Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The only reason this is here is because it’s from before streaming, when if you bought a shit album you had to convince yourself you liked it.

This is exactly the kind of electronic, avant-garde, wacked out shit I signed up for.

Their bio states they have no face, no names, no gender. I wish they had no album.

Sometimes I think I'm okay; I am a normal, well-adjusted human being. But then I remember how much I genuinely enjoy The Residents.

1 Oh my God it’s the eyeball dudes. I’ve heard of these guys, but I’ve never listened to anything they’ve put out, mostly due to the general discomfort they give me. And I gotta say, going in with just that knowledge, somehow all of my expectations were met. Yep, it’s just a bunch of weird noises and voices for 35 minutes. There’s a certain 60’s Saturday morning cartoon vibe buried in all of the chaos that I think I had mild appreciation for, but that’s probably the most positive thing I can say about this album - when I realized the first track Constantinople is the band’s most popular on Spotify, I knew I had a very, very long listen ahead. Ironically, compared to many of the other albums I’ve rated poorly thus far, there’s actually quite a bit that’s remarkable and stood out to me across my listening, but I feel like trying to express any of it into any kinds of words here would be a massive waste of time for everyone involved. I’m convinced that no one actually listens to this kind of stuff out of pure personal enjoyment, and it instead becomes known and popularized from the kinds of reactions you get from people when you put it on. If you’re into really bizarre or trippy stuff for whatever reason, I guess give this a listen. If you’re looking to enjoy some new music, I suggest listening to quite possibly anything else. This shit made me want to listen to The Beatles. In summary, art rock is dumb - there’s nothing profound about making your music unlistenable. At least this one wasn’t as aggressive as that Suicide album.

I don't want this in my life

It's brilliant. I can't imagine Ween, Primus or any number of wonky abstract acts existing without this existing first. And they beat Daft Punk to the masks. And they ruined Happy Birthday. It is a thing of great wonder and I love it.

This must be a joke. I’ve been reviewing these albums for over two years and this has to be the worst one yet.

NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE If you've arrived at this album with the intent to take the Residents seriously then you've already failed. Their Dadaist approach to music has allowed them to experiment and venture into areas that no other musical artists would dare approach. A complete disregard for melody and structure gives them free reign to explore dissonance, new forms of instrumentation, and (most importantly) humor. The Residents revel in being inaccessible and strange. That being said, it's not a very pleasant listening experience, is it? It certainly excels in being an abstract horror for the ears, but it's rarely something that I would listen to for my own enjoyment. Perhaps that is the end goal of the Residents, given their reputation. It's an album worth trying at least once. NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE

Dogshit

The Residents are bit like communism in that I like them better in theory than I do in practice. And maybe it’s the years I’ve spent listening to weird, out-there music, but this record isn’t nearly as unlistenable as some of you make it out to be. In fact, I’m willing to bet if someone put Tom Waits’ phony-ass gravel voice over top of this music, most of you a) wouldn’t realize it wasn’t actually a Tom Waits record and b) would be falling all over yourselves to praise it.

The correct way to do that avant-garde type shit.

Started off thinking it was shit, but it was a grower not a shower, and after a while I started to enjoy it somewhat. Not enough to rank it alongside my other 3 stars. But I will listen to more of them, and perhaps it will continue to grow. Definitely not one for the gym. Probably not the best whilst driving. Potentially alright in the bath, if you've munched down a handful of mushrooms beforehand.

10/10 The Residents are so fucking cool and crazy this is beyond just music, it’s transcendental art

Okay, this is epic. Time for a break from all the humdrum rock albums, here's something freaky deaky. Album so weird that I had to play it on my headphones so as not to scare everyone in the house, including the dogs. Love how creepy the vocals are sometimes, really processed to hell and back. The fact that this is from the '70s makes it that much more impressive. Could you imagine walking into your son's room in 1978 and hearing him listen to this? I'd probably call the police. Never heard of these guys before, but color me intrigued. "Constantinople" is absolutely insane, and I loved the really weird birthday song on here. I would rather hear a dozen more albums like this from the forgotten freaks living in tunnels beneath our world than hear another Elvis Costello snoozer. Spooky fun! Favorite tracks: Constantinople, Blue Rosebuds, Birthday Boy, Hello Skinny. Album art: Love love love the color scheme, I'll repeat it as many times as we get one: red/white/black makes for some of my favorite covers out there. A psycho magician guy making the titular stab of the titular duck. Great show. 4/5

