The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Residents

Jeffito runs a fantastic MP3 music blog. Occasionally he'll highlight a single artist/band and give you a couple of MP3s to download from every album they've recorded. He calls this "the complete idiot's guide"

The latest one is for The Residents.

For those of you who don't know anything about them, let's just say they're one of the strangest groups around. They're based in San Francisco (go "no"). They're avant-garde (both in sound and visual arts), and their albums often have a unifying theme.

Their album "Third Reich 'n' Roll" features a huge pastiche of classic 60's rock songs, blended, reworked, and otherwise modified. (I still laugh when I hear "In-a-Godda-da-Vida" reduced to a quick guitar riff and a tiny drum roll.)

The album "Eskimo" doesn't have conventional songs; it's a soundscape meant to portray traditional Eskimo culture and events.

"The Commercial Album" does have conventional songs. Forty of them. Each one exactly one minute long.

If you're interested, you can download almost five dozen Residents songs at this site: 

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As the Residents have stated: "Ignorance of your culture is not considered cool "

 

 

 

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