The Residents- Vileness Fats (The Mother's House)

[TheMrbob2011]

This is Forbidden Zone Meets Eraserhead. This would have been the UItimate Midnight Movie. Still Could BE!

[ImMisery]

Eye like it

[sneakyrabbits]

Richard Elfman must have seen this because it totally reminds my of his insane film Forbidden Zone

[bakhirun]

Lovely job, timeless & amusing, in an eerie way. Always the way with the Residents, timeless as they are.

[pretentiouspigeon]

It makes so much sense, its life of every teeneage boy. Huge piles of dirty clothes and the attitued of a cowboy rebel hahahah "Mother!!"

[steinber]

and they made it because they just fucking wanted to.

[Bram25]

@Popex85

You take the words right out of my mouth dude!

[mtheoryone]

it reminds me a lot of the movie, The Forbidden Zone with Danny Elfman

[CodyRicheson]

@Popex85, with a touch of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

[charbyteU]

character at 1:52 you know what it means when a man wears bucket hats

[johnaclemmins]

GOD ITS SO MUCH BETTER THEN THE ALBUM VERSION!!! hahah this song makes so much sense to me and it doesnt even need any words!

[chica476]

highly unnerving

[zessin]

Also das ist einfach wirklich ganz

großartig .

[expoonation]

Psst.. anyone wanting to see the whole movie.. I'm working on it. ;)

[looshkin66]

that would be cool. When?

[chica476]

you don't have to whisper, you know, you are writing...

[expoonation]

Lol!

Thanks for the pointer! xD

I still haven't got the movie btw << It's so hard to get... Damn... I've only found the audio from it somewhere without the videos.. 

But I'm still searching and will post the entire movie when I finally have it! :)

[chica476]

I wasn't really concerned with the unethical means of obtaining the film footage...

[expoonation]

Ok, but it was more in general for other interested people.

It wasn't a PM to you, you know ;) Haha

[Spirosaur]

if you ever find it let me know !

[KINZOisHERE]

did u find it? :D

[expoonation]

Sound only, but laptop crashed... The Ether doesn't want me to find and post it I think, but I'm always looking... so one day... ;P

[KINZOisHERE]

seriously, would u let me know? thxs in advanced

[russianpeanut]

wtf is this...?

[ospididious]

The Residents! They were one of the first bands ever to be on MTV.

[BarmaglotTV]

шизофрения та ещё =)

хотя всё равно прикольно)))

[otentas]

i have the whole movie...

[storkcoolswings]

lesleyblood, i saw them in melb[st kilda] at the same time, think snakefinger played guitar with em on that tour, i thought they were fukn great, but i was probably pretty smashed.

[Rensra]

does anyone have a copy of that movie?!

[robertronics]

where did you get this????????

love the residents!!!!!!

[rouf007]

Schwump isn't Lonesome Jack. He played a blackface midget in one scene.

[toztizok]

is lonesome jack played by a resident? some people know...

[guziel123]

this is one the first known artistic VHS movies made by filmakers in the early 1970's.

[Schwejk]

Yes, I do love them.

[bitsdfg4]

Everybody should love the Residents

[KoivuTheHab]

@bitsdfg4 Yes, unfortunately there are a lot of people who simply do not have the witt to even begin to understand The Residents and their Art.

[wewewrr]

it is called a life!

go get one!

[theledzeppguy]

Lonesome Jack (the black faced character with the giant hat) is played by a guy known as Schwump. He was a percussionist from Portland, and worked with the Residents for awhile, but he was hard to work with. Graeme Whifler (who did ALL the Ralph videos) did the lighting for this.

[kenrubes]

interesting...you have any idea what Schwump's doing these days?

[reinhardon]

Schwump is in Sierra Madre, Ca.

[reinhardon]

Schwump denies being hard to work with, it was quite the contrary! He lives in Sierra Madre, Ca and has a YT channel...check out 'pickleparade'.

[WilliamReinhardt]

Schwump is NOT in this video, I was there. I introduced Barry to the Residents several years later. (we both worked at KBOO radio where the Rez got their first exposure.) Check out the 'willyrein' channel.

[InsectRepellant]

Who's Schwump?

[CaptainMythos]

sheer genious! I'd love to see the whole thing

[KevinBrownsvideos]

The Best!

[daggereyes1]

This certainly leaves you wanting more.

[mumbler1234]

this is incredible

[fullnelsongrip]

Are there more videos?

[gardnjw]

What are you all talking about??? What does Eraserhead have to do with any of this???

[theledzeppguy]

A funny thing is, this was year's before Eraserhead, which I believe started being shot in '74. Vileness Fats was in 1972.

[raouldukeofprunes]

Yes, that is hilarious.

[FuzzyCabesas]

What does everyone think? Will the world ever see "Vileness Fats" on DVD? I assume this is from the edited VHS tape that was released.

[theledzeppguy]

A 17 minute version was released on The Residents dvd "Icky Flix", which is a rather easy to find DVD.

[FuzzyCabesas]

True, but didn't the Residents film several HOURS of "Vileness Fats"? Where is that footage?

[theledzeppguy]

14 entire hours of material was shot, but just like the earliest Residents recordings, the Residents consider that stuff "Strictly Personal".

[JesustheLizard]

why in quotes? beefheart fan? They are nothing a like, but so much the same

[unholyfirestorm]

I've noticed that German Expressionism seemed to have been an influence in their style here.

[damiongringe]

The sets do look alot like Caligiari's

[vlightning]

could the actos be the residents, or are Fox and Flynn their "managers" the residnts?

[ResidentMich]

I got a personal email from Homer 2 weeks ago. I was absolutely dumbfounded that he personally responded to me. What a guy!!!!

[returnsanecho]

am i wrong or were the residents taking off from eraserhead their whole career?

[theledzeppguy]

This actually came out before Eraserhead, I was surprised to find out, too. Eraserhead came out in 1977, Vileness Fats came out in 1971.

[jbj221]

It acctually never cam out.

but clips and such have survived, it was never finished.

[theledzeppguy]

true.

[bludolf]

hehe - is that the queen?

[Mossisen]

Just watched this again. I love the way The Residents get the bizarre out of everything.

[Mossisen]

i can't believe you just said that

[sofakingproductions]

i know! it's like blaspheme

[LeviMedia]

such a bad audio mix.... draggggggsssssss... barely watchable (barely)

[joanofmarc]

You even made the props look bad!

[28pies]

thats just the way they wanted it.

[28pies]

but barely enough for you to leave such a great comment thank you for taking the time