This shit is wild. I'll stab a duck right now if Gene and Dean Ween didn't go ape over this at some point in their lives. I'm not sure how to rate this. I liked this a lot but it's not a "put it on anytime" album. You need to be in a really specific mood for this. Oh dear, that overall community score is just too low. I guess it has to be a 5 now. I'm doing my part.

they say that art disturbs the comfortable and comforts the disturbed. an album that would make zappa proud, no doubt. dissonant, alien, surreal, anxious... a majority of the songs seem less like songs and more like cries for help. a few decent tracks like the one i've picked make you feel like you're in a demented moshpit, but a giant majority are just... weird.

Well this was a wild ride, but not particularly fun. This arty type genre of music certainly pushes the boundaries of what we consider to be music with only a vague resemblance to traditional melody, rhythm and vocals. Similar to say Trout Mask Replica, it takes considerable effort to get through, but the extremely poor and muddled audio quality ultimately makes it a frustrating exercise.

Just when I thought this experiment has shown me the lowest lows, this crap comes around the corner and proves me wrong

Having to listen to this album borders on psychological torture. It’s only 35 minutes but is a continuous assault on the senses. 1/10

It’s like Primus’s even weirder uncle.

Curiously, this is the most listenable Residents album I've had the opportunity to explore so far. That duck voice in "Constantinople" and many other tracks from this 'double-EP' reminds me of the sorts of surreal antics David Lynch would perform as a musical artist many years later. The result is moody and disturbing, but also evocative, and often endearing (in keeping with Lynch's cinematography). Some of the textures and instrumentations are hypnotic. And many moments are frankly groundbreaking for the time period. It might be a stretch to consider any Residents album as "essential records", yet I respect the 1001 Albums book for trying hard to include the weirdest sort of experimental music that can exist, here rubbing shoulders with blatantly commercial pop artists whose success in the charts is light-years away from the underground fame painstakingly reached by the dadaist outfit (the problem, as always, is to decide which sort of experimental stuff you must select). Ironically, I will say the same thing about the Residents than the thing I've recently said about the Monkees or Britney Spears: a compilation or playlist of the best cuts in their discography is probably more satisfying and dynamic than discrete studio albums. That said, being the underdog that they are because of their niche "artistry", the Residents deserve as many benevolent takes and open-minded assessments as they can garner. Which why I will bump my own grading of this album a notch. This won't save this record for its infamously low global score on this app. But it will be my good deed of the day. 3.5/5 for the purposes of this list of "essential" albums, rounded up to 4. 8.5/10 for more general purposes (5+3.5). Number of albums left to review: 77 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 397 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 230 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 297 (including this one)

I'm not sure "enjoyed" is the right word, but I appreciated hearing this. It sounds like people allowing themselves to be the strangest version of themselves, and I find that inspiring. Interesting reading about their long and storied history, avanti garden approach and anonymity. I am amazed that they are still active as a band in 2023.

"Duck Stab/Buster & Glen" is the fifth studio album by American art rock group the Residents. Experimental rock. Yeah, I'd say. "Duck Stab!" was originally released as an EP. It sold out quickly and was re-released with the B-side "Buster & Glen," which was intended to follow up "Duck Stab!" A decent critic description of their music is "songs as nursery rhymes that blend the sinister with simple." A pennywhistle and a voice which sounds like the singer just engulfed helium opens "Constantinople." The pace picks up with horns. It's musically busy and sounds like a skit. "Sinister Exaggerator" darkens the tone with synth keys, a beat and foreboding, exaggerated strings. The narrator is telling someone that he is basically a piece of shit. The lyrics include Elmer Fudd, oyster beds and saliva. A distorted gazzo or maybe a violin begins "Bach Is Dead." The vocals repeat "Bach Is Dead." It's a song about musical elitists and that there is other good music out there. "Lizard Lady" has piercing keys, muffled vocals and a woman screaming. Oh, it's about a woman getting kidnapped by a lizard. "Weight-Lifting Lulu" is a chilling song musically and lyrically as the singer describes a man who loves Lulu's charm but not her weight-lifting body. The man gives a gun to the grandfather who shoots her. Didn't see that coming. The best way to describe this music is the sound of distorted notes of instruments which carry the melody mixed with a background of 50's/60's cartoon music and nonsensical lyrics which sometimes might have a deeper meaning. And, yes, somehow I liked this album because of all this. I think their favorite instrument might be the gazoo. Their influence is undeniable for bands such as Primus. The Residents have 60 albums overall. I wouldn't recommend trying to listen to them all but you might get a kick out of some of the songs on this album or you might feel like throwing your shoe through the window.

