Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

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

appreciate for what/who it influenced, but struggled on this one.

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.

Terrible, but with integrity.

Not into this goof troop shizz. Music good, vocals bad

I honestly couldn't make any sense of it. There's much worse on this list, thus not just 1 star.

Like being bullied by someone a little unhinged.

No idea what I am getting in to here, but no private spotify session. I hate to judge a book by it's cover, but damn, it tracks here. I had heard Constantinople before and it never made me think "hey, I have to hear more of this!" My first impressions on not needing to hear more of this and the cover indicating what type of music I would be hearing was spot on.

Didnt Like

More interesting than enjoyable, but still not super interesting. Probably makes for good background music at a Halloween Party or something

This was weird and somewhat jarring.

What. The actual fk. Did I just listen to. I'm all for anything Doctor Demento would have featured on his show being out there in the world, but I can't question enough why this is on the list. Someone else in here wrote it better than I could, thank you fellow reviewer: "I’m convinced that no one actually listens to this kind of stuff out of pure personal enjoyment, and it instead becomes known and popularized from the kinds of reactions you get from people when you put it on..." It is "entertaining" as a curio and absolutely invokes memories of more of the bizarre/disturbing saturday morning cartoons as a kid, so I am perhaps slightly intrigued by it.... But/so in every way...this only works as a background, or accompaniment, or soundtrack to something hilariously disturbing. As music to explicitly place on your turntable/ipod/streaming device .... there's just no fking way. Yet, having said that (and to be clear, it's pretty awful) after finishing it I just couldn't bring myself to give this a 1. There's too much rock/pop/whatever music out there that is either so lowest-common-denominator, lo-fi/lo-effort, or just goddamn terrible that something this absurd and *obviously* not meant to be played on KISS-96 or Q-107 or whatever, that I have to give them some credit. In fact I might just let this aural freak flag fly on Halloween to wig out the little freeloaders coming to the house... 3/10 2 stars.

Bad but not terrible

Sounds like Les Claypool fronting Ween and releasing and album of circus music. 2 stars.

This album is very unsettling. Now, I don’t mind unsettling but this is a bit too much for me. I get what they are doing. But I’m not sure I like it too much. Ok, I kind of like Lizard Lady. That’s kind of funny. But I think it is hard to tolerate this for 35 minutes. 2 stars

Another album that I appreciate more than I enjoy.

This was like listening to a cartoon.

Other than reminding me of the rats on the Muppet Show singing 'Istanbul, Constantinople', this did absolutely nothing for me.

This certainly was an album. Not terrible but zero minutes that I actually liked, so -1 star.

I like experimental music. I often tell people, and the 1001 albums has general been evidence, that no matter the genre, there are always examples of good music even for genres one doesn't usually enjoy. But this album was not good, even for someone who likes this often unloved musical subsector.

No, I cannot listen to an entire album of this. One song is interesting, but that's enough.

Like the soundtrack to a b-movie that thinks it's more clever than it is. Though this at times made me think of the Cramps or the goofiness of They Might be Giants, it wasn't as campy or fun as either of those bands.

I really like when music starts to get pretty experimental and weird but when it starts to go past experimental and into avant-garde then I start to enjoy it less. I actually appreciate that this was made but it definitely wasn't an easy or enjoyable listen. I love that bands like this get a little cult following though.

I have no idea what I listened to. I kind of liked it. I think. I can see where some later bands could’ve been influenced by their sound with less of their weirdness.

An absolutely bizarre album, which I liked (a bit) in much the same way you might like a blockbuster movie - just turn your brain off and submit. This will not live long in the memory, and probably doesn't deserve to be on the list. However, it is perhaps worthy as as an example of what was going on when music was largely being written by weirdoes!

Nonsense

Well it’s definitely art rock. I respect it, but I don’t have to like it

As of the time of my review, there have been nearly 11,000 reviews of this album on this website. Yet a few of the songs have ferer than 10,000 listens on Spotify. Yes, I know there are other services that stream this album, but we really are probably making an impressive impact in both Buster AND Glen's royalty checks. Also, I think it's fair to say that a lot of people aren't listening to this all the way through because of how terrible some of the early songs are, and I can't fault this, as we are only given this one life with which to listen to 1001 albums before we die. But I think there's a lot of cool stuff happening on the back end. Not enough to get this up to three stars, but still better than the BeeGees' Trafalgar.

