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C'est hyper bizarre mais j'aime bien
What the actual fuck is this?!? Awful, awful album
What a ride. This was both absolutely horrible and also strangely fun and enticing. I felt like I got sucked into the madness of an insane carnival. I’m truly baffled. This should absolutely be a 1 star out of merit, but i’m going to go with a 2/5.
Could you even call this an album? Could you even call these songs? You know the saying of how if you get enough monkeys in a room together with typewriters, eventually they’ll write Shakespeare? Well, it seems like this band was a few monkeys short of making a listenable or comprehendible album.
If I were responsible for this music, I would want to disguise my identity behind a mask too.
2.0/10 This was pretty horrible... who the heck would like listening to this??
I had only heard a cover of one of their songs done by Primus, Sinister Exaggerator. When the original is weirder than a cover by Primus that is really something else. Crazy and quirky. I can see it not being for everyone, but I could probably do a deep dive into their stuff to find some cool treasures.
Not as offensive as the whiners suggest, not as enriching as the applicants insist.
… this is tough. The sounds are sounding like sounds, but not good sounds. Edit: had to revise my previous 2/5 star rating, this is by far the worst thing I've heard during my 130 album journey so far, and I deign to give it my first 1 star rating. I try to find positives in the albums I listen to, but it's impossible with this one. My god.
No way! Absolutely no way. This is the kind of pretentious art that people tell you you’re supposed to appreciate, but deep down, everyone knows this is total s-h-i-t One of the worst—if not the worst—of the bad albums I’ve ever heard here. Sorry, Captain Beefheart, even you’re more original than this. I shouldn’t have given “Trout Mask Replica” a 1; now I can’t give this crap the 0 it deserves.
I appreciate the experimental nature of this and that it's art rather than entertainment. With that said though, it's utterly dreadful. Completely unlistenable and without any meaningful purpose or theme behind it.
I felt like I was trapped in a 60's cartoon, surrounded by animatronics with no way to get out. This album is just on repeat as I run for my life. While I can appreciate the foundation they set for future groups to explore and push boundaries, I cannot get myself to enjoy the music.
Here I Come, Constantinople 1001 Albums Generator 340 (9/1/2026) This album gave me a deep appreciation for both Frank Zappa and for people who hate Frank Zappa. 2/5. Favs: The Booker Tease Weight Lifting Lulu The Electrocutioner Least Fav: Birthday Boy
01) Constantinople - 6,5 02) Sinister Exaggerator - 6,0 03) The Booker Tease - 5,5 04) Blue Rosebuds - 6,5 05) Laughing Song - 5,5 06) Bach Is Dead - 6,0 07) Elvis and His Boss - 5,0 08) Lizard Lady - 5,5 09) Semolina - 5,5 10) Birthday Boy - 5,5 11) Weight-Lifting Lulu - 6,5 12) Krafty Cheese - 5,0 13) Hello Skinny - 5,5 14) The Electrocutioner - 5,0 TOTAL: 5,68 (57/100) Okay, this was totally weird. But not "badly" weird, at least not all the time. Just weird. Still, too weird for a higher rating than I gave it. I've heard worse albums...
Experimental rock in the truest sense of the word. Most of the songs were unlistenable dreck. It's really out there, disjointed, weird, and the songs lacked the structure needed to be an album worth listening to. Unenjoyable and strange in an unpleasant way, The Residents will descend to the bottom and will be my twenty-fourth 1/5
Ahhm. Great to be avant garde, experimental, super creative., non conformist... however I'm getting too long in the tooth to fully appreciate such sentiments and therefore couldn't wait for the end of the album.
Important, if not good. I like the idea of the Residents more than their music.
Well, it seems like the rear end of this collection is just one piece of flotsam after another, although I'm sure it's just random bad luck to get Dagmar Krause's "Tank Battles" and then this offbeat offering from The Residents. Thankfully, *this* brand of weirdness is a lot more interesting to me, and far more engaging, than Krause's contextless extracts. This album feels like an ancestor to both Primus especially and also They Might Be Giants, but without any real effort to be marketable or particularly musical. My favorites were mostly from the "Duck Stab" side: the opener "Constantinople" (which undoubtedly inspired TMBG's song of the same name), the brooding and atonal "Sinister Exaggerator", and "Blue rosebuds", but also a few from the "Buster & Glen" side (mainly "Lizard lady", "Birthday boy" and "Hello skinny"). But really the album as a whole is surprisingly solid, despite being two EPs shoehorned against each other and having a lot of aspects of a novelty album; a shame that they didn't also include their fan favorite cover of "Satisfaction" in the album.
Sure, Jan.
tbh way to wierd to actually listen and do smth
Pure Dadaism
What the actual fuck
I mean it wasn't that bad, it was short and I dug some of those things that they did. 3/10
Awful.
Önskar denna skiva vore 35 minuter kortare
Hmm. Underligt.
(Y)
Ett amerikanskt philemon arthur & the dung, fast sämre och mindre charmigt.
what the heck
öööh normalt
En trea för potential. Första lyssningen var det det galnaste jag hört. Tredje lyssningen var det rätt nice –jag hade blivit galen själv.
I’ve never heard music like this before, and I never will again. Experimental crap.
Loved it. Need to find more like this.
This is just pure garbage. 1 star or F-.
"Oh god, it's the Eyeball guys" one random person's review perfectly sums up my feelings when I found out these are indeed the eyeball guys. Explains where Ween or Primus got inspired, and still better and more interesting than anything Taylor Swift has done. 2 Stars.
Best Track - "Constantinople"
This is ace. There's so much going on so many different sounds there's so much to explore and something for everyone. No?
I could barely stand this for two minutes, let alone two hours.
Shout out to them for following what was in their heart.
I really tried, especially given Renee's generous review. But no.
Hard NO. Made me feel like stabbing someone.
I admire their commitment to the bit (60 albums!) and I even tried to listen to another one (George & James, as I'm a fan of both). I have to at least try to raise their average rating.