This was a trolling attempt right

dadaism in music form

Pure trash. I couldn’t rate this low enough.

Jesus, I can't believe I made through the entire album. This just may be worse than that dude who named all his albums after himself. I kept thinking this is what an album by the Munchkins from Wizard of Oz would sound like. I laughed a couple times, then realized I had another 30 minutes of this stuff. Then I cried a little and finished the album. For me, this may have taken over the #1 spot of the worse things I have ever heard musically. Will not revisit. Will never listen again. This is where I wish you can rate as a negative number. Will, loving your reviews! Keep it up. Ha.

What the fuck

When the album first started I had to check whether or not my speakers were broken. They weren't it was just the horrific music ( if I can call it that ). I couldn't even tell what instruments they were trying to play. I thought the worse music I ever heard was my sister playing the voiln. However, this is a billion times worse. If I could rate this with negative stars I would. Whoever put this on the list of 1001 best albums was either stoned, drunk or paid a handsome fee to sneak it in. I should have listened to my friend "No, please El G, I beg you, save yourself this torment" Sorry Chris

To review this album for its musical merit would make about as much intellectual sense as appraising the aftermath of a bloody and horrific car crash for its colour scheme or aesthetic. It would be an insult to all involved. Instead, I will evaluate this album for the only purpose it can possible be useful for; a method of torture during interrogation: “Highly effective! If I was subjected to it once more, I would gladly rat out everyone I’ve ever known and loved, just to switch it off - 5 stars”

Yeah…no thanks…

Cool. Cool cool cool. So glad I got to hear this before I died. Look, I've heard plenty of "weird" shit in my time, and I'm completely open to absorbing all forms of artistic expression. And yes, I hear the Primus and Ween and all of that in this album. But this is just boring. It's not particularly challenging or satirical the way a Zappa or Beefheart record would be, and there's nothing here that keeps me invested in terms of melody or production. It feels like Outsider music without sparking a sense of curiosity for how it was created. The band's decision to keep their identities anonymous is perhaps the most intriguing thing about all this, but even then, I really don't care who's behind the masks. Maybe people did back in 72.

Fucking awful.

This needs to be removed from this list

I love this mental stuff, I don't care. Go away and listen to your War On Drugs albums.

I have no idea how to rate this. I hated almost every second, but this is what I signed up for in the first place. You just have to admire this complete commitment to whatever artistic vision they decided on. If you think Tom Waits is only slightly odd, this might be for you.

A new experience for me. At first I was very put off by the vocalist's off key voice, but it suits the lyrics. I can't listen to this as background music ... yet. Over time I may be able too, but there is so much crazy in this, that my mind keeps getting drawn in to the sound and lyrics.

Fun to see something this demented appear on this list. #residentssweep

This sort of feels like the evil version of Sparks. I mean, you got high register, goofy songs that take some getting used to, especially when it comes to this album. However, the Residents are not here to make pop masterpieces, but rather avant garde art that can be hard to stomach for the average person. Me liking this album does not mean those who don't are dumb, because of course not, this is just straight weird. I'm just intrigued and pulled in by the shock of it all, so when you get something that actually rocks, it really does rock. If anything I'd say the amount of songs makes it repetitive to listen to, not so much strange, although that is certainly there. I don't know man, I just think this is a neat collection of the anti-mainstream and macabre, and it scratches some itches doing so.

