Ha, back in the days of trying to sell and promote MTR, I was rejected by every music store except Music Millennium where I had good friends of my work at KBOO radio. I had to eat alot of humiliation, even from the KBOO management who hated it, considered it amateur refuse. Had I not been the Program Director, it would have been lost and forgotten! Some fans of my radio program supported MTR, like Kerry Sirois (RIP), Barry Schwam and a few others who encouraged me to play it and anything else the Residents produced. Coping with the insults to my integrity, I continued to promote everything up through 'Fingerprince' and Portland, Or became the epicenter of a world-wide phenomenon.
The Residents have been a very important band to me for a long time and I have always been thankful for KBOO and Music Millennium for helping those renegades have a platform.
Boots just kills me. Killer cover, of the weird ass variety. This channel should look into the Swedish Elvis, Eilert Pilarm. He makes no attempt to sound or look like Elvis, except for the white jumpsuit and sideburns. Can't get enough of his cover of In The Ghetto. But if you really want to talk god awful music, any record by Madonna, Van Halen, Led Zepplin, Yes, there's a laundry list of god awful music that sells. People eat it up.
@@SnackPackSilkens They sent copies of Santa Dog to west coast radio stations with no response until Bill Reinhardt, program director of KBOO-FM in Portland, Oregon, received a copy and played it heavily on his show. Reinhardt met the Residents at their studio at 20 Sycamore St.[4][5] in the summer of 1973 with the news of his broadcasts. The Residents gave Reinhardt exclusive access to all their recordings, including copies of the original masters of Stuffed Trigger, Baby Sex, and The Warner Bros. Album. Throughout this point, the group had been manipulating old tapes they had collected and regularly recording jam sessions, and these recordings eventually became the group's debut full-length album, Meet the Residents, which was released in 1974 on Ralph. To aid in promoting the group, Reinhardt was given 50 of the first 1,000 copies of Meet the Residents. Some were sent to friends, listeners and critics, and two dozen were left for sale on consignment at the Music Millennium record store, where they sat unsold for months. KBOO DJ Barry Schwam (a.k.a. Schwump, who also recorded with the Residents) promoted them on his program as well. Eventually, KBOO airplay attracted a cult following.
@@davidmcmaster2083 Ok, Madonna & Yes I can sort of understand, but Led Zep?!?! And Van Halen?!?!? They may be mainstream but "god awful"?!?!? NOOoo F'in WAY man! They rock! They kick butt-a-roonie!
Pierre Schaeffer was using manipulatined tape recordings of found sounds to create compositions in the mid 40s France. That was arguably the seed of modern sampling. That said there is fair chance that undocumented and now lost (due to obscurity and WWII) Soviet avant garde and Italian futurist works of similar type existed before then.
You gotta check out Not Available, maybe not for the worst album ever, but I’m saying that it’s a really interesting album. The preserved editions got a lot of great songs in it and it’s slowly becoming one of my favorites
The 1974 mono mix is way superior to the 1977 stereo used in the review. Highly recommend everyone check it out! Edit: I'm so happy I found this channel, can't wait to see more! :D
I first discovered this album on Spotify about a year and half ago. It was the last day of Sumner and I was reading some Spanish stuff. I love Beatles satire and I had heard of The Residents so I decided to check them out. I seen Meet The Residents cover and had a bit of a chuckle. I decided to listen to it. The first 20 seconds confused me, after that, I fell in love. Now it's my favorite album of all time. I own it on vinyl and I hope to have a CD of it one day. If I found a soul mate, it was probably the day I found this album.
Small complaint, 12:34 the dude says the album came out in the 1960s, which isn't true, it was recorded in 1973. But that's fine it proves my theory that this is a timeless album. The first time I heard it I thought it was from the 90s
Came here to say the same thing than you left this comment. Much appreciated for making this comment. Not the part of them being good because I don’t like it but the inconsistency
I really enjoyed that review, so much so that I’d like to formally request that this video branch off into a new series in which you make your way through reviewing the entire Residents back-catalogue of work. I’d watch every damn episode of that, but then, I’m a Residents nut...but then again, I’m not alone. We are a fiercely loyal cult of weirdos and we just love welcoming new members into our (epithelial) folds.
Meets the Residents is not bad art - it’s genius. It refracts the whole of our pop culture through a human subconsciousness and at the same time deconstructs music into primitive elements. It must be heard as a whole - the songs segue for a reason and much of the appeal and surprise is in the contrast between tracks, despite the same instrumentation used throughout. They must have arrived from Mars to have heard pop music in the way they did.
i agree 100% 👍 Cactus Malpractice is such a cool guy, and it makes me angry when people say "THIS ALBUM ISN'T "the worst album ever made" !!! " and i'm always responding with: Watch the full video, dummy- I can't thank Cactus Malpractice ENOUGH, for introducing me to this amazing band ❤
This album and Not Available had such a profound impact on me, masterpiece. They've got a great sense of humor but their weirdness is not just for show, as they gradually started making "song-songs" later in their career their lyrics get very dark, melancholy, psychologically informed. Albums like "God in three persons", "Animal Lover", etc have some pretty disturbing real world themes about trauma, abuse, rape, mental illness. They're a band that have had quite a remarkable arch. Anyway instant sub, I see you've reviewed some other awesome albums Like you there are many moments on MTR that almost give me a tear, they're able to go from abrasive to tearjerking
I.was ready to flame the fuck out of this video. But your enthusiasm and and warm positivity showed me this was not a lambasting, but a loving tribute. I would love to see you review other Rez albums. Guess the best way for that to happen is to. SUBSCRIBE!
