The Residents - Hello Skinny

[FungiandFornication]

This is awesome, I always thought it was a primus original. I love the feel of it.......creepy and weird!!

[Gnogsty]

Why ello!~

[MrShimazu]

Never expected to see Demi Lovato's face beside a Residents video... What a splendid world we live in! Really...

[MrShimazu]

Orchard Music? What the hell is that!?

[PONWEEMAN]

The residents and VEVO... wa wa wait... THE RESIDENTS AND VEVO?

[andyofcomixinc]

I wonder if the Residents were at all influenced by Terry Gilliam.

[HandelMcmandle]

@andyofcomixinc I think it's the other way around.

[andyofcomixinc]

@HandelMcmandle Nah I did some research, The Residents didn't start doing animations until after Flying Circus aired. ^_^

[workatthefarm]

@andyofcomixinc Definitely not. This is not in any way like Terry Gilliams work.

[andyofcomixinc]

@workatthefarm This isn't, but I'm talking about The Resident's more prominent use of stop-motion and collage. The only bit in this video even slightly Gilliam-ish is the face at 2:30... and that's pushing it.

[workatthefarm]

@andyofcomixinc I doubt that the Residents are in any way influenced by Gilliam. No, wait. I actually do not doubt it, I KNOW IT. Just because Terry Gilliam used stop motion and collage he isn't the most influential and talented director and idol to the Residents.

[andyofcomixinc]

@workatthefarm I did say "in any way," right? ...I didn't say he was a major influence. I pondered if they were in any way inspired by what he did. All these kind of things sprouted up at the same time. I'd honestly be surprised if they didn't take cues from each other as they went along.

[workatthefarm]

@andyofcomixinc And I said that he is not and will never be an influence to the Residents.

[Jcolinsol]

@workatthefarm

What a load of horseshite.

[workatthefarm]

@Jcolinsol Lol don't use words which are not in your dialect, yankee cunt.

[Jcolinsol]

@workatthefarm

Smeg head.

[workatthefarm]

@Jcolinsol You clearly have no culture so you find it witty to hijack mine. I see you have either been searching the Internet for idiotic cuss words or viewed Red Dwarf, because no one says smeg head in the UK.

[Jcolinsol]

@workatthefarm

I don't have to use cuss words from the UK, anymore than I have to use ones from America. It just so happens that smeg-head, yes from Red Dwarf, perfectly describes your personality, Mr. Rimmer.

[Rusticating]

Awesome song, but it's better without an explanation.

Come to think of it, it's better without a video too.

[TheMrbob2011]

This by far one my favorite songs/videos of all time.

[AbsintheGirl27]

I've drank a lot of Absinthe this evening, cheers for freaking me out whilst drunk lol

[Willardsmusic]

Wow, this is deep.

[Bram25]

Damn, they watched Eraserhead did they?!

[setpunk12]

god, the residents are so fucking creepy

[qwerki666]

And here I thought Primus was weird.....

[lisins2kill]

@qwerki666 primus actually did a cover of this song its on the frizzle fry album

[Maebashi]

I once bought a "Hello Dolly" record in a thrift shop for 25 cents and just left it in the hallway of my apartment.



[twill047]

Ahhh, the Residents.. so wierd and wonderful.

[Kuromeshi]

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[noahlankford1]

For those who want to know what this is about, its obviously about the Slenderman.

[damage5f6a]

Im floating down the Nile in a 1930s film.....

[junkyturd]

I love drugs!!!!

[davesblueguitar]

Dear Residents: You owe me a new brain. Thanks, Dave

[BsideTheet]

Great The Residents!

[UncleSlam81]

Real creepy shit

[dosie451]

Theirs were some of the first records I bought on vinyl. The advert before the video nearly made me puke. I hope they get some royalties out of it, at least. Loved it then and now, but not the spot for advertising.

[papagrateful]

fuck you vevo

[JSPgamer]

@papagrateful This isn't vevo...

[jurassicpark4ever]

@papagrateful This isn't vevo, this is orchardmusic

[wookie72]

@MrMeddled They actually both came out around the same time, within a few years of each other.

and people say the 70s sucked...

[wookie72]

Peopler a) think that there is a linear interpretation of the lyrics and b) that Primus came first?

Good god...

[dltamarin]

For those who want to know what the song is about- I can't say, but if you want music that is linear with non-absurd lyrics you may want to listen to a band other than The Residents. On the other hand, if you like the mystery of not knowing and have an appreciation of absurdity and enjoy the challenge of art that makes you think then viva la Residents. Very much like a Lynch film or a story by Kafka.

[dltamarin]

@almgi I know exactly what you mean. Not everyone may find themselves in that situation, but when I was another person I in fact needed a Hello Dolly record and the only person who was selling them was some thin dude with a limp

[diomidis69]

creepy!

