Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

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

Awesome thanks

Cheeks 1.5

So bad

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?

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

Abstract junk. Why do we put our selves through this

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!

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 tried. But this was really trying.

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

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.

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.

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.

Um... yeah. (3.4) ★½

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 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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Yuck.

#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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Ridiculous. How did they ever get an album made.

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

Bullshit

Absolute mashed potato. I can’t believe I sat through 2 hours of this nonsense. I felt like gouging my own eyes out with a teaspoon during the Birthday Boy song, and the journey continued even further downhill from then on. There is no god.

Well, that's a weird one.

35 minutes of my life I will never get back

Annoying as fuck. Also: oH iM sO wEiRd bEcAuSe I liKE tHe rEsIdeNTs!🤡

gross, no.

truly unpleasant listening experience, yuck

- Ok - hab nicht alles gehört. - Kann mich bei allem Spott dagegen wären, dass ich zwischendurch wirklich gut unterhalten war. Vielleicht aber aus den falschen Gründen. Aber wer entscheidet schon, was falsch und richtig ist. 1,5/5

- Als ich die Platte geöffnet habe, schwante mir schon nichts Gutes, fast 2h, lange Tracks, weirdes Cover - es war wirklich anstrengend und ab den Live Tracks habe ich erst nicht mehr die Kopfhörer aufgehabt und dann irgendwann beim 13 Minuten Song abgebrochen -0,5/5

genuinely could not listen to this. why the fuck is it 2 hours long .5/5

Strange experimental rock along the lines of Tom Waits. Not my thing.

This was... Interesting... And Unnerving

Too strange and artsy.

God awful

I'm sorry but no. Luke tells me these are very popular and it's all avante garde and all that but NO THANKS. I feel cynical that noone actually likes this they just pretend to see cultured and arty. These made me angry this album and worsened my PMS symptoms

There was NOTHING in that to enjoy, just some blokes fleecing a load of arty people and laughing at them when they say it's good.

Just by listening to this I can tell that The Residents are all pretentious douchebags who would laugh at you for not “understanding art” when you, rightly, tell them that their album is complete garbage.

Generally speaking I don't like any musical style that includes "avant garde" or "experimental" in its description, and this "experimental rock" album is no exception.

Experimental albums like this need more context. Without any this is just noise.

I guess you like it our you don't... I don't

CIA Torture Music - I wish I could rate it less

:(

Really? It seems like a conceptual album made by a child. Full of annoying and repeating sounds that makes you go craaaaazy. Now I have to pay a visit to a shrink.

Trash, with a side of garbage.

What the actual fuck?

1/5

Atonal, experimental, semi avant garde 'music'. Awful.

Nope. I look at the albums that are the lowest rated and want to be very open minded about these. I listened a few times and this album is just not good. The Residents are not even English, which came as a shock to me since that's an easy way to get in this book. This is avant garde music but it is not like Frank Zappa or anything of the like. It's just not enjoyable.

This might be the worst album on the list and the worst I've ever heard.

It’s an experience, but one I’d care to repeat.

I respect how weird it is but not enough to make this good

These guys are terrible. Nothing resembling a song until Weight Lifting Lulu that sounds a little like if Sonic Youth did a surf song. Otherwise, just awful. These guys make 30 seconds seem like an eternity. I never need to hear any of these songs ever again. The only enjoyment I got out of this was that they made a few noises that confused my dog.

wtf is the piece of shit...

pure dog water, this was probably the worst album ive ever heard, the vocals were awful, the lyrics were disgusting, the melodies were boring or didn’t work. it was as if they tried to make an album this bad because it seems hard to make an album this bad, if give this a 0/10 if i could, what possessed the creator of this list to put this on here.

This may be the worst album I have ever listened to. This was terrible. I get that it is “experimental” but I think they need to keep experimenting because this was truly awful.

This album sounds like a tween attempting to be edgy. I really dislike the sound and production and any attempt at lyrics should’ve been taken out of the final cut.

Was soll man denn davon halten? Experimentell, einmal hören reicht!

Like They Might Be Giants but with no talent and nothing to say. I'm mad about losing this hour of my life.

Constantinople is just bizarre, but in a good way. The rest of the album is just as strange, but it is not something I would listen on a regular basis

This album has balls. I know because it showed me it's balls and I didn't want to see them.

No

I think this is close to one of the worst things I've ever inflicted upon my unsuspecting ears, it's noisey, completely random trash and I hated it so much

More special than good

This is unlistenable.

