Thoughts on The Residents?

thoughts on The Residents?

One of the only bands to have consistant good albums throughout their entire career, and they have around fifty albums.

Great band, especially the early stuff. But there are some gems in their more recent material too.

SHIP'S A GOIN DOWN

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I listened to Duck Stab. Wasn't into it. Production sounds too dated and thus simple, and yeah I get the cool lyrical wordplay thing they went for in some tracks, but I would have liked that translated into the music itself.

Is anything else really worth it from them?

>dated
You know when that was made right? They've always been a pretty DIY band, don't expect hi-fi audiophile twat-bait in the early records. Try Eskimo, and the Commercial Album.

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Disagree with that guy. Start with Third Reich and Roll or Not Availible and work through their discography chronologically from there

>Available

If you think that guy's gonna enjoy those after finding Duck Stab lo-fi, good luck. He should just go straight to Freak Show, God in 3 Persons, and Demons Dance Alone.

They're relatively accessible albums in my opinion. I listened to all of the residents stuff in chronological order and didn't even listen to any of their post commercial album work until I was already a fan.

Yeah but the guy didn't like Duck Stab, which is probably their most accessible. He whined about the production like a little bitch.

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i've listened to all their early stuff except for Thrid Reich RocknRoll
is it shit like i think it is or am i wrong

So? That doesn't excuse such sparse stuff as music. Like shit you had guys do lofi punky stuff that was weird, too but not that sparse in everyone from Pere Ubu to Chrome on Alien Soundtracks to Suicide.

I have a friend who thinks they're the greatest band of all time. I like them too.

Tweedles is their best album.

Im working through their discography. I absolutely love Duck Stab/Buster & Glen, Meet the Residents, and Not Available.

I'm liking the Commercial Album so far too. Snakefinger worked closely with the Residents too so if you like them I'd check pic related out.

70s: God Tier
80s: (Mostly) Shit Tier
90s: Shit Tier
00s: God Tier
10s: Mostly live performances rather than studio releases so I can't really judge

I don't know why most people shit on the 80s. They had the Commercial Album, Mole projects, Vileness Fats, God in Three Persons, CUBE E, the Residue compilation, and the 13th Anniversary Show.

The only stinkers are the cover albums (sans the Hank Williams side).

Nah they think the residents are way too weird

I like early Limp Bizkit and The Residents.

The Residents were a big influence on Primus and Primus were a big influence on Limp Bizkit

I listened to both Duck Stab and N/A.

N/A was vastly superior to it, the only track I would listen to off of Duck Stab again is the first one

>the only track I would listen to off of Duck Stab again is the first one

wowzers we got a pleb right here

>if it's not dense, it's not good

Tweedles is good but doesn't surpass the early material, not by a long shot.

You're wrong, it's not shit.

Literally "lol so quirky"-core

does it come anywhere near something like N/A

it's like the shitty spoken word parts from TMR except whole albums of it. awful band.

My mom dragged me to a residents show once. It was pretty fucking awful. For one, only two of the original members were there, not that it mattered, nothing could really save the performance. The lead singer is some fat guy in his fifties, dancing around onstage like a drunken fucking clown, all surrounded by the overplayed "grimdark carnival" trope. Every three songs was interrupted by these tryhard edgy monologues. God, it felt like an ICP show except replace the word "trashy" with "pretentious". Even my mom was talking shit about the audience, calling the crowd a gathering of "geriatric weirdos". All in all, I guess they were a crazy band at the time they came out but now it's pretty cringe.

If there's little depth in something, no it's not that good. Shit's radio pop tier.

Fedora tier band

LE ASS IS ON FIRE o.O-core

madmen

would I get in trouble for having that album cover on my computer? (I don't, I'm just curious)

I don't even know if you could find the original album cover anywhere honestly. Probably not?

There's an edited picture of it on discogs

Oh damn, its real. what the fuck.

i can only find the censored version

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good thoughts

Not Available. There's nothing like it. Please listen to in.

seconded

Keep in mind that the album isn't exactly something you should be listening to if you're on vacation. One of the main themes of the album is definitely depression. Keep that in mind, so you don't ''ruin'' your listening experience.

i think it's more like end of the world than depression