Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

ohhhhhhhhhh. another of the lowest rated. and fuck it. i didn't take any lsd but it's just a trip gone bad... it's pure terror with all that distorted and out of tune singing with unsettling noises. literal horror game soundtrack. that bunch of germans screaming and banging on metal is even better. what's their band name again, Ein-stür-zen-de Neu-bau-ten? (Well i am just pretending. i know EN since blixa collabrated with nick cave. but never listened to anything.) 1/5

Utter garbage. I’m up for a bit of avant-garde as much (if not a little bit more) than the next man, but 💩 needs to be called 💩. An unpleasant, tuneless assault on the ears.

As a longtime Primus fan, heard a few familiar tracks on this one. This is nice and weird, love it!

bat shit crazy

I guess I'll give it a star for creativity because it was so unique but this was just flat weird

71% Best: Constantinople; Blue Rosebuds; Hello Skinny; Must-Hear? No, unless you really like experimental music.

what the literal fuck is this

Not so good

Just a very bizarre album, and not at all something I'd expect to find in this list. I like some of the experimental aspects of it, but the weird voices and sounds take things too far for it to be enjoyable. Several songs have annoying high pitched vocals and what sounds like a kazoo, one has people chanting with plugged, nasally noses, and another includes a decent sax piece that starts to screech at the end. Most of the songs sound distorted or creepy enough to belong in a horror playlist

'good' music is a fish hook, at a point bad shit loops back to being great shit

Literal trash

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

What a trip. Can I give all scores at once?

Let me make it clear: torture is not entertainment. That said, "Duck Stab/Buster & Glen" is one of the worst albums I've ever heard in my 30 years of life. My first reaction to the album was: "What the fuck am I listening to?", that's how scared I was when I started listening to it. It was so bad that I couldn't even finish listening to the album (although I still managed to listen to half of "it"). Listening to this album is a torture that I don't intend to ever go through again in my life.

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

This made me laugh? So I think I was listening correctly. This is absurd.

Um. This is bizarre. I feel like this is something you would hear as background noise for a modern art museum installation. Interesting for sure, but really hard to get through. Was hopeful this was a death metal/punk album due to the cover art alone :-D

WTF is this??? 1/5

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.

So cool I’m a huge fan wow

wow reminds me of r. stevie moore, the outsider music that is just so compelling to me at least. Really love this and hope to come back to it.

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.

If its shite, is it art?

Honestly this album didn’t do it for me. I appreciate the weirdness, but I would never choose to listen to this.

Nothing resembling normal, this album feels like a drug-fueled ride through the land where discordance and art house meet. Not to be listened to often but certainly see where it should be listened to at least once.

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.

I’d give it zero stars if I could

You can't fault them for their ability to think out of the box. More interesting than some of the snoozeville rock on this list. Highlights include: "Constantinople" "The Booker Tease" "Laughing Song" "Lizard Lady" "Semolina" "Weight Lifting Lulu"

Ingeniously demented

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.

Say what you like about this, at least everyone has something to say, no-one has to rack their brain for an opinion, unlike the fourth or fifth Elvis album from the list. And honestly, given how low-rated this is, so I can say to other raters is: grow up a bit and be more open. Do you think this list should be all Britney Spears, Beatles and Nirvana? Safe and uncontroversial? Did you think you were going to get through this project unchallenged!? I've had to suffer through four Smiths albums, you can harden up and get through less than an hour of The Residents. Anyway, what is there to say about this? For sure it's not an easy-listening album, but it definitely isn't meant to be. Others have mentioned Primus and I hear the influence too. I also hear a lot of early Butthole Surfers. Like Primus this is sinister, uncomfortable, but also humorous and I don't think it's taking itself too seriously. I did like the run of tracks from Hello Skinny onwards, and the bonus tracks I preferred to those on the main album. I originally was going to say that I didn't enjoy the music much on its own merits, but actually the later tracks were pretty great. It certainly it made me smile at times, and it made me feel something other than that I just had to wait for it to be over as I have with so many dull mainstream albums. Call me a contrairian, but I actually really enjoyed the experience of this album. More of this kind of thing should be on the list, make listeners open their minds and horizons!

Did not finish. Don’t make sounds like that

point2.

Imagine you have just graduated art school, all full of piss and vinegar, and you are ready to create. You make this album, then realize none of you can actually play music and perhaps some of you have never even heard music before. Just terrible noise. Worst album so far.

i mean… ok

i wish many things, but mostly that this album was never made

So these dudes were brown before brown. This could easily be a lost ween album. I bet they found inspiration here. Now to figure out who turned the Residents on in the 60s.

