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Residents
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.7971
Residents Album Rankings
1
Employing the same stress-scheme asPoe's "The Raven" throughout its 62 minutes, "God In Three Persons" is an extended work in "talking-blues" style for narrator, electronic instruments, and a chorus p
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2
The most rewarding, the most difficult, and the most accomplished of all the Residents' albums, this was their departure into the field of imaginary ethno-musicography that they had begun on "Six Thin
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3
Like theResident's1988 CDGod in Three Persons, which is formally an opera of the new narrative type with lots of rhythmic speaking and chorus responses somewhat in the style of the classic Southern ta
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4
Track listing: 1) Boots; 2) Numb Erone; 3) Guylum Bardot; 4) Breadth And Length; 5) Consuelo's Departure; 6) Smelly Tongues; 7) Rest Aria; 8) Skratz; 9) Spotted Pinto Bean; 10) Infant Tango; 11) Seaso
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5
This is absolutely one of the most intriguing, weirdest albums I’ve ever heard. I have the words I want to use to describe it, but I’m not sure they’re the right ones.
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6
Track listing: 1) Voices Of The Air; 2) The Ultimate Disaster; 3) Migration; 4) Another Land; 5) The New Machine; 6) Final Confrontation; 7) Lights Out/Shorty's Lament; 8) The Moles Are Coming (interm
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7
Track listing: 1) Constantinople; 2) Sinister Exaggerator; 3) The Booker Tease; 4) Blue Rosebuds; 5) Laughing Song; 6) Bach Is Dead; 7) Elvis And His Boss; 8) Lizard Lady; 9) Semolina; 10) Birthday Bo
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8
This review is written out of a certain bizarre sense of duty.
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9
The 13th Anniversary Tour marked the last live appearance ofSnakefingerwith the Residents and was the only time the group took to the stage with an armload of career spanning material, not centered ar
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10
The Residents or a Resident? The question pops up when listening to this rather bland album from the band.
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11
25 Years On, and Not a Jingle in Sight A long time ago, back when I had received my first CD player in 1989 for a birthday gift, I had entered the age of exploring "other" music.
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12
This is one of the strangest and most interesting recordings in rock history, which speaks volumes coming from one of the strangest and more interesting bands in rock history.
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20
When dealing with The Residents, suspension of either disbelief or belief is generally wise. In other words, don't trust anything they say. Luckily, their music can't lie.
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21
Originally issued on LP in 1982 and reissued on CD in 1998, this 25-minute long EP will probably be sought out primarily by fans of the group, given its obscure provenance; it consists of prelude, in
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22
Residue Deux is a reconfigured version of the 1983 rarities/outtakes compilation Residue of the Residents; that album's twelve tracks are mostly present and accounted for (with a few minor changes),
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27
After they recorded an instrumental program piece that purported to depict (with the help of written narration) the Eskimo lifestyle, it was kind of hard to imagine how the Residents could get much w
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33
When Ryko briefly signed the Residents for their God in Three Persons soundtrack, they quickly released a duo of compilations to take advantage of the groups rather large back catalog and to promote
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36
Ryko's companion CD to its Heaven? release compiles a number of the group's more hellish tracks, and this time the title is well served.
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43
As part of their 20-year retrospective, the Residents shunned a typical greatest-hits package (there have been plenty of those), and instead recorded an album of reinterpretations of their own catalo
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