them? The cover isn't exactly pornography, it's just weird. Nu-males get offended too easily.

>>69976388
>rock bands more experimental than The Residents
The Mothers Of Invention
Red Krayola
Pere Ubu once the dude from Red Krayola joined them
Univers Zero
Kayo Dot

people will still discover them decades from now and still be astonished at how far ahead of their time they were

>>69977817
Residents were a lot more out there then any of them. If you want experiment listen to Caroliner, Sun City Girls, Zip Code Racists, Sunburned Hand of the Man, No-Neck Blues Band.

>>69977914
Not really. It's the same thing I said in my first post in this topic. Residents may have weirder sounding timbres, but their song structures are pretty simple and straightforward.

The Mothers I shouldn't even have to explain as they are kinda the starting point for experimental rock since.

Red Krayola have far more erratic structures and progressions going on in their music than anything The Residents did. The free form shit on their first LP alone is proof enough of that.

I am gonna guess you have only listened to the well known Pere Ubu stuff which is NOWHERE near as weird and out there as the stuff I am talking about.

Univers Zero is also, again, a very unpredictable mess of songwriting.

Kayo Dot is God In Three Persons era Residents on crack.

The Residents don't come from any sort of formal musical background. That allowed for some interesting sounds, but pretty straightforward approach to music. Caroliner is very similar in that regard, too because while their music is dissonant as fuck (dissonance is the most shallow way to look at "out there" music because it's cultural not genetic) what they are playing is pretty straightforward.

>Throughout the group's existence, the individual members have ostensibly attempted to operate under anonymity, preferring instead to have attention focused on their art output.

Good band with a pretensions and """"deep"""" message

>>69978456
They aren't trying to peddle a "deep" message, their anonymimity is reasonable. I swear plebs get hung up too fast on the masks.

>>69978456
Do you realize that not every single person on this planet wants to be a celebrity? Do you also realize that not every single person is ready to live that kind of life? If you do, there's no question why The Residents chose to remain anonymous for the better part of their career. They also didn't want unreasonable expectations and didn't want to be judged by the way they look, which is perfectly reasonable.

Did anyone see the documentary movie?

>>69978456
For as intricate as their functionings are based they really are just as much of a not-serious band

>>69979681
I did. If you're a fan, you should definitely watch it. It's really the only documentary on them.

>>69977432
Didn't the booklet on Demons Dance Alone say that none of the original ones are there anymore and that some of them would sometimes comeback for sentimental reasons?

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>>69972002
I would call Not Available a true masterpiece of the 20th century

They're alright but the covers are better than the music

>>69976318
why are you such a dick

>>69979806

sounds like a good way to throw people off

but I do think they were a collective and come and go musicians as opposed to a steady roster

>>69979925

Really? I thought Not Available's cover looked just like the music sounded.

>>69978433

>their song structures are pretty simple and straightforward.

What?? Third Reich And Roll is literally composed of two 20+-minute sound collages. Eskimo is like a tribal/dark ambient album before that was even a thing. Not Available...just listen to it. How the fuck is that "simple and straight-forward"? How much Residents have you even listened to?

Honestly a really fucking good band

>>69977373
THEY DID NOT TAKE THE PHOTO
It was taken from a UK add from the 50's

Eskimo is one of the best things ever made as far as I'm concerned

i cant be alone in thinking that the last 5 minutes of "Hitler Was A Vegetarian" is one of the most immaculate musical moments i've heard in my life

What do you think of Animal collective's early stuff, like Here Comes the Indian?

>>69982115

that whole album is really good.