Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

Quite interesting. Not for me though

This was definitely an interesting, yet fun album to listen to. Very unique.

The weird, weird world of the eyeball headed Residents have gathered up the ducks and made a stab at them. Often times, there would be detours into a mostly palatable pop potpourri but, for the most part, they just stay in their now refined weird lane. Now, hopefully no one has found a duck and did serious harm to it after listening to this. Generated on 12/25/2023, reviewed on 3/22/24 Favorites: Constantinople, Sinister Exaggerator, The Booker Tease, Blue Rosebuds, Bach is dead, Elvis and His Boss, Semolina, Birthday Boy, Weight Lifting Lulu.

It's weird, it's wacky. It's not for everyone. Glad Ive heard, but probably won't listen to it again.

A trippy album. Interesting to hear, seems like a lot of more out there stuff like Les Claypool’s bands. 3/5, because I can see why others find it interesting.

Expérimentation basée sur la répétition, la dissonance, les voix agressantes (et non pas agressives). Pas agréable en soi mais intrigant et différent

Weird. But weird can be good. The question is: Is this a good weird or just plain weird. Duck Stab: --------------------------------------- Constantinople - Good weird. Sinister Exaggerator - Weird The Booker Tease - Instrumentally weird (good). Blue Rosebuds - Fairly good weird Laughing Song - Dr. Demento Weird (good). Bach is Dead - Another Dementedly weird song. Elvis & His Boss - Just Weird. Buster & Glen: ----------------------------------------------- Lizard Lady - Just weird. Semolina - Annoyingly weird. Birthday Boy - drieW. (A backwards 'weird') Weight-Lifting Lulu - Boringly weird. Krafty Cheese - Uninterestingly weird Hello Skinny - A recognizably weird melody. (Good) The Electrocutioner - Weird at its best. (Good) The Duck Stab side was a 4/5 and the Buster & Glen side was maybe a 3. I'll give it a 3.5 because of the fun Duck Stab side.

Made me smile... quite hard to work to this though. And that is not a typo.

Unsettling but really interesting glad I listened.

Kind of interesting kind of annoying

This album feels like the painting of Kramer from that episode of Seinfeld. I was simultaneously repulsed but fascinated by it. Don’t know how I feel about it. Fuck this album, but maybe I’ll listen to more?

Semolina is a vibe

that was ... weird. 3 stars.

Wow. That was something. Some interesting modern sounds from an album from the 70's. However, the song writing was too weird. Song structure is meandering. Weird polka rhythms.

Man what goofy album. i hear the seeds of a lot of Primus's work in here. Some songs are fun and quirky, others are just flat out atonal and out in outer space. I have no idea what to do with this album, so i will give it a 3.

Innovative and gleefully bizarre, with a whimsically unsettling vibe. I haven't listened to a ton of The Residents, but I have a lot respect for this band. They always pushed the boundaries of what music could sound like, and kept going regardless of what anyone thought about them. Musically structureless, frequently atonal and noisy, with a delightfully surreal approach to lyrics. Not an everyday listen, but I had fun with it. Fave Songs: Sinister Exaggerator, Semolina, The Booker Tease, Constantinople, Laughing Song

The Residents walked so Ween and Primus could run.

The second half/dark side of this album feels less self-assured and all the better for it, any mediocrity dangerously melting away. Fine with an ellipsis entry point to the Residents; I certainly want to hear more, maybe even in the same galactic vocal range.

Doesn't feel like a music record, feels more like an 'art performance in audio', like an avant-garde art performance in audio format. Its hard to rate because of that, I feel like it should be listened with 'different ears'. An interesting listen nonetheless, I can understand why its here.

Interesting album. At first I thought it was a joke. There is somewhat of somewhat of a comparison to Frank Zappa or Captain Beefheart. The music seems odd when you first hear it but as you become familiar with it, you start to appreciate the oddness and recognize the talent that is behind it. A song like Birthday Boy sounds like something you would hear on the Dr. Demento show back during that era. 3/5

3.5

Really weird but in a good way. Felt like a horror movie

Gotta revisit this one some time

weird

The legendary Residents. Another band I have heard about forever but have never earnestly listened to. Obviously their influence is matched by few and it was great to give them a couple spins. This record is just as fun and as weird as I expected it would be.

Interesting. Definitely different from what I usually listen to.

It grew on me.

More then once I said this is fuckin strange. Still not sure if this is brilliant and ahead of its time or just meaningles garbage. I'll give it this, in 1978 I'm sure the punk rockers and Zeppelin heads would equally hate this noise. I do have a soft spot in my heart for strange music like Ween, They Might be Giants, Zappa, and of course Phish so I can see the appeal

3.4 - Different. I like the primitive synthesizer sonics. The vocals sound like something out of a Jim Henson fever dream, mostly silly-sounding. Standouts: “Bach is Dead”, “Lizard Lady.”

I didn't hate this, I also don't know if I'll go back to it again.

It's different to everything else and challenging which gives it an extra point, but not exactly a great listen.

midt på 3.5 mener jeg, skriver noen dager etter

FRENETIC

Weird

This is an incredibly creepy album and felt like I was listening to something down in a dungeon. Don't think I'll ever listen to this again but it was a fun trip into the twilight zone.

Estilo un poco raro de definir, con sucesión de guitarras, en ocasiones alaridos, ritmos con diferentes instrumentos. Aun así, no se escuchan mal algunas piezas

I get it, but I’m never going to listen again

Yeah okay. I guess I can't claim Primus and Ween among my favorites if I can't listen to this. It's not terrible, don't get scared away by other reviews.