Holy f**** That was scary
Nope, Cult classic? - drink the cool aid mate and put us out of our misery
They made an annoying and off-putting album, and this is something to be celebrated? I don't get it
Eh. It’s like the Mothers of Invention at their silliest, and without the melodic parts.
the nicest thing i can say is i don’t like this in any capacity. 14 songs in 35 minutes should’ve been a sign but i was optimistic bc i saw the Alternative tag and expected good music.
I tried to have an open mind, but this was horrible to listen to.
0/5 Absolutely awful. Unfortunately the app makes you give at least a 1. Anyone giving this 5 stars thinks they have to to seem smart. You're lying to yourselves. You don't put this on to listen to on a Sunday afternoon.
Weird is fun, but it has to sound ok? Or at least not actively bad to listen to. Sounding good is selling out I guess
I could see this having some influence on like, Primus. But anything that I could plausibly conceive of having drawn from this is unequivocally better. I'd rather just listen to a Primus album or something.
I am a Residents sicko and y'all need to get on my level
I've been vaguely aware of The Residents for many years now but always been put off of checking out their music due to their reputation of being extremely avant-garde and abrasive. Well, after listening to this album I can say that they are definitely both of those things, but they also know how to write catchy music, albeit under many layers of weirdness that most will find off-putting. It's like a collection of sinister nursery rhymes put to music that kind of makes you want to bop your head but mostly makes you want to jump out of your skin. Something about this kind of reminds me of David Lynch's work with how it finds a way to resonate on a visceral level whilst remaining largely inscrutable when you try to take it all in. Maybe that's just a case of the subject matter going over my head though. My understanding is that there is a significant element of parody to The Residents' work, and I only really picked up on a few of the references here myself. I get the impression that these guys were significantly more cultured than I am, and that's probably reflected in the nature of the musical allusions they draw, but even so, I see that as just meaning that there's more to the record waiting for me to discover. Favourite tracks: Constantinople, Bach Is Dead, Hello Skinny
6/10. Es muy difícil ratear este disco, y para ser sincero aún habiéndolo escuchado más de 5 veces no puedo encontrar una clara decisión. El disco es HORRIBLE, pero en el buen sentido, si es que existe uno. Los sonidos del mismo, desde los sintetizadores disonantes, el bajo profundo y las voces tétricas hacen que sea una experiencia muy peculiar el escucharlo. Son sonidos que intentan sonar lo más raro y aterrador posible y lo consiguen de una manera excelente. Y aunque sea horrible de escuchar, que cada sonido genere repeluz, aún así, lo terminé re-escuchando varias veces y disfrutándolo, extrañamente. Es el disco más extraño hasta ahora, pero un gran descubrimiento.
truly horrendous
ominous and peculiar, ranging from hypnotic to aggravating. some nice weird sounds, and good stylistic mixing and mastering, but it doesn't feel like it goes anywhere beyond setting a specific mood.
Bizarre but in a fun way. It’s not good, but it’s not trying to be. I want to stress that this one star rating is not an indicator of my displeasure for this album. I thoroughly enjoyed my listen. I just can’t in good conscience rate it any higher. Still an album I absolutely needed to hear before I die.
perplexing.
I like this album so I love the birthday boy and I am a residents fan and happy to have seen them in live in concert twice. It’s not for everyone but it works for me. We regularly listen to them and a few songs from this album are in rotation. They have an alarming amount of songs so you might find something you like on a different album like the commercial album or meet the residents. Or not but that’s okay too.
THIS ALBUM IS COMMUNISM....COMMUNISM IS BAD!
I guess a funny concept, but the songs are overly simplistic and are more a gimmick than artistic. The lack of depth will not make me return to it. If music is long form reading, this is poetry. But poetry that does not touch you.
This is awful.
This sounds bit like Primus without the funk or the humor side of Zappa without the virtuosic musicianship. I do respect people trying to break out of the conventional rock music format, but i'm not quite sure about this one. One star from the musical output and another for trying to do something different.
There are bad albums and stupid bad albums that smell like fart. This album is from bottom stack of smelly ones.
#455 / 1089 Heard before? ❌ Revisit? ❌ I'm mixing up several bands, because when I spun this album up I was certain it's going to be punk rock of some sort, probably in Therapy?-ish style, while being confused that it's release date in 1978. Now I'm realising I've probably had many a weird coversation around this, some other group and several music styles being mixed up many times over. This is not for me however. It's weird, eerie, but I don't find it interesting as music. Soundscape for something maybe, but I've no interest in finding out what for. One extra point for the weirdness 2/5
I’m so glad I happened to have a day off when I got this album. Otherwise I would have been driving alone to work at 5am to this as a soundtrack. And I’m not sure I have the mental wherewithal for that. Did I like listening to this? No. Do I think it sounds terrible? Absolutely. Am I somewhat happy that there are people out there just making things like this for the fun of it? Yes. I might not be listening, but keep making whatever bullshit you want. I dream of feeling so free with my own artistic expression.
finally some good music on 1000albumsgenerator.com
Didnt enjoy this album… Too much for me.
Such haunting, cursed sounds. Sometimes I found myself genuinely enjoying it.
Constantinople... Here I come
too creepy
Weird and pish
More like Ear Stabber ... I couldn't finish this one
Es ist ein einziges Durcheinander aus nervigem Gefiepe, schiefen Mini‑Sketchen und absichtlich kaputten Melodien. Der „Krach“ wirkt nicht avantgardistisch, sondern einfach wie Zeitverschwendung – ein Album, das eher Kopfschmerzen produziert als irgendeine Form von Erkenntnis.
WTF
This is the sort of generator album where you hear it and rush to the reviews to read the butthurt comments from all the classic rock dudes. 4 stars for being interesting. The second side of this album, Buster & Glen, is the stronger side.
When I heard the first song I thought oh that’s not too bad, it’s not great but there’s a little nugget of something in there, so I charged on. Big mistake. When you hear something like this you think why would a record company put this to vinyl. So I guess these guys had access to a bunch of equipment and electronics took some acid and spent a weekend recording stupid ass shit. My god the duck song sounded like it was written by a group of fourth graders spending the night at a sleepover.
This is a very weird album. Its quite fun. Its like the insane part of my brain started making up songs and singing them aloud.