Siendo el disco menos conceptual y experimental de los Residents, Duck Stab/Buster & Glen sigue sonando extraño e incomparable con cualquier otra música. Canciones cortas, guitarras casi imperceptibles y abundancia de sonidos electrónicos a partir de los primitivos sintetizadores de la época crean una música que puede llegar a parecernos propia de dibujos animados. Es difícil destacar algún tema porque sinceramente no me llega casi ninguno. Si acaso la broma sonora de "Bach is Dead" en la que reflexionan sobre la trascendencia del arte a través del tiempo, y la inquietante y surrealista "Hello Skinny".

I’m about 80% sure this is music. No idea how to form an opinion on it. Did laugh at least lol

Not my cup of tea

I really couldn't get into this one after multiple tries

Weird, but not in a way that makes me want to hear more. They were going for something here... but I am not sure they got it. Not worth another listen for more or to seek out more from the band.

My thought process: What is this? Oh… Not as bad as I thought. But, maybe another time. That time never came.

I liked what they were trying to achieve, but can't say I liked listening to it.

“It sounds like diarrhea”- my girlfriend I imagine most reviews will look like this one, but honestly the weirdness reminded me a lot of Primus just without the kickass instrumentation. I’d say 2.5/5 for the vibes but I wouldn’t really choose to listen to this again so 2 it is

Weird AF. Tough to distinguish precise elements to discuss. I read a bit about them—art collective, 60 albums, leader has cool name: Snakefonger. Wiki entry is massive. Also listened to their cover of “Satisfaction.” Definitely more interesting than this at first hear. Perhaps I’ll try this again sometime.

Some neat weirdo grooves. Also deliberately annoying and I just don't have time for that in music. hated. (⌐■_■)

I was originally gonna give this a 1, but I started to like it slightly more by the end. Maybe if I listened to this a few times it would start to click, but I would rather not dedicate more of my time to this album

Weird, and not necessarily in a good way.

什么玩意

New album for me. I know a couple of Residents albums, and in my memory some of them were unlistenable, while others were OK. This album is quite accessible, but annoying at the same time. Some people claim though that repeatedly listening to Residents albums makes them addictive. Well, I tried with this album - it is short anyway- but this approach did not fully work for me. Can still see the point, as it contains some very good songs - just listen to the Primus cover of Sinister Exaggerator, which is quite an improvement upon the original.

There are some glimpses of something interesting between a lot of nonsense.

Kinda interesting

I’m proud of myself for listening to 90% of this album. I’m giving this album a 2 because the lyrics and the silly voices gave me a good laugh. I will be singing about the plants and Bach is dead for the next couple of days.

Weird as fuck but actually quite fun at times

Not a fan

HL: "Constantinople", "Blue Rosebuds", "Lizard Lady", "Weight-Lifting Lulu" can't give 1 star. clown'll eat me June 11, 2024 (late)

super weird choice. This bad has 60 albums and this is the one they choose for the list?

DIOSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! 4/10

Zastari li su mi ovi njihovi štosevi jebiga

not for me

If someone told me this was their favorite record, I would back away very slowly. Really interesting ideas and definitely unique but very creepy. I respect it the same way as trout mask replica where I haven't heard anything like this but I'd use it to clear out a party.

Really weird sounding album

They're definitely going for something. Don't know what that was or if I would understand it.

I’m not sure but I think I played the zither on one of the tracks. Live and learn.

Ahhhh; couldn’t get into it. Think the Gorrillaz took inspiration? Or maybe the Talking Heads?

Very weird, yet somewhat intriguing.

I saw that it had a really low rating so I expected something different. What I wasn’t anticipating was to be immediately thrown off guard and never be able to regain control of my mind for the next half hour. The most nauseating 35 minutes of my life. The idea of “enjoying” this album, even just one track, is appalling to me and if my wife of 50 years told me she found this album pleasant I would stab her like the duck—write in the fuckin’ head, eh? I don’t believe this all bad, there’s heart and some sense of direction here that some artists are missing. I don’t agree with a single choice made, but at least the choices were original. 2/5

This is a soundtrack for a fever dream, wow pretty out there. Very, odd. 2.4

Wie heeft er bad trip in mijn koffie gedaan? Wel gelachen, dus net geen 1 ster.