Absolute drivel. Why the fuck is this included???

Le doy una estrella porque no le puedo dar menos. Una broma de disco

I don't need this in my life.

OMG😱

They are taking way too many drugs.

Up there with the very very worst we’ve had.

It amused me a lot in places and is totally bonkers, and I didn't actually hate it but come on... it shouldn't be given the light of day as it's a load of random shite

I won't judge anyone who enjoys this; I like a lot of weird music too. But if you think this album is anything more than a guilty pleasure, you're as deranged as the people who created it.

Oh come on now. Why on earth did this album make this list? This is terrible. This is probably the second worst album I've reviewed thus far. Just... skip this one if it comes up on your list y'all. It's not worth it. There are just no redeeming qualities found here.

ho paura duri troppo poco più di 30 minuti, troppissimo.

I'll definitely remember The Residents! They're the ones where you're pretty sure the whole thing is a joke. What is going on? Has my brain broken? Have their brains broken? Something here is broken.

Favorite Track: Blue Rosebuds

just not enjoyable in the slightest

Hay una canción sobre Constantinopla y no está en este disco.

Not even worth a listen

Again, not smart enough to get this

Not for me got half way through

No, no, no - that's not mine. What kind of music is it? I like psychodelic, rock, progressive and many other styles - this sounds like "early industrials". Sorry, only one star from me for this "noise"

Det var sjovt. Men nok ikke på måder The Resistents havde tiltænkt det

Bad! But there was something almost charming about it about halfway through so this gets my first ever High 1.

No idea what this bullshit was. Couldn’t finish it

Seriously? This sucks. Deserves 0 stars.

Could not get through this. My God.

If I could give it lower than one star, I would.

This album was so trash

Very much not my thing. 1/5

A little bit of a creepy vibe. Idk about this. (Fuck this is almost 2 hours long? Might be one of the few albums I haven't listened to in full...)

Dreadful

Odd

Wow. I just. No words. What? Why? Seriously beginning to wonder if this list is a prank.

Good God, that was terrible.

These people were high when they recorded this album. This is barely music.

What the hell was that?

I can tick it off but I now need to move on and forget about it.

Honestly - what was that?

what is this album? calling this experimental rock is generous, because the residents created such tuneless, grating garbage that might as well have been a bunch of toddlers banging instruments together. absolute nonsense that i don't understand why this album is here. with all of that out of the way, let me say that for some unknown reason, the residents were purposeful in creating this album. the distortion, the out-of-tune violins, the terrible laughter together created such an uneasy and unpleasant feeling. i couldn't help but be reminded of the old nintendo game, maniac mansion. real ones will know what i'm talking about. still, not enough to raise it from the 1 it deserves.

Unhinged and nightmare-ish -- and not in a good way. Don't get me wrong, I can normally go for these qualities in music, but I need the music to actually be, you know, good. The Residents genuinely seem to go out of their way to make this album as unpleasant and uncomfortable as possible. In any case, I realize they didn't intend to be taken seriously, but when "unpleasant" is your goal AND you are able to achieve it with flying colors, you're not going to get a very positive review from someone who is listening for pleasure. I can appreciate this as art, but I just don't appreciate it as music.

может мне расскажут, почему этот альбом важен, но пока 1, сорри

O album me soa experimental. Algumas músicas me deixam triste ou com outros sentimentos ruins, infelizmente não curti muito.

This is dogshit. Why in the world does anyone need to listen to this crap before they die? If I could rate a zero I would.

Just noise. Sounded like kids dicking about.

I listened, sorta. If these guys hadn’t been in disguise, they would’ve disbanded long ago, exposed as the whack musicians that they truly are. But wow, anonymous eyeball masks make this art? Something my brother would’ve listened to in the late 70’s, and he probably did. He was the first person I knew to have a cd player, payed about $900 bucks for it. And his name was Ralph. And he was fucking weird. Hmmmm. Maybe…

Ah you know what? Sometimes , I just want to listen to some actual music, that I actually like. Fuck you 1001 albums and fuck you The Residents, I can’t be arses with this bullshit today.

I can appreciate the experimentation, but the product is simply something that I don’t want to hear.