Love to see someone talking about this band and album in particular! The Residents are indeed a virus, I’m glad they got you too. Keep it up! Feels like old RUclips and the genuine interest means so much
This album is rough and beautiful and wonderful. I have been listening to it for decades. Rest Aria is one of their most beautiful pieces. I have not listened to Skratz since Hardy's passing. I should soon.
The two most (equally) accurate statements in this video are "The Residents made it possible for you to hear a dream," and "It's just shitposting from back in the days."
“Take an opera piece, dip it into the abyss for just a little bit…” I’ve never heard poetry like that before. I’ve also never once gave The Residents the light of day until this video, so thanks, I have to check them now! Hopefully you feel the same about this band, too.
So, my history with The Residents, Diskomo was the first song (of The Residents) I ever listened too, I read a comic strip (Nemi) about how Cyan had a nightmare about an eyeball in a tophat coming towards her, having a mouth full of theeth´s in the fourth panel Nemi told her not to listen to The Residents before going to bed, because it´s not good for you. Well, let´s just say that I didn´t heed the warning and listened to this very song that same night. Never heard music anything like that before, I´ve been trapped by The Residents music ever since :)
This is now the third masterpiece that I've seen him review. I wonder when he will consider naming this series the Best Album Ever Made. This is truly an Avant Garde classic, one of the very best.
Required listening is Ralph Records 10th anniversary radio special, where then unknown (to me and most people) Penn Jillette was locked in a room for 6 days with only the Ralph catalog of records to listen to.
From Australia: I was first introduced to this album, at the same time as I was introduced to their album "Duck Stab"in 1976 & it's actually a great album. I was 14 years old, just discovered getting stoned - what a listen. The start of "Consuelo's Departure", coming off the end of "Breath & Length" - WOW. (I always though the end of the line of B&L was "without inordainance"). "Smelly Tongues Look Just as They Smell" - Brilliance! I used to write this line (& nothing else) on people's birthday & Christmas cards. More than 40 copies sold (it made it to Australia) & this was as great album.
If I remember right Meet The Residents was sent to the members families as a christmas present so the christmas themes in the last two tracks makes sense.
Thank you for reigniting my absolute passion for this record. I think I first listened to this about 15 years ago, in my early 20's, and it was *THE SHIT* for me. I remember feeling very apprehensive before the first listen, because I expected something horrendous and unlistenable, but it was furiously imaginative, hilarious, and had an outlook on music that was completely different from anyone else. This isn't comparable to Frank Zappa, or Captain Beefheart, or any contemporary classical or avantgarde composer of the time. This is so far removed from pop music, but it is *so pop* at the same time; so sophisticated, but so opposed to everything that's "high brow" in music; so complex, but so immediately impactful. I absolutely adore this album, and it also saddens me, because I'll never be able to do anything even remotely like it. Just as a curio, the version you heard seems to be the 1977 stereo remix. I happen to prefer the original 1973 mono mix, because it's a lot rawer, and also some songs are longer. But both versions are great, really.
I've heard people theorize that n er gee crisis blues is about the Vietnam war. The "go home america, 55'll do" is in reference to the number of deaths caused by the war at the time of the recording (ive also heard that it was in reference to the speed limit of 55 mph at that time) The vietnam war theory would also explain the christmas part because all of the narrator's friends are either at war or dead, and everyone else is focused on the war which is why "nobody is raising much of a fuss" about christmas.
Fun fact The Residents colbaertaed and made a game with a developer call Bad Day In The Midway. David lynch loved the game and started writing a script in collaboration with The Residents to adapt it into a tv show. However due to creative differences it never entered production
@@duckseatbread104 Wow, had no idea! Shame it never got finished, but I can well imagine that both Mr Lynch and The Eyeballs are very used to having things their own way, and aren't too keen to compromise on their artistic visions.
yeeeee, exactly i would definitely pay a large amount of money for those walls even if the price is like...i dunno...over 100 THOUSAND smackeroos...but that's a reasonable price, right? 😄 ...
So Great to see you review The Residents. I have a suggestion for Worst Album Ever Made. Mrs. Millers Greatest Hits. The second you hear her sing, you'll understand why this is a contender. Although this album is called Greatest HIts, it's actually her first album. Probably a marketing thing.
Well, the band didn't work with Beefheart, but they submitted tapes to Warner Brothers Records because he was on the label. They went as far as calling it "The Warner Brothers Album" with no artist name attached. Of course it was rejected, and returned to them addressed to "the residents".
i had three original residents albums; "meet the residents," third reich and roll" and "fingerprince." in the 70s you could only get these albums via mail-order directly from "ralph records." they had a unique logo which always cracked me up. it was a picture of jesus on the cross with his face covered by the yellow "happy face" and at the bottom was written "buy or die." basically the were critics of corporatism in society and in music. they were incredibly unique but you had to be in a very special mood to listen to their music. you couldn't just randomly play a residents song in the background while doing homework or vacuuming. and i never saw any video of theirs until about 5 years ago here on youtube. the residents were weird, that's what i liked about them. not my favorites but BETTER THAN THE SHAGGS that's for sure. the shaggs were unintentionally weird and bad. the residents were weird on purpose. that's just one difference between TRUE art and schlock! i was reminded i had two other residents albums; "duck stab" and "not available.'