The goal of music is to evoke emotion, and the strongest emotion of them all… is fear. Scary sounding album and not one that I’d put on if I wanted to jam out to some good music but I’d put it on just cause I wanted to listen to it cause it has such a strong vibe, real weird and kinda scary but oozing with personality. My homie Roman’s kinda music

Vraiment weird, je suis encore en train de me demander si j'ai aimé ça. J'ai aucune misère à croire que ça a du avoir un impact significatif sur des groupes plus expérimental et avant-gardistes (ça a eu une influence sur Primus assuré). Mériterait une seconde écoute. 7/10

It’s on the list of lowest rated albums in this project. I think it is better than that, but only slightly. I can tolerate this much more than some of the other crap that this list contains. I’d say i like it better than at least 300 other albums i’ve heard. I still don’t think it deserves to take a spot on this list. There are thousands of albums that are better than this one….. it is unique though. And if their goal is to expose us to music that we would have never sought out…then they succeeded. Standouts: Haha, that’s funny. There are no standouts….. 3/5

“You don’t get it the music is supposed to sound like shit” I’d much rather listen to a purposefully outrageous album like this than an album that tried to be cool but just sucks, like the ones from Ute Lemper or MJ Cole. An album that is challenging/difficult/weird on purpose is often better than one that was supposed to be good but is bad anyways.

En un principio tenía pensado darle 1, pues es obvio desde la primer canción que el álbum no es algo muy disfrutable que digamos, sin embargo, para mi propia sorpresa, después de escucharlo muchas veces, debo admitir que es más escuchable de lo que imagine que sería posible. A pesar de lo extraño y disonante que es a comparación de, básicamente, cualquier álbum, al ser así en su totalidad, hace que tenga personalidad y, al menos para mi, después de darle varias oportunidades, termina siendo un álbum muy solido. A lo que me refiero con esto es que si el álbum fuera algo normal y escuchable, pero tuviera 2 o 3 canciones como las que tiene este, estaríamos hablando de otra cosa. Finalmente, a pesar de ver perfectamente situaciones en las que quisiera escuchar este álbum en especifico, tampoco voy a fingir que es la gran cosa. El álbum es bueno siendo raro, y prefiero eso mil veces a que sea aburrido.

I've enjoyed a fair bit of Residents in my day, though on this listening I found myself mostly not in the mood for the aggressive wierdness. I admire the obdurate artistic rejection of accessibility but I'm not sure they were all that great of musicians.

The second star is just mercy for the grace of being somewhat different and interesting enough through that.

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.

Not as bad as I feared

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.

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.

Do I think the Residents are interesting and cool? Yes. Do I want to listen to this again? No.

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.

No lo había escuchado pero no me perdía nada.

That's definitely an album everyone should hear once

Like being accosted by tiny sex goblins.

Idk man, I'm just not sure about this one

вики не шутила про экспериментальную музыку. очень рада за ребят что альбом хорошо продавался, но не представляю кто это слушает)

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

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!

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.

Yep, that's the residents

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.

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.

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.

- 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.

Day862 - even though constantinople and bach is dead were ridiculous in a fun way the rest was terrible in an awful way

The hell did I just listen to???

WTF?!? Playlist Additions - The Booker Tease - Bach Is dead

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

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.

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

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

Won't be listening to this again. Just don't see the point.

Awful musically, but too much fun to give a 1*. Listened in car with Lucy and had a laugh.

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

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.

WTF was that lmao At least it wasnt boring per se. Weird? Yeah, absolutely. Unhearable? Not really. Would I listen to it ever again? Nop.

It’s nothing if not weird and creepy, which makes it pretty interesting in its own way, very much an acquired taste. This would also make for the most intense trip. Standouts don’t make sense on this one cause they each feel like a descent into madness.

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen presents bizarre creativity and unconventional humor, but its fragmented structures and intentionally abrasive sound make sustained listening difficult, leaving the experience more intellectually curious than emotionally rewarding despite occasional flashes of originality and darkly playful experimentation that briefly capture attention before becoming exhausting again.

fav songs: the booker tease experimental, lo-fi, raw 40/100

I won't remember this album.

no me gustó, demasiado raro ese mk pero igual tampoco estaba asqueroso solo de buena que no va

A little bit too far "out-there" for me. Couldn't tell you about any themes, could barely spot a song structure in it. One of the songs was absolutely awful, I don't think it was Elvis and his Boss, but that ended with the noise you hear when you're wiping an old hard drive. Lizard Lady was good, quite intense, but the ending was atrocious again. Bizarre, but worth a quick listen. Don't look back though.

Not sold on this! Too out there for me largely. Maybe a bit Zappa esque in parts? I didn't hate it in fairness, but I'm never going to choose to listen again 1.5

I didn't hate it and appreciated that it had a beat to it, but wow was this uncomfortable to listen to.