Any “music” that often comes with a disclaimer that you need to be on drugs to enjoy it should be wiped from the earth. This is utter garbage. The only thing remotely redeeming about it is the Primus cover of Sinister Exaggerator. Even that I would gladly do without for this album to never have existed. I would give it fewer stars if I could.

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.

Driving to work and listening to today's album was surreal. Getting up early and driving to work in -14 degree weather to go to a place that in the grand scheme of things I don't really want to be. Nine to five for over 20 years and to listen to this. I was going a little loopy. Bach is Dead almost broke me, but I've been loopy many times in my life. The last 3 tracks saved me from fully losing my mind. The stars mean nothing, I don't know what to do. Is this better than U2?

this is one of those rare occasions where I really wanted to like the album but couldn’t fucking stand to finish listening to it. it’s like they made good, interesting shit and then put forth great effort in making it unbearable for human ears. whoever listens to this regularly should seek therapy.

its giving the blue man group

I would give it 0 if i could. What the fuck.

No. I listened to this back to back with “Low” from David Bowie, which isn’t exactly top 40 pop listenable stuff. But the difference is stark - Bowie manages to say something that feels like a complete, mature statement that is art. These guys sound like a bunch of high schoolers who could be good if they stopped fucking around in the studio. It’s immature and weird for the sake of being weird, not for the sake of advancing art or making a statement. Theres enough glimmers of talent that I won’t give it a one star but it’s close.

Albums like this make me wonder why I bother with this project. I hate suffering through these ugly noise albums. Ugh how’d they even find this crap smh

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.

Amazing. A perfect 1 star.

Playing through all the songs once is enough for 10 lives.

Weird AF. I didn’t hate it.

This album is straight up anti-music if I've ever heard it, even more so than something like Captain Beefheart. Supremely strange but so intriguing and unsettling at the same time. I didn't know I wanted this in my life but will most likely be coming back to it. 7/10

Groupe totalement inconnu. Cet album est une aventure en terrain inconnu. La surprise est totale, il ne ressemble à rien de ce que j'ai déjà écouté depuis 50 ans. La contrepartie est qu'il est extrêmement difficile d'accès, et difficile à évaluer ! =>+2 pour l'expérimentation soit 3/5

This one sure pushed my limits on my no skip rule. It did have a few bass lines that were groovy. A little bit of a Les Claypool feel to some songs.

The longer it lasted, the less I could tolerate it. When my neighbor started drilling and it took me too long to realize, it's not part of the music, I knew: It's not for me. I do like experimental stuff like Pere Ubu, but this feels too forced.

This isn't good by any metric you can measure, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't have fun listening to this one.

unlistenable garbage - this is what happens when everyone thinks they have what it takes to create experimental music (spoiler: they do not have what it takes).

Piece of shit

Barely listenable. I've said before, I don't mind a bit of experimental, but I'll be experimenting with the 'off' button now.

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

Avant- gard noise…art not not music

This was a tough review to write... On the one hand, I greatly appreciate experimentation with sounds, and without pioneers in the field, we wouldn't have the greatness we have today. On the other hand, this particular album just isn't landing with me. I listened to it three times just to be sure, but it failed to trigger that internal magic that sparks when you've found something special. While it does have its moments, it ultimately hits more like noise than music. As a contemporary comparison, put this up against Kraftwerk's 1978 Die Mensch-Maschine. One is CLEARLY more polished. I'm still going to give this a 3, though - not quite for what it is, but rather for what it was at the time, and for what it no doubt helped inspire afterwards.

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…

gonna be so real, i didnt listen to this album but i really love ducks and i dont like ducks being stabbed (i heard like 30 seconds and didnt like it much either)

A new discovery for me, interesting stuff, being a Zappa fan this hit the mark for me ⭐⭐⭐⭐

This wasn't any dumber than Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Nice try

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

Wow. I really do like "weird" music. But there is enjoyable weird music, and weird music that is trying to hard to be weird. This is trying too hard. 1 star.

I can't get into this at all. I like weird music, but this kind of weirdness doesn't work for me. 1 star.

I think Whit called this one when he asked that I turn off the “nightmare music” on the way down to Russellville. I disliked it so much that I stopped after a few tracks.

I’m glad we live in a world where different people come to music for different purposes, but the purpose this album serves (or at least seems to serve) isn’t for me. I won’t say it’s “bad,” but I can confidently say I will not be returning voluntarily.

I'm glad it exists, and it was interesting and kind of fun but not sure I'm in a rush to listen again.