@@shannonm.townsend1232... i always thought ralph records was exclusively for the residents. i didn't know others recorded on the label. thanks for the info.
Surprised nobody in the video mentioned the part with the high pitched...screaming? Near the middle in N-ER-GEE. Though that mightve been a part that was cut from the stereo version, apparently that version cut like 7 minutes from the album
If you like Rest Aria you should listen to the secret track at the end of disc 2 of the preserved version of Not Available. Its a different version of Rest Aria.
If you understand The Residents as sound, as much as music, and notes as much as bars, their music is easier to understand. Also, they often, IMO, commented on what was going on culturally in the time an album was made.
I've been an avid fan since the early 80s, seen them perform many times, finally got to meet and shake the hand of the "chief representative" Homer Flynn last February.
I'm sure you have listened to Boots again and my reason I love it really, is because it's a landscape. They are playing with moving tracks in and out of the mix with the only consistent temper of the Rythm Sticks just cracked together over the whole thing which provides the continuity.. than again.. that's probably not what the meant at all.
I think I'm obsessed with them, I loved The Third Rich 'n' Roll, Not Available, Duck Stab, Commercial Album and The Gingerbread Man so much. Check those out if you haven't already.
Hey y'all how are you, I enjoyed that review, really interesting, but why not change your show to "The weirdest album ever made"? In that case for me it's got to be Not Available, man alive when I first heard this way back about 1980 it just totally turned my music world upside down. It's creepy, it's dark, melancholy, and compulsive listening right to the end, and "Ship's a goin' down" still freaks me out every time I hear it. I'm the UK's No 1 Rez NUT, and proud of it!!! 40 years for Chrissake, I buy every bit of merchandise and go to every UK tour, this is why I am penniless and on the bones of my arse!! But do I complain? eh? eh? Anyway, take care everybody, have a G&T for me and Toodle Pip!!
There’s definitely something really beautiful about Not Available. Fingerprince is kinda sorta a let down, some of it I really like, but it kind of pales next to the rest of their 70s output
@@opaljk4835 Hi Adam, I agree, the 70's and the early 80's was, for me anyway, the spookiest time for The Residents to make their mark and to show the avantgarde world the course that they intended to take, I refer also to 3rd Reich, Duck Stab and One Minute Movies. Different tangents were explored in the 90's and on into the 2000's, so no one can accuse them of not evolving. Everyone has their own favorite period for The Residents, which is great and I totally accept it, how many other bands/projects has a 50 year CV like these boys?, it's fantastic. Myself and friends will be at the Newcastle and Leeds shows next February, we can't wait!! Thank you for your reply, God Bless and take care.
"The Residents somehow made it possible to listen to a dream" wow I've been listening to The Residents for years, seen them live twice, and spent god knows how much money on them and somehow this is the first time I'm hearing this and you are absolutely right.
Someone I showed this to said this review was just like Penn Jillette’s “Ralph Records 10th anniversary album” where he listens to every resident album (as well as others on the same label) His reaction to meet the residents is mostly the same
I was thinking the same. Only, the Penn Jillette recording was not real and he was not forced to listen to all of the records. It was all an act and scripted. He was already a fan.
I have the late-night show Night Flight which aired Fridays and Saturdays on the USA Channel in the late 70's and early 80's for introducing me to The Residents. Their wonderfully bizarre videos immediately caught my imagination and I dipped my toe into their music with the "Greatest hits" CDs titled Heaven and Hell. Both had their fair share of gems and WTF tracks. Anyone who is curious about the band I recommend their Commercial Album which offers a look at their work up to that point. There is a song titled Red Rider that I totally fell in love with. The Residents are an acquired taste. I am a very casual fan at best and haven't heard anything new by them in decades. As tastes change one might not be as adventurous. I missed an opportunity to see them live several years ago when they were to perform after a screening of the documentary The Theory of Obscurity. The documentary is outstanding.
My life wouldn't be the same without them. I found them when I was 13 in 1980, and just started buying everything they put out since then. Everything. Their music is woven tightly in the fibers of my life.
The Residents are the kings of the music. You must first go trough lot of other music styles like free jazz and then to understend what is it all about the Residents. You have to start to listen the music from inside out.
Can I have one of those bananas? I skipped breakfast. Also really nice to see Gezim in this video. Also also, I'm glad this album wasn't as bad as some of the previous ones you've covered.
I love the Residents have been listening to them since 1980 I grew up in the 1960's and 70's so I remember most of the music that this great group samples. Third Reich and Roll is a fave record of all time.
I can, and on occasion start here & work my way through the catalogue. With great pleasure. The Residents live is as close to life changing as I've gotten. 4 times. Some people no longer talk to me for dragging them to see the Rezies. Their loss.
The Residents definitely influenced other “weird” (aka awesome) bands like Ween,Mr. Bungle,Primus,etc. Oh and the vocals on Guylum Bardot reminds me of Les Claypool.
I got to see The Residents on the Mole Tour where they were playing live for the first time in years. Not long before they started, this group sat down in front of us and said "Oh good, we missed the opening act and we got here just in time for Wall Of Voodoo", and we were like "Umm, Wall Of Voodoo WAS the opening act!" :o) (as much as I like Wall Of Voodoo also...).