I’m really not getting that 34 minutes back in my life. Constantinople really made me think maybe King Gizzard were inspired by this but there’s nothing public on that, so they don’t even get that saving grace. I hope I don’t meet the person who gives this a five.
Horrible.
Would rate this lower than 1 if I could.
I don’t know what it is was. At times it was barely music, but it was intentional and I didn’t completely hate it. Could never say it was boring.
Well I did not care for that lol
It's like this album's sole purpose in life was to ruin my morning.
muito doido
Nope... Too avant garde for me
My ears hurt. 1/5
Weird as shit. I hated it but I also appreciated it on some level. Mostly I hated it.
AI could never replicate this
A joyously chaotic, resolutely bizarre half hour of an anarchist, dadaist middle finger to normal. They take everything you think you know about pop music and warp it, turn it inside out, cut it up and reassemble it into strange music that could almost pass for songs. The number of bands that wouldn't exist without the Residents opening the door - Ween, They Might Be Giants, Primus, for starters; TISM here in Australia - is a measure of their importance. When the theme song from South Park, a sort of Duck Stab and soda, plays regularly on TV, and no-one turns a hair, then this really isn't that hard. It's hilarious, it's ear opening, it's glorious. That this sits as the fourth lowest ranking album on this website is a sad indication of how run of the mill audience tastes are. This is, it seems "caviar to the general".
Humorous but hard to listen to.
Just checked and this album rated 4th from bottom on the list. Throbbing Gristle rock bottom but from what I can recollect the Gristlelites did at least make an attempt to make music. Unlike this lot. This is anti music and requires no further attention so I’ll move on and forget about today. 1/5 22/7/26
Strange, unsettling and quite excruciating to listen to
what an experience. i don't want to give this a numeric rating, i want to give it an emoji rating that translates to "shaking head fondly in disbelief." i can't do better than a 3 but it's like a really high 3.
It's like the Marx brothers made a Throbbing Gristle album
I have no words just utter disbelief, disgust and disappointment.
I’ve heard worse. 2/5
ngl lie i enjoy weird shit like this
Sounds like kids messing around on a computer.
I was so looking forward to the day the generator would throw this one at me and it's finally here I've been genuinely smiling throughout, this is so funny, tongue in cheek, clever and comes from a deep love of music - Booker Tease is just an example of how brilliant this is SEMOLINA! SEMOLINA!
If this didn't have the unhinged comedy voices (which maybe don't always work, but I can't hate), you'd all be talking about it as a pioneering masterpiece in New Wave and Electronica. Stop being cowards and enjoy your Semolina.
Kom igennem i håb om, at 70'erne ville slå til på en god måde. Det skete ikke. Dårlig på den uvenlige måde for øregangene.
Asking whether this collection "works" within the conventional strictures of pop music is barking up the wrong forest - it isn't trying to, and yet it also isn't necessarily trying to be the *opposite* of pop music. What makes it distinctive among Outsider Art Albums is the weird sense of solemnity about it; I don't hear the typical Zappaesque self-congratulation at having made something that will scare the straights. These nursery rhymes are demented and distorted but they don't feel like they're mocking their subjects - or the audience. (No wonder Les Claypool's name has been floated as a possible member of this officially anonymous collective - he runs some of these same plays, just with a stronger tether to metal convention most of the time.) From reading reviews I think this band gets mislabeled as just absurdism or Dada; they don't feel to me like they're trying to say that nothing matters per se. Rather, it feels like they're portraying the similar but distinct experience of *wanting* to communicate meaning but lacking the tools to do so. Call it Autism Pop. I respect the vision even while being appropriate repulsed by the dissonance. I might even listen to it again at some point, who knows (but not today).
this is fucking garbage. i had to convince myself it to see it through halfway through the 4th song. the most musically uninclined person can make a better album on their deathbed
Wonderfully weird and kind of unpalatable. Horror music. I like the southern accent vocals and some of the reverb surf kind of guitar. Reminds me of Primus.
This isn’t music, it’s 4 people trying to have fun. How is this a top album
p405. 1978. 2 stars. "Experimental" art noise. Unusual. And it's only 34 minutes long. Glad I heard it once, but would not listen again.
Ruim
Very zany.
Not necessarily 'good' but there's nothing like these fellas. So suck it up, at least one of their albums belongs here forever and always.
I rarely give 1-star reviews. Congratulations, you guys got one. I don't know why this is here, but it's manic and horrible to listen to. It feels like it was just thrown together during a manic anxiety episode.
Couldn’t even finish it. Sounded like nails on a chalkboard.
Vraiment besoin d’écouter cela? 😂🤣
So close to being anti-music, respect for how much it's trying not to sound good
Pretty certain this album has to be a prank, I’m not laughing 1
Nope. Really weird "music".
Yeah no I hate this and I hate everyone involved in this. Who is this for, I genuinely don't get it. Got like three songs in, which is two more than I thought I'd get after the opening song, Constantinople. Something that was just absurdly annoying.
This is an album that's been on my list for a long time, and I'm kind of kicking myself for putting it off for so long. This is one of those albums that most people probably won't like, but for anyone who enjoys experimental and avant-garde music, this is a must-hear. Depending on what you think of artists like Frank Zappa, They Might Be Giants, John Zorn, Primus, Mr. Bungle, Stump, and Cardiacs, that will probably determine whether you like these guys or not. This is definitely avant-pop, with tracks that are catchy and suck you in regardless of how unhinged the music is. You also have to be in the right mood for this album in order to truly appreciate it.
what the hell
I dont know if its good but its fun.
Wow ... this is not good. If I want abstract music that makes use of odd sounds I'll listen to something good, like Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi work. This just sounds like the worst music that pretentious guy in college would make at a house show. Highlight: Santa Dog '78 because it was the last song.
черезчур авангардно для меня
too weird experimental
I don't know what I just listened to but apparently this has a cult following. A band with 60 albums and just quirky weirdness. Doubt I'd listen again but it was just a mesh of different sounds, weird lyrics and possible plagerism of older songs.