This is an insane record. Who wakes up and wants to this?!

ambiance for a horror thriller that doesn't exist

It's a parody of avant-garde ... at least I hope so.

liked one song

Dit is echt vreemde shit, het klinkt als een soort horrorfilm in dat je eigenlijk de hele tijd ongemak voelt. De stemmen zijn vreemd en er word nauwelijks gezongen. Als ze ooit dit album zouden verfilmen zou het echt de meest twisted shit allertijden zijn. Is dit een album dat je moet luisteren voor je dood gaat? Maat, zoals dit klinkt is het waarschijnlijk het laatste album dat je hoort voordat je doodgaat. Beetje The Ring, maar dan in album vorm. Luister naar Laughing Song en vertel me dat je niet verwacht dat Satan zo voor je deur staat. Man, muziek is emotie en ik voel nu een soort doodsangsten. Mijn god, ik ben hier best open in gegaan. Maar Birthday Boy? Ik denk dat ik uitcheck. Ik snap de horror aesthetics, maar het word een beetje te veel. Zou gewoon fijn zijn geweest als de muziek wel iets beter te luisteren was. Dus de rating? Neig naar de 2 sterren die het album al heeft op deze site, en ik ga maar eens kijken of ik een spirituele cleansing kan boeken bij een medium ofzo. En anders is dit waarschijnlijk mijn laatste week op deze aarde. FAVO: Laughing Song, Birthday Boy (Send help)

Some albums on this list just become background noise. This album was a WTF is going on and what are they going to do next. Although not something I would listen to a lot, and not sure I can even call it good, but was a nice break from the same sounding albums...... interesting to say the least. 2.5/5

Bach is dead!

It’s bad, but at least it’s interesting. More than I can say for a lot of the albums on this list.

still better than Metallica 3 / 10

Ok, I get it. Very experimental, avant-garde, etc. Not my kind of thing.

Muito experimental…lol

Well this is something

This has to be the strangest album I have or ever will listened to. I don't mean that in a totally negative way. If the reason that this album is on this list is because it is unique, I could understand that.. It's kind of like Pink Floyd meets the punk rock era with a little Sesame Street thrown in. I can't recommend it nor trash it. I'll have to leave that up to you.

Hilarious but I don’t think I could listen again unless the vibe was cult meeting or alien abduction

Am I in a Charlie Brown movie?

very dark, not my style

Okay! This is very hard to evaluate, because what do I evaluate here? Is the album interesting and listening to it felt educational and different? Well, yes. Did I enjoy the listening experience, did I like it, was it a rewarding experience, will I want to listen to this again? Well, no. However, I DID laugh at some tracks, and it often felt that the album/musicians are laughing at me, the listener, too, and that was quite an experience. This album feels like it's both pretentious as fuck, silly as fuck and was probably a total blast to create and record and like musicians really had fun. How do you even rate something that feels like one and five stars at once? Let's give it two for my sheer displeasure, but keep in mind that I still think it's worthy to be in this list. Go figure.

lol no thank you

Proto primus, but still.

All music is glorious and beautiful and unique. All music has a time and purpose. This music's purpose is torturing prisoners of war. For any other use, I'm afraid its ill equipped.

I have no idea what just happened, but I kinda didn't hate it?

Listened Before? N I went in to this thinking it was going to be another "art rock" project that I would hate. Turns out, it's maybe the only one on this list that has at least partially entertained me. It's not "good" but it is fun... and I admire the group's commitment to the bit over several decades. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: The Booker Tease

I don't know what this is but I PROMISE you a young Les Claypool ate this shit up. I don't know what I'm supposed to rate this thing. On one hand, it wasn't good and I don't really ever want to listen to it again. On the other hand...I didn't mind it. 2.5 stars

I like weird. I do not like this. I would probably enjoy it live for the what the fuck factor, but audio only it doesn't have the charm.

I saw a review that said "The Residents are bit like communism in that I like them better in theory than I do in practice.". I think that sums up how I feel as well. I like the idea of this barely even being music and how strange it is, but I didn't really enjoy it? I respect it though

kinda weird

There’s just enough music in there to bring it up to a 2, but it’s still reaching.

Purposely weird but still better than Limp Bizkit.

Experimental film: the soundtrack!

Veers between fun little ditties and borderline unlistenable dirges that feel like really hard work.

1.89

I guess it's kinda cool that this came out in the 70s but that doesn't make the music any better. Not really listenable beyond being sort of a novelty

Bjork meets Primus

Þessi er með furðulegri plötum á listanum, en líklega hefur verið stefnt að því marki. Brot og brot og skemmtileg, nokkur óþægileg, sum áhugaverð en fleiri óeftirminnileg. Hlustaði einu sinni, hætti þegar upphaflegri plötu lauk og kallaði þetta gott.

Pretty bizarre album, but there were some interesting moments. I know Primus covers a couple of these songs.

1.5/5

En merkelig drøm som varte og varte.

I can appreciate weird, and love experimental to the point that it’s not even music. This is just comedic and feels like he was trying to hard. Bach is dead is funny though.

En god unnskyldning til å få en bekymringsmelding fra naboen. Køddette musikk, men er dette kødd? Sirkusmusikk for de psykotiske. Mine favoritter: Soulful sax Krafty Cheese 3/10

Æ hylle originaliteten. Men fuck alle de soloan. Ka e vits? «The Booker Tease» hadde æ faktisk lagra fra før, men den skille sæ jo ut med å ha verken tekst eller solo, og ikke e den særlig original heller. Skuffa

Well that was a fucking weird one, aye? The psychopaths who made this must have been doing all of the drugs. Still better than a Techno album I guess. 1.5⭐️

I like odd but this isn't for me

That album was real weird. It cooked for a brief minute or two, but it wasn't good overall. I could have easily been convinced that it was made by Primus, so it was original and likely influenced an artist that I do like. I don't recommend this, despite it almost making me curious enough to look into their other albums. Okay, so after looking it up, this was selected because it's considered their most accessible album. That seals the door on my interest in looking further into this band. It was better than the other 1 star albums, so maybe it's generously a 2 star album. Oh okay, I see that it was released in 1978, the linked album on Spotify said 2016. So it was ahead of its time, but its time isn't coming, hahaha.