Another weird one to include. interesting, but let's not listen to it again.

Nope

The first album that is truly not for me. The arrangements, lyrics and oddities may have technical composure but just didn't hit for me track by track.

the kind of record that gives duck-stabbing a bad name, frankly

Although I truly do not enjoy listening to this, I appreciate its inventiveness. It's weirdo music biiiiiiiig time, in a supremely discomforting way.

I hated it but also get it? Idk...

So strange that they’re actually good at times.

Odd and interesting, but not my taste.

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

This would’ve been better if I’d been high. Art rock is generally just not my thing. This was definitely not my thing. I can handle dark. I can handle weird. I can even handle weird for the sake of weird. But throw those things together and I just don’t find it very compelling or interesting. Which is a shame because it’s clear that the people involved are talented. I just didn’t really get this in the slightest. And I didn’t find a whole lot to take from it. 2 stars. Standout tracks: Weight-Lifting Lulu

This is where Noel Fielding probably got some of his inspiration for The Mighty Boosh's crimps. It's feverish, dadaist, and just plain off the wall. I appreciate weirdos, but this is too out there to be enjoyable. I do like their giant eyeball heads with tails & coat look, through. Maybe we'll revisit them again & it'll be better? We shall see..

Painful to listen to and not interesting at any point.

Terrible weird but kinda enjoyed the weirdness but not that much.

whoa

Wow that was weird. Not my thing but 2 stars for aiming to be different.

silly if nothing else. always some props to the artsy's

As the title suggests, it's like watching a duck being stabbed. The weird-for-the-sake-of-being-weird show can be interesting, but in the end, you'd ask yourself of what the fuck did you just witness.

I mean... I guess I'm ok having heard it once? Can't really see wanting to put on this creepy clown music again though. Unless I wanted to give someone a bad trip or something lol. I still think I'd take this over most of my 1s though. It's more of a 🤨 and less of a 🤮. Still feels like a 2 though, there's only so much creepy clown music one wants to subject themselves to.

Rart og litt kult, men aller mest rart

It’s something lol

Initial thought: "weird music for weird people". As the record went on, I realized it was less "music" and maybe trying to be the opposite. It feels alien, very horror-movie-funhouse-mirror, with mad laughter echoing in the distance. I guess I appreciate it for what it's trying to be, but the nearest band to compare it to, I think, is Throbbing Gristle, and as much as I'm... not a fan of TG, they felt like they had a plan on what they were doing. This one feels like... trying to be weird for the sake of, "Yeah, this'll freak the normies out." Favorite tracks: "Constantinople", "Krafty Cheese"

Very Zappa-esque. I like weird music but this seems weird for the sake of it

What if They Might Be Giants teamed with Towlie? This was unlistenable overall.

i actually actively disliked this. i think that might be part of the point though.

Just couldn’t quite bring myself to throw out a 3 here.

I felt violated by this album but I kind of liked it. So close to 1 star but the more I listened to it the more I liked it. Only enough to make it to 2 stars though. I’ll probably listen to the album again though. It’s weird.

Didn't hate it.

Okay honestly this was kind of camp. But I would never listen again.

fucking hell, this is literally the shit sociopaths unironically listen to. I actually feel physically sick after this. please make it stop, i genuinely felt my morality being drained with each song that passed. But even in saying that, I honestly couldn’t stop listening to it. It’s like it played some sort of creepy fucking mind control on me. hands down the creepiest and most unpleasant shit I’ve listened to in a long time, maybe even my entire life? I assume that’s their goal, and they smashed that out of the park.. fair play despite possibly being one of the worst things I’ve ever listened to, I think a part of me enjoys this at the same time. Am I just a masochist? is this album making me discover things about myself? Or do I like the fact that it’s SO good at being terrible? I don’t know, this album genuinely melted my brain. I think it’s mostly a respect thing, It’s not well made music, it’s a well made pile of fucking shit and I like it for that. It’s terrible in a good (and bad) way, it’s actually laughable how shitty this is. Which I prefer over straight shit with no redeeming factors. I’m still giving this a 2, 3 seems too high for this. it’s out of this world level of shit to the point where it was fun, and I couldn’t stop listening. But it’s shit. Like, REALLY shit, and I HAD to know where this would lead.. (not a good place) I don’t regret listening to it, but I’ll be avoiding this album for the rest of my days, but I have to give some sort of respect to it, it was unpleasantly fun and I’ll pleasantly never listen again. 2/5, stay away from me now

Its dark avant garde and really artsy. Predicting most people won't like, but very interesting discovery for me though. I always held Les Claypool (Primus/Oysterhead) as one of the most creative musicians of all time. I didn't love this, but it so closely resembled Primus that I assumed this must be a big Les Claypool influence - turns out YES, this was like his favorite band. Which is crazy if you know Primus, this is almost a total rip off (Primus is just slightly less dark, more commercially friendly, and cleaner singing).