I’d rather be stabbed by a duck than have to listen to this album again. Going in, the only thing I knew about this album was that it was one of the lowest rated albums on this website, which did not give me high hopes for listening to it. Once I listened to it, I realized, yeah, this is pretty bad. The instrumentation albums sound like a combination of melting casio keyboards and nails on a chalkboard, the singing that’s laced with all these weird effects makes it sound like extraterrestrial intercourse being blared through my headphones, and the content of the album is all these short joke songs that don’t lend themselves to repeated listens. The only reasons I’m giving it a two is because I’m going back and putting some worse albums I’ve got down a level, plus it’s also only thirty something minutes and I can at least see why some people may find it entertaining, but for me, this is definitely one that I’m gonna steer clear of.
Uncomfortable, sinister, but sometimes sounded like they were trying to be fun, which also kinda increased the craziness. The Electrocutioner was definitely the best song, though even that one derailed in the middle.
Oh no this was not anything I want to have heard
The musical equivalent of those cartoons from the 30’s and 40’s that were really scary for some reason. Like Mickey Mouse getting dragged to hell by demons or something. Really glad I listened to this as it is so interesting, but not something I would listen to beyond a “huh that’s neat”. Favorites were Constantinople, Weight-Lifting Lulu, and The Electrocutioner.
Una terrible experiencia. Entiendo la idea detrás y líricamente hablando tiene algunas canciones bien construidas, así como una atmósfera tétrica en algunos caso. Pero ha sido un puto horror de escuchar
Is this a joke
The album consists of 14 short tracks that strip pop music down to its skeleton and rebuild it using cheap synthesizers, cartoonish pitch-shifted vocals, distorted guitars, and unsettling sound effects. The tracks are catchy, but in a deeply haunting way—almost like corrupted nursery rhymes. The production relies heavily on the Digi-Design modifications they made to their studio gear, giving the entire record a claustrophobic, lo-fi electronic texture that was way ahead of its time for 1978.
Terrible, I loved it. 4/5
Just a series of squeeky voices daft noises and nonscense it garbage I dont get it at all
This is what is playing inside Donald Trumps head
OH FUCK OFF Best Song: N/A Rating:1/10 Stars: 1 (should be 0)
Well that was.....interesting. I see where Primus gets it from. Glad I listened to it, but would not revisit.
2/10 Properly awful. I can hear Primus in it, but they had a lot of skill - the Residents do not.
2.75. better than most electronica on this list.
Not sure I’ve ever hated anything faster than in the first 5 seconds of the first song on this album. Worse than Captain Beefheart.
I like weird. I don't like when it is weird just to be weird. These guys didn't earn the weird for me. It just sounded bad and boring. I do like that the members identities are unknown.
.25 - I hate this so much that it makes me question my sanity in continuing with this project.
The second star is just mercy for the grace of being somewhat different and interesting enough through that.
What retard thought you must listen to this before you die
I'm thankful for this because it really does shake up the whole experience by throwing out something entirely different to help break it up a bit. Some parts are like twisted nursery rhymes or something, Hello Skinny is like sinister cyberpunk noir music. It's also pretty Primus-coded. Sinister Exaggerator has a bit of a Pork Soda vibe to it and the vocals on Laughing Song and Bach is Dead sound like Les Claypool (or rather Les Claypool sounds like this) There are a couple of moments that are really annoying though. Constantinople was grating and the voice toward the end of Lizard Lady similarly went right through me Whilst it is certainly weird, I did get quite quickly accustomed to it. But given it's one of the lowest rated albums here, maybe that says more about me. 3.5 as I'm torn between a 3 or 4 Highlights: Sinister Exaggerator, Weight-Lifting Lulu, Hello Skinny
I tried to convince myself when I was young that I liked the residents. And although I loved their art (eyeball heads) I truly only liked a couple of their songs.
Gotta respect the commitment- I'd never heard of these cats, and I don't know that I'm gonna keep seeking out their music but I'm glad they and snakefinger are out there keeping it weird for all us sinners.
No. Just no.
I tried...but I couldn't get through it. May try to revisit, but maybe next time with copious amounts of weed or something. Little too out there for me.
Some people are allergic to anything cool I swear.
Deeply upsetting.
I've been getting more and more into the experimental stuff as I listen to more of these albums, but this just didn't hit right. I had a few moments I really liked, and a few that I really wanted to stop listening.
I'd much rather listen to a bunch of demented, one-eyed space goblins than yet another Steely Dan album. This is funny, has personality, was unique at the time. Deserves its place on this list 110%!
I love weirdness. If Donnie Darco was an album. This was a weird ass opening. Saved. Quite eerie. I’m obsessed two tracks in. I saved the album already. —— poem —— Come him, scaled down to the skeletal skinned out the only eye that sees clutter in the periphery dances, fades along the lines of the nerves and the real and little does he heed the child’s caricatures puzzled through the hood they chorus mysteries the acid of the tummy extends its arms for the door that lets them back in
Maybe it’s the lack of sleep I’ve had lately, but I had no patience with this. I know it’s a closed off take, but I just kept wondering why this even exists. I’m usually fairly forgiving of the more challenging records on this list, but I found this just plain annoying.
Interesting, enticing, silly, unsettling and timelessly weird. The kind of album that, if you find music interesting, you actually SHOULD hear before you die. Sure as hrell beats another milquetoast by-the-numbers slab of Britpop slop.
Not as bad as I feared
Glad I listened. This thing is crazy. Just not sure I'll come back to it
I was quite confused as to what might have prompted someone to include this as it doesn’t seem influential nor particularly great at first glance. But after reading about the Residents, I think I understand the inclusion because this band has an incredibly storied and mystical history over its 50 something years. They’ve done anything and everything and pushed the boundaries of medium. Their commitment to anonymity, experimentation, and creativity is pretty astounding. It’s the kind of thing I’m very glad exists, but also is not for me. Definitely some neat moments, but ultimately too avant-garde to make this worth listening again.
This avant garde album from 1960s era Bay Area band is interesting but nothing I’d ever choose to listen to.
My Gawd this is a hard one to rate. I have never heard of The Residents. I did not know what to expect. I wouldn’t call it music. I wouldn’t buy it. I wouldn't recommend this to others. But this album made me create images in my head to fit the sounds I was hearing. This album evoked emotions with its rhythmic patterns and voices. Oddly, I found myself liking it. And that’s how I can confirm that I am weird. 3/5
I really enjoyed this, it was so different and experimental and strange, but somehow still very interesting and engaging. Seemed both foundational and yet adjacent to the industrial music scene.
