Residents – Meet The Residents LP NEW W- MP3 For Sale

The Residents – Meet The Residents LP

NEW. SEALED.

Includes mp3 download of album. Recent reissue.

Cryptic Corporation Records

The Residents are true avant-garde crazies. Their earliest albums (of which this is the first) have precedents in Captain Beefheart s experimental albums, Frank Zappa s conceptual numbers from Freak Out!, the work of Steve Reich, and the compositions of chance music tonemeister John Cage — yet The Residents work of this time really sounds like nothing else that exists. All of the music on this release consists of deconstructions of countless rock and non-rock styles, which are then grafted together to create chaotic, formless, seemingly haphazard numbers; the first six songs (including a fragment from the Nancy Sinatra hit These Boots Are Made for Walkin ) are strung together to form a larger entity similar in concept to the following lengthier selections. The result is a series of unique, odd, challenging numbers that are nevertheless not entirely successful. The album cover is a fierce burlesque of the Beatles first U.S. Capitol label release, sporting puerilely doctored photographs of the Fab Four on the front and pictures of collarless-suited sea denizens on the back (identified as Paul McCrawfish, Ringo Starfish, and the like). This is an utterly bizarre platter that may appeal to very adventurous listeners.