As we often see on here, the line between genius and insane can be thin. I feel like I am pretty open to weird music, but this one was too much for me. This is a late '70s American art rock album. It's really weird, no way around that really. There's very little structure, lots of weird drones and whatnot (which is actually one thing I do like on here), odd lyrics. It's a lot. The Spotify version is almost 2 hours long, and I cannot imagine listening to that much of this. The original release was only 34 minutes though (which is what I listened to), and that was plenty. They tried something, someone clearly likes it so that's good. Favorite song: Constantinople Other: Hello Skinny 4/15/24

1.5 WHAT I ENJOYED: the kind of fun/ominous instrumentation on the quieter pieces like Hello Skinny, the fairly short track length. The idea that if someone finds this appealing, I can definitely make music, too. GRIPES: really awful, crunchy & strident guitar sounds; pervasive sense of doom/glowering vocals throughout. Zero sense of who might actually put this on and enjoy it without something to prove in the Year of Our Lord Twenty Twenty Four. RECCOMMENDED IF YOU LIKE: annoying your neighbors, triggering tinnitus, Halloween music. #492 revealed / #524 rated

I can’t believe there are two songs referencing Constantinople. I like the other one better. This album really isn’t for me, with the exception of Bach is Dead.

Stupid

Not sure how this garbage ended up on this site.

Not good

This is the closest I have come to a musical interpretation of a sore tooth. It is awful and painful and like being stabbed by a duck, but you keep wanting to listen to it the same way you jab a sore tooth with your tongue

You have to be fucking with me. This album was such complete shit. What the fuck man. Literally what the goddamn fuck. If I could give 0, hell if I could give negative stars I would.

……..sometimes taking fuck loads of drugs and picking up a musical instrument just isn’t a good idea

Ehm immediately no aso iwie got mer das erschte lied scho mad anxiety und ich cha nedmal erchläre wieso?? Aso so mini ganzi brust zieht sich zemme und ich chas ned ganz chöne lose. Ich zwinge mich trotzdem mal wiiter z lose will ich ned album based on 1 song cha judge. Fuck this ganz ehrlich nach 2 lieder gibi scho uf und es isch mer recht egal hani nume 2 lieder gloset ich gib mer das npm ich ha bessers verdient

aaaaah das isch weeeirde shit ahaaa. ok isch funny? d songs nocjem erdte sind chli sehr weird?? blue rosebud au afoch gestöhne? finds au wenns will weird sii chli ass? bach is dead. indeed er isch. richtig. er isch so dead. es speichered irgendwie nöd was ich schrib aber ich schrib au immer s gliche. s isch afoch weirdo shit. hello skinny singeds afoch hello dolly? electrocutuioner isch irgendwenn afoch synth lärm. wäääääh

constantinople funny aber nervig wird das es album wo allgemein so chan zemmegfasst werde? oke ich bruch schomal e pause ui schochli sehr ahstrengend booker tease tönt jz endlich echli "normal" hahaha nevermind he es isch funny aber brutal müehsam ja sie wennd eifach nerve ich respektiers

Terrible protopunk.

I don't know what I just listened to.

Absolutely not. It’s like it’s trying to be 3 different genres in the worst way possible. Who tf made this list??

Holy fuck that sucked. 35 minutes of godamn noise. Ewww

860 albums in and I think this one was the closest Iv been to just switching it off. Really didn’t get this album at all was painful to get to the end I never want to relive that again 1 star.

Unlistenable shite.

At least the stabbed duck didn’t have to listen to it.

No

I forced my coworker to listen to this with me so at least that part was fun.

No.

1970s album that definitely felt ahead if their time. This is the first album I did not finish because i didn't enjoy the first 14 songs.

Terrible, awful, never want to listen to it again. Only made it through 3 or 4 songs, and each of those I didn't even manage to listen to in their entirety.

I had half a mind to give this two stars on the basis that it did a good job at making me feel like I was about to be murdered (maybe that was the point). The booker tease I suppose was some kind of post-modernist joke that was marginally fun maybe. I’m really clutching at straws here. Fuck you for promoting senseless violence against ducks anyway

What the fish

This is bad in many ways. In the bin.

Fuck no

Awful, demonic. The forst couple of seconds were ok butit went downhill from there

Duck Stab is currently the 3rd worst album in this project and to be fair, it’s significantly better than the 2nd worst which I’ve already got. Make no mistake, this album is absolute trash 1.9/10

I can appreciate a fair bit of weird, so I should like this more, but maybe I'm getting too old?

What the heck was that?

This was a test to ensure I was still listening, right?

I listened to 2 ¼ songs and literally hated every minute of it. I decline to listen to the rest. This album makes me wish zero stars was an option.

