Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The Residents - Meet the Residents (1974)

-Released on Ralph
-1974
-US
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1. Boots
2. Numb Erone
3. Guylum Bardot
4. Breath and Length
5. Consuelo's Departure
6. Smelly Tongues
7. Rest Aria
8. Skratz
9. Spotted Pinto Bean
10. Seasoned Greetings
11. N-ER-GEE (Crisis Blues)

mediafire (320)

info (links to lyrics and more at the bottom)

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The Residents - ...Imaginary Jack (2005)

For short called "Imaginary Jack," the full title of Animal Lover's second/bonus disc is all the text up there on the CD, or, this:

I stood at my window staring at an arcing streetlight. A sudden wind made me pull my shoulders to my ears. I pissed into the dark. It smelled like canned tuna. My swollen lip throbbed. I could still taste the blood. My eyes rolled back looking for memories. I stopped. I was changing details in my mind, remembering only what I wanted it to be, not what it was. I had only a short time to do what had to be done, after that it would all be forever absorbed by my imaginary Jack.

-Released on
Mute
-2005
-US
-
One long untitled track according to The Residents, but split up into six parts.

Imaginary Jack @320

More info here

The Residents - Animal Lover (2005)

This is perhaps the best place for a Rez novice to start - it may still be terrifying and bizarrely dark, but it is relatively "accessible" - very emotional songs ("My Window," "What Have My Chickens Done Now?," "Elmer's Song" etc.). It was my first Residents album and for several listens through I was petrified, but too fascinated to stop. Welcome to another place!

-Released on Mute
-2005
-US
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1. On The Way (To Oklahoma)
2. Olive and Gray
3. What Have My Chickens Done Now?
4. Two Lips
5. Mr. Bee's Bumble
6. Inner Space
7. Dead Men
8. My Window
9. Ingrid's Oily Tongue
10. Mother No More
11. Dreaming of an Anthill (Teeming)
12. Elmer's Song
13. The Monkey Man
14. The Whispering Boys
15. Burn My Bones

Listen:
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Info (scroll down to bottom for links to pesudo-reviews/analyses)
Lyrics

Monday, April 26, 2010

3 albums by the Residents: Duck Stab / Buster & Glen (1978); Commercial Album (1980); God In Three Persons (1988)

This is an update of an older post, links replaced by links to 320 rips, all mediafire. Animal Lover was up here before, I will get it up soon, as well as some other Res albums in the future. Please enjoy:



"Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, The Residents have remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions; cloaking their lives and music in a haze of wilful obscurity, the band's members never identified themselves by name, always appearing in public in disguise -- usually tuxedos, top hats and giant eyeball masks -- and refusing to grant media interviews."

-
The Residents.com
-RalphAmerica.com

Some good Residents albums, @320:

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (1978)

Two EPs, though generally considered an album or something. Real good. I recently discovered Primus included a medley cover of the tracks "Constantinople" and "Hello Skinny" as a bonus on some issues of their debut Frizzle Fry. Neat oh.

-Released on Ralph
-1978
-US
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-Duck Stab:
1. Constantinople
2. Sinister Exaggerator
3. The Booker Tease
4. Blue Rosebuds
5. The Laughing Song
6. Bach Is Dead
7. Elvis and His Boss
-Buster & Glen:
8. Lizard Lady
9. Semolina
10. Birthday Boy
11. Weight-Lifting Lulu
12. Krafty Cheese
13. Hello Skinny
14. The Electrocutioner

Listen:
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Lyrics
Info

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Commercial Album (1980)

An album made up of 40 1-minute songs, based around the "concept" of a commercial pop song and reducing it to a one-minute jingle.