Very different and interesting album. Some of the songs would’ve been right at home on a later Beatles album, really give a vibe of the Beatles at their most experimental or the Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd. Interesting stuff!

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.

Weird album but I liked it more than Meet the Residents. I definitely found myself thinking "this must be what Butthole Surfers were listening to". 3/5

This album is so ridiculous it's fantastic.

Boring and unremarkable. It’s as if they all got drunk and someone pulled out a bad karaoke machine. Truly awful.

Interesting, but not in a nice way

Well, it’s not forgettable, but of course neither is salmonella.

Your time here on Earth is too precious, too fleeting, too goddamn valuable, to be wasting even 35 minutes on this pretentious dog shit.

Really enjoyed this. I could really hear the influence on contemporary bands like Fat White Family. Experimental and odd but also playful and catchy.

Weird and wonderful…and thankfully quite short.

Maybe it's because I got a second(?!!) Verve album yesterday, but I somehow prefer this to the endless amount of Britpop on this list.

Great name. Great cover. Unlistenable.

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

What if instead of being amazing, Ween was the worst band ever? This album bravely answers that question. This might genuinely be the worst thing I have ever heard.

Too weird and scary

I was checking my history a couple of weeks ago and realised that, whilst I had had a good number of the highest rated albums on the list I had not had any of the lowest. The next day, I got Dagmar Krause’s Tank Battles, and today I got this. I was happier two weeks ago.

Worst album I’ve ever heard, and I like weird stuff

This is one of the weirder albums I've heard. I'm glad I was here for it.

Look. They’re clearly fucking mental. But they’re having a very nice time and I enjoyed being a part of it.

Imagine coming across this on vinyl in the 70s. Some weird shit for sure. Why not?

This is the album someone puts on after you say "I'll listen to anything" and they reply "ANYTHING???"

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.

The wrong kind of weird.

Not even sure what to do with this album. On the one hand I didn't like it, but on the other it's definitely something I've never heard before. Giving it points for being interesting if nothing else.

Definitely the best of the unlistenable albums on this list. Joins the ranks of captain beefheart and throbbing gristle. But this one is much more enjoyable. I could be inspired by this album, maybe paint or draw to it or something. Lot of it sounds like Devo's bizarre demos, curious who is inspired by who.

I'm sorry I can't hate this. I've heard so much music, that when I stumble across something that sounds this unique, and just flat-out surreal, I have to praise it. I really like the art behind the Residents, they have a pretty cool anonymous thing going, and when skimming through their music videos, I was happy to see that their colorful visual aesthetic matches their dream-like sound. This is real "dream pop"...last I recall, my dreams aren't pleasant and drenched in reverb, they're nonsensical, surreal, and, more times than not, inspiring - kinda like this album. Don't get me wrong though, I kind of wanted this thing to end about halfway through. But the journey was an intriguing one, even if choose to never embark on it again. The best songs were 'Semolina', 'The Electrocutioner' and 'The Booker Tease'

My kind of humor, my kind of madness. I like things that both alienate and fascinate which this album does in abundance. Disjointed melodies, surreal lyrics, and unsettling atmospheres, what more could you ask for?

# Album Name: Duck Stab-Buster & Glen # Artist: The Residents # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Absolute dog shit. This is not music. This is wank. # Top Tunes: You wot? Absolutely sweet FA # Would I listen to it again? I wouldnt give this one to my worst enemy.

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.

Kind of expected to hate this based on the first song, which was terrible and obnoxious, but honestly I kind of enjoyed the rest of it, at least to an extent. I can definitely understand why so many people hate this and why it's one of the lowest rated albums on the list, but at the same time, I completely understand why it's on the list. There is something innovative about it, and I can hear how it influenced other artists around this same time. Weird for weird sake is fine if it's done right, and I think this is for the most part, and it doesn't take itself too seriously either. This could have been a lot worse in the wrong hands.

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.

What a ride.

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

Strange but a fascinating band.

Best Song: Constantinople. This got a brief chuckle out of me before I realized that this was by far the musical and comedic highpoint of the album and it was all downhill from here. Worst Song: The Booker Tease. This is literally just noise. Overall: I appreciate experimentalism as much as the next guy, but I feel like too often experimental bands really just have an aversion to editing. This album is stuffed with dozens of tracks (and according to Wikipedia, this album was one of the first of 40+ presumably similar offerings), and I just wonder if any thought or curation went into any of what is presented here. Sure there's a few moments that give a sort of funny-itchy feeling, but everything feels like a first draft, thoughtlessly created and equally thoughtlessly consumed.