What the fuck was that? This is like an entire album of teenagers messing around in the sound toys aisle at Walmart. Is this somehow better if you can see them wearing the eyeball hats (which are admittedly cool)? Every time you think there might be a song with redeeming features they quickly disabuse you of that by doing whatever it is they are doing. I simply can't imagine this bringing joy or catharsis to anyone, though I feel it does somehow explain the existence of Les Claypool. Fuck this album and the Residents. 0 stars.

What the fuck

I don't really know what this is, or tries to be, but it ain't it...

This is beyond weird.

Didn't make it through.

Wtf was that

I can only think the band was suffering from delusions having eaten a slightly iffy duck liver. Even worse than Throbbing Gristle? Rating: 1/5 Playlist track: The Booker Tease Date listened: 20/02/24

If I could give 0 stars I would.

Terrible. Wow. So bad

Just bad. I do not understand why this has made the list. It should be removed. It was annoying. I would love to hear why someone liked this album.

Too wierd. Not really songs.

Unlistenable why does this even exist?

ass surely there were 100s of other albums that could've been placed on the list ahead of this one either that or I'm just too dumb to understand avant-garde and experimental music

C’est le pompon. Ce disque est à appréhender comme une installation d’art moderne obscure. Il parait que c’est important, mais certainement pas pour ses qualités plastiques, et de toute façon on y comprend rien. Ca part tellement dans tous les sens qu’au bout d’un moment le décalage rend la chose très drôle. La battle de kazoo sur “Elvis and his boss” ne me fera jamais pas rire. Commettre une chanson aussi affreuse que “Bach is dead”, c’est osé. Ils y mettent beaucoup d’énergie, beaucoup d’eux même, et le résultat est tellement foutraque et à l’envers de toute forme d’harmonie qu’on peut au final applaudir mollement mais sur un rythme parfaitement aléatoire et entrecoupé de kazoo pour rester dans le ton de l’album. Mais passé la surprise, la découverte de la surenchère dans l’affreux, c’est juste insupportable.

Nah, just weird and unlistenable.

Bottom 5

Well that was horrific. After skipping through 5 tracks I couldn't take any more.

Dubious honor of being my least favorite album in a while. 1 star.

I listened to the first track, turned it off and proceeded to miss an entire fortnight of reviewing purely based on the torturous dread associated with having to go back and persevere with this. Second time round I got all the way through side one (the Duck Stab component) Then I looked at the 2hr run time, died a little inside and turned it off. I attempted to access my deepest and darkest musical pretensions to identify some kind of redeeming feature related to its arthouse influence on the broader scene but didn't even get close. I note the Spotify version is the "preserved edition" which I think just about the most unnecessary move in music history; this could very much do with whatever the opposite of being preserved is.

This answers the question of what people did with their strange music projects in the days before YouTube. Turns out, they were still able to cut a record and release it to the public. I actually would give this a 1.5* because it made me laugh more than it made me angry for being on this list in the first place. But I am going to round down because I do not support the stabbing of ducks. Even if that duck happens to be similarly armed.

Little too eccentric from my taste.

Oh gosh no. Just no.

WTF

wtf?

Absurdist “music.” I assume I had to hear it to know someone tried it; it cannot be that anyone liked it.

Wow this album is crap. Super annoying sound, similar to finger nails on an chalk board!

Good god.

Why?

I listened to three songs and was like “no, I’m trying to have a pleasant feeling kinda Saturday.” So I technically listened for a liiiiiittle bit.

Nope

…um….??

Woke up and checked for my dailly album to listen to while I started my day. When I heard this album, I thought I was still asleep having a nightmare till I realized I could turn off this god forsaken music

Awful. I can just see their smug, annoying. college avant-garde art collective faces when the released this shite onto an unsuspecting public. I would happily punch any one of the Residents in the face for this atrocity of an album. It's unfortunate that you can't give zero stars or negative stars. The world is a worse place for having this album in it.

Is this "They Might Be Giants" from the 70's? It's just experimental stuff, sounds like something I would have made with my high school friends. I would never listen to this again. Cannot believe this album is part if the 1001, it's really sad that this took up a space leaving something else out.

Big yuck from me. I listened to about a minute of each song. Oh my God, it's awful!

I could not relate to a single lyric, theme or instrumentation on this album. Did not like at all.

There should be a zero stars option.

Terrible

I truly don't get this. Mostly unrelated noise. I've said this for other albums, but I don't understand when someone would sit down and listen to this. I can't think of a single moment, except maybe tripping, that this would be enjoyable.