More record store employee music. There's a lot of interesting sounds happening here, especially for 1978 (is that a Roland GR-500 guitar synth on Elvis and His Boss?). But I prefer my weird music to still be enjoyable. Definitely won't listen again but similar to PiL, I'm glad I listened to it. I'd rather stuff like this be on the list than over produced, commercial pop music and hey, it's only 35mins! Added Kraft Cheese to my 1001 playlist for the crazy synth sounds.
I should like this, but I just didn't.
Unironic and unpretentious five stars in my book. Initially I was skeptical of the album and groaned when it appeared in the list - I like some more experimental stuff but it's more in an appreciative sense over an actual sense of enjoyment. So imagine my surprise when this thing goes in such fascinating, fun directions. The kind of music Frank Zappa would conjure up if you locked him in a room with a MPC and an old Moog, or if Les Claypool dropped the bass and went all-in on the synth equivalent of a Photoplayer. Lyrically surreal, strange, it's a whole weird surrealist hellscape of sound that seems to keep poking fun at its incompetent incohesiveness while also demonstrating, in these little pockets of magic, that it's all an act. It's a nightmare comedy, Sock in staccato, a dancing jester on spinning vinyl, avant-garde showing off. It's brilliant. Not exactly a pleasant listen (to put it mildly), but in the same way as a smoky shot of Macallen. You can't chug it straight from the bottle - you have to taste it, poke your tongue at it, appreciate it for what it is, abrasive and special. You can tell this is the kind of music that you either really grok with, or it'll sound like nails against a chalkboard. Considering some of the otherwise well-respected albums that have completely flown past me in the list it's nice being on the former side for once. Fav tracks: Constantinople, Blue Rosebuds, Elvis And His Boss, Hello Skinny, The Electrocutioner
Previously unknown. No. It's art not music and this is a music list.
Do I think the Residents are interesting and cool? Yes. Do I want to listen to this again? No.
Was für ein Sch...
nope
Perhaps this was ahead of its time back in 1978. According to Wikipedia the band members wish to remain anonymous, and appear in disguise when they are in concert. The best thing about this album are the names of the tracks. The lyrics are juvenile and the music isn’t much better. It’s as if some high school kids bought a synthesizer and made a record.
I don't support duck violence. Also, what the dickens is this? Wiki says they're "approaching commercial elements", but it must be in the same way (.001, .002, .003....) is approaching infinity. Interesting titles and lyrics, but the sound is like... if you put a bunch of traffic jammed robot cars into a metal pipe and bent it in half. 'Weight-Lifting Lulu' kinda sounds like 'Rock Lobster'. Or maybe by this point in the album I've gotten complacent. Highlight: Big Brother's Zingbot has a verse in 'Blue Rosebuds'. So I'll give it a 2 just for that.
Loved this…..if I was gonna make music it would be like this!
Never heard this band or album, but this is great stuff.
No lo había escuchado pero no me perdía nada.
Sturlað
Skrýtið, mjög arty og mikil tilraunamennska. Mjög crazy en ég var að fíla þetta.
Sounds like a bad comedy album. Terrible. Doesn’t belong anywhere near this list.
That's definitely an album everyone should hear once
I'm scared...
Never heard of The Residents. Thought it might be punk. Have enjoyed a lot of punks bands I hadn't heard of before. Looked at Wikipedia and immediately saw the term "art rock" and feared the worst. Turns out I was wrong... of what I thought the worst could be because it was even worse than that.
Dafuq?
Pish
Genuinely what the hell is this
Like being accosted by tiny sex goblins.
Das fünfte Studioalbum der amerikanischen Kunstkollektiv-Formation The Residents vereint zwei ursprünglich separat geplante EPs zu einem kohärenten, bewusst rätselhaften Gesamtwerk. Aufgenommen im hauseigenen Studio an der 444 Grove Street in San Francisco zwischen Herbst 1977 und Sommer 1978, erschien das Album im November 1978 auf dem bandeigenen Label Ralph Records – einem der frühesten und konsequentesten Independent-Labels des US-amerikanischen Avantgarde-Raums. Als Gastmusiker steuerte Philip „Snakefinger" Lithman markante Gitarrenparts bei, die die zwischen Kinderlied-Makabre und elektronischer Deformation pendelnschwingenden Kompositionen entscheidend mitprägten. Duck Stab/Buster And Glen gilt bis heute als der zugänglichste Einstiegspunkt ins Werk der Residents – was angesichts des Gesamtschaffens weniger als Schmeichelei denn als relativer Befund zu verstehen ist. „Constantinople" und „Hello Skinny" etablierten sich als kultisch verehrte Signaturtracks; „Sinister Exaggerator", „Blue Rosebuds" und „Birthday Boy" zeigen ein Kollektiv, das Pop-Formeln nicht imitiert, sondern morphologisch zerlegt und in etwas Fremdes, leicht Beunruhigendes überführt. Die Songs dauern kaum je länger als zwei Minuten – eine Verdichtung, die weniger an Sparsamkeit erinnert als an die Logik von Albträumen, die keine Zeit verschwenden. Das Album verkaufte sich im Vergleich zu früheren Releases unerwartet stark und weckte in Europa – befeuert durch Jon Savages retrospektive Würdigungen – breites kritisches Interesse; Robert Christgau vergab A−. Die Band Primus coverte 1990 gleich zwei Stücke des Albums – „Constantinople" und „Hello Skinny" –, womit Duck Stab/Buster And Glen eine Reichweite gewann, die über den Avantgarde-Kontext weit hinausreichte. Das Paradoxe daran: Ein Werk, das mit popkulturellen Konventionen so ostentativ bricht, erweist sich als dauerhaft einflussreich auf eben jene Popkultur, die es zu unterlaufen scheint. Duck Stab/Buster And Glen ist das seltene Dokument einer Gruppe, die Zugänglichkeit nicht als Konzession an ein Publikum versteht, sondern als ein weiteres Werkzeug zur Desorientierung.
