Meet The Residents is a Electronic album by The Residents, originally released in 1974. On Gatefold: 50 pressings tracked, owned by 6 collectors.
Sound DNA
- Electronic
- Industrial
- lo-fi
- whimsical
- theatrical
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
Credits
Performers
- The Residents
- The Human BeinzFEATURING
- Ruth EssexVOCALS
- WoolVOCALS
- Philip FriehofnerOBOE
- James WhitakerPIANO
- Pamela WiekingVOCALS
- Bob TangneyBASS
- James AaronBASS GUITAR
- ZeibakVOCALS
6 collectors on Gatefold own this · 50 pressings tracked on Gatefold