❤️

did not hate it, but definitely didn't love it either. this was a bit too much for a day where i'm running on 4 hours of sleep.

Silly goofy songs for silly goofy guys. Also what the heck was this that I just listened to.

weird but kinda enjoyed it...

I thought I was ready for this but nothing could've prepared my ears for Constantinople. I will say it has since been stuck in my head. Not sure if that's good or if I should go see a doctor.

2/5

Different

I dunno man, sure.

weird

This was some looney tunes weird stuff. Not sure I liked it.

Not a huge fan felt like it would be playing during an alien invasion

This has a case for being objectively bad at points. It also makes a case for being pretty uniquely memorable at other points. I’d rather have more of these so far out of left field albums than the 18th postpunk/new wave album in a row. It’s nice to face down something this challenging after 650 albums. I’d be a bit more appalled if this was one of my first few albums. Like, the beginning of “Blue Rosebuds” was actually pretty solid. The vocals on it are laughable, but maybe that was the point? I definitely get the vibe that The Residents dont want you to take them too seriously, if they have any preference at all. Points for the deconstructed, minimalist carnival style music on “Laughing Song” as well. It’s a strange disposition to have such lukewarm or even mildly accepting feelings towards an album that seems to upset most people. This album is an exercise in shedding genre preferences and general preconceptions. I do desire for these guys to have dug into their arrangements a bit more, everything is very basic for being so out there. I think they could’ve had something great on their hands if they had second half’s of songs that devolved into something completely different, or did more to subvert expectations from song to song. Many of these tracks end up just being looped little motifs. Still, a fun listen. The end of “Birthday Boy” is easily my favorite moment on this one. Strong 2/5, but really impossible to throw a number on this one. It more feels like ✌︎🙰♍︎♒︎♍︎◆︎♎︎⬥︎ ⧫︎♒︎♓︎⬧︎□︎⬥︎■︎❒︎ 👓︎📭︎‘❒︎ 🕮︎📭︎🕮︎🗏︎✏︎◆︎🙵⬥︎■︎♏︎ ❒︎♒︎♍︎□︎□︎

i dont even want to know

This is one of those oddball records that tests the boundaries of what an album can be. I like it for that fact, but acoustically, it's not too pleasing on the ears. I applaud efforts like this, but not necessarily enjoyable to endure. Still happy I experienced it, and it's still better than anything from Captain Beefheart.

Interesting and quirky, seems a bit of a successor to Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. Maybe a little too avant garde for me though

I’m not averse to a bit of experimental music but this is mainly (not entirely, but mainly) terrible. It’s only 35 minutes though feels longer.

Must surely be from a companion list: '101 records to make you contemplate the sweet release of death'? Oh man I hate this. Not like I hate common-or-garden, crap-but-commercial trash. There is art here but it invokes a strong and visceral revulsion against the whole vibe. A k-hole paralysis nightmare of a record. Oompah cartoon cabaret fed through a schizo psycho's bleak machinery. The organ-grinder is grinding organs. Even the cover-art gets more unsettlingly appalling the longer you look. Eventually, a question forms; is this in fact so far off the horrible end of the aesthetic spectrum that, in horseshoe-theory style, you can start to take a perverse enjoyment in it? It's probably a short enough jump from 'ooft, those guys aren't mucking about' to 'ffs, they're quite literally only mucking about'. The answer to the question is still probably no; but I'm here for exploring those feelings. I may even need to play it again just to be sure 💀😅

Na Koekiemonster meldt ook de rest van Sesamstraat zich met meer gekkigheid. Is ook hier sprake geweest van de consumptie van psychedelica? Het resultaat heeft in ieder geval een aardig hallucinerend effect. En ik wil geen zeikerige meneer Aart zijn, maar van mij had het niet gehoeven, al die gekke stemmetjes en raar getoeter, zelfs de Swedish Chef doet mee. Ik denk dat ik maar even bananen in m'n oren ga doen, misschien helpt het.

Natuurlijk is dit nauwelijks muziek, maar vooral een verzameling van geluid. Maar toch...het zet iets van een sfeer. En het heeft al wat elementen van latere digitale muziek. Het is allemaal geen reden om dit te luisteren; houd dit soort experimenten maar buiten het boek. Maar het is wel voldoende voor een extra sterretje.

I think this is the type of Argoed art rock. I would have potentially liked 40 years ago. But apart from Constantinople, I didn’t really know any of this material. It doesn’t really float my boat these days but I admire their vision.

If I were to devolve into madness this would be my soundtrack. There’s a bit of Primus mixed with Southpark.

I prefer my dada in poetry format

When I heard Constantinople, I thought "here we fucking go." But honestly, I couldn't stop listening! I love weird music and this is definitely the weirdest. Some of the same soundingness of the songs got boring. Agreed with some of the other listeners here that I'd rather more albums in this category of wacky shit than, say, 6 albums of Elvis Costello.

Here's the money line from another review: "A complete disregard for melody and structure gives The Residents 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?"

2.2 when it is music its good but mostly its not.