Definitely unique. It's weird giving this 3 stars, as I usually give that to middle of the road, not particularly good, not particularly bad albums. This album isn't one of those, but flip-flops between "I wish I never had ears" and "This is musical genius"

This is absolutely not for everyday listening, but strange enough quite interesting. I couldn't turn it off.

It's like if the Max Headroom hijacking incident was an album

Har rullat på 10 låtar med dem på Spotify. Annorlunda, absolut. Inte hört detta album tidigare. Min fru bad mig stänga av. Eller rättare sagt, stängde jag inte av så sker ett mord.

The Residents sound like a band that you’d see playing in a bar in an early David Lynch movie. I couldn’t listen to this LP before I went to bed because I was sure it would give me nightmares. The fact that they can create such an eerie, uneasy vibe is worth an extra point or two. I added another point when I saw in Spotify that it was released in 1972, which would make it “proto” something or another. But that seems to be a typo. 1978 sounds about right.

And I thought Captain Beefheart was weird. Wow. And according to AllMusic, compared to their other albums, this is "probably the least experimental of the bunch". Still, I'm glad I listened to (some of) it. Many of the songs, like "Laughing Song", remind me of Les Claypool quite a bit. Interesting to see that Primus, Mr. Bungle, etc. didn't actually invent the circus-freak-music wheel. 2/5 for novelty, but probably will never listen to this group again.

3/10. It's hard to make a song about Constantinople that I won't like, but these guys did it. There were some kind of cool songs on there, and the sing-songy vocals did work with the weirdness of the sound, but at the end of the day it was just unpleasant to listen to much of the time.

elektr. punk, 1978 ->1

This makes me want to Ducking Stab myself in the ear holes.

The soundtrack to an art school version of the Smurfs, leaning heavily on Gargamel as the antihero. Mostly tedious crap, with occasional brief moments where it is mildly entertaining.

what in the fuck did i just listen to. absolute trash. Avant-garde art experiment masquerading as "music"

Godverdomme deze hakt er in. Alsof je op een verjaardag bent waar teveel kinderen zijn die allemaal van die Fisher Price rommel met batterijen erin hebben. Semi-willekeurige geluiden die vooral irritatie opwekken, maar dan ook nog dissonant als de ziekte. Wat kut. Ik kan vrijwel altijd wel iets positiefs vinden in een album maar in dit geval moet ik me gewonnen geven. Dieptepunt.

Welp, I found my tolerance line. This Ducking Terrible.

They no longer need to waterboard people for info - they just play this album out loud, it's more effective Whoever added this to the list needs to be checked over by a mental health professional because they're clearly not doing well 1 ⭐️

i don’t have anything against weirdos but why would i listen to this shit?

WOW WE FOUND THE WORST ALBUM this album is fucking weird. also two hours long. This stressed me out to listen to. If I could give less than one star, I would

Fucking awful

I did this project to get out of my comfort zone. Maybe my comfort zone wasn’t so bad.

Bro, c’mon. No. Skip

This is painful, do I actually have to finish? I did, but through gritted teeth bc that was hot trash. Also lol at them first sending me to the deluxe 2 hour edition foh. I’d rate this lower if I could.

A pointed avant garde effort from Shreveports finest pop combo.

Wow, I didn't want to like it at first, but I realize I love it. Definitely sending Birthday boy to a close friend next year. The Playlist TIDAL suggested after this is spot on.