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.

hmm. I can always appreciate.. but I will likely never listen to this again

I’m a fan! I like these oddities on this list. Quirky nursery rhymes for adults. There’s enough holding these together to move past the feeling that’s it’s just a bunch of sounds.

I going all in on this. Art with a capital "A". Certainly there are moments of dissonance but it's mostly playful. Rarely has music been both this experimental as well actually listenable (this may not be a popular opinion). Ideal for this list.

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

I dont even know what to say about this. Absolutely unhinged. Maybe it does deserve a spot on the list because of how insane it is

I feel like I am being trolled. This album was not good for my mental health

Any variation of the song Constantinople is always a disappointing addition to an album but this particular cover of the song was viscerally obnoxious. Starting the album off with it is a bold choice and it is one that does not pay off. The songs somehow get worse as it goes on. I don't know what else to say besides this thing is fucking terrible. Why it's on this list is beyond me but I'll bet you good money that they're British. This supposition is based on a well-trodden trail of missteps on this list that always seem to have that in common. I might be wrong about that but it's sort of impressive how bad this album is. I enjoy a lot of experimental music but not this I fucking hated this. I saw the song title "Birthday Boy" and thought that if it turns out to be any sort of Happy Birthday song I'm turning the album off. I was right so I did. Fuck you list for even knowing about this. Every fucking physical version of this album in any form should be burned and buried and all digital storage of it should be wiped by a big magnet. Only listen to this if you truly hate yourself and do not value your time. There's somehow an extended version of this album on Spotify. Ick! Get it off of everything everywhere I hate it

What the fuck are you doing to me Robert?

This album came out in the late 70s, but it sounds like a fever dream from the 90s to me. I don't know why but I just picture a warped Pee Wee's Funhouse mixed with early 90s Nickelodeon cartoons but hosted by John Wayne Gacy in his clown costume. Quirky and creepy, more of a performance than a musical album.

Mostly unlistenable dreck - this strikes me as art for art's sake. That is to say it is without any discernible purpose. The best part of the album was the songs were, gratefully, short.

not my music at all. experimental genre? anyway. yuck. not for me.

More like ear stab

I get why people were influenced by this but that person is not me. Some songs are listenable and others aren't but it gets more annoying the longer you listen and very tireseome.

I'm all for people being experimental, but not like this

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

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..

Dra åt skogen

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

This is...something. If I hear the word Constantinople one more time I may scream. Blue Rosebuds is awful too. At least its only 35 minutes long?

really interesting

Creative, funny, playful

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

Bastante raro. Versiones raras y oscuras de canciones conocidas.

To be honest, I skimmed this and found it really a challenge to enjoy. It's like the soundtrack to a mass murder or something. Blech.

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

On album #924, I have finally found the most intolerable album on the list.

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

“I have no idea what’s going on.” -Towlie, South Park These guys miss the mark of typical music by so much, so often that they made a new mark. Experimental art rock? Um yeah. The amount of LSD consumed while making this album has got to be impressive. I should hate this, but I don’t. I like it. Like I said: I have no idea what’s going on.

tf the duck do to you man

3.75

15 seconds in, I felt that duck's pain.

I've heard of The Residents but haven't listened ty this album. Quirky and brilliant. I really liked it.

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.

man i truly don't know how to feel about this one. on one hand, what a bizarre album to listen to. on the other hand, i was definitely amused by it. like, it's really goofy and off-kilter and reminds me a lot of some zappa stuff. i also don't know if i would ever come back to this album again. it almost feels like a disservice to this album to rate it, because i don't think its intention is to be rated, or acclaimed. it just sort of is. weird, wonky, and bizarre, sure. but i don't know that i would even put it on the same scale as a "normal" album because it doesn't feel like it applies to the scale. either way, even though i don't know what to do with this album, i am glad i listened to it. so i am converting that gladness into a rating.

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

This is without a doubt the worst thing I've ever heard. I'm actually glad it's on this list to raise awareness for people to stay far away. At least with some genres like heavy metal I can kind of understand why some people might enjoy it. No one enjoys this music. This is nauseatingly bad. 0/10 (0/5)

Too much synthesizer sound...I'm not a fan to those stuffs. But the arrangements are interesting. Quite Experimental. Honestly, I don't know what they're doing for half of the time, almost like a troll but I like it, I enjoy the unpredictability. And its so chaotic and 1980s horror picture show vibe, I love it! Isn't the 3rd track come from a Led Zeppelin song, How Many More Times? I recognize the bassline...? Other than that I think it's a close 4/5! I had a lot fun with this album.

