Album
Meet The Residents
1974 · Electronic, Rock
11 collectors on Gatefold own this
Meet The Residents is an Electronic album by The Residents, originally released in 1974. On Gatefold: 50 pressings tracked, owned by 11 collectors.
About
Even with decades of hindsight, The Residents' 1974 debut album still sounds as strange as it is <i>sui generisMeet the Residents</i> is an outright assault on preconceptions about rock and (in the broadest sense) pop. Absurdist lyrics, offbeat vocal chants, primal percussion, and discordant piano stabs are all part of the musical menu, but so's a sort of postmodern-classical avant-garde sensibility, entailing sophisticated snatches of melody and harmony amid all the carefully controlled carnage. The lengthy closing suite, "N-ER-GEE (Crisis Blues)," encompasses everything from someone goofily singing along to the original recording of The Human Beinz's '60s garage-rock hit "Nobody but Me" to a snatch of drunken barbershop-style vocal harmony, ending one of the oddest albums in "rock" on an appropriately out-there note.
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Tracklist
- 1Boots1:38
- 2Numb Erone1:06
- 3Guylum Bardot1:21
- 4Breath and Length1:42
- 5Consuelo's Departure1:44
- 6Smelly Tongues1:46
- 7Rest Aria5:06
- 8Skratz1:44
- 9Spotted Pinto Bean6:38
- 10Infant Tango5:56
- 11Seasoned Greetings5:08
- 12N-ER-GEE (Crisis Blues)9:47
Sound DNA
- Electronic
- Industrial
- lo-fi
- whimsical
- theatrical
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
Between 1000 and 1050 copies of this original version with the 'defaced' Beatles cover were ever pressed. Of these around 100 were rejected and disposed of due to warpage. This is the mono unedited version, recorded February - October 1973.
[Back cover:]
"Nobody But Me" by Human Beinz used courtesy of Capitol Records.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- The ResidentsARRANGED BY, PERFORMER COMPOSED BY, ARRANGED BY, PERFORMER
- Bob TangneyBASS
- James AaronBASS, GUITAR
- James WhitakerPIANO
- Pamela WiekingVOCALS
- Philip FriehofnerOBOE
- Ruth EssexVOCALS
- The Human BeinzFEATURING
- WoolVOCALS
- ZeibakVOCALS
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