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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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
Listen:
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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!
