The Residents

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Shreveport LA, United States (1969 – present)

The Residents are an experimental music and group largely shrouded in mystery and myth. The Residents began recording in 1969, although many of these recordings from their early years have still gone unreleased to this day. The earliest material from The Residents, traded among bootlegs, was recorded in 1971. The Residents’ first official release, Santa Dog, was released in 1972.

Allmusic had this to say about the Residents: “Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, the Residents remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions; cloaking their lives and music in a haze of willful obscurity, the band’s members never identified themselves by name, always appearing in public in disguise — usually tuxedos, top hats and giant eyeball masks — and refusing to grant media interviews. Drawing inspiration from the likes of fellow innovators including Harry Partch, Sun Ra, and Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, the Residents channelled the breadth of American music into their idiosyncratic, satiric vision, their mercurial blend of electronics, distortion, avant-jazz, classical symphonies and gratingly nasal vocals reinterpreting everyone from John Philip Sousa to James Brown while simultaneously expanding the boundaries of theatrical performance and multimedia interaction.
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  • Commercial Album
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  • igorgeneration

    Commercial Album FTW!

    yesterday afternoon
  • Cox_of_Seagulls

    I think you can divide their different eras into something like 72- mid 80s, then mid 80s - 2000, and then 2000 onwards. Their latest, more sombre incarnantion is their best, imo.

    Monday morning
  • exitsence

    eskimo is awesome tho

    Saturday evening
  • MindlessMachina

    The Residents early 1980ish and prior and newer Residents are like two completely different bands, IMO.

    Saturday evening
  • Tarkus10

    This guys are the Beatles.

    Saturday evening
  • mutantorgans

    mutants par excellence

    Saturday afternoon
  • nicejumping

    someone just discovered the residents

    Saturday afternoon
  • blakemichigan3

    if any of their other albums are like eskimo then this band is trash

    Friday evening
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