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The Residents are an American art collective and art rock band best known for their avant-garde music and multimedia works. Since their first official release, Meet the Residents (1974), they have released over 60 albums, numerous music videos and short films, three CD-ROM projects, and ten DVDs over the course of over half a century.
The music on Meet the Residents is a mixture of several Western genres, including blues, jazz, opera and classical music, performed in an amateurish manner, deliberately or otherwise. The album features much of what came to be the Residents' trademark sound for most of the 1970s, with loud horns, odd time signatures and cartoonish vocals.
The Third Reich 'n Roll is the second studio album by the American art rock group the Residents, released on Ralph Records in 1976. The album consists of two side-long suites of "'semi-phonetic' interpretations of Top 40 rock and roll from the Sixties."
"The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles" is a 1977 single by the Residents. The A-side, "Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life", is an audio collage of recordings by the Beatles and John Lennon, with a looped clip from the Beatles' third Christmas record, in which Paul McCartney says "Please everybody, if we haven't done what we could have done, we've tried."
Hunters is an album by American art rock band The Residents. Released in 1995, it is a soundtrack album commissioned for the Discovery Channel series Hunters: The World of Predators and Prey. The entire album is ten hours long, the largest soundtrack project that The Residents had attempted. The series with the music first aired in December of ...
God in Three Persons is a rock opera and concept album by American art rock group the Residents, released in 1988. It is about a man—arbitrarily named 'Mr. X'—who befriends two conjoined twins. The songs are all sung in a rhythmic spoken word fashion, similar to talking blues.
Have a Bad Day is an album by American art rock band The Residents, released in 1996. This CD features music originally composed to accompany the 1995 CD-ROM adventure game Bad Day on the Midway, also by The Residents. [1]
Freak Show is a studio album by American art rock band The Residents, released in 1990. [5] It marked the beginning of The Residents' obsession with emerging computer technology in the 1990s, and much of the music was made with various MIDI devices. The interactive Freak Show CD-ROM was released in 1994. [6]