[zombeh42]

its like David Lynch in music form.

[XdracoX117X]

helloooooooo dahllyyyyy helloooooooooooooooooo

[kendeeni]

Hello, Dali!

[dltamarin]

@kendeeni I was always wondering if he was saying "Hello Dolly" as a reference to the Hello Kitty doll, or if they were saying "Hello Dali" referring to the surrealist genius. But probably the meaning is something we humans cannot understand.

[SealPool]

@dltamarin Hello Dolly is a famous Broadway musical.

[kylem420]

@dltamarin hello dolly is a muscial from way back in the day

[thatlittleweirdkid]

Crystal Meth.

"Skinny was born in a bathtub." Much home made meth is cooked in bathtubs, therefore, that was how he was born, or how 'Skinny' was made.

"And he grew so incredibly thin, even the end of an eyedropper sucked him in." (Most) people get crazy thin if they're a meth addict

About selling things, a person is likely to go broke, likely lose their job if they are a serious addict, so they are going to sell whatever they can to get a fix.

[SealPool]

@thatlittleweirdkid

The song was written long before meth was well-known.  It's about heroin.

[MikuMech]

@SealPool

It's about whatever the Residents can get you to think it is.

[porgiejones]

@MikuMech - it's about Skinny

[MikuMech]

@porgiejones

Works for me!

[porgiejones]

@MikuMech My comment sounds like I was putting you straight - I thought I was replying to someone who had actually ASKED what it was about - but I can't see that one now. Sorry about that. I, incidently, have absolutely no idea what the song is about (apart from being about Skinny) luckily I,m shallow enough for this not to bother me too much so I can love the Residents without the downside of them doing my head in.

[dltamarin]

@SealPool I'm interested by any interpretation of this work of art, why do you think it is about heroin? Skinny seems more like a schizophrenic than a heroin user. But he looks a little like William S Burroughs.

[SealPool]

@dltamarin Cheap heroin is made in a bathtub and called 'bathtub heroin". This song was released in 1978, so it had to be about a well-known drug at the time, which crystal meth wasn't. Also, it was hard to get syringes then, so heroin addicts made their own with eye droppers. Heroin addicts were often skinny, and they were known for selling all their possessions to get more money to get high.

[volimsir]

@SealPool This is actually the best explanation I've seen yet.

[volimsir]

@SealPool Although, trying to find an absolute meaning to a song this abstract is, well, pretty much impossible.

[AutisticPersona]

@SealPool NOW THE SONG MAKES SENSE TO ME!!!!

[seaneyerick]

@SealPool I've heard of meth being produced in bathtubs, especially in the early days of meth, much much more than I have ever heard of heroin being "made" in a bath tub.. I'm not saying you're wrong, or anything, but I was always under the impression that it was about speed, and it doesn't have to be about heroin because meth wasn't "well known" (when in fact, it was anyways).

[dltamarin]

@thatlittleweirdkid that actually makes a lot of sense. "Skinny never looked at lights"- methamphetamines cause the pupil to dilate so that the sun and other lights are incredibly painful to look at, which is why tweakers wear shades.

I actually do not think this song is about meth, but your analysis makes a lot of sense.

[NeverShoutFaggot]

My brain is too simple and shallow to understand this brilliance.

I'm pretty sure it's amazing, but I'm just like.

Whaaaaaaaaaaat the fuuuuuuck... :)

[allencrider]

The lame advertising fits beautifully.

[Bofur4]

this is sick

[djrustye]

Hey, those rotating legs at the end are also shown in Mathew Barney's Cremaster film. That scene looks like something from the Cremaster film too. Is there a connection between Mathew Barney and the Residents?

[eponymist]

@djrustye No, the triskelion legs are an emblem native to the Isle of Man, where Cremaster 4 takes place.

[djrustye]

@eponymist Thank you for the info. :)

[XdracoX117X]

~ ~ ~ O ~ ~ ~

[2004angelito]

qué semihueada es esta music?

[NEBNOC]

PRIMUS

[thecrazygood321]

@NEBNOC um, the residents released this in 1978 on there Duck Stab/Buster & Glen album. Primus' is a cover. They are also heavily influenced by this band

[Kornball426]

@thecrazygood321 Primus even refers to covering and listening to Residents songs in one of their own songs... "But me I'd rather play Residents cuz I don't give a ffffffor-give me if I hesitated". It's in a song called "The Air is Getting Slippery". I have to admit I like Primus better than The Residents, they're more accessible... And funny.

[dltamarin]

@Kornball426 Primus covers this song, as well as Sinister Exaggerator. In concert they occassionally do Constantinople. Les Claypool was definitely influenced by them, I picture him and CG getting high as kites listening to this

[NEBNOC]

Stolen from PRIMUS! Pfffff....cant make it on your own?