very cool

**Lyrics**: The lyrics in "Duck Stab/Buster & Glen" are cryptic, surreal, and often absurd, reflecting The Residents' penchant for unconventional storytelling. Themes of paranoia, existential angst, and societal critique permeate the album. For example, in "Constantinople," the lyrics describe a bizarre journey through a surreal cityscape, while "Hello Skinny" offers a darkly humorous take on identity and self-perception. The enigmatic nature of the lyrics invites interpretation, allowing listeners to derive their own meanings from the surreal imagery presented. **Music**: Musically, "Duck Stab/Buster & Glen" is a tour de force of experimentation. The album incorporates elements of punk, electronic music, and avant-garde composition, creating a sonic landscape that is both jarring and captivating. The use of unconventional instruments, such as toy instruments and tape loops, adds to the album's distinct sound. Tracks like "The Electrocutioner" and "Sinister Exaggerator" showcase The Residents' ability to create unsettling yet compelling musical arrangements that defy traditional categorization. **Production**: The production on "Duck Stab/Buster & Glen" is innovative and ahead of its time. The album's sound is characterized by its use of lo-fi recording techniques, unconventional sound effects, and layered production. Each track is meticulously crafted, with attention to detail evident in the intricate arrangements and sonic textures. The experimental nature of the production adds to the album's overall sense of unease and unpredictability, creating an immersive listening experience that challenges the conventions of popular music. **Themes**: Thematically, "Duck Stab/Buster & Glen" explores themes of alienation, paranoia, and the absurdity of modern life. The album's lyrics often depict surreal scenarios and characters, reflecting the band's fascination with the bizarre and the grotesque. However, beneath the surface of the album's eccentricity lies a deeper commentary on the human condition and the absurdity of existence. Through its surreal imagery and existential themes, "Duck Stab/Buster & Glen" invites listeners to question the nature of reality and confront the inherent strangeness of the world around them. **Influence**: "Duck Stab/Buster & Glen" has had a significant influence on the development of experimental and avant-garde music. Its innovative blend of punk, electronic, and avant-garde elements has inspired countless artists across various genres. The album's use of unconventional instrumentation and production techniques paved the way for future experimentation in music production. Additionally, The Residents' fearless approach to lyrical and thematic exploration has served as a blueprint for artists seeking to push the boundaries of conventional songwriting. **Pros**: 1. Innovative and experimental musical arrangements. 2. Surreal and thought-provoking lyrics. 3. Meticulously crafted production. 4. Influential in the development of avant-garde music. 5. Immersive listening experience that challenges conventions. **Cons**: 1. May be too avant-garde for some listeners, resulting in a polarizing reception. 2. Lyrics and themes may be too abstract for casual listeners to fully appreciate. 3. Short runtime may leave some listeners wanting more. In conclusion, "Duck Stab/Buster & Glen" stands as a groundbreaking work of avant-garde music that defies categorization and challenges listeners to expand their musical horizons. With its innovative production, surreal lyrics, and thematic depth, the album remains a seminal work in the experimental music canon, continuing to inspire artists and listeners alike decades after its release.

This album is a dark churning avant-garde masterpiece. I find that some bands were clunky in their adoption of synthesized music but the Residents use emergent electronic music to great effect. It give the music a menacing simmering quality that makes the listener feel uneasy. Lyrically this album is similarly disorienting. There are moments that predict later experimental acts and call forth contemporary classical music such as Phillip Glass. I enjoyed every weird second of this album.

I'm not exactly sure how to classify this, but there was something very appealing to me throughout. Is it really something that I love? Something that I will ever think, "Oh, you know what would fit this mood..."? No, probably not. But is it an experience that made an impression on me and that I might someday think, "What was that weird one that we listened to...I think that I kind of miss it?", yeah, I think that it may be.

I'd known this that is perfect album, like the "It was perfect, just perfect. Everything down to the last minute details." meme. It's a classic 5/5

Sounds like an whackier old school Primus.. I dig. I also feel like it’s my job to offset some of the bad ratings. I am literally here for this insane shit I’ve never heard before!

A gem in the "psycho weirdo shit" genre. The Residents are one of the most interesting groups of all time and I love them. Some people might call it artsy bullshit for nerds, but I view them as just a bunch of dudes having fun with silly effects. It's so fun. You never know what in the everloving fuck you're in for when a new song starts. It always keeps you entertained and never bored. I don't know why, but I don't find this scary in the slightest. It's just silly. It's the 70s version of "reverb fart sound effect punjabi remix" memes you would find in the deepest trenches of Youtube. Always a good day when an album like this pops up. To quote my own Kollaps review, "This is what we all deserve to be listening to as we embrace eternal oblivion." Honestly? Fuck it. 5/5. I might have an infatuation with goofy music.

What gets me are the people who are angry or take it all too seriously. I used to have a friend who loved these guys in the 80's and to be honest I didn't understand and thought them silly. I was wrong.

This is the most stupid, dog shit album I've ever heard. I love it. I hate how much I love it.