THE RESIDENTS ARE TOTALLY OBSCURE BANDS AND SNAKE FINGER. TOTALLY ORIGINAL I ONLY LIKE THIER EARLY ALBUMS. LOVE THEM OR HATE THEM . MY FAVOURITE ALBUM IS DUCK STAB. NOW GO AND BUY IT. CHEERS
I mean most of seasoned greetings seems like tounge and cheek but the ending part is actually beautiful and like the only time there vocals sound like not cartonnish
This whole alblum reminds me of the really drunken off key music they use in spongebob whenever there speaking basically in spongebob during some of the scenes were there like talking there are these really off key goofy weird sounding background scores which are very slow and are like random notes pretty much and they use unusual instruments like one uses a contrabasson another one uses a toy piano and there is even one that uses a melodica and one even uses a really weird instrument a contrabass clarinet
This album is a freaking miracle when you think about it. All competent home recordings from back then are impressive, but this one is just an incredible use of their resources at the time, before they got more technologically advanced
this is one of my favourite albums of all time. I heard it in my late teens. bought the record in recommended records store in wandsworth london and returned to small town ireland to freak out the populace. this was '91. we had already heard trout mask replica 2 years earlier and had all the mothers of invention albums too. but the meet the residents album was sort of the pinnacle for us of avant weird in the best possible sense. i managed to see them play live 3 times since.
the first couple times you listen to this record it sounds like just a bunch of random noise. The more you listen to ( I swear to you) it fuggin" slaps. It's a great album and there's really nothing else that sounds quite like it.
Ha, back in the days of trying to sell and promote MTR, I was rejected by every music store except Music Millennium where I had good friends of my work at KBOO radio. I had to eat alot of humiliation, even from the KBOO management who hated it, considered it amateur refuse. Had I not been the Program Director, it would have been lost and forgotten! Some fans of my radio program supported MTR, like Kerry Sirois (RIP), Barry Schwam and a few others who encouraged me to play it and anything else the Residents produced. Coping with the insults to my integrity, I continued to promote everything up through 'Fingerprince' and Portland, Or became the epicenter of a world-wide phenomenon.
The Residents have been a very important band to me for a long time and I have always been thankful for KBOO and Music Millennium for helping those renegades have a platform.
Boots just kills me. Killer cover, of the weird ass variety. This channel should look into the Swedish Elvis, Eilert Pilarm. He makes no attempt to sound or look like Elvis, except for the white jumpsuit and sideburns. Can't get enough of his cover of In The Ghetto. But if you really want to talk god awful music, any record by Madonna, Van Halen, Led Zepplin, Yes, there's a laundry list of god awful music that sells. People eat it up.
So THAT explains why there's so many residents records in portland!
@@SnackPackSilkens They sent copies of Santa Dog to west coast radio stations with no response until Bill Reinhardt, program director of KBOO-FM in Portland, Oregon, received a copy and played it heavily on his show. Reinhardt met the Residents at their studio at 20 Sycamore St.[4][5] in the summer of 1973 with the news of his broadcasts. The Residents gave Reinhardt exclusive access to all their recordings, including copies of the original masters of Stuffed Trigger, Baby Sex, and The Warner Bros. Album.
Throughout this point, the group had been manipulating old tapes they had collected and regularly recording jam sessions, and these recordings eventually became the group's debut full-length album, Meet the Residents, which was released in 1974 on Ralph. To aid in promoting the group, Reinhardt was given 50 of the first 1,000 copies of Meet the Residents. Some were sent to friends, listeners and critics, and two dozen were left for sale on consignment at the Music Millennium record store, where they sat unsold for months. KBOO DJ Barry Schwam (a.k.a. Schwump, who also recorded with the Residents) promoted them on his program as well. Eventually, KBOO airplay attracted a cult following.
@@davidmcmaster2083 Ok, Madonna & Yes I can sort of understand, but Led Zep?!?! And Van Halen?!?!? They may be mainstream but "god awful"?!?!? NOOoo F'in WAY man! They rock! They kick butt-a-roonie!
They are also considered pioneers in all kinds of musical technology, including sampling and synthesizer technology.
First track with sampling is from 1972 iirc
Pierre Schaeffer was using manipulatined tape recordings of found sounds to create compositions in the mid 40s France. That was arguably the seed of modern sampling.
That said there is fair chance that undocumented and now lost (due to obscurity and WWII) Soviet avant garde and Italian futurist works of similar type existed before then.
@@alphalax7747 n. senada (residents' founder) did it in 1937
@@UranusMcVitieFish-yd7oqhave you heard Salvatore Martrino's L's GA? for manipulated tape and gas mask?
You gotta check out Not Available, maybe not for the worst album ever, but I’m saying that it’s a really interesting album. The preserved editions got a lot of great songs in it and it’s slowly becoming one of my favorites
fantastic record. really brilliant and honestly weirdly emotional.
@@MDXVIEW I came here to say just that.
Maybe the best album ever made.
@@MDXVIEW _intensely_ emotional
Not Available was the first lp I bought by the Residents. I was instantly hooked.
Residents been a favorite band since that album. They're just, fantastic.
@Parker TV and disturbing.
But amazing.
I wasn't alive back then, but they are my favorite band anyway.
@@oceanmachine1906 They are disturbingly amazing. Love them.
Same
The 1974 mono mix is way superior to the 1977 stereo used in the review. Highly recommend everyone check it out!
