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Citizensmurf
Citizensmurf
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Re: Favourite Residents Albums (5)
Feb 18, 2007, 20:59
1001realapes wrote:
Mine would at this
time be :

Not Available (this one's been by fave for...er...about 27 years)

Meet The Residents (I think i like the longer mono mix better)

Fingerprince (with brilliant work from Snakefinger)

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (Genius !!!)

Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats
(for me their best 80's album with Mark Of The
Mole & Tunes Of Two Cities as runners up )



Residents fans who only really like their early stuff are called "Cliffords" (I can't remember why right now though). I started listening to them around 97 when Rykodisc put out a retrospective. Now I've got a ton of their stuff. For me, the top 5 would be.

1. Freak Show - At first I didn't like it (par for most Residents stuff), but after hearing 'Benny the Bouncing Bump' one day, something clicked and I fell in love with the rest. Just re-released on Mute with a bonus DVD.

2. Buckaroo Blues - I love the entire Cube-E project, but if I had to pick one release, the studio recording of the first section (now an impossible to find UWEB release) is my favourite.

3. Meet the Residents - The first album I bought following the Huddled Masses compilation, was also their first. I'm convinced that Les Claypool got his voice from the harmony of the two Residents singing 'Guylum Bardot'. I don't think there was ever in a mono mix, but it was edited down at some point, then later restored.

4. Wormwood Live - Never cared for the studio version but when I heard it played with a live band (not in person, the Residents have never played anywhere near where I live), I was moved. An OOP Ralph America release, but I think you can buy it on iTunes now.

5. Intermission - Recorded for (what else) the intermission music during the Mole Show tour, it stands out as a fine achievement all on it's own. 'The New Hymn' is one of their best songs.
Chaosmonger
977 posts

Re: Favourite Residents Albums (5)
Feb 18, 2007, 23:43
The Big Bubble>>

You're the first person I've heard give a positive word on this one. I couldn't get into it, personally.

Mike
1001realapes
1001realapes
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Edited Feb 19, 2007, 23:51
Re: Favourite Residents Albums (5)
Feb 19, 2007, 23:50
The original
Meet The Residents
is mono,the 77 Crawfish
cover is a totaly new edited
stereo mix some 7 minutes
shorter, various other issues
restore the mono version
the ESD cd with Santa Dog as
bonus is the mono mix.
not sure about the newest
Euro Ralph vinyl as i dont
have it.
1001realapes
1001realapes
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Re: Favourite Residents Albums (5)
Oct 26, 2023, 21:09
Some uber collectable vinyl coming out!

https://www.psychofonrecords.com/
Citizensmurf
Citizensmurf
1703 posts

Re: Favourite Residents Albums (5)
Oct 27, 2023, 17:54
1001realapes wrote:
Some uber collectable vinyl coming out!

https://www.psychofonrecords.com/


Yes, some tasty things for the hardcore, I've long since reached my Rez collecting zenith, and will leave these to those who lust for them. Still great to see interest in the band 50 years in.

Did you ever get into the Hardy Fix solo albums he did before he passed on?
Marjorie Eclipse
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Re: Favourite Residents Albums (5)
Oct 28, 2023, 22:13
Will Sergeant mentions The Residents several times in his just-published Echoes memoir - he was an absolute mega-fan early on by all accounts.

My all-too-predictable top five would be:

1. Fingerprince
2. Meet The Resdients
3. Not Available
4. The Commercial Album
5. Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?

Don't call me Clifford!
1001realapes
1001realapes
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Edited Oct 29, 2023, 06:58
Re: Favourite Residents Albums (5)
Oct 29, 2023, 06:57
Don't have all of H's solo
albums, Klanggalerie has issued
quite a few!

https://www.klanggalerie.com
Maldoror
Maldoror
720 posts

Re: Favourite Residents Albums (5)
Oct 30, 2023, 17:30
My pick:

1) Third Reich & Roll

2) Eskimo

3) Not Available

4) Meet the Residents

5) Mark of the Mole
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