Bless the Residents. And Snakefinger, who is annoying for years already everyone in hell/heaven with his guitar riffs from outer space. Residents provided me the Matrix pill, I took the right pill and allowed them to f*uck up my mind forgood, they introduced me to whole new range of music. Like Eskimo music. While babysitting the baby started crying as if he was dying at the spot. I rushed to him and found him sound asleep. Sure, had the album Eskimo on, and there an Inuit child was being born. Or their "Commercial album", 40 (CD 50) catchy songs of 1 minute long. Most 3 minutes songs are just the same, repeated three times. What's the use of the 2nd and 3rd minute? Get on with it. Or their take on the bible, Wormwood. Or their brilliant cover versions of US artists like Elvis, Hank Williams, John Philip Sousa, Jame Brown. True American heroes.

I knew the song Hello Skinny from a mix tape back in the 80s. So I was certainly expecting a weird album. Duck Stab doesn’t disappoint. It is delightfully weird. Never boring, the songs vary in what makes them weird and I was constantly excited to hear what was next. Constantinople must have been a response to or inspired by the song Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants. They make a great pairing. A reference to “Elmer Fudd” and “Auntie Maim” in Sinister Exaggerator? You could hear the homage to Green Onions in the short interlude The Booker Tease (see what they did there?!). This album wants me to have a daughter named Semolina (and maybe raise her on Cream of Wheat). How have I lived through 24 years and not played the wonderful Birthday Boy for someone on their birthday?! Weight lifting Lulu? A song called Krafty Cheese that warns plants to be careful? The brilliant dissonant Hello Dolly ending of Hello Skinny? It all ends with the painfully comprehensible yet utterly wackadoo The Electrocutioner. There is a great deal of musical mastery at play here in creating the off-kilter tunes. The Residents’ crazy songs work for me! Yes, most of those around me seem to hate it and I don’t expect it to be tolerated at my next social gathering, but I think it’s terrific! “A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men.” - W. Wonka

Fun in a schizophrenic, fever dreamy kind of way. Not sure it was intended to be an enjoyable listen, but I had a good time

Delightfully wacky and wonderfully weird. Loved every freaky minute.

This was the most surprising and delightful album thus far! Totally excited about this pic, as I had never heard of them or about them.

Nice album

This reminds me of the weirder parts from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory, and they focused on expanding the very weird parts. I would love to experience this live on some shrooms tbh

Pros: * Good for a halloween party * Useful to scary people you don't like on their birthday * or for sending people to hell Cons: * Creepy af * 2 hour dnf 5/5 for art, 1/5 for music

This is so fucking weird and I love it so much.

Hilarious and totally mental :D

Phenomenally weird. File this under uneasy listening for its groundbreaking strangeness. Not an album you would listen every day (or maybe you do, which is cool).

I listened to a residents album before. Ya know, the one with all the members of the beatles with strange looking eyes? Well it was that one. And I didn't remember the listen being a great experience. In fact I remembered it being quite an abrasive one. And I feel like for many members of this site, it will be the same case for this album. But man... what an absolute horror fest siesta this has been. I've been completely sucked into this horrifically grating, disjointed children's novel that the residents have chalked up for us. Albeit. The baby voice they frequent on many tracks is a little too much to bare. But these songs feel like something only a psychotic madman could conjure up. And it's not something that can be so easily recreated. This album is a horrifically terrifying, and occasionally hilarious stab at the music industry standard and I imagine I will be frequently revisiting it... on my own... with headphones... because I can't let people know I listen to this

Girlfriend absolutely hated listening to this but I enjoyed watching her suffer. It'd horrible to listen to but oddly catchy at times. 5 star experience. 1 star for relisten-ability.

How did they make these sounds in 1978? There are lots of pitch-shifting effects throughout. It sounds like there is a lot of tape manipulation going on. All of the instruments are distorted or processed in some twisted manner. Some bits sound totally out of tune. The barely-melodic half-sung, half-spoken vocals, and unusual song arrangements point way forward to band(s) like Primus, and perhaps very early Devo. It's a lot to take in. But the runtime is short. So it's not a chore to run through this a couple of times. That's a good thing, because this gets better with each listen. But be advised; this is a weird, weird record.