Fun for a one time listen, but I never intend to hear it again.

This record grew on me a lot while listening. Things I don’t care for on this record: - singing with an intense affect/accent/caricature. - circus/scary music Things I do care for: - the sonic space of this record (fidelity?) - the moments (often instrumental) where it feels so wabi sabi and the perfect mix of insane and beautiful —- mostly second half. Strings in Weight-Lifting Lulu are so good. I love that progression. Cuts like Soulful Sax* remind me of Micachu & the Shapes. This record does sound so good. It’s intentional with space in the best way. Favs: Semolina, Weight-Lifting Lulu, The Electrocutioner, Soulful Sax*

Wow absolutely terrifying listen. Almost 1 star for pain but 2 stars for being so strange/Lynchian I almost enjoyed it at times. Constantinople and Birthday are fucking nightmares

It's like that time Ween and Primus got together to make a record everybody agrees is their worst.

I stared out in the category of "WTF?! Why is this awful thing on the list?" But I grew to appreciate it. Not like it. Just appreciate it. I can hear Primus and other experimental music in here. I can see why this mattered, but I also don't know that I am better off for having heard it. 2/5

This is a very weird album. I didn't find it as insufferable as the other extremely weird albums on the list. I'm going to give it a generous 3 for creativity and actually being semi enjoyable to listen to towards the end.

while this comes across as an art project that does not mean it is something I would go out of my way to enjoy or analyze. I have bought one of their albums in the past so I am not a complete hater but this is not something I need to revisit.

This was pretty annoying and mostly unlistenable, but also I felt a bit like this 'is what it is' and it's just noisy art-rock. It's not my thing I guess.

This honestly feels like someone had an anxiety attack, then turned their thoughts into music. It's not unnerving in the sense of it being musically bad (though it certainly doesn't help), but it's just so out there that it puts you on edge. I will say it would make for 2 good things: a musical palate cleanser, and a great way to get unwanted guests to leave after a party thats gone on too long

This was disturbing but had a lizard song

Petrifying music, very interesting though

This is one of the worst things I've ever heard. The music accompaniment for super-annoying vocals is marginally tolerable, but the conceptualization of whatever it is that's in their heads is irredeemable.

Not for me, very strange and non musical

Mikä tuo soitin onkaan joka kuulostaa ihan ankan kiekunnalta, on hauska, annan sen verran. Huumorilevyt ei oikein iske, samanlaista Frank Zappa meinkiä mistä ei voi kovin isoja bojoja antaa.

Some funny references to pop and classical music but it still kind of sucks. Or I have to REALLY be in the mood for this.

Hmm such an oddity. An alternative album with a horror feel. Too avant garde for me.

Wow, this is rough. In one way I can see how it inspired some of my favorite artists. On the other hand it is really hard to listen to.

Not as bad as the other albums I've heard from them

I’ll start with a small compliment, to be nice. I like how this is “cohesive” weird rather than random weird. Like the songs are… songs I guess. It at least gives the album a thin layer of interest that makes you wonder what the next track might be unlike listening to walls of noise for 30 minutes. That’s not experimental. That’s just annoying. Ok, compliment over. Yeah, this was not for me. A part of me wants to like this, kind of like a proto-Primus. But it just goes overboard, with the high pitch shifting and some just irritating rhythms. It’s like the soundtrack for a demented 80’s horror movie and I might just be the protagonist. I can respect the weirdness of the album and I think it succeeds at being experimental. I just have no desire to listen to it again. Favorite track: The Electrocutioner Other hits: you know what, nah I’m good

It was fine.

If I saw this performed at a gallery I’d probably think it was fun and interesting. Not good as an album.

At least it was strange and interesting.

Absolutely not, this was just not it for me. Very repetitive. Very experimental. I don't personally understand.

A novel listen? Sure. An album I'll come back to? Probably not.

This reminds me of the exchange between the TV exec and George Costanza, with the latter argues for a show in which nothing interesting happens: Exec: “Why would anyone watch that?” George: “Because it’s on TV!” Exec: “Not yet…” George: “O.K... uh... look. If you wanna just keep doing the same old thing, then maybe this idea is not for you. I, for one, am not going to compromise my artistic integrity, and I'll tell you something else. This is the show, and we're not gonna change it.” Why would anyone listen to this album? Because it’s on this list. Enjoy the artistic vision. Sucka.

I was intrigued after the first couple of tracks… but by the end I was over it.

I feel like I should dislike this more than I did, but I actually found I didn't hate it. Very weird and experimental. I won't listen to it again, but it wasn't a miserable experience.

Not feeling this. I was in the wrong mood for a goofy album like this, but I’m not sure I could ever be in the right mood.

This is just silly nonsense trying too hard to be silly. A bit childish. Not playful, annoying. At least the three tracks starting with "Laughing Song" are the fun kind of nonsense. But the balance is irritation incarnate.

Fresh and freaky and trying so, so hard to be. It’s the kind of wacky shit I expected the list to introduce me to but I almost wish it was more abrasive than it is. It gives me indie guy pick-me energy. Fun music to talk about but I would roll my eyes if someone put this on in the car or at a party.

Well, if their aim was to ‘reject rock music intended for the sole purpose of entertaining or dancing’ then they surely succeeded. Music should be for listening though and I certainly won’t be listening to this one again

Some of the instrumentals could be decent ambient listening, and I didn't hate every moment, but c'mon man, being avant-garde without more does not make something worth listening to

Strange and experimental album. It's not always easy to listen to, but some parts are weirdly enjoyable and funny. It's clear this was an influence for Primus (a band I love) but I think this album functions more as art than as something I would want to listen to repeatedly. I'm glad something this unique is on the list though.

