The Residents - Edweena

[runkert]

Apparently, only 300 original LP copies of this album were ever made... makes me feel pretty lucky that I actually own one of them

[OldPazuzu]

I've got some questions that are guaranteed to shake you up

[BillGates999]

exorcist?

[hairymarx]

A strange hybrid of teen hillbilly slasher movie, postmodern film noir and David Lynch-ian surrealism. This is a brilliant, but disconcering and disorientating trip...I love it.

[Epsilon15]

This band is eeevvvviiiiilllll... I've gotta find a copy of this album.

[librascorpluna]

if prince michael jackson and madonna were all put on sepreate islands then all their music would sound completly differant and that is a fact

[Bakunin91]

@DanielVladimir2 Meno male che gli inglesi non colgono al volo quello che hai scritto, altrimenti ti avrebbero riempito di insulti!!!

[glammis09]

There WERE no "liner notes" on the original vinyl LP when I bought it, and Wikipedia wasn't invented yet! A whole lotta personal "coding" going on , though. Just sayin...don't get mad at Canada,lol!

[TheThunderbass71]

Does anyone know who the female singer is?

[glammis09]

A very personal statement. If you don't get it, too bad!

[daregularperson]

@glammis09 Did you get that from the liner notes or the wikipedia page?

[r0yalgate]

jennique, i think your beutyfull

[r0yalgate]

jennique i love you

[archaist]

Always catch myself whistling this song to myself. A young woman's quest for meaning is sidetracked by her much-coveted sexuality, and she fails to find meaning in other people, so what's left? What an awesome album. Especially Uncle Remus' occasional epigrams that show up throughout. I love everything about this album and this song especially.

[jailbaitvids]

I am glas that it is that way - i am glad that these greedy slimy creeps don't have the grabs on that music - because THIS music belongs to us - the lovers.

[tyler4700]

Inquietanti

[ResidentMich]

After many many years still haven't got a clue what the lyrics are supposed to mean......or are they not????

[SyluxLockjaw]

@ResidentMich The album in its entirety is vaguely telling a love-triangle story, albeit key word is "vaguely".

[silviobosco]

tambien por me

[kaakatin]

To me this sounds just annoying. I feel like I'm missing something when not liking this.

[ToscanoRomano]

I love the part at 04:28.

[MenNoHorses]

MEN NO HORSES

[MDJarv]

Listen to this high... whoa.

[edwin00420]

@MDJarv if you're smokin what im smokin, pretty much everything is WHOA :)

[bigcoldmartini]

@edwin00420 It may not be exactly the same but it's close. 55 sativa 45 indica.

[rosablanca13]

egoist snotty men who owe it all the Snakefinger, who they STOLE ALL THEIR COPYRIGHTS from. great music, but assholes.

[atzenanu]

@rosablanca13 Hush now dear...

[Mechanicoid]

@rosablanca13 whether that's true or not, we'll never know. Snakefinger is sadly, long gone, and the Residents don't speak. And while there are fans of both still here, the world hardly cares of the affairs of masked men.

[MonsieurDuncan]

Epopée des nains dans l'Ouest Américain, des nains si possible vêtus de cirés jaunes et de bonnets pointus. Oui, c'est ce que ça m'évoque, où est le problème? En tout cas, c'est vraiment magnifique. Wagnérien, même.

[TheHorrorAnthem]

9:32 I hate when good music ends.

[kojurama11]

This album is so amazing, I just had to buy an original vinyl pressing to spin every night before I sleep.

[Photonzos]

MTV is a childrens channel anyway... give a shit about it.

[nsdzbuff63]

ahhh, the shrooms...help..oh no wait,, im changing,, im im,,im lifting.. poison berry

[catanroll]

Iincrehible, que buena, also like Eskimo and Mole Show, but Not Available is the best album

[PierrotSAMBACrystal]

Secrets from outer space...la la la la la la, la laaa, laaa, laaa laaaaaa

[otacon17x]

@paulsbreakfast couldn't agree more with you, good sir

[pazzensutra]

This is a superb and strange album. I listen to it a lot!