I think I like The Residents but I'm not sure I'm cool enough to like The Residents.

Super weird but still good?

endlich was experimentelles es ist sehr nervig aber ich mag es gerötete einstichstelle fun und psychedelisch

I remember being a teenager watching MTV in the middle of the night and seeing The Residents for the first time. They had played "The Act of Being Polite" and I genuinely felt deeply unsettled and mildly terrified. But I have always been morbidly curious about The Residents ever since. They're more Dadaist art project than rock band, touching the edge of commercial success while still making sure to make you firmly uncomfortable. Like all good art should, it definitely evokes a reaction. You'll either love it or hate it, or possibly both at once.

I sent a link for Lizard Lady to a friend with context. He said "I didn't like it. It hurt my ears." I thought it was a very interesting listen. Definitely weird. Has a folk meets noise kind of vibe. I'm torn between 3 and 4 stars using the scale below: 1 ⭐means I didn't finish and have no intention/desire to. 2 ⭐⭐means I didn't finish but wouldn't mind listening more, 3 ⭐⭐⭐means I finished it but probably won't seek out more, 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐means I finished and I liked it, 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐means it is likely to be added to my regular listening and I may seek it more similar material

In 1987, my college roommate and I used to listen to "Hello Skinny" over and over again and laugh and laugh. Somehow the sinister clarinets would get me every single time. There were a number of other songs we listened to by The Residents that we liked, but none from this album, other than maybe "Constantinople." I noticed that the first listen to this album as a whole was a bit challenging, but I was a bit more endeared upon a second survey of the songs. I mean, it is okay to laugh while listening, right? There's some fun crazy stuff here.

a fantastic album to lose one’s mind to. Demented . One sees how Primus (certainly), Ween, and the Butthole Surfers would not have existed without The Residents. Creepy storytelling, strange moods, twisted humor. The synths are lightly detuned, lending an eerie air to the proceedings. Vocals are sped up or slowed down to enhance the unreal affect. 3 minute songs make this thing go down easier than it otherwise might. Muffled drums in the background, mixed in such a way that one questions whether they are drums at all. I guess this could go for many instruments on this album. Guitars are barely guitars, basses barely basses. I’m sure this helped usher out the peace and love drug era and help enhance the vast, weird, disturbing promise that lurked in LSD all along.

This shit is fucking awesome. Don’t get me wrong, it’s objectively bad music. But it’s SO interesting. It reminded me of the music that would play during a creepy Disneyland ride, and the theme song of American Horror Story. I wanted to keep listening to hear how the album progressed. If I’m being honest, this is not a good album to work to. I was working on a stressful task during the last 3 songs, and I started to have an anxiety attack. All that said, super fun listen. Birthday Boy - Version 1 shall be my birthday anthem henceforth.

This isn't my favorite Residents album. The songs are so outside the realm of typical music. They aren't especially listenable, and yet, they have a way of worming themselves in for me. They're actually more concise, focused, structured and approachable than much of The Residents' earlier catalog, as if they wanted to create a sort of avant-garde pop album. It also seems like we wouldn't have gotten bands like Ween or Primus without early Residents albums like this one (or at least those bands may have developed differently). Difficult to rate this one, but I think it's worth consideration and even multiple listens, 4 stars.

I didn't know what to expect from this album, I'm vaguely aware of The Residents as the top hat eyeball band with secret identities that some people thought were actually The Beatles. I've been curious about them but I didn't know where to start. That's one of great things about this project, it just said here's your first Residents album, dig in. I'm hearing Primus, a little They Might Be Giants' darker side and Ween at their brownest, circa The Pod or Godweensatan. Pretty cool. I don't know if I'm down for a real deep dive but I'm into it.

Not my favourite residents record but I like their Avantgarde rock anyways. Strange but wonderful

Nice! Didn't know about them

Algjört ævintýri. Þú veist aldrei hvað gerist næst. Viðbrögð mín vou allt á bilinu hláturskast að geispa.

Needed some weird shit after a string of formulaic albums.

Wild wild ride. I can hear the influences of early They Might Be Giants, early Ween, and so many more of my favorite college radio faves. This album is weird and offputting and at times legitimately unsettling. VERY COOL