The first song made me uncomfortable but once I knew what their whole deal was, I got slightly more used to it. I like avante garde metal so I thought I'd like this a little more. The kazoo works well with the vibe though. Not for me but I respect the originality.

Trash. One interesting thing about this. There is a song called laughing song. And it sounded familiar. Then I remembered a hardcore mix tape I had in high school. There was a band called flipper and they must have stolen the chorus from this record for a song called hahaha.

To be honest, if you got to the end of the album, you deserve 5 ⭐️. I came close and award myself ⭐️⭐️. Which is what the album gets.

I see the direction, and I see several tracks that remind me of other works from later years and other artists. I think it is fascinating and perhaps influential, but not something I find particularly compelling on its own. It may be a victim of its own success here and later development on these themes makes this feel undercooked despite inspiring those works, but I didn’t find it terribly interesting.

Guess I'm not artsy enough to truly "get" this shit. Knew some whack bs was about to go down when I heard the bugs bunny voice in the beginning. Tbh, this could work as the soundtrack of some absurdist movie. But as "music", just no, thank you.

On a list of Dr. Demento's top 1000 albums, yeah, I could see this.

wtf

У 2015му році я був на концерті резідентс і мені НАСТІЛЬКИ було некомфортно і навіть кріпово, що в мене тепер травма пов'язана з цим гуртом. Ну і власне цей альбом це жесть. В якомусь сенсі його звісно забавно слухати, бо резідентс мають свій дуже впізнаваний єбанутий вайб і я поважаю їх як акт провокативного мистецтва, але чисто на рівні гармоній і атмосфера для мене ця музика є некомфортною.

Very cool

Meh

It's weird, it's annoying, but it's not terrible. There is definitely some skill in the arrangements and sound. I can't say that it makes me enjoy it any more. It was kind of obnoxious.

Really? Whimsy on steroids.

this is the kinda shit i was expecting from this list. interesting, but not enjoyable. 2.5/5. beats the shit out of dylan tho

The musical equivalent of Twin Peaks...rather disturbing.

Not sure this was a great place to start this project. Kinda dug The Electrocutioner though

No sé que escuche ni quiero saber Ley de salud mental ya

reminded me a lot of primus… but weirder and more annoying.

For fuck’s sake

At least they tried something different.

It’s been almost 20 years since I listened to this during my Residents phase that was mostly influenced by an old friend who has since passed away. Back then, this might’ve gotten a 4. Despite the nostalgia, and some fun moments, this is pretty grating and I’m not mad it’s been so long since I listened. Will I ever listen again? Maybe not.

Almost entirely dreadful. Like a school music class who have just discovered DJ MODE on a keyboard. However, there is a prescient spark in one or two songs ("Weight Lifting Lulu") that doesn't seem to come back in music until the mid-90s. Does it make the rest of the album good? No, it does not.

Avant-garde, more accessible than some but still avant-garde, very niche form of music.

could i write poetry to this? n It was so weird that it had a weird charm which bumped it to a 2

Prior to now, I had only known of The Residents as "that band that wears giant eyeball heads with tuxedos and top hats". I knew that lots of people considered them to be important and influential. Beyond that, I had never heard a note of their recordings and doubted that I would ever seek any. So now that I have heard one of their forty-plus(!) albums, I will likely never listen to them again. It's weird for the sake of being weird and not an easy or particularly enjoyable listen. But Mr. Dimery said I needed to hear it before I die and I did. The songs are silly and senseless and probably appealed to the Dr. Demento fans who also enjoyed Barnes+Barnes "Fish Heads" and other novelty music before Weird Al came along and owned the genre. I'll give this two stars because I do believe that weirdness and absurdity can be art, whether we enjoy it or not. We're talking about it, aren't we?

In the category of More Fun to Create Than to Listen To. You know it's fun to create based on the number of 90s bands that hid songs just like this as secret tracks on their CDs.

😐

definitely not enjoyable but it makes me think how creatively this can be used in some contexts. that's what i like about this experience. the cover is cool. that being said yeah the music is horrible

I was pretty keen for this to finish from the very first track. We get it, you're wacky guys

"Bach is Dead" You don't say? Songs to play when brewing witch soup.

Hmmmm

Not a fan of the end result but this is definitely something that feels… essential. I guess. Not exactly easy to listen to. Proto-Primus. Music to do ketamine in a funhouse to.

I hated it, it undeniably has its moments but those moments aren’t that good. Imagine velvet underground but bad, and you get this album. I’d imagine it gets better with more listens but it feels like a chore

Det är början på en trend inom musiken men inte den bästa

Oj, vad annorlunda! Men inte jättebra va?

Points for ikke at lyde som andet på listen

Wtf. Glad for at det her eksisterer og glad for at jeg har hørt det, men tror ikke liiiige den kommer på igen lige foreløbig.

I could get into this but im in not in a weird music typa vibe rn so not today

2.5 V strange

Like Tiny Tim meets Primus on PCP

Wut

Getting Primus mixed with Frank Zappa vibes. Wasn’t my favorite listen, but it’s got legs, and definitely influenced the styles of bands that followed

What the shit is this? I can't believe anyone would listen to this seriously for fun. There are moments I like, such as Rock is Dead. And I 💯 hear how they influenced Les Claypools vocals in Primus. I hate it. I'm intrigued by it. I never want to listen to it again. But maybe just that one song, one more time. 1/5 or 5/5, I don't know.