Couldn't get through it

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.

Better than my initial expectations

Yeah this was nonsense. I did not finish it.

If I could rate it lower I would. Painfful

Was the included on the list of albums because it demonstrates how much you can suck and still gain recognition? Zero stars.

The instrumentals had potential but the vocals were beyond terrible

There’s a sub genre of music on this project ‘collection of random sounds’ - within that genre, and I can’t believe I’m saying this but, this is actually probably one of the best. I think in terms of what it’s trying to do and the atmosphere it’s trying to create it’s probably the most commercial and coherent of those albums. Having said that, I’ll also never listen to it again 1.4

Quando se percebe rapidamente que a pretensão é um poço de chatura.

Ég hef gaman af þessu og þeim.

No need for an album whose only purpose is to annoy you.

Gear: Abyss DIANA MR Artwork: 👹🔪🦆 Produktion: 🧏‍♂️📏💩 Musik: 🎭🧷💩 Wertung: 🦆/5

God I wish I were that duck right now

Ridiculous, just harsh sounding and frankly pretty spooky considering the season. Its good bad music if that makes sense.

Christ...

this is not music -1/5

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

I think I would have to be stoned to enjoy this. It's creepy and kind of disturbing.

0/5 Wow this was not for me.

Pretty odd, feels like it should be the soundtrack to a five nights at freddies movie, but I sort of get it.

Terrible, but with integrity.

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

Awesome thanks

Cheeks 1.5

I couldn’t really tell from the Wikipedia page why this was an essential listen, other than it was one of the group’s more successful releases.it seems like it was potentially early uses of electronic music and effects, which is guess is good for exposure to music history? Not worth a revisit, but interesting enough I guess.

Dear god, this was genuinely difficult to listen to. The whole album was weird and off-putting. It could be the soundtrack to a demonic carnival. Easily the worst album I've ever listened to. Zero stars.

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

weird atmosphere but despite that some melodies were really catchy

I... Don't hate this. It's weird & abrasive, but it puts off heavy Ween & Primus vibes. Super cool hearing something so experimental, so ahead of its time that would've influenced (much better imo) bands.

It's a bit like Willy Wonka on LSD or something. There's definitely a goofy, slightly spooky, Saturday morning cartoon vibe, and ya know what, it's actually quite a giggle. The Constantinople video is as mad as a hatter and my two six year old boys found it hilarious. I do quite enjoy music that is different or strange or spooky. What takes this to another level is how it's so consistently weird and unconventional. But I can totally understand why most people would hate this and even I would need to be in the right mood.

So bad

Like being bullied by someone a little unhinged.

I'm all for experimenting, and with enough 1970s psychedelics on board this might've made sense. Somewhat less so n my midweek morning commute to work though

Is it art or is it just annoying? Ahhh? But mmm? Is?

No doubt there's an experimental pioneering aspect of this in 1972, and probably inspired a bunch of our now well-loved artists, but it doesn't hold up to modern standards, it's just, well, annoying. 1.5

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.

Oh my god. Art or idiocy. The music does not internet my listening experience.

Is Les Claypool in this band?? I’m so confused. Primus and Ween owe this band a beer. I love the repetition, the sing songy trances, and the childlike approach to dark tones. Weird? Sure. Bizarre? Definitely. Cool, unique, and not boring? Absolutely!

Only my second one-star review. Weirdness for the sake of weirdness. Singer sounds kinda like Les Claypool Primus if he didn't have much musical talent. And the whole thing is just not particularly pleasant to listen to. I get the whole 'deconstruction of the musical paradigm' thing -- and at least it has a backbeat instead of just being noise. But it just goes...on...and...on...like the soundtrack to a badly constructed haunted house ride. And really -- all the live tracks and other versions? I mean, just why? So, really not my thing. I would have been just as happy never hearing this.

Abstract junk. Why do we put our selves through this

Started out really weak, but I grew to appreciate the later songs for what they are, weird for the sake of weird but still had a bit of musicality to them. Interesting album to say the least...

I've never disliked an album so quickly. This shit fuckin sucks, I stopped on the 3rd track. You could Cold Chisel, Men at work and Midnight Oil in place of this shit. Not happy, Jan!

Worse than Beefheart, was like looney tunes on brown acid

Who the fuck wrote this book. I’m gonna hit them over the head with it. It being my COCK ! ! !

Horrible! How did this album make the cut!