Edit: I'm so happy I found this channel, can't wait to see more! :D
I first discovered this album on Spotify about a year and half ago. It was the last day of Sumner and I was reading some Spanish stuff. I love Beatles satire and I had heard of The Residents so I decided to check them out. I seen Meet The Residents cover and had a bit of a chuckle. I decided to listen to it. The first 20 seconds confused me, after that, I fell in love. Now it's my favorite album of all time. I own it on vinyl and I hope to have a CD of it one day. If I found a soul mate, it was probably the day I found this album.
Small complaint, 12:34 the dude says the album came out in the 1960s, which isn't true, it was recorded in 1973.
But that's fine it proves my theory that this is a timeless album. The first time I heard it I thought it was from the 90s
Came here to say the same thing than you left this comment. Much appreciated for making this comment. Not the part of them being good because I don’t like it but the inconsistency
I really enjoyed that review, so much so that I’d like to formally request that this video branch off into a new series in which you make your way through reviewing the entire Residents back-catalogue of work. I’d watch every damn episode of that, but then, I’m a Residents nut...but then again, I’m not alone. We are a fiercely loyal cult of weirdos and we just love welcoming new members into our (epithelial) folds.
I became a The Residents weirdo after hearing freak show. Now I have all albums and can't stop collecting! I have a special place in my bookcase.
I second this fine, overly-ambitious if not psychologically daunting suggestion!
Meets the Residents is not bad art - it’s genius. It refracts the whole of our pop culture through a human subconsciousness and at the same time deconstructs music into primitive elements. It must be heard as a whole - the songs segue for a reason and much of the appeal and surprise is in the contrast between tracks, despite the same instrumentation used throughout. They must have arrived from Mars to have heard pop music in the way they did.
i agree 100% 👍 Cactus Malpractice is such a cool guy, and it makes me angry when people say "THIS ALBUM ISN'T "the worst album ever made" !!! " and i'm always responding with: Watch the full video, dummy-
I can't thank Cactus Malpractice ENOUGH, for introducing me to this amazing band ❤
@@mushroomnerdcgn293 I enjoyed the video, perhaps Mr Malpractice needs to market it better?
@@mushroomnerdcgn293 Oh, and don’t call me dummy.
Not Mars. Louisiana, actually.
@@lumpytapioca5062 haha 😄
This album and Not Available had such a profound impact on me, masterpiece.
They've got a great sense of humor but their weirdness is not just for show, as they gradually started making "song-songs" later in their career their lyrics get very dark, melancholy, psychologically informed.
Albums like "God in three persons", "Animal Lover", etc have some pretty disturbing real world themes about trauma, abuse, rape, mental illness.
They're a band that have had quite a remarkable arch.
Anyway instant sub, I see you've reviewed some other awesome albums
Like you there are many moments on MTR that almost give me a tear, they're able to go from abrasive to tearjerking
Animal Lover is going to stay with me forever. I love that album so much.
I.was ready to flame the fuck out of this video. But your enthusiasm and and warm positivity showed me this was not a lambasting, but a loving tribute. I would love to see you review other Rez albums. Guess the best way for that to happen is to. SUBSCRIBE!
Love to see someone talking about this band and album in particular! The Residents are indeed a virus, I’m glad they got you too. Keep it up! Feels like old RUclips and the genuine interest means so much
this channel is way too underrated
This album is rough and beautiful and wonderful. I have been listening to it for decades. Rest Aria is one of their most beautiful pieces. I have not listened to Skratz since Hardy's passing. I should soon.
The two most (equally) accurate statements in this video are "The Residents made it possible for you to hear a dream," and "It's just shitposting from back in the days."
Some of it is i dont know if all of it is
“Take an opera piece, dip it into the abyss for just a little bit…” I’ve never heard poetry like that before.
I’ve also never once gave The Residents the light of day until this video, so thanks, I have to check them now! Hopefully you feel the same about this band, too.
So, my history with The Residents, Diskomo was the first song (of The Residents) I ever listened too, I read a comic strip (Nemi) about how Cyan had a nightmare about an eyeball in a tophat coming towards her, having a mouth full of theeth´s in the fourth panel Nemi told her not to listen to The Residents before going to bed, because it´s not good for you. Well, let´s just say that I didn´t heed the warning and listened to this very song that same night. Never heard music anything like that before, I´ve been trapped by The Residents music ever since :)
Diskomo is absolutely fabulous
I had a lot of fun working with you on this! Love the video dude
You guys should review all of the Residents albums together. This was a lovely review for someone who loved the Eyeballs as much as I do.
This is now the third masterpiece that I've seen him review. I wonder when he will consider naming this series the Best Album Ever Made.
This is truly an Avant Garde classic, one of the very best.
would you agree and say that this is indeed Louisiana's phenomenal pop combo?
Absolutely!
..but only in Southern Louisiana
Required listening is Ralph Records 10th anniversary radio special, where then unknown (to me and most people) Penn Jillette was locked in a room for 6 days with only the Ralph catalog of records to listen to.
18:41 the moment you started coughing blood immediately made me hit the subscribe button
From Australia: I was first introduced to this album, at the same time as I was introduced to their album "Duck Stab"in 1976 & it's actually a great album. I was 14 years old, just discovered getting stoned - what a listen. The start of "Consuelo's Departure", coming off the end of "Breath & Length" - WOW. (I always though the end of the line of B&L was "without inordainance").
"Smelly Tongues Look Just as They Smell" - Brilliance! I used to write this line (& nothing else) on people's birthday & Christmas cards.