Something that really makes you ask "is this music?" I get that that's the point, but yeesh

Probably the most unsettling version of happy birthday I have ever heard

Weird, but not unlistenable. 1 and done is good for me on this one however. 2/5

Weird for weirdness sake. No thanks.

I think I heard an electric kazoo in there. If you enjoy experiencing experiments with sound and music....you should have fun with this one. Some of the songs will start out great and devolve into noise. Some are just noise. It's worth listening to just for the weirdness, but you should be warned it's not a "normal" album. It's like poetry from a nutter set to instruments made in a junkyard. I enjoyed it for what it was but it's not making the rotation.

No thanks

Typical album loved by critics, edgelords and people who are so different from you and so much cooler that you couldn't possibly understand. and a band who's backstory and history is more interesting than the music they produced. It's a mess, and it's meant to be. A collection of alzhiemer's nursury rhymes and cheap 70's synths and reconisible foggy guitar notes. However, the Residents are a key art rock band and so whether you like it or not, it is an album that should be experienced. Best Tracks: Laughing Song; Elvis and his Boss; Krafty Cheese

Bizarre!

weird. a few decent songs

I immediately thought of Frank Zappa. About as weird as, but not as good as him. I get this album's inclusion though - there are lots of albums that are good but sound like other albums. There aren't many albums that sound like this. Even Zappa is different. Blue Rosebuds and Laughing Song made me think of Wynona's Big Brown Beaver by Primus. Still, this is not Primus. I don't know what this is. It's unique. But it's not good.

I like weird, and I've probably heard them back on Dr. Demento, but I have to be in the right mood, and today isn't that day. At least it's a relatively short album.

It's like having a fever dream of cartoon music reflected in funhouse mirrors. "You cause the kids of Elmer Fudd to feed the farmer whose Cadaver's filled with onion rings and feet are filled with glue" WTF? Did Mickey Mouse have a panic attack at the end of Lizard Lady? It's so annoying, but I felt the need to rubberneck this wreck.

Very strange album bit too strange for me

the whole time I imagined it was the muppets singing which made it a tad bit more pleasant

I can see how this would be revolutionary but it also wasn't really all that fun to listen to

Thoughts before listening: My knowledge of the Residents is pretty limited. In my mind they are like a punk era version of Captain Beefheart. Weirdo, avant garde music thats probably not going to be something I enjoy. Review: Yeah this is tough to listen to. I have seen the Residents praised by musicians I love since I became obsessed with music...and I can hear their influence with these bands. I'm thinking of a group like Primus who certainly have their fair share of weird elements in their music (in fact it seems Les Claypool may have stolen his carnival barker persona from these guys), but who also produced some of the best 90s alt-rock songs. I think thats what is missing for me here..."normal" songs to dilute the weirdness. The Residents just go full bore into the weird elements, leaving very little for me to latch onto here. There are a few songs here that ALMOST draw me in, but I just can't get past the dedication to making everything as oddball as it possibly can be. 2-stars

Weird album, like early Ween albums but without the occasional melodic song which it is missing! 2/5

As soon as I plugged in the name of this band into Spotify, I was immediately struck by the thought “isn’t this Devo?” I don’t know why that crossed my mind and then the music started and I’m not debating my initial thought. This is very Devoesque. Then I wonder why? Why is this here? With the concept of being one of the 1001 greatest albums released, not even close. With the concept of 1001 albums you need to hear because it’s just so damn different? Sure. Am I interpreting this 1001 challenge wrong? Are these not supposed to be the best albums in the world that you must conquer through your ears? Perhaps I am wrong. Well, I’ve had enough of listening. Instrumentally it’s passable. It’s just weird. It’d be hard pressed to make a fan out of a first time listener. I may listen again if I stumble upon them in my travels but I will not seek them out.

Actually a lot more listenable than I was expecting but I wouldnt come back to it 2/5

Wow, did I hear a kazoo?

Weird

Weird synthesizer, weird beats, weird vocals

I know that a lot of people don't like this album, but something about it put me on. I love when bands get creative and this is exactly that. Weird, exotic, avant garde, something that you would never hear elsewhere. What else were you looking for when you decidided to do this challenge??? 4/10

2,5

probably a bit too weird/experimental for me. But interesting concepts overall.

This feels like if a villain Cartoon Network band made a halloween album

I don't know what this was exactly. It was Looney Tunes, meets Primus, meets Halloween, meets strangeness. I kept laughing asking myself is this for real.

Not really sure what I just listened to, but pretty sure I don’t want to listen again.

This was a frustrating listen. If you look past the obsession with being weird and different for the sake of it, there's actually some glimmers of hope. But it's that obsession with being weird that holds this album back, instead of making a legitmately offputting listening experience that is still, at it's core, listenable we get something that is simply obtuse to listen to.

Man, a beat or two was pretty good. The rest of this was just awful. 2/5

They're just being weird for the sake of being weird. I appreciate the experimental nature of the work, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

32/100. A Psychopathic Ducktales version of Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart.

A couple of songs weren’t bad.

Für einen Stern hatte ich mit dem Album ironisch zu viel Spaß, aber ja, es ist schon scheiße. The Electrocutioner hat mich überrascht

I appreciated it.