More performance art/weird-for-the-sake-of-being-weird. Not intended for me, obviously, which is fine.
Disgusting music
632/1001 2026.06.09 🌕🌑🌑🌑🌑
Cet album ne mérite rien de moins qu'un 5 car il génère des caca nerveux ches les moldus, ce qui est souvent bon pour la santé.
Dans Yesterday de Danny Boyle, un dude se réveille étant le seul à se rappeler l'existence des Beatles et se monte une carrière en recréant leur catalogue. Duck Stab c'est un peu comme si l'humanité entière avait oublié l'existence de la musique et ces gars là arrivent en disant : "D'la musique? Ben oui, ça fait ça comme ça... ou à peu près ça, pis ça... voyons, vous vous rappelez pas?" Duck Stab, c'est déballer un cadeau avec des mitaines dans un party. Une petite pensée pour les gens qui participent à ce projet de découverte musicale et ont été profondément blessés par cet album. Vous allez vous en remettre. 1.5 étoiles pour Yesterday.
perfect for future halloween parties
Idk man, I'm just not sure about this one
1/5 if i dont get just get it then fine but i did not enjoy this at all
I'm with the masses. This was awful.
Oh, Duck Stab... it's definitely a jarring experience every time a new song starts. So much happens all at once with no preparation. The vocals are wacky and sometimes hard to follow. All things considered, though, it's really not that crazy of an album. It follows a structure and apart from them throwing in everything that makes a sound that may be considered an instrument and turning the distortion up to 11, you get some seriously interesting, funny and honestly pretty good music. I can absolutely see why this album is rated as low as it is. I got used to it fast and vibed the whole way through. Both sides are pretty distinct too, but they also work very well together. This for sure was an experience I am glad I got from the generator.
вики не шутила про экспериментальную музыку. очень рада за ребят что альбом хорошо продавался, но не представляю кто это слушает)
no no
Wouldn’t consider this music.
This shit is so ass. I don't even get how it can be parodying music, it's just unpleasant to listen to. Never gimme this again
Weird music but good for that
this website is full of idiots
It's cool to see a bit of a different side of early no wave, but I think there's as many hits as misses. It doesn't have a deep enough atmosphere to feel like I'm losing myself in it, but it also doesn't feel focused or energetic enough to build that anxious energy something like Buy the Contortions has. 3/5
Insane
I... had to give up. This was monstrously bad. Good god. 1/10
Experimental rubbish mostly. Vocals on the annoying side of the scale far too often - affected. Booker Tease was building to something but it faded out before it began. Struggled not to skip Laughing Song and the kazoo heavy Elvis one before they ended. Think I could do Bach is Dead at my next karaoke. Hello Skinny more interesting and merits higher score than my overall score. In summary - stupid synth noises and arrangements and lack of charm for me. Prefer Primus. 1.
Annoying absolute crap. I suppose it gives us a benchmark.
The soundscapes to this are brilliant...Krautrock-y in places, although the vocals tip it too much towards performance art for my tastes (like Throbbing Gristle, kept imagining it as a soundtrack for a Vulva performance in Spaced...). I tend to keep 3s for "meh" albums so this is one of those 4s that on another day could have been a 2 but the 2nd half won me over. Weight Lifting Lulu is *almost* 50s Rockabilly, Hello Skinny is *almost* 50s exotica and both steer just the right side of genius/madness.
Uh, what the hell was that I listened to? Undoubtedly of the most bizarre albums I’ve ever heard. Absolutely zero chance that I ever explore any other other work. I can’t wait to read P26’s 5* review!
It's a bit too far outside the box for my liking.
I can understand and appreciate that people like this record, however it was a little too unstructured for me acoustically. I liked the art rock aspects that popped up every now and again, but it was not the best record I've ever heard - I'm glad I listened to it though.
Made by the Residents of the muppet sanitorium
Yep, that's the residents
Stopped after a few songs. I may have missed a hidden gem, but yeah, not for ya boy
This is labeled as experimental rock but that feels overly generous. Correct me if I’m wrong, but experimental music is supposed to challenge your understanding of what music can be, right? I don’t think singing Happy Birthday off key is going to scratch anyone’s itch for experimentalism.
At least the duck doesn't have to endure that anymore. The next guy that has birthday will get the birthday boy song as a gift. It's like waching Salad Fingers
493/1089 - These are the tophat eyeball guys that make weird shit right? Let's see: This wasn't really weird or experimental. It was more just bad for bad's sake and very ironic and proto-reddit. Kinda reminds me of really early Beck but without any of the skill that makes Beck great.
Very first impression: saw the mini video loop for this song first. "What the actual fuck. Can I make it through 35 minutes of this? Can I endure 35 minutes of madness?' Album End/35 Minutes Later: "Continued what the fuck. How did I make it through this? I honestly feel like my brain is mushier as a result of this experience. Please tell me I have an album to catch up on that can reverse the damage caused by this experience."
Bom demais!
Juu ei oo mulle.
If you are voluntarily listening to this you need to be arrested for pre-crime. Butttt I'm kind of into it. I had the distinct sense that there was a good album hidden in here somewhere. I like horror as a genre for the jump scares, but i don't get the people that go all out on halloween and make it a central theme of their personality. Because of this I don't envision a lot of Duck Stab in my future but i am glad i listened to it. A case study in why we're doing this. There is a 0% change I would ever listen to this front to back without this exercise. Probably a 2 but I'm charmed by the weirdness and also unimpressed by Goldie. This is significantly better than Goldie.
My whole life, this has been the music that’s going through my head whenever I’m trying to be normal at parties or networking things. I just never knew what it was until I heard duck stab. It was weirdly comforting to know these freaks are out there I agree w Sean’s take that I’ll probably never listen to this again, but I am glad that it exists. Without the threat of someone making something like this, all art would be devalued as an enterprise. Breaking my crusade against collectives in this one instance because I’m guessing these guys didn’t make a TON of money making deranged nightmare lullabies so it might have been difficult to make it work as a straightforward venture
This was so bad I thought my headphones were broken. Genuinely, I turned my headphones off and on because I thought there was something messed up. One of maybe 2 albums over the last 460 or so that I would give a -1 star rating if I could
Honestly been craving something a little offensive and controversial, list has been a little snoozy lately. This is unlike anything I’ve ever heard. Is it good? I am not totally sure, but they are absolutely going for it. Reminded me of TV on the Radio (they covered Hello Skinny I read), Primus (Claypool played with them), Pere Ubu energy too. Read that Trey and Fishman (Phish) went to an NYC show in the 90s and said it changed their lives. Another collective, Frank, let em have it.