Sounds like evil murderous Mickey Mouse.

Bach is Deadista alkaen nämä vitsit naurattivat minua. Muuta ne eivät tee.

Oddly listenable

What the hell did I just listen to? I don't know how to feel about this! The sound is just weird. It's decent at times, but at others it just feels like noises. The singing is horrendous. Sometimes it sounds like Waluigi with weird voice effects. The falsetto is even worse! It genuinely sounds like Chris Chan at times (if you don't know who that is, good. Don't google them.). The writing is nonsense, and the theming is unclear. This album is just a load of nonsense! But you know, at least it's interesting. At least I can laugh at this album for how goofy it is. It actually kind of wraps around to a sort of "so bad it's good" type of deal. There's enjoyment to be had in the madness, even if it is completely ironic. Also, at least it's only 35 minutes! So, while I can't in good consciousness give this a high rating and I never want to listen to this again, I can at least give it the courtesy of not being a 1 since it actually stands out and isn't completely void of effort. Low 2/5.

The one definite word you can use to describe this music is…obscure. A bit too avant-garde for me to truly appreciate it there’s certainly some odd shit in here. And that’s without considering that it’s a band full of man-sized human eyeballs.

I began this album with a fair amount of goodwill towards it: The Residents are praised in certain circles an avant-garde, experimental rock group, which is always an intriguing concept. I have a reasonable tolerance for Zappa, Beefheart and most prog rock, so I was prepared to kind of enjoy it. While the first few tracks had me on the fence, one-two punch of “Semolina” and “Birthday Boy” was a severe test of that goodwill. Repetition of electronic noodling is a hallmark, near-total absence of conventional melody is another, complete indulgence is another. I won’t waste too much more time dissecting this one: it feels like at its base level, it’s there to be listened to open mouthed, in confusion, left lost for words. And in that sense, it worked on me. Somewhere out there will be full analysis of those surreal lyrics and their contextual relevance… but don’t come to me for that ever again, alright? ALRIGHT?! I need to be alone.

Enorm weird.

It took me a while to understand this album. But they were clearly channeling the avant garde music from the '60s. I could hear shades of early Pink Floyd and Napoleon XIV. But you have to want to hear this type of music or it becomes very trying. In the end, I was waiting to see which ended first, the album, or me cleaning the bathroom. Unfortunately, I finished cleaning the bathroom and still had to hear the rest of the album. Scale: 5 - My absolute favorites. 4 - Albums I like. 3 - It was ok to listen to but I wouldn't seek it out. 2 - Didn't like. 1 - Absolute shit.

Well that’s one to put down as an experience. Pretty nuts.

Very different. Not sure I liked it.

I'm only giving them two stars because I'm sure they somehow influenced bands like Primus that are much better than them

Definitely interesting. Purposefully off-putting. Enough interest that I'm glad I listened, will not listen again.

What even was this

I'm happy that there were so many short songs so that I wouldn't have to listen to them for longer than I needed to.

Vreemd. Maar wel interessant. Niet per se heel goed.

Rating: 4/10

there’s some part of my brain it scratches well.

Reminds me of Primus but not in a good way. Some interesting elements but I'm baffled as to how this got on the list. What am I missing?

That was weird

Meh

The popular TV show "Parks and Recreation" features a character named Oren who is creepy in subtle but mildly interesting/entertaining ways. He is the human form of this album. Primus vibes Left Rights vibes Splash of Tom Waits

Just because you can doesn't mean you should. The sounds on this album were quite unsettling. I nearly stopped listening as it was making me physically ill.

New band for me. (I knew about the eyeballs) Avant Garde? Its pretty terrible.

A fever dream put into music.