[pazzensutra]

@paulsbreakfast "Commercial Album" and beyond is the best. The newer stuff with all the freeze-dried synthesizers is not as good in my opinion-with the exception of their CD-Rom games!

[turboloiz]

The best album of the Residents and one of the best of rock ever! I have seen them in Bologna, great show!

[birdandthe]

what an overlooked masterpiece.

[Dillbob1]

first song i listened to by the residents

[OurBrainHurtsALot]

beginnings are endings for all but a few, one of the greatest album ever made

[ysbaddaden2003]

I curse MTV for making New Wave music video about bilge like madonna and duran duran instead of music like the Residence, Klaus Nomi, Kraftwerk and Einsturzende Neubauten.

[DCioccoloni]

@ysbaddaden2003 don't forget guys like tuxedomoon, suicide, throbbing gristle, pere ubu, chrome etc.

[pazzensutra]

@ysbaddaden2003 You said it.

[iluvagothkenny]

@ysbaddaden2003

but why should we put something like Kraftwerk on a shit network like MTV? It's like putting House MD on VH1. Pointless.

[HisEmptyHouse]

@ysbaddaden2003 Hey now, occasionally MTV lets some brilliant stuff on there. And let's not forget the residents lent some great soundtrack work to Henry Selick's "Slow Bob" animated short for Liquid TV! (A brilliant piece of programming whose content largely came from the experimental comics artists of 'RAW') In fact my introduction to The Residents was seeing third reich n' roll 'land of a thousand dances' on MTV as a very little kid! (Like in the early 80s)

[CodyRicheson]

@ysbaddaden2003, I don't think you can lump The Residents into the "new wave" category. You're also forgetting the mighty Devo and Gary Numan!

[CinemaZebra]

@ysbaddaden2003 Hilariously, MTV started out showing Residents videos.

[fat8622]

@ysbaddaden2003 Well, can you blame them. I love the Residents and hate Madonna, but the general public couldn't understand the Residents music, and MTV, as a corporation, has to play what the public wants

[edwatom]

@fat8622 It's the reverse. The public want what MTV play. Over time anything will grow on them when they start thinking "should i be liking this? if they think it's worth airing it must be brilliant... yeah i fking love it! Residents!!!11"

[Dillbob1]

its amazing when you first discover a band that is awesome. thank god primus covered a song by them

[TehMadCow]

lmao this is crazy as hell high w/ a nice pair of headphones.

[atzenanu]

Nah, they needed hard cash after the losses on Eskimo and the split of half the band...

[drplbiftin]

Not Available is probably my favourite album by The Residents. Superb.

[kojurama11]

FUCK! I put thumbs down but meant it to be up lol.

[HisEmptyHouse]

@drplbiftin Mine's their collab with Renaldo & The Loaf - 'title in limbo.' If you can find a copy snatch it up. It's AMAZING.

[TheH725]

@drplbiftin

yeah. great album.

[catanroll]

mine too



[HikiLuoma]

Fucking fantastic!

[sh2master]

This would be insane while high. Some parts would be hard to listen to without flipping out: I think I'll get that feeling that I'm expanding to huge, explosive proportions, and if I don't move I'll feel too intense. I always stop the feeling when its about to be that intense (by flipping out, laughing), and I only get it when I meditate or listen to music that's conducive to a trancy/transcendental state. I'm gonna try not backflipping when i hear this fu-baked and see where it takes me.

[Franzlandser]

one of the best song i ever listen too..............i love it

[93riven]

WIN

[BaddaBigBoom]

"The matter that's been spoken of 's a fragrant little thing, it's open and was known to need a token diamond ring". Yayy! diddly dum and a big bag of whoopy snorp.

[nicademus666]

um badda, it is "open end" not open and...