I think it makes more sense to listen to this album AFTER you died. Don't waste your lifetime!
That was innovative to me. And it actually has a point
Not just disturbing but invasively so. I could not get echos of "Constantinople" out of my head for hours no matter how desperately I wanted to.
Weird is fine, weird can be fun and interesting. This was neither, this was just boring.
Totally weird and totally fun, great stuff! Also feels pretty ahead of its time in the synth department, these guys have been following Kraftwerks development, I think.
I...was confused by this. I was expecting Throbbing Gristle 2.0: at what point do you go from noise to music? This was not that, and I don't know if I /enjoyed/ the utter batshit nonsense that was happening but I do damn well respect its existence.
I think I’d rather listen to actual ducks getting stabbed than listen to this again, and I am PRO DUCK
I started this album while I was driving on the highway and Constantinople had my laughing so hard for how insane is sounded I nearly went into a ditch. This has to be just music for an arthouse installation or something. Clearly nobody said no to these guys at any point and you know what, I'm really glad they didnt. I dont get it, I dont understand it, but I'm so glad high octane garbage like this exists. This has to be a joke entry so I will treat it as such.
An album sent straight from Hell
Literally what the fuck 9/10
I normally find myself much warmer on the more experimental and avant-garde records than the typical 1001 albums listener, but here I find myself generally agreeing with the consensus. There were a few interesting ideas hear and there, but to me it sounded less "boundary-pushing" and more just weird for weirdness sake.
WTF is this? Why have I never heard of this? And, more importantly, why do I love it? Everything about this is deeply disturbing.
- There is some interesting musical experimentation throughout, especially for the 70s. - The songs can be a little too jokey/weird clown for me - e.g., Constantinople (though I did laugh at the riffing at the end) and Laughing Song, Birthday Boy. It gives off an untethered/unhinged feeling that makes me feel a bit anxious. - I appreciated the more morose songs best - like Sinister Exaggerator and Hello Skinny and The Electrocutioner. - I guess my main issue is that a lot of the sounds can be thin and abrasive, including the vocals. It makes it difficult to listen to, overall... on the piercing side. - I don't know when I'll really be in the mood for this, but I still kind of appreciate it. Each song has its own feeling, and I like that it breaks a lot of rules so things feel unexpected. But, I'm not convinced I'll ever listen to this again, but I'm glad I heard it. - I also appreciate that the album and songs are all short. - A high 2, I think.
Unlistenable
Trolls gotta troll!
Still better than Temporary Secretary
I don't understand this at all. What is the point of it?
A pinch of Beefheart, pinch of Devo, and you get something very weird.
It's so so so so so weird. And I kinda like that.
Day862 - even though constantinople and bach is dead were ridiculous in a fun way the rest was terrible in an awful way
Not my usual cup of tea, but I quite enjoyed that. It's what? Mushroom tea? Oh.
Not the greatest album, surely, but they don’t seem to be one of those morons who are experimental just for the sake of being experimental.
Ok... this was interesting. This is definitely a difficult album (especially after a first listen). It is very original and it kind of gets better if you make it through the initial barrier. I think that, just because of its originality, this deserves 3 stars.
The hell did I just listen to???
Primus sucks.
Listening to this feels like putting a cheese grater to my face whilst my nails are constantly run down a chalk board. no stars. I'm convinced the only reason it's on the list is to make the rest of the albums sound better. Struggling to think how the Kid Rock album could be worse.
WTF?!? Playlist Additions - The Booker Tease - Bach Is dead
I kind of like these random, weird, and cult things
Es un sonido nuevo para mi, se siente como si estuvieras en una película y fuera el soundtrack, el disco cuenta una historia, es muy diferente a lo que había escuchado, no es malo solo extraño
Not sure what to make of this. Need to listen again.
05/12 What in God's name did I just listen to?
What is a delightful bit of weirdness
I like weird stuff, but this is too weird for me. Quite an accomplishment.
This is the worst thing I have ever heard
They do a pretty good job of creating this dangerous creepy aura. They seem at their best when they're making weird creepy little dittys. Unfortunately they often went too far past the line of just being extremely painful to listen to. I got value out of this album, but I didn't enjoy it.
I went into this expecting to hate it after going through a few "noise" albums around these parts but to my surprise I found this smart, witty, self-aware, not that jarring. It's like early Pink Floyd (but with some of the instruments broken, and a heavy stereotypical American accent) and Butthole Surfers had a baby.
I usually give an extra star for being weird. And this sure is weird. So I guess I'm giving it a 0 + 1
Pretty much what I would have expected from ‘Art Rock’. I have been to a few too many contemporary art exhibitions where this kind of sounds has been used as a backing track for an ultimately weird and disturbing video installation. Mi do have to question whether this really was an album that I needed to hear before I die. Occasionally I wonder whether this list ours mistaking uniqueness for genuine innovation and talent. Yet again I felt like this could have been created by children in music class. Utter crap.
Not a band I’ve given much time or thought to but some good grooves and cool vocal performances. Space Truckin’ is a jam.
Seems like the Residents blew so Primus could suck.
no one could convince me that this is music :\
Is this a fucking joke? The first track was so bad that I wanted to turn it off within 30 seconds. I skipped to track 2 to see if it got any better - it did not. If I was in a more generous mood I would probably have tried a couple of other tracks. Not today though, fucking awful. Finally, an album to rival The Cramps (in fact, it may even be worse than The Cramps).
Oh boy Duck Stab!
WTF is this....
this brought an absolutely mental energy to getting to stansted airport, spending ages walking to passport control, then finding out all the trains were cancelled and joining a thousand person queue for a national express. I do love this music, The Residents are great, but my god this pranged me out.