Not for me

Kind of a tough album to just sit down and listen to. Sounds like the soundtrack to an old animated horror movie, and I think would be more interesting if accompanied by some sort of visual medium. 2/5 Won't listen again

weird af

Bizarre. Maybe something that could grow on me, or maybe something that could force me to claw my own eardrums out if I listen too long. I don’t feel like finding out today though because I just don’t have the listening fortitude to do so.

There are a handful of good things about this album: 1) I managed to download the 30 minute version rather then the longer one with “bonus” tracks that the link directed me to; 2) an example of 70s avant-garde experimental music clearly belonged on this list; 3) it was at least a vaguely listenable example. Mostly; 4) I didn’t entirely hate all the tracks; 5) it’s better than that god awful Mariah Carey record I endured; 6)* hopefully 1 and 2 combined means we got away lightly with this sort of thing (although it seemed longer) Someone came in the kitchen when I was listening to this and asked what the hell I was listening to. They have a point. At least it's not Rumours, 1999 or Thriller (two of which I scored lower than this...). Not a fan really, but as I say, there’s worse things on this list. * I’m from Norfolk

I usually like to play devil’s advocate for the lower-rated Avant-garde albums like this one, since the average user here seems to dislike anything that’s remotely outside the realm of a Led Zep/Beatles LP. That being said, I can only advocate for these things if they’re good - this album tested my patience, and despite listening to some of the B-sides even there was not a single melodic shred I could grab on to. I love music that fights back and challenges the listener, but this is toeing the ‘noise’ line of noise rock a bit too hard

I want to say I like it more than I did, some interesting moments though

2/5. This is surely an album that stands out as weird and rebellious but hasn't aged well. I have heard weirder albums. It's definitely not terrible, just not as important as it may have been. It is still a little funny.

2 y siendo generoso

This is bad. It is really weird art rock.

Interesting, but avante garde music is not really my thing.

Always found these guys interesting but their music is a little too weird for me

The first two tracks made me think that these guys might have influenced They Might Be Giants, which turned out to be correct. That predisposes me to give them the benefit of the doubt, but boy, they used and abused that. This should probably be a 1, but the first track is kind of fun, I guess. Best track: Constantinople

Weird stuff, love the eye ball tho

Good on the Residents for making exactly the kind of music they want. It’s definitely not for me, though.

WTF did I just listen to?! I'm giving it a 2 and not a 1 purely because it wasn't too long of an album so the torture was over quickly

if u told me i had to listen to this before i die i would kill myself first to spite u

It's an album i guess. Definitely very weird and experimental and i do enjoy weird stuff, but this was mostly just trying to hard to be weird, to the point i don't see anyone listening to it a second time. Still an interesting listen I'll give it that.

Comedy vocals with a blues tinge. Experimental music. Reminds me of Beefheart. And Throbbing Gristle (but far more musical, albeit stripped back). Great arty gimmicky eyeball anonymous image.

Of course this album is horrible to listen to but I did laugh out loud when Birthday Boy came on

We were just coming out of the dark days of music. Disco sucked and many bands were trying different things. Some of these attempts to be different worked and others were like this album. Plus 1 for trying.

Outcast music.

Virtually unlistenable but I’m sure they have a plan for works domination.

I think I respect this on some level, but I certainly don't enjoy listening to it.

Watching in an art-gallery or performance context? Could be a 4. Just as a purely listening experience? No. Rounded up to 2 cause I can appreciate what they are doing but... definitely not pleasurable.

Une véritable farce de la durée d'un album. Rappelez vous que Robert a laissé ces chanteurs d'anniversaire intégrer le générateur et a refusé l'entrée à Céline Dion.

Hard to listen to.

For why....

Some of their stuff was inventive but a lot was just not my style musically.

Cała płyta bekowych piosenek Waitsa, ale gorsza

Are you tired of listening to Monster Mash over and over again on Halloween? Throw this one on and really freak out those trick or treaters.

One is glad that there are artists and musicians out in the world willing to try anything and everything, but this is no more than a curiosity, really. The most understandable thing about the record may be the fact that the band members chose to keep their identities secret. "Bach Is Dead" indeed.

*1978. American 'art' rock. *This would be excellent for Halloween Horror Nights. *Otherwise, it's just creepy and weird and awful. RATING - Nightmares/10

Just bad.