More than 40 copies sold (it made it to Australia) & this was as great album.
If I remember right Meet The Residents was sent to the members families as a christmas present so the christmas themes in the last two tracks makes sense.
oh hi nero
@@corruptedmilk2481 oh hi rj. Recommend checking out more of this guy's vids if you liked this one. They're very good.
This is pretty much proto industrial music without using any industrial instruments
Theres NOTHING else like 70s era Residents love them and love your reviews
Thank you for reigniting my absolute passion for this record. I think I first listened to this about 15 years ago, in my early 20's, and it was *THE SHIT* for me. I remember feeling very apprehensive before the first listen, because I expected something horrendous and unlistenable, but it was furiously imaginative, hilarious, and had an outlook on music that was completely different from anyone else. This isn't comparable to Frank Zappa, or Captain Beefheart, or any contemporary classical or avantgarde composer of the time. This is so far removed from pop music, but it is *so pop* at the same time; so sophisticated, but so opposed to everything that's "high brow" in music; so complex, but so immediately impactful. I absolutely adore this album, and it also saddens me, because I'll never be able to do anything even remotely like it.
Just as a curio, the version you heard seems to be the 1977 stereo remix. I happen to prefer the original 1973 mono mix, because it's a lot rawer, and also some songs are longer. But both versions are great, really.
Love the joint review! You guys should continue with the Rez
Agreed 😁
The Residents themselves called it "determinantly repellent" .
As I have never seen any of your stuff before I was expecting a troll after watching the intro, but I was happily wrong. Thank you.
I love how this series is just great album after great album and rarely something actually bad
Thank you for introducing me to The Residents!
Absolutely LOVE this review! Liking and subscribing! Love The Residents! And also…terrified of The Residents!
One of the best reviews I've ever watched, well done. T'is a great album.
I agree.
Also noided
I've heard people theorize that n er gee crisis blues is about the Vietnam war. The "go home america, 55'll do" is in reference to the number of deaths caused by the war at the time of the recording (ive also heard that it was in reference to the speed limit of 55 mph at that time) The vietnam war theory would also explain the christmas part because all of the narrator's friends are either at war or dead, and everyone else is focused on the war which is why "nobody is raising much of a fuss" about christmas.
55 deaths in the Vietnam in '73???? Maybe it's 55 because the Vietnam war STARTED on November 1st 1955!
@@atzenanu oh yeah
I LOVE THE RESIDENTS!
The RESIDENTS and DEVO changed the way that I thought about music in the late 70's. I was 13yrs old.
I'm still waiting for The Residents to do a David Lynch movie soundtrack. That would be a marriage made in heaven.
Maybe it would not be good.🤷♂️
Fun fact The Residents colbaertaed and made a game with a developer call Bad Day In The Midway. David lynch loved the game and started writing a script in collaboration with The Residents to adapt it into a tv show. However due to creative differences it never entered production
@@duckseatbread104 Wow, had no idea! Shame it never got finished, but I can well imagine that both Mr Lynch and The Eyeballs are very used to having things their own way, and aren't too keen to compromise on their artistic visions.
*I do love the bananas attached to the walls... Beautiful seminal idea...*
yeeeee, exactly
i would definitely pay a large amount of money for those walls
even if the price is like...i dunno...over 100 THOUSAND smackeroos...but that's a reasonable price, right? 😄
...
lets hope this is a serie of all the residents 70s albums at least
I’m hoping for the same!
So Great to see you review The Residents. I have a suggestion for Worst Album Ever Made. Mrs. Millers Greatest Hits. The second you hear her sing, you'll understand why this is a contender. Although this album is called Greatest HIts, it's actually her first album. Probably a marketing thing.
Consider it added!
My dad would play Mrs. Miller at the end of parties he threw back in the day to let people know that it’s time for you to leave.
M DJ mate you to drop the odd track into his sets - soon became a request every set
Well, the band didn't work with Beefheart, but they submitted tapes to Warner Brothers Records because he was on the label. They went as far as calling it "The Warner Brothers Album" with no artist name attached. Of course it was rejected, and returned to them addressed to "the residents".
i had three original residents albums; "meet the residents," third reich and roll" and "fingerprince." in the 70s you could only get these albums via mail-order directly from "ralph records." they had a unique logo which always cracked me up. it was a picture of jesus on the cross with his face covered by the yellow "happy face" and at the bottom was written "buy or die." basically the were critics of corporatism in society and in music.
they were incredibly unique but you had to be in a very special mood to listen to their music. you couldn't just randomly play a residents song in the background while doing homework or vacuuming. and i never saw any video of theirs until about 5 years ago here on youtube.
the residents were weird, that's what i liked about them. not my favorites but BETTER THAN THE SHAGGS that's for sure. the shaggs were unintentionally weird and bad. the residents were weird on purpose. that's just one difference between TRUE art and schlock!
i was reminded i had two other residents albums; "duck stab" and "not available.'
Loved Ralph Records and most, well some of their roster, especially Resident's and Tuxedomoon & Yello
@@shannonm.townsend1232... i always thought ralph records was exclusively for the residents. i didn't know others recorded on the label. thanks for the info.
@@cjmacq-vg8um what there's quite a few I think, besides those mentioned. Also Art Bears. MX-80 Sound, Snakefinger..
@@shannonm.townsend1232Renaldo & the Loaf also
Surprised nobody in the video mentioned the part with the high pitched...screaming? Near the middle in N-ER-GEE. Though that mightve been a part that was cut from the stereo version, apparently that version cut like 7 minutes from the album
yeah I just took quick listen and its not there? weird?