Weird and inaccessible but that’s the point so how do you rate that? I did genuinely enjoy some of the instrumentation every now and then but that’s about it. It is pretty cool they’re from Shreveport, LA. The only other act I know from rural north LA is Neutral Milk Hotel who funnily also didn’t enjoy being seen Rating: 2.3

Got to be worth 2.5 stars, much to the horror of my son who was listening in. He asked who took the ket to the circus. However, I was so intrigued by its uniqueness and complete craziness. I never intend to listen to this ever again, but it was a decent way to spend a bit of time. Better than jazz, C&W and gangsta rap all day long.

Highlight: The Booker Tease In a nutshell: Halloween music. It's like the lovechild of Captain Beefheart and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - weird and dark. I wonder if you could call this into proto-industrial because some elements remind me of industrial music. It's not something I'll listen to again but full credit to the band for doing something different. Overall: 4/10

If I ever write a crime thriller, this is the music the serial killer will be listening to. Wow - this was an absurd one, and while I never want to listen to it again and some of the tracks were a real challenge to get through, it also made me laugh! A few parts reminded me of Primus (I do enjoy a bit of Primus!) but mostly it was just creepy and weird.

It’s like Primus without the funky bass lines. Primus sucks (meant fondly). A bit too weird for me (and that’s saying a lot) but I do like the album’s timelessness.

A lot of annoying stuff with a spark of something enjoyable here and there. The last track, Electrocutioner was kind of cool.

Look, I'm a huge weird music fan, I love DEVO, but I just can not get into this. It's not that it's too out there, it's that it isn't interesting and it's just kinda annoying. The only reason this is 2 stars instead of 1 is because Constantinople is a decent song

Music for people who hate music. BUT I have to admire how out of place and time this music is. Nothing else at the time sounded anything remotely like this. I have to respect that.

That they committed to costume-wearing for so long speaks volumes. As interesting and different as some of this, the jokes or satire don't land anymore (if they ever did) and it gets tedious awfully quickly.

Not sure what to do with this one to be honest. It’s pretty off putting but at the same time, it’s more fun than like Destinys Child.

It's weird, dissonant, and difficult. But it's not awful like some other Avant garde. Still I'm in no rush to listen again.

i mean… ok

I mean, I gotta give it to them, they went for it. What a hot mess. This sounds like music to go insane to but like, it's your choice to go insane so you're kind of cool with it happening. This should be on the list because it's a place to go and 1,001 should explore how music evolves, but man this was a weird as hell listen.

This felt like watching a very old black and white crappy horror cartoon show. It was not a pleasant listen but I round up 1.5 stars cause at least it was interesting.

Odd, not something I’d sit and listen to normally

This mostly sounded like music the goblins from the labyrinth would make if they didn’t have any direction from David Bowie. Didn’t love this, but surprisingly I didn’t hate this either. I will never repeat this though, so…

Nice try

It's cartoony, but I don't need to listen to it again.

I've tried getting into the Residents before and they are a little too much out there for me, at least for regular listening. However, I do recognize Sinister Exaggerator from Primus's cover of it, and I can hear a lot of the Resident's influence on them throughout this album, which is pretty cool.

Interesting, but not in a nice way

Too weird and scary

Durante varios momentos del disco estaba convencido de que le daría solo una estrella. Me pareció, durante buena parte de su duración, completamente insoportable. Ruidos por todos lados y en general un desastre auditivo de esos que de tan avant garde, aseguran el lugar en las listas de lo mejor de la historia. Pero mentiría si no dijera que hay por ahí algunas ideas padres. Cuando de pronto hay algo parecido a una melodía, se pueden escuchar cosas bastante interesantes. Pero si tuviera que volver a escuchar este disco me darían ganas de salir corriendo.

Unsettling. Reason it’s not a 1 is because I’ve genuinely never heard anything make my skill crawl and I can see why people may like that. For me, couldn’t wait for it to end.

i'm upset with myself for giving this two stars but there is something unique art to it that i'm not discrediting. the video clips on spotify may have been an influencing factor. never had heard of them before this and will never remember them after this.

2 out of 5. Based on the cover art I wanted to like this one more than I did, but over time I did warm up to it a little. Also Primus influence.

This shit is fucking whacky. Not in a bad way.

Strange but a fascinating band.

I listened to the whole thing in a daze of morbid fascination, intending to skip it entirely after listening to the first track and seeing what I was in for. However, the weirdness was strangely hypnotic and I just kept letting it play. Dissonant and bizarre. I doubt I will ever listen to this album again, but that was certainly an experience.

Duck stab Disturbing title, album art, and music. I didn’t hate it but I can’t listen to it again. There were some cool weird instrumental stuff. He sounds like Les Claypool I bet this was album must have been influential to Primus. Bach is dead was funny

If there was an early 70's version of Primus, but not as fun or interesting. Kind of liked Bach is Dead, though...2.25

Primus without the funk that Les Clapool brings..

I will never listen to this album again but it is exactly the sort of different music I hoped to find when I joined this list. Some tracks were fun but I can’t imagine I will ever bother to listen again

Art rock. Paranoia sin sentido. Un 2 por alguna canción que se salva.

tf the duck do to you man

I wasn't a massive fan of this record. I think this makes this the first album here that I wasn't a fan of.

A grating, highly irritating album. Don't listen in your car if you're prone to road rage. Second star because at least it's unique.