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Residents, The - The White Single - 15-Jan-08 03:47 AM
This release was to be a companion single to the George And James album -- however, no one knew this, as The Residents kept the contents of this 7" record a secret until just prior to pressing. It's a Man's Man's Man's World is a James Brown song which does not appear on George And James; Safety is a Cootie Wootie is an unrelated track which was recorded prior to George And James, and was also released on TRA magazine in Japan. The White Single was originally released on white vinyl, with a blue "iris" label, in a transparent plastic sleeve with red veins -- the package clearly designed to look like a giant eyeball.
Residents, The - Residue - 14-Jan-08 10:37 AM
Residue is a album of miscellaneous Residents tunes, consisting of "favorite rarities, private tapes, experiments that were never completed, and songs that were left off of LPs due to lack of space". The choices were primarily dictated by The Residents, although some input was received from the both the Cryptic Corporation and the staff of Ralph Records. The record contains six previously unreleased songs (The Sleeper, Boy in Love, Anvil Forest, Jailhouse Rock, Saint Nix, and Open Up), as well as Kamakazy Lady from Baby Sex, and Whoopy Snorp from Blorp Esette. The front cover features a drawning of The Residents, artfully created by Pore-Know Graphics.
Residents, The - The Beatles Play The Residents And The Residents Play The Beatles - 14-Jan-08 04:03 AM
The Residents designed this single to be a tribute to The Beatles, but also to satirize Beatles music as a whole. It encouraged two humourous rumors which became widely publicized about The Residents at that time -- first, that The Residents vehemently opposed everything that The Beatles represented; and secondly, that The Residents were, in fact, the actual Beatles. Confidential sources have since revealed that neither of these rumours are true. Anyway another rumour grow from that : The Residents are the Beach Boys refeering from the war beetween The Beatles and they ,but also the Black Album of the Beach Boys which sound like Resident's music.
Residents, The - The Tunes Of Two Cities - 11-Jan-08 02:38 AM
This album (part two of The Mole Trilogy) was derived from a concept which grew out of the early Mark Of The Mole recording sessions and was then recorded concurrently with the latter half of that of the two conflicting races in the Mole Story, (Moles and Chubs), by offering six examples of each style. Happy Home is an excerpt from the end of Act II of Innisfree, a musical drama conceived by The Residents, which is yet to be completed. (or begun) The Tunes Of Two Cities was the first album ever recorded to feature music produced on a Emulator (from E-mu Systems), a special type of keyboard instrument which digitally samples any sound for later modification and playback. The second was Peter Gabriel.
Residents, The - The Big Bubble - 10-Jan-08 03:16 PM
The release of The Big Bubble brought an end to a 3 years wait for the next chapter in the Mole Trilogy. However, rather than being part 3, which was expected to explain the outcome of the Mole/Chub war that was left unresolved in The Mark Of The Mole, this release is actually part 4 of the Trilogy. The Residents felt that they were under too much artistic pressure to bring a final close to their epic work, and they decided to extend the storyline rather than terminate it. They do insist, however, that part 3 will eventually be released. The Big Bubble is the name of a fictional rock group (formed decades after the war) consisting of Mole/Chub crosses, and this release is the first Lp by the band -- as performed by The Residents. Many of the vocals on the album contain examples of the Mohelmot tongue, the traditionnal spoken language of the Moles before their arrival in Chubland.
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