Didnt Like

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

Unsettling and unpleasant

This is maybe the perfect album for people who KINDA like regular music but wished that it gave them more anxiety. I would listen to this album again anytime I’m trying to feel like I’m trapped in a horror film, or to induce a panic attack.

I did not finish this album. Songs seemed like they should be in a horror movie. I just didn’t get it

Not getting it…seems like needs multimedia to be enjoyable. Not the point of being able to listen to an album and feel it.

The fuck was that. 3rd track is the best. It's instrumental.

I'm not lying when I say this might just be the most entertaining album on the list so far

I tried. But this was really trying.

Två jävla timmar av ungdomar i en källarstudio som bara gör oljud

This was weird and somewhat jarring.

No amount of fame or influence or anything could make me want to listen to this again. The first song right off the bat really showed me what I would be listening to and I was just so ready to be done with it. I really just wow.

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.

Art rock is often embarrassing, this is one of those times. Very rare it actually works (Disco Valente by Mr Bungle is the only time is actually springs to mind). Very happy to never listen to this again.

But why?

Noteworthy songs - 808080808 Magical Dream - Kinda catchy synth, but the rest is bland. Ancodia - Good background noise. Cobra Bora - Actually kind of cool, reminds me of Bomberman Hero. Pacific 202 - N64 vibes, but melody isn't great. Donkey Doctor - Nothing too special, weird ending. 808080808 - Really cool beginning. A little slow in the middle but stays interesting enough. Sunrise - Nothing remarkable. The Fat Shadow - Eerie. Very short.

Bad but not terrible

An extra 2 stars for how much I laughed.

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

Not as bad as it’s made out to be

It’s so out there that I kinda like it. Umm… but I also don’t. Weird. 2.5 stars.

No. Just no. I fucking hate the creators of this list. My 5 months old cousin can compile a better list. This album is just noise. Incomprehensible noise can be good if done good. This is bad. Very bad.

odd and interesting but as with many "experimental" groups it is not always clear what is actually experimental about it and what is perhaps just an intention to be annoying. It would help a lot if experimental groups always made a manifesto even if they never followed it.

3.5

Um... yeah. (3.4) ★½

Interesting sonically, but not really my prefered type of album

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

2 (scale is different for the normal one)

No ducks were harmed (I think) but my ears certainly were. This was actively atrocious. Most of the songs were annoying, pitch-shifted limericks or vocal tics given wonky synth treatment and sounded like 1930s Merry Melodies from Hell. At a push Blue Rosebuds was slightly weird, soft and dreamlike in a Doors End Of The Night/Eraserhead kinda way at least for the first minute so until the high-pitched vocals came in again and ruined it. Lizard Lady had kinda fun lyrics and story although I didn’t like any of the vocal delivery and second half again amped up the terribleness. Cool album cover.

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.

Could one describe this as 'slipstream music'? Inasmuch as it bears some resemblance to pop, albeit refracted through a prism darkly. As such, this peculiar collection - with elements of Silver Apples, the weirder end of Sparks and perhaps a dash of Beefheart - can feel like a challenge, in more sense than one. Yes, a difficult listen - but also a genuine confrontation with pop orthodoxy. In my view, perhaps the Residents are closest in spirit to the writer BS Johnson, whose experimental fiction involved peepholes cut into pages, or books that could be assembled (and read) in any chapter order. The Residents have made albums of 'commercial' music (literally, thirty second pearls of sound advertising imaginary products); they've mashed together the Beatles and the Third Reich in an unholy mixtape; and produced one of the most pungent concept pieces I've heard, 'Eskimo', which at times sounds like arctic ice shelves colliding with each other. A triumph of art and intellect over beauty and light; but a triumph, regardless.

This was like listening to a cartoon.

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

Ok, this fucking rules. I had Roxy Music yesterday and was bored as fuck. I got through this twice and was transfixed. It demands your attention by being absurd and funny. There is even the odd bit of melody thrown in for good measure. I imagine if aliens landed and only had 70's radio waves as a starting point and tried to make an album it would sound like this. As a cherry on top, it was my sons 8th birthday yesterday and i played him birthday boy and he howled with laughter. On the other hand, my wife asked me to turn it off as it was giving her an anxiety attack. Good art makes you feel something and this is good art!

It's like being booted from one bad dream to another. Just a series of terrible sounds experiments. I love it, it's pure art. 9/10 Strange noise.

This started off as quite interesting but rapidly (after one song) became very wearing. Monotonous AND quirky is some feat, I guess, but this seems quirky for the sake of it, in a 'look-at-me' kind of way. I am not sure what The Residents bring to the party, but I am sure it's not a party I would spend very long at.