-Released on Celluloid
-1980
-US
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1. Easter Woman
2. Perfect Love
3. Picnic Boy
4. End of Home
5. Amber
6. Japanese Watercolor
7. Secrets
8. Die In Terror
9. Red Rider
10. My Second Wife
11. Floyd
12. Suburban Bathers
13. Dimples and Toes
14. The Nameless Souls
15. Love Leaks Out
16. Act of Being Polite
17. Medicine Man
18. Tragic Bells
19. Loss of Innocence
20. The Simple Song
21. Ups and Downs
22. Possessions
23. Give It To Someone Else
24. Phantom
25. Less Not More
26. My Work Is So Behind
27. Birds In the Trees
28. Handful of Desire
29. Moisture
30. Love Is...
31. Troubled Man
32. La La
33. Loneliness
34. Nice Old Man
35. The Talk of Creatures
36. Fingertips
37. In Between Dreams
38. Margaret Freeman
39. The Coming of the Crow
40. When We Were Young

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God In Three Persons (1988)

A concept album of sorts, although the music plays a background to "Mr. X's" narrative about his meeting of two androgynous siamese twins who have miraculous healing powers.

This ranks highly in my favorite albums, it's one of the Residents' best projects.

-Released on Rykodisc
-1988
-US
-
1. Main Titles (God In Three Persons)
2. Hard & Tenderly
3. Devotion?
4. The Thing About Them
5. Their Early Years
6. Loss of a Loved One
7. The Touch
8. The Service
9. Confused (By What I Felt Inside)
10. Fine Fat Flies
11. Time
12. Silver, Sharp and Could Not Care
13. Kiss of Flesh
14. Pain and Pleasure

Listen:
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Lyrics
After you listen:
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Analysis 1
Analysis 2

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Sun City Girls - Dante's Disneyland Inferno (1996)


One of two massive double albums released by SCG in 1996. Hard to really describe this one, it's a melting pot by normal standards, but they make it sound like an album should. When I started listening to this album, I really started to grasp just how good Sun City Girls are, and how much of a shame it is that pretty much everyone ignores their work.

-Released on Abduction
-1996
-US
-
-1:
1. Sexy Graveyard
2. Hector and Chino
3. Soft Fragile Eggshell Minds
4. A Bad Dream
5. Geography of the Swastika
6. Flesh Balloons of Tibet
7. Pay the Fiddler
8. The Brothers Unconnected
9. Hippie Conglomerate
10. Five Minutes
11. Charles Gocher Sr.
12. A Man Is An Insect Is A Flame
13. Jack the Ripper
14. Persistence of Vision
15. Dear Anybody
16. A Secret Revealed Unwittingly
17. Helen Waite
18. Jessup's Diary
- 2:
1. Ballad of (D)Anger
2. Bitter Cold Countryside
3. Ruby on the Ferris Wheel
4. The Ballad of Co-Dependency
5. Joan of Arc
6. Holiday for Shakespeare
7. The Harley of Horror
8. Floppy Pus
9. Bloody Zipper
10. Family of Nails
11. Fourteen
12. Sal Manilla
13. Six Kids of Mine
14. Dan and Ross
15. Book of Revelations
16. Bird of Prey

RYM info/reviews

Are ya nervous, fellas? Have a cigarette...smoke!

@192.

Sun City Girls - Horse Cock Phepner (1987)

A little more Sun City Girls for ya all.

-Released on Placebo
-1987
-US
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1. Horse Cock Phepner
2. Voice of America #1
3. Nancy Reagan
4. Esta Susan en Casa?
5. Aristocrats of Impertinence
6. It's Underneath the House
7. I Protect You From Me
8. Without Compare
9. CIA Man
10. Dreamland
11. Pornoshop
12. Voice of America #2
13. Eyeball in a Quart Jar of Snot
14. Passenger Seat People
15. Saint Bernard's Observation Booth
16. Kill the Klansmen
17. Cloaven Radio

Alright Harold, start up that mower!
(@256 or 224 or something)

RYM info

little bit of lyrics

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Sun City Girls - Sun City Girls (1984)

Get it. Especially if you've never heard them at all - this group's work can rip open a gaping hole in your perception.

-Released on Placebo
-1984
-US [as much as you wouldn't know it]
-
1. Caravan on Scars
2. Uncle Jim
3. Hitman Boy
4. Jokers on a Waltz
5. Rubbing Stamp Icons
6. The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Trick
7. Black Tent
8. 561b (For Alexis)
9. Rapping Head
10. My Painted Tomb
11. Trippin on Krupa
12. Metaphors in a Mixmaster
13. Your Bible Set Off My Smoke Alarm
14. Helwa Shek
15. Moment of a Million Lands
16. Woman in Mourning
17. Vomiting Diamonds

Grab it