Nois at best - maybe useful for... Driving people into madness

I can appreciate the creativity here, but this album did nothing for me. I'm ok not visiting it again.

No music; worst thing ever

Weird, discordant, very art rock. It feels like it was important for its time but these days it just feels like every other art avant guard rock album. I cant see myself coming back to any of these songs.

duplicate

Not a fan of the art rock style.

This was a very tough listen for me. I understand that the point is to be strange, unsettling and completely unconventional, but it just does not work for me at all. The songs feel chaotic and disjointed, with melodies that never really develop and structures that seem deliberately awkward. I can appreciate that it is experimental and probably influential in certain circles, but as an actual listening experience I found it grating rather than interesting. It is the kind of record that feels more like an art project than an album you would ever choose to put on. Favourite track: None stood out for the right reasons Least favourite: The overall sound just never clicked Album artwork: Bizarre and eye catching, which probably sums the whole thing up

not my jam

Definition of 2hrs in hell

This is what I imagine a band made up of oompa loompas with guest vocals from Les Claypool would sound like.

I stuck it out but what even was that cacophony. I won’t be listening again. 1*

completely unlistenable. I get it avant-garde. but its not good?

Inascoltabile

absolutely horrendous

Eww

I knew I was in for a bad time after the first 5 seconds of this album. It got better in the second half of that first song but the rest was just as terrible as my first impressions. I thought it was unique enough to carry me all the way through to the end but I had to tap out with about 5 songs to go.

This was awful.

Interesting for sure! I hope I never come across this again!

No. Just no. Thank you

It's been a while since I got a completely shit album and it's come on Christmas day, excellent. From the mechanical screaming in "Constantinople", to the screeching in "The Booker Tease" and the whiny toned singing in "Blue Rosebuds". This album is truly shit there are no redeeming qualities, except for the fact that the agony only lasts 35 minutes as it's a relatively short album. I'd imagine if a demon had a birthday they're play "Birthday Boy" at the party. I'd be surprised if this album wasn't included in a "let's just throw some pure garbage in there for fun and see if they notice" type situation. My faith in music is once again, brutally damaged by an album on this list. Merry Christmas.

Awful

Juu ei, en ymmärrä. Kolistelua, ei ees kunnon runoja tai eivät ainakaan kutsu keskittymään

I am so very tired of subjecting myself to utter nonsense. If anyone had heard me listening to this album, they would have to assume I'm an insane person.

Nope. Way too avant/eclectic. Couldn't get into it and it was really long.

Not for me

Nope

No. NO!

What the hell!?

Very much dislike

I dont understand this list at times. I dont know why I listened to this entire thing but I did.

Kevyt stressi päällä tämä musa alkoi ahdistamaan ja vituttamaan. Biisit hyppien läpi ja lopulta jäi kesken. Vittu mitä paskaa.

Nope

Odd and not enjoyable.

Ugh

Nope

This is the most unpleasant album I have ever listened to. No one should be subjected to this.

0/12, 0%

It's too early in the morning for this shit.

Barely music. Next time, leave the duck alone and stab me instead.

Good album for auditory torture

In today's episode of: "Albums You Know are Going to be Horrible Based on the Cover Art Alone"... yeesh, one of the worst albums in the history of music. This is the kind of music that would be played during Willy Wonka's boat ride where those horrible images were being shown near the start of the movie. And to think that so many more deserving artists could've occupied this spot but no, the author of the 1001 list said, "We must have Duck Stab/Buster & Glen" by The Residents! 1/10.

I guess there's a couple of interesting turns of phrases every now and then in the lyrics, but this is just too weird for me. Not enjoyable. 1.5 stars

If you need a palate cleanser after listening to a couple of Taylor Swift songs, this should force a complete reset of your system. A very challenging listen... non-sensical lyrics, and carnival like random musical elements. I'm going to give 1 star to the combination of 1) the instrumental which was by far the most listenable piece, 2) the new standard it has set in my brain for what qualifies as lyrics, and 3) the bad ass cover art and album title.