If you like Rest Aria you should listen to the secret track at the end of disc 2 of the preserved version of Not Available. Its a different version of Rest Aria.
AHHHHHHHfhgfdahfaihehfiahehfheohfofHIFHohf
that is THE song on this album, which never dies, NEVER !!!! true beauty
THERE'S A SECRET TRACK? Does anyone have it?
@@manuelaparicio5025 No, because it's secret.
Found it. ruclips.net/video/VdvkLm4xOfc/видео.html
You gotta check out Not Available (recorded 1974, released 1978) and Duck Stab! (1978).
You're really passionate when you're talking about music, I love it ! And I love this album too
I know this video was just released a month ago, but there’s a Game Cube on top of the old tv next to the Blockbuster VHS case haha
I am a huge fan of The Residents and I love this video!!!!! I already watched it a million times! You are very nice and funny.
If you understand The Residents as sound, as much as music, and notes as much as bars, their music is easier to understand. Also, they often, IMO, commented on what was going on culturally in the time an album was made.
I've been an avid fan since the early 80s, seen them perform many times, finally got to meet and shake the hand of the "chief representative" Homer Flynn last February.
I'm sure you have listened to Boots again and my reason I love it really, is because it's a landscape. They are playing with moving tracks in and out of the mix with the only consistent temper of the Rythm Sticks just cracked together over the whole thing which provides the continuity.. than again.. that's probably not what the meant at all.
you shoulda listened to the 45 minute mono mix, all the songs are longer in it
No shit, I have to hear that. How could I have missed that shit? Maybe I have but my memory is too fucked
I think I'm obsessed with them, I loved The Third Rich 'n' Roll, Not Available, Duck Stab, Commercial Album and The Gingerbread Man so much. Check those out if you haven't already.
Hey y'all how are you, I enjoyed that review, really interesting, but why not change your show to "The weirdest album ever made"? In that case for me it's got to be Not Available, man alive when I first heard this way back about 1980 it just totally turned my music world upside down. It's creepy, it's dark, melancholy, and compulsive listening right to the end, and "Ship's a goin' down" still freaks me out every time I hear it. I'm the UK's No 1 Rez NUT, and proud of it!!! 40 years for Chrissake, I buy every bit of merchandise and go to every UK tour, this is why I am penniless and on the bones of my arse!! But do I complain? eh? eh? Anyway, take care everybody, have a G&T for me and Toodle Pip!!
There’s definitely something really beautiful about Not Available. Fingerprince is kinda sorta a let down, some of it I really like, but it kind of pales next to the rest of their 70s output
@@opaljk4835 Hi Adam, I agree, the 70's and the early 80's was, for me anyway, the spookiest time for The Residents to make their mark and to show the avantgarde world the course that they intended to take, I refer also to 3rd Reich, Duck Stab and One Minute Movies. Different tangents were explored in the 90's and on into the 2000's, so no one can accuse them of not evolving. Everyone has their own favorite period for The Residents, which is great and I totally accept it, how many other bands/projects has a 50 year CV like these boys?, it's fantastic. Myself and friends will be at the Newcastle and Leeds shows next February, we can't wait!! Thank you for your reply, God Bless and take care.
That album is part of the MOMA's permanent collection.
Kind of removes it from any 'worst' list
Third Reich n roll is like if n er gee crisis blues was an entire album
"The Residents somehow made it possible to listen to a dream" wow I've been listening to The Residents for years, seen them live twice, and spent god knows how much money on them and somehow this is the first time I'm hearing this and you are absolutely right.
The Violent Femmes: *holding Spotted Pinto Bean* “Mind if we borrow this?”
Someone I showed this to said this review was just like Penn Jillette’s “Ralph Records 10th anniversary album” where he listens to every resident album (as well as others on the same label)
His reaction to meet the residents is mostly the same
I was thinking the same. Only, the Penn Jillette recording was not real and he was not forced to listen to all of the records. It was all an act and scripted. He was already a fan.
prokesuk yeah yeah it’s obviously not real (he reviews mark of the mole, an album, he has vocals on)
I had Penn sign my copy of the cassette, long ago.
Penn Jillette was also the emcee for the Mole tour shows.
BTW, original mono version of MTR is worth 1000.00 to collectors!
Duck Stab is such a classic. Especially the videos.
Nihilist Spasm Band "No Record" would be a good choice for this. I love that album and the band, in general.
I love that band so much! One of my favourite bands of all time
Capitol Records almost sued them for using the cover of the album Meet The Beatles and later copies had a different cover
I have the late-night show Night Flight which aired Fridays and Saturdays on the USA Channel in the late 70's and early 80's for introducing me to The Residents. Their wonderfully bizarre videos immediately caught my imagination and I dipped my toe into their music with the "Greatest hits" CDs titled Heaven and Hell. Both had their fair share of gems and WTF tracks. Anyone who is curious about the band I recommend their Commercial Album which offers a look at their work up to that point. There is a song titled Red Rider that I totally fell in love with. The Residents are an acquired taste. I am a very casual fan at best and haven't heard anything new by them in decades. As tastes change one might not be as adventurous. I missed an opportunity to see them live several years ago when they were to perform after a screening of the documentary The Theory of Obscurity. The documentary is outstanding.
can't imagine life without The Resident.......