This is weird as fuck but pretty interesting. I'll give a high 3 for being unique
Blue Rosebud is tof, evenals Krafty Cheese. Heel experimenteel, veel wat herkenbaarheid met latere beïnvloedse artiesten. Zal vast een belangrijk album zijn geweest
kinda werid
true experimental, sure I wouldn't listen to it on a daily basis, but if ill be feeling avant garde one day, ill definitely reach for this as well
Awful
I was first introduced to The Residents when I was 16 working at a record store. I don't remember what album we listened to, but I remember the person who put it on said that to really understand you need to see them live.
This is some absolutely insane music. I can't wait to send the Birthday Boy to my brother at the appropriate time. Weird doesn't cover it, but I am glad I listened to it before I die.
It’s not music
Here I come, Constantinople. Here I come, Constantinople. I am coming, Constantinople. Here I come. Here I come, Constantinople. Here I come, Constantinople. I am coming, Constantinople. Here I come. Here I come, Constantinople. Here I come, Constantinople. I am coming, Constantinople. Here I come. Here I come, Constantinople. Here I come, Constantinople. I am coming, Constantinople. Here I come. Here I come, Constantinople. Here I come, Constantinople. I am coming, Constantinople. Here I come. He What? You're free to make this sort of music. Just don't expect anybody to enjoy it unironically. It does everything wrong – and yes, such a thing is possible in art. Conventions exist for a reason. Experimentation for its own sake is not in itself good (obviously). And 35 minutes of cartoonish noise with zero accessibility, or hooks, or riffs, or (really) chord progressions, or semblance of decent production, or even half-decent lyrics. Nothing is present that a mentally sound person is genuinely looking for. It's rare that an album does nothing for me. But Duck Stab/Buster & Glen does even less, somehow. It does a negative amount of "thing". The music made mind was a complete blank. Maybe a tinge of disappointment. But mostly unceasing, endless void. (That's got to count for something, right?) The most entertained I was for the whole half-hour was noticing the "dead" of "Bach Is dead" isn't capitalised in the Spotify version. And realising that the music isn't good enough for anyone to bother fixing it. And then going to Wikipedia and seeing the onslaught of 4-star "professional" ratings. What a load of balls. What's the opposite of a key track? A "lock track"? As in, "lock this in an oildrum and burn its sad limp corpse"? 1/5 Lock tracks: all, except maybe Weight Lifting Lulu and Hello Skinny, which are barely listenable
I thought I'd already listened to the worst album in this list but this is definitely it. Most pretentious piece of garbage I've ever listened to and people that claim to like this have to be either deaf or from a different planet.
I don’t know quite how much this benefited from me listening to it while walking the dog along Seahouses beach, but by the end i think i actually enjoyed this. I could see the appeal of this, its kookiness and strange tracks work individually for me. There are lots of albums i have enjoyed that feature a couple of kooky tracks like these. However an album full feels a bit overkill or at least i thought it did. It actually began to get inside my head and whilst i wouldn’t rush out and buy it by any means it was far from the bargain in bucket drivel that occupies my 1/5s. Its not an album i can imagine just listening to attentively but in the setting i heard it i think i’d say it’s a2.5/5
This was a half-hour long panic attack.
Well, at the time of writing, this album was globally considered the 4th worst album on the Generator.... And yet, I did not hate it as much as The Liars album (6th worst), which, despite very strong competition (here's looking at you Trout Mask Replica), remains my most hated album so far. That being said, this was not good. It wasn't the worst thing instrumentally, but lyrically and vocally it was utterly and completely bizarre. In some ways though, I do feel like my life has been enriched slightly by knowing a band wrote the lyric: "Cadavers filled with onion rings and feet are filled with glue" It's still a 1 ⭐ though. 1/5
If art is supposed to make you feel something, Duck Stab is unsettling and strange. Not for everyone.
Won't be listening to this again. Just don't see the point.
While other experimental rock bands rely on dissonant, irritating sounds, this album interesting sounds and melodies that are both dark and goofy. I can see how this influenced later acts like Primus. Also shout out to these Shreveport boys.
Awful musically, but too much fun to give a 1*. Listened in car with Lucy and had a laugh.
I don't think I get it lol
Another "been meaning to listen to this for ages" band down. Going to fall headfirst into this rabbit hole.
weird.... but v v fun
I admire this album more than I like it - a lot of it does remind me of the experimental tracks on the White Album, and some are genuinely engaging. Would I listen to this album again? Probably not
1,5
I had heard Constantinople and Hello Skinny in the past, but this is my first time hearing the full album. This is closer to performance art than traditional music to me. I love Laurie Anderson and Devo, who are both firmly in the performance art genre. This was an interesting listen, but I'm not sure it was a 4 or 5 star experience. I think, for me, this is like GWAR. I would go to see them perform, but not buy the album.
I actually really liked this because of how silly it is. Dark, sinister and cartoonish. I don't think it's one I'd pick up and buy but I wouldn't turn it off. At least it's interesting and funny. Giving it a 4/5 because I thought I'd hate it and was pleasantly surprised. Even the album art is ridiculous.
This is so weird. It sounded so familiar, which was unsettling. Lol how would I have heard this. Idk if I liked any of these. Bach is dead?
Idk what this is or why it's on this list.
Ok first off I know this one and I love this one. The Residents are one of the best experimental groups out there. Fucking great album, nice and weird, listen with headphones, good ones.
This sucks
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen is what happens when avant-garde weirdos accidentally make something close to a pop record and then sabotage it just enough to keep it unsettling.
I can appreciate weird and avant garde but I can’t tolerate god awful music that thinks it’s worth the time because it’s avant grade. It’s a nightmare in an album
Es Posta de lo peor que escuche en mi vida Me sentí acosado Voy a tener que tomar cartas en el asunto
I know why people may hate this - it's weird, it's psychotic, it's odd and offputting at times. This is pretty much why I loved this. I haven't felt this uncomfortable listening to an album for a long time. Some absolutely demented work on this. I thought it was great. Absolutely compelling.
I do like the Residents. In so much as they influenced several of my favorite artists and I can appreciate what they do. Duck Stab might be their most accessible record, but it's still pretty wild and out there.