WEIRD to a new level. Almnost unlistenable. Especially at almost two hours long. An interesting timne capsule, but I wouldn't go anywhere near this again.

Awful

6/10. Very strange and some of it was bad. But I found a lot of it to be extremely entertaining and creative.

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

This is frustrating because I really love the idea and what they stand for, I just hate the actual product. There is weird challenging stuff out there that still sounds good. This just doesn’t. I don’t like listening to this at all

I've listened to over 900 albums so far and this one is the first one to completely halt my progress. I've listened to some stuff I've really hated but I could at least get through it. I found this album so unpleasant and distracting I couldn't listen to more than a song or two at a time. It squatted in my way for days, a sonic Jabba the Hutt if you will, blocking my forward progress. In sum, I did not enjoy it.

Holy shit dude

As a Tom Waits, Ween, and Zappa fan, this doesn’t seem too far outside the box to me. Still delightfully strange, of course. Way more interesting than a lot of other albums on this list. 3.5/5

Mad collection of noises - mildly interesting to start with, infuriating by the time it's done

Fucking noise. How this is in the 1001 is beyond me

If this album is an horror genre, then Splatter, the worst…6/10

I tried REALLY hard to appreciate this album....I never got there. It amped my anxiety and just wasnt a fun listening experience!

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

I realize I have zero interest in experimental rock...

This one takes the title of Worst Album I’ve Ever Listened To.

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.

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

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

Experimentelle adhs musik

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

Hilarious and totally mental :D

How did they even come up with this? Like, seriously, has anyone ever managed to listen to the whole album? I'd not even say that it is bad, it's just reaaaaaally weird.. It's also fun how they made 2 or 3 versions of most songs: keep trying, maybe the 4th one will be the good one

Super experimental and surprising. Good for them. I managed to fit 2 hours album in 30 minutes at the rythm of "next please" button clicks. Would give it a zero if it was possible.

Delightfully weird. Loved the duck laughing song, the lizard accident. Best two happy birthday songs ever. What an amazing cacophony of screeching and unexpected sounds... it definitely broadend my horizons. Only problem is a bit slow paced and too long.

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

This is horseshit. Making bad music and calling it art isn't clever or profound.

I really don’t understand why someone would make this There’s a difference between being experimental/ challenging the boundaries of music and making noise with whatever you can find in your kitchen I was relieved when it finally ended (didn’t bother with the lives/remixes)

This is a challenging album. It's like They Might Be Giants but crazier and more dissonant. Some songs have Tom Waits-like vocals and others are circus'y. It's wild to read this from the wikipedia article: "Some noted that the Residents were approaching commercial elements with this EP" - I wonder how out there they were with prior albums. Along the way there were some songs that almost sounded OK, like Krafty Cheese. But the album as a whole really tested my patience, especially tracks like "Ds/Bag Suite".

This rating is based on the original track list, and not the "preserved edition " that adds a wholly unneeded extra hour or so to it. This was like tasting a weird new flavor of ice cream, where I was all "do I like this? I might like this." Weird connective tissue to They Might Be Giants, Violent Femmes and Modest Mouse.

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.

This was interesting, but not in a good way, felt like it was a joke gone wrong

Yuck.

Weird, funny, somewhat scary

How can someone come up with this in 1978?? This shit is wild! Seriously, I have no idea how it got on this list, but I'll take it!

This record is another world. What the hell was that? So surprising and wild!

#228. I listened to the whole thing (disclosure: when I get where the music is going I absolutely allow myself to skip and quit as I see fit) and I was rather captivated. And then I did something else, while pondering about what to do with this album. 1, 2, a weird 5 even? Read a bit about the band. Thought about Pere Ubu (4★), the recent Liars (5★) and Cave's Birthday Party (3★). And put it on again. Man. Record scratch sound effect. It's really not where the above bands are. There's a line behind which whacky weird "avant-garde" becomes a mere vapid, unfunny prank and The Residents strutted right past it. It's often sonically interesting but that doesn't help it. My opinion here may be influenced by the 'OoOoh, much swastikas very art1!' of them liking Rock'n'Roll to Nazism (the fuck?) on their 1976 album but bottom line: this is the musical equivalent of some online fucko asking "Triggered? 🤣". I hope to never hear this again.

dadaism in music form

I have no idea wtf I just listened to. Weird shit and not in a good way.

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.