Well, Duck Stab/Buster & Glen was the longest 33 minutes of my life. This album is in the bottom 5 for this whole site and after listening to it, I can absolutely see why. This album feels like the worst drug trip that you could possibly have with music that's utter chaos with tinny quality to it, very odd vocals which go from this deeper sounding guy to an annoying cartoon character and lyrics that are just about the most random shit you could possibly imagine. All this combines into an album that is very rough on the ears and in my opinion, has got to be one of the worst things that humanity has ever created (that is, if this group even are humans) Best Song: The Booker Tease Worst Song: Birthday Boy

Feels like when I listened to Cannibal Corpse and Aphex Twin as a child, I listened just to say I listened. Horrible and not nice.

Woahh, this is extremely avant-garde. I've heard a lot of out-of-the-box albums before, though nothing as condensed and dedicated to humour as this. You can tell they had a lot of fun recording. It left me super confused by the end, like they were all in on a very funny joke I wasn't privy to. Though it didn't feel mean-spirited, more like light-hearted teasing than taunting. For that, I actually didn't hate its surreal collection of random instruments and noises. “Blue Rosebuds” reminded me of the animated web-series ENA, so that's a plus! However, I'm not rating it any higher cause I don't think I'll ever "get" this type of music, and it would be dishonest of me. There were moments of genuine immersion (e.g., I actually liked “Weight Lifting Lulu”), but they don’t last long. At least I was never bored! I guess the bottom line is: I'm grateful that this challenge continues to expose me to stuff I'd never go out of my way to find. The overall experience of listening to deconstructions like this helps me reflect on how limiting the definition of "music" often is, even if nobody has to love the end product itself simply for being different.

In my book, you don’t get a pass for being annoying just because you were doing it on purpose. This album goes out of its way to earn its 1 star. That being said, I see the vision. There are moments of clarity in this for me where I hear a genuinely interesting idea. Idk, I think my reaction is exactly what The Residents wanted so the way I see it I’m honoring their legacy.

I really hated this album. I feel like life and chance punished me by making me listen to all of this, especially because its original version has 14 songs and with reissue after reissue, the album ends up having 40 conceptually unlistenable songs from a musical standpoint. There wasn’t a single track that I fully enjoyed, I couldn’t even stand some of them but I continued with my ordeal anyway. I recognize the disruptive value of the proposal and I think I value having discovered them more for their historical value than for their musical. It was something I had to know.

듣는 동안 정말 힘들었고, 고막을 포기하고 싶었던 적도 있었다. Listening to it was truly grueling, and there were times I felt like giving up on my eardrums.

I didn’t last 10 seconds

This Experimental Rock album feels like being trapped in a carnival where someone is trying to imitate the sound of chalk scraping across a blackboard with their voice, while a warped fairground band plays in the background. The cheap-sounding synthesizers, distorted electronic textures and strange rhythmic patterns create the carnival machinery, while the heavily processed, shrieking and nasal vocals become that unbearable scraping sound. I feel less like I am listening to songs than being subjected to a series of bizarre attractions that are deliberately designed to make me uncomfortable. The short, abrupt tracks keep throwing another grotesque little scene at me before I have time to settle into anything.

what the fuck you know what, they probably had so much fun in the studio making it! They should not have released this to the general population.

Fun fact, Lizard Lady was written about me

As is so often the case, avant garde here is just code for "unlistenable self-important dreck that is utterly devoid of bangers."

Det här är bara konstigt! En etta

this is genuinely the worst thing to ever come across my ears 0.5/10 best song - the booker tease (i guess)

What the actual fuck is this?!? Awful, awful album

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??

… 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.

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.

What the actual fuck

Awful.

Önskar denna skiva vore 35 minuter kortare

Hmm. Underligt.

what the heck

I’ve never heard music like this before, and I never will again. Experimental crap.

This is just pure garbage. 1 star or F-.

I could barely stand this for two minutes, let alone two hours.

Hard NO. Made me feel like stabbing someone.

Holy f**** That was scary

They made an annoying and off-putting album, and this is something to be celebrated? I don't get it

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

truly horrendous

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.

This is awful.

There are bad albums and stupid bad albums that smell like fart. This album is from bottom stack of smelly ones.

Didnt enjoy this album… Too much for me.

too creepy

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

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.

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.

Would rate this lower than 1 if I could.

Well I did not care for that lol

It's like this album's sole purpose in life was to ruin my morning.

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