[HandelMcmandle]

@NEBNOC WRONG! The Residents came first. Primus merely just covered their songs, mainly because they are fans of the Residents. read more about the Residents, and you will know.

[dltamarin]

@NEBNOC so wrong. Primus has a CD of all cover songs, and Sinister Exaggerator is on that. So it is pretty clear who did it first and who influenced whom.

by the way another band I believe is influenced by The Residents is the Melvins

[WuzzleFuzzle]

WHUT.

[DrWhiggs]

It's like if Oingo Boingo wore their pants on their heads.

[yrsnkd]

The Residents: A roller coaster in sound that never sucks. Unless you're not a roller coaster type of person. Then they always suck.

[assroads]

i love listening to this song on a date

[mynameisbackwards]

The Primus cover sounded better

[yossarian9]

The Residents are William S. Burroughs backup band.

[PrimusSucksOnThis]

These guys don't sound like Primus. Primus sounds like them.

[herringstraits]

i see the resemblance to primus this band kicks ass!

[DoctorNewcombe]

Liminality

[Bram25]

The average summary of a Twilight Zone episode.

[neeltjeloserkid]

Scary tune and clip, and that's why I love The Residents. <3

[darkgear6]

Not bad tunes.

[attackingmoose]

Huge ups for the spinning leg reference, what video did that originally? It was some controversial show/end of show thing, IIRC.

[lcjj7]

It would be creepy but it's trying too hard I think

[darthivory]

This feels like a bad acid trip.

Quick, somebody take some acid and tell us what you see!

[informationplz]

'Em guys is smart what with the thinkin words and stuff they put in that song was playing about the feller who was sellin things.I cain't git it at 1st but after I heard it I was all like WHOA my head is like blown, man...GEENIUSZ! Ima hafta check out sum more of them !! PRIMUS SUCKS!!

[durpanchaya]

stasera a milano...

[dazamaru]

da fuck is this.......no wonder Zappa turned these cretins down......absolutely no talent....no ear.......

LOL.....guess who's back

[icexblackxrain]

this is to freaking creepy.

[diskochimp]

Awesome, this just might be the greatest "music video" ever...

[Alma889900]

The residents rule! They are the best band ever! [s]Rock on RESIDENTS!!

[omnithrope]

complete and total win. Thank you, Residents (whoever you are!)

[alvin1245]

怖い...

[Uchuuneko]

Great song, timeless bass riff.

The guy in the video kind of looks a little like Ed Gein. Primus' version is fantastic as well.

[yourmom416]

Damn. And I thought Primus' version was trippy as fuck... O_o

[wookie72]

Back when I was a teenager in the late 80s, there was very little to be able to rebel with... psychedelia, punk, goth - these had all been done before. The Residents let me rebel. Such awesome strangess.

[trapadoored]

@wookie72

The Resident's are inherently rebellious because by nature they are the opposite of..well, everything.

[reactor79]

they produced supertemporal music

[geographictongue1]

What they are on is ... called creativity, pure and simple.

[lancelentine]

...this song is so fucking demented it gets into my brain, HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DOLLY

[ZLUGGO]

The lyrics are ridiculous.

[almigi]

@ZLUGGO The lyrics only seem ridiculous at first. Then, one day you find yourself in need of a suction cup and a knife, and a man with a bad leg comes up to you, offering to sell you a Hello Dolly record. Then you understand.

[ZLUGGO]

@almigi

What a very profound and thoroughly intellectual hippie kind of comment. Bravo!

[icexblackxrain]

@almigi i voted this down by accident but i meant to vote it up!

[thegreatreverendx]

@almigi ...and, oh yes, have I understood...

[BobbyBluntandthafunk]

@almigi You just described my last weekend on Acid SIR!

[MrMonsterstiffy]

@almigi if you were fortunate and stoned enough to hear this in the 70's, you were blessed. NOTHING, SRSLY, Nothing like this had ever been done before. It still sounds new to me after four decades...

[deadflo]

@MrMonsterstiffy

I was there too! It was and is still amazing.

[msnikish]

@MrMonsterstiffy oh man i wish i was there, i take it you arae a big fan, do you own lots of them on vinyl?

[asvard]

@almigi love that comment I think you get it

[yovioleatuzorramadre]

@asvard I dont. what it means?

[phoenixflameangel13]

I really want to know wtf they are on when they make these cause whatever it is....hook me up lol

[Ogaitnas900]

Imagination?

[LogInAnders]

Exactly! Whenever people ask me "Where did you get that imagination?" I ask them "Where did you lose yours?"

[yrsnkd]

@Ogaitnas900 Imaaaaginaaaaaaatiooooooon.