This one was rough. Like who is the actual audience for this artist and this kind of music? Who the hell just turns this on unironically? This feels like the music from A Clockwork Orange. And maybe its not the music from it, but it's like the same kind of vibe. -"Hey do you want to listen to something that will make you feel really weird?" -"Ummm no..?" -"Let's just do it anyway. Its really fucked up." 3 Stars for Creativity.

Quirky as always.

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.

I don’t know what to say…

1. conztantinople - 0 2. zinizter - 0 3. booker - 1 4. rozebudz - 1 5. laughing - 0 6. dead - 0 7. elviz - 0 8. lizard - 0 9. zemolina - 0 10. birthday - 0 11. lulu - 0 12. cheeze - 0 13. zkinny - 0 14. electrutioner - 0 15. bardot - 0 16. zaz - 1 17. ouu - 0 18. jonny - 1 19. unlizted - 0 20. zanta - 0

Normally I enjoy and value experimental music, but this one is just noise. I can't give it other score than 1/5. I didn't pick up anything during listeining and I don't really know how it went on this list.

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!

"You're just too stupid to get it, it's supposed to sound awful, that's what makes it good." Yeah...pass

The disconcerting house band of a horror movie carnival freak show.

So, so bad

Sounds like it was created in a college experimental music class.

The album wiki describes this as art rock. Don't know about that, but whatever that is, I do agree that it should be buried deep under one.

Boo. Hiss

Literal garbage

A very strange sound, experimental rock fits the bill for Duck Stab/Buster & Glen by The Residents. At times it felt like I was in a fever dream from a b-grade horror flick from the 70s/80s. Best: Bach is Dead Worst: Birthday Boy Note: Spotify had the extended version, I only listened to the original 14 tracks.

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

Nonsense

L'autre jour, j'ai fait la (mauvaise?) décision de checker les albums qui se trouve dans la liste, plus particulièrement ceux qui ne le sont pas. Y'a tellement de bangers, straight up CLASSIQUE qui sont absents, leurs places dérobées par des albums qui ne rentreraient même pas dans le top 100001 de la majorité des gens. J'ai donc eu l'idée de faire la critique de ces albums lorsque le générateur me proposera une parodie d’album comme aujourd'hui. BRAIN SALAD SURGERY, ELP - 5 Brain Salad Surgery est un album phare du prog rock, de l’electro et de la musique 8bits. Sortit en 1973, Emerson, Lake et Palmer ont créé un chef-d’œuvre de science-fiction qui transcende le médium musical pour se déployer à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur de la pochette, gracieuseté du grand HR Giger. Leur utilisation et maîtrise des synthétiseurs Low-Tech sont inégalée; nous n’avons qu’à comparer avec l’album «electro avant-garde» d’aujourd’hui, sortit 5 ans plus tard pour apprécier le talent d’Emerson au clavier et la composition orchestrale de Greg Lake (ainsi que le drum EXTRAORDINAIRE de Palmer).

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

This is just disturbing. At times it feels like it could be building to something good but it always gets pulled back to just sounding gross. Listening to this album feels like watching movies like The Dark Crystal or The Neverending Story as a kid. Your just creeped out and want it to end immediately.

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.

I like music that doesn’t take itself too seriously but what the actual duck was that!?

i love this for more than its pure weirdness, but that's the overriding factor - it's just so out there, but it manages to be out there without being exhausting, which is a FEAT. i mean, it's easy to be weird, right? but a lot harder to be weird and not boring - and they definitely manage it with this album.

This is a weird one, had never heard of them before but after a few songs it really reminded me of the type of music your hear at really confrontational and provocative modern art installations. So, I was unsurprised to read that the band were a multimedia art collective. Not really something I'd listen to again, but interesting enough listen. I like to listen to really off the wall stuff like this every now and then, it kind of makes you question everything you think you know about how music is meant to sound.

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".

A challenging album to listen to, Duck Stab/Buster & Glen might be one of the most interesting albums on this list. I’ve never heard anything like it before, and that’s one of the reasons I started this list. Experimental rock that breaks all the rules of music including sounding good and having comprehensible lyrics. Which translates to 35 minutes of weird noises. God, now this is Punk music. Its short length helps a lot and on Spotify there are a lot of bonus tracks and different versions of the songs with better production. Quite thought-provoking and I’m glad it’s on the list but I don’t think it’s something I want to spend any more time with. I’m here for the weird shit and I’m glad this exists.

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

WTF? Then awesomeness. I deeply enjoyed the surrealism of this album and will definitely come back to it.

Ridiculous. How did they ever get an album made.

We’re not know where Les Claypool got his sound.

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

I can’t rate this low enough. Unlistenable and unbearable.

Not my cup of tea