My life wouldn't be the same without them. I found them when I was 13 in 1980, and just started buying everything they put out since then. Everything. Their music is woven tightly in the fibers of my life.
@@santadog9 , here the same, althouhg i like the "old" Residents more.
The Residents are the kings of the music. You must first go trough lot of other music styles like free jazz and then to understend what is it all about the Residents. You have to start to listen the music from inside out.
Haha love the bananas taped to the wall while talking avant guard. Well played!
I think boots is better than the original 👊 fight me 🥊
You should review more early Residents albums. You did a good job
Can I have one of those bananas? I skipped breakfast. Also really nice to see Gezim in this video. Also also, I'm glad this album wasn't as bad as some of the previous ones you've covered.
Grizz you got the bad end of the stick im sorry you got mr. Hung while gezim got this crazy little bop. I hope you can forgive me 😭
I love the Residents have been listening to them since 1980 I grew up in the 1960's and 70's so I remember most of the music that this great group samples. Third Reich and Roll is a fave record of all time.
Great! I know what album to listen to next. Thanks!
I can, and on occasion start here & work my way through the catalogue. With great pleasure. The Residents live is as close to life changing as I've gotten. 4 times. Some people no longer talk to me for dragging them to see the Rezies. Their loss.
The Residents definitely influenced other “weird” (aka awesome) bands like Ween,Mr. Bungle,Primus,etc. Oh and the vocals on Guylum Bardot reminds me of Les Claypool.
more like les just kinda took that style lol not hating, love it, jus saying
@@dirtysploof5890 Absolutely Les has said himself The Residents are one of his favorite bands. I really enjoy both Primus and The Residents
Check out Tub Ring
I got to see The Residents on the Mole Tour where they were playing live for the first time in years. Not long before they started, this group sat down in front of us and said "Oh good, we missed the opening act and we got here just in time for Wall Of Voodoo", and we were like "Umm, Wall Of Voodoo WAS the opening act!" :o) (as much as I like Wall Of Voodoo also...).
You've GOTTA do Third Riech N Roll next!
Seconded
THE RESIDENTS ARE TOTALLY
OBSCURE BANDS AND SNAKE
FINGER. TOTALLY ORIGINAL
I ONLY LIKE THIER EARLY
ALBUMS. LOVE THEM OR
HATE THEM . MY FAVOURITE
ALBUM IS DUCK STAB.
NOW GO AND BUY IT.
CHEERS
I mean most of seasoned greetings seems like tounge and cheek but the ending part is actually beautiful and like the only time there vocals sound like not cartonnish
You should react to Not Available it's their best and most creative, intelligent album
This whole alblum reminds me of the really drunken off key music they use in spongebob whenever there speaking basically in spongebob during some of the scenes were there like talking there are these really off key goofy weird sounding background scores which are very slow and are like random notes pretty much and they use unusual instruments like one uses a contrabasson another one uses a toy piano and there is even one that uses a melodica and one even uses a really weird instrument a contrabass clarinet
I love these guys! I've been listening to them since 1978. I was lucky enough to see them play in my home town in 82.
you should cover 330,003 crossdressers by sun city girls
yes yes and yes. scg's rule. why does no one listen to them? they have so much wicked wacky stuff. i love them!
actually i take this comment back review dantes disneyland inferno instead
Damn dude. Great breakdown of one of my favorite albums. I'll sub.
This album is a freaking miracle when you think about it. All competent home recordings from back then are impressive, but this one is just an incredible use of their resources at the time, before they got more technologically advanced
Thank you so much for this video. You have created my new personality for the rest of my life.
Ok, so you had a little bit of fun with this review BUT I believe, your review was very fair and spot on. Kudos!
4:36 very artistic in the *DELIVERY OF THE TRACKS!*
3rd Reich N Roll was my introduction to The Residents courtesy of Annie Nightingale, bless her RIP.
Love the video.
this is one of my favourite albums of all time. I heard it in my late teens. bought the record in recommended records store in wandsworth london and returned to small town ireland to freak out the populace. this was '91. we had already heard trout mask replica 2 years earlier and had all the mothers of invention albums too. but the meet the residents album was sort of the pinnacle for us of avant weird in the best possible sense. i managed to see them play live 3 times since.
18:36 every so often i come to see Garrett scream and cough blood at the mention of BOOGALOO!
This albums sounds like a band getting high and goofing around
I've been looking forward to this!
The Beefheart connection is interesting because the first time I heard 70s era Residents, I immediately though of early Mothers.
Every time i remember that spotted pinto bean exists i wanna listen to it 10 times in a row
The Residents are the best band and this was the best album i listen in this year, so cool, dark, relax and a lot of dark passages, i love this album
I like this record. I'm a Captain Beefheart fan, so this didn't seem weird to me.
the first couple times you listen to this record it sounds like just a bunch of random noise. The more you listen to ( I swear to you) it fuggin" slaps. It's a great album and there's really nothing else that sounds quite like it.
I love this album
Same here Nathaniel!
It's one of my favorite records of all time, and that's precisely the reason I suggested it.
@@IanThatMetalBassist have you heard El Touchy by Louie Louie? Another hidden gem from 1974! :)
It's weird to consider The Residents as a bad band. They are great performance artists.
I've been a fan of them since Duck Stab/Buster and Glen
Damn, You're dumping all over my favourite albums! This album Is KING!! "Come Back Petunia Come Back to Meeee!"