Not a fan

This is something... I'm not sure what, but it's something. Not sure we can call it music... These guys remind me a bit of Primus. Not in musical style, but the fact that they don't take themselves too seriously, and the ability to play instruments is low on their priority list. The singer, if that's what we can call him, sounds like a cross between Morphle (from the kids tv program of the same name) and Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo (from South Park). Let's just say that neither of these characters should be given a record contract. I guess it's fitting seeing as Mr Hankey is a literal piece of shit, and this music is shit. But one thing I started to understand as I listened to this album is its less about the "music" with these guys, and more about the experience. Their stage attire (eyeball masks with top hats), their nonsensical lyrics... It's all an experience. These guys are not meant to be taken seriously. To me they fall in the same experimental category as Einsturzende Neubauten. Here is an excerpt of their odd lyrics: An ether eating Eskimo Would gag upon your sight Convulsed into oblivion From laughter or from fright Overall, very odd. I'll never seek this out again. Instruments made noises on this record that they should never make. I don't know who listens to this regularly, but it was interesting enough to listen to once, but that's enough for me. Favourite songs: Lizard Lady? I guess? Least favourite songs: this whole fucked up album, but Birthday Boy most of all. 1/5

Straight fuck off with this art rock shit. I hate music that sounds like it’s intentionally obtuse just for the sake of it.

What the fuck is that ! It feel like they tried to do dubstep without the tec for it. Like take all the creepy and weird sound in a horror movies and make a song with it and yeah don't need rythm just weird sound next to each other. and some time it feels like they got something going like yeah maybe this song will be good and bam some weird noise without any rythm. 1978 make sens i can see some doing acid and listen to this and dream of another world.

Well, that's legitimately one of the worst things I've ever had to listen to.

This is a 2 hour experimental album. Nuff said.

This may the first collection of music that ever made me think suicide would be a better alternative. This was comically awful. People actually thought this was good to let everyone hear. And then to add it to the list of albums people need to hear. What is going on?!? 0.5/10

I've heard the name "Residents" thrown around over my lifetime but never explored the band at all. That was until today. Kind of an incredible story and journey that has been present for 50 years, and it's safe to say that the sounds and racket that was produced by them has influenced even modern artists such as Ty Segall and Ween. Whenever I find paintings or music that pushes the boundaries of what "music" or "art" is, I always have to take a step back and remind myself what the goal or message of this was. Surely the Residents weren't trying to make a "good" album or highly commercialized hit. It explores heavy synth and, much like their other albums, nonsensical lyrics and absurd noises clashing together into a heaping mess which is kind of hilarious. Is it for me? absolutely not. Was it heavily influential in the realm of experimental music and pushes the boundaries of what "art" or "music" is? Yes. Does it challenge what "good" music is? At what point are discordant sounds and strange lyrics supposed to be bad? These are the questions I always keep in mind when i hear one of these albums. Because art is in the eye of the beholder, to me, its bad. 2/10, giving a point because of the influence this group has had, although this apparently is not their most popular album.

I can't

wtf was this

Garbage

Completely dumb.

Art rock is really not my thing. Just couldn't appreciate the sound and ducked out a few tracks in.

idk i do not like this avant garde meta bullshit

Couldn’t get into this at all

JFC. It can only improve from here. Like all of Ween and the Flaming Lips’ very worse impulses screamed through a short circuiting megaphone.

I could not get through this. Yikes.

Mysterious, dark, experimental, innovative, extreme, brave, nonchalant, terrible. All I have to say.

Worst album of the month. I hit skip half way through most tracks.

Holy shit.

0/5

Did not enjoy this one

You say "art rock" I say "annoying sounds analogous to music" 2 hours of this? Nah

You know when you go to an art museum and you see a painting that's just some colour on canvas and you wonder what is going on and if someone is playing a trick on you, yeah this is like that.

hated it

No thanks.

Wow, unbelievable. Not in a good way

listening to original album of 14 tracks. weirdest album i've heard, maybe ever, but I didn't hate it and most of the tracks were decent. wasn't familiar with art rock 2/5. Continued through 2018 pREServed edition for an additional 26 tracks on Spotify (2h version). Started a 2nd listen through on day 2 as this is probably the last time i listen to this album. Decided 1/5 as I will never listen again.

Hard listen, too avant-garde for my taste. I don't like

just awful. like if you said "can I ruin everything that is cool about Primus" and found a Very Yes answer here

I get "albums you must listen to before you die" doesn't mean "good albums" but this is just taking the piss. Morbid curiosity held me in for the duration, and I'm never going back.

Nope

that was... something

I don’t have time for this.

I definitely prefer actual music over weird, abstract sound experiments. My cat looked highly confused while this was playing.

Fantasia soundtrack on a nightmarish LSD trip, what is this.

Why the fook is this shite on the list. Minus 1. Unlistenable.