[BaddaBigBoom]

Um really? did you um write it? It's all hearsay AFAIC- anyone's guess (including yours) goes :-) the lyrics have never been published by anyone official....um!

[atzenanu]

Sure they have been! I have it on a sheet that came with a Ralph catalog from '84 i guess (next to it was an interview with Homer who explained the "wissenberries" as "poissenous berries" and on...

[BaddaBigBoom]

Amma namma namma namma beegy beegy beegy DOO WOP ! Ah good old Residents -ya gotta love em.

[jonahc23]

this is my fav song. they are aliens.

[willey057]

if i were a cadavier i would dance to the residents,.

im only 27 i saw them live once. it changed my life i need to see tom waits befor i die but once you see both in concert.

then you can not critizies geniouse.

ps i love white bloter.

[ihateemosafuckinglot]

LOL.

To people who only listen to mainstream/radio play, I am sure this song would seem long. If someone is used to 3 minute pop/rap diddies, I'm sure 9 minutes is huge...

Music is not something to "dance" to, unless that was the intention of the musical writer.

[FrogDaBomb]

Then again, there WAS "The Commercial Album"

[CountVanAccount]

Wasn't the name of that album a parody of all those "artists" who are not even interested in making it sound like their album was something special? And instead of that throwing random pictures of the artist on it and literally screaming buy MY album! I am on it! Its COMMERCIAL!

[malpaul]

@FrogDaBomb

I heard that the Commercial Album was called that coz all the songs were 1 minute long... like a commercial.

[ResidentMich]

That's correct. The Residents philosophy regarding The Commercal Album was that you can get the feel of the whole of a song in an easy 1 minute bite.

[DimebagsLeftToe]

wow, thats an amazing concept. they really have come up with some great philosophies

[Orgonebox4u]

A timeless great song.Magical atmosphere.Still got the LP.Thx upload:)

[karnubawax]

Thanks and please post more from this album. The Residents really went downhill after the Mole Show, and became just a vehicle for Homer's poetry. Their early stuff is pure genius.

[totsmarkopolis]

fascinating.

[ResidentMich]

Recently spoke with Hardie Fox. He isn't aware of any 'Chinese Ballet' video that goes with The Making of the Soul......if anybody has footage of it please add it. It's black and white and looks old but it's amazing.

[eliottelescorielese]

Perchè all'inizio c'è la copertina di Eskimo? La canzone non era di Not Available? Comunque questa penso che sia una delle mie preferite dei Residents, sono fortissimi! Non c'è nessun gruppo al mondo che assomiglia a loro, sono unici!

[riolondon]

I first heard the Residents on shrooms and threw up. It took my twenty five years to realise that at the time of that encounter they were probably the best rock music I'd ever heard. Weird how stuff works out, huh?

[Bellinger2112]

ROCK!!! GOOD LORD NO!!

[WrBinITA]

avant-rock

[Bellinger2112]

avant-pipebags

[ichihentai]

Best dance music west of Ohio!

[soporia]

dance? with this music you can FLY

[FrogDaBomb]

You should listen to WB:RMX

[JesustheLizard]

any one notice you can play almost any two residents songs together and they will sound like they go together? Someone should start making YT vids like this, i don't know how

[BaddaBigBoom]

Ahhh..great music. I really want to know what the kid says in the epilogue. I hear it as "op-u-lent givings are seldom a dread, they help you relieve all them lies in your head, but for the givings you get (?) leave open a window and let in some rain".

[singinglawnchair]

@BaddaBigBoom

"Opulent givings are seldom a dread.

They help you relieve all them lies in your head.

But for the giving begets a sure vain,

Leave open a window and let in some rain."

[ResurrectedFenrir]

<3 <3 <3

[karoloandria]

dreamy

[galassiagon]

magnifico

[LordGalamoth]

Awesome... residents are the kings of outsider music

[FuzzyCabesas]

I love this song. It's like five different songs in one. "But now they say, there's room no more for such a friendly whore." Outerspace, Easter Island, and rhymes. Thanks.