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)

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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

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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
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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

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Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished - Animal Collective

Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished (2000)

Animal Collective's first release, on then "Animal Records", now known as Paw Tracks. Very few copies were originally pressed, but it was re-released with Danse Manatee as a double album in 2003 on FatCat Records. All songs were written by Avey Tare, while Panda Bear contributed the percussion; the original was released as not Animal Collective, but "Avey Tare and Panda Bear." The re-release was labelled an Animal Collective album.


The first release of Spirit contained this message on the insert:

"Not long ago a young boy named Avey and his friend Panda Bear roamed the patch work which covers the land (some call it forest). They were looked upon by Pan and raised by fairies and the Angels of light who play deep within the Wood. 'Let's make the music of childhood,' Avey shouted one day as the two played. Panda thought this idea was a good one. 'I can use my magical Rhythm sticks and you can play your Sun harp,' he said. So the two began to create melodies and Panda brought rhythms from every direction while Avey sang. All of the songs were about wooden toys and invisible friends and filled with the light of the forest. This is the first group of songs they played."

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Satanstompingcaterpillars - Flower Slides

Black Moth Super Rainbow's pre-BMSR group. Good stuff. Pretty similar, but more laid bare.

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Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti-Scared Famous

Psychedelic lo-fi at it's best.

Scared Famous manages to cram a mish-mash of '60's psychedelic, '70's disco beats, and an unrelenting pop hook. Originially released in 2002 as a double-album, Scared Famous/FF, it contained 19 songs, but was paired down to 17 (and with a re-arranged track order, strangely) with the re-release as a single album.

Ariel Pink was signed to Animal Collective's Paw Tracks label in 2003, after passing on a CD-R of his music to them at a show, becoming the first artist signed to their label.

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