The Residents- Its a Man's Man's Man's World

[greenmanTN]

I bought the "George and James" LP back in the 80s.  Hell, I ordered it directly from Ralph Records then I was like, WTF?! Seriously, no joke, at first I wasn't sure I was playing it an the right speed! I kept switching back and forth between 45rmp and 33 1/3! :-)

It's SO different from James Brown' song it becomes unfamiliar. I ended up with a better appreciation for the original AND for the way the Residents.made it completely new.

Mahogany Wood by the Residents is another favorite.

[alwayshalfbread]

I'am going to show THIS to my four years old son, just to proove that teletubies sucks.

Now. Being serious: I'love IT

[HolophraseOfficial]

I miss old MTV... when they were more than just a corporate advertising tool...

[aberantdware]

That's ART!



[nondescriptman]

I remember seeing this video for the first time over 25 years ago!

btw, "yar" is a fucking imbecile for tagging this vhs rip! who puts his name on a rip? what a fucking moron....

[danatamarina]

What? Bloody awful video? Are you crazy? this is a great video! so much better that all that 3d bullshit of nowdays!!!!!

[carolinerco]

One of my favourite ever cover versions. Bloody awful video though - SO early days of the art!

[TheLordOfEltingville]

@carolinerco Except that when it was done (back in those early days), it was way ahead of it time...

[Anophis]

Really love this. Great upload!

[CracheLaHaine]

wtf!!!

[TheScissorhandsKhemi]

i feel like im on acid

[RixdorferWurstmusik]

I love those comments like vs987's or dakraftyfella's

[M1STERSUSHi]

If ya'll dont't like this shit there r ways of closing tha window or pressing stop. N whatta ya kno, internet even allows u 2 change pages :0 so please, enough with ur lack of knowledge on musical produce. No one gives a shit bout negative opinions. Thas a fact.

[Vs987]

Piece of shit...

[DaKraftyFella]

This is crap

[FineThen9722]

Luckily, unlike Dazamaru I can't be bothered to play games of "avant-garde" tribes, nor am I desperate to appear more "avant-garde" than others, so I can carry on listening to and enjoying the creative and imaginative music of the Residents. Hooray for logic!

[MrUnit731]

This is so good!

[lovesGenet]

This s intelligent and resourceful.americans don't usually know how to think in categories about music so tropes,codes,symbols mystify many.Anybody know or have an idea about the surrealist appropriation of the eyeball and if they changed the notion of content with their use of it?I dont know anything about this band just have always read abobut them and had at least two records of theirs but have nevetread intervies or read anything they ahve to say!They are brill!

[Jajaocara99]

No, not Primus (don´t get me wrong, I love Primus), listen to Mister Bungle´s Discovolante, if you want some avant-gard crazy music. And search for some John Zorn too, but Stockhausen kick everyone´s ass when's to be experimental and har to listen. If anyone knows anything else in these lines, please tell me.

[freeform83]

Merzbow

[dazamaru]

@Jajaocara99...finnaalllyy....­a person with some musical knowlege in a crappy Residents vid site....

Check out Henry Cow, Univers Zero, Dr. Nerve....Edgar Varese....Art Ensemble of Chicago.....Julius Hemphill (esp. "Drunk on God").......Anthony Braxton....Cecil Taylor.......Roger Sessions.....Elliot Carter...

This Residents crap isnt "avant" anything...its just bad covers of crappy songs....Compared to the people you listed......they are rather pedestrian, dont cha think?

[frididjurhuus]

@dazamaru Listen to Third Reich and Roll and tell me it isn't Avant.

[frididjurhuus]

@Jajaocara99 John Zorn and Mike Patton are my favorite composers! Definitely check out Fantomas.

[184ktmdm]

This stuff sounds cool, i like it! It is so different then most music!!! Is there any other groups like them that you guys may know?

[eriksssonn]

primus maby. little heavier than this though

[Talloweed]

This has got to be one of the least altered covers the Residents have ever done.

[Schwejk]

Residents for Presidents.

As always terrific stuff.

[Pr0jectWeird1605]

Mr Redeye sounds so young in this

[offplanetfilms]

I have to admit... I always loved this track. (First time I've seen the video... wow!)

[festerfree]

YOU EITHER GET IT, OR YOU DON'T.

EITHER WAY, MOVE ON.

There's plenty of stuff on here to enjoy, rather than just spurt negativity in a vain attempt to make yourself feel less threatened by the weirdness of it.

Life's too short..

[Pr0jectWeird1605]

Amen man. People hate what they donot understand. Its quite sad

[Jcolinsol]

Different strokes for different folks, and there is no accounting for taste

yours

[djkrankhoff]

i dont get it its weird but entertaining.

[ALXXMaXX]

@festerfree I dunno if I gets it, but I likes it.

[PONWEEMAN]

you are one asshole!!!

The Residents make music.. and you? make... mastu....

jajajaja

[Superjew14]

thats their legacy.

taking a beautiful masterpiece and TAKING A GIANT SHIT ON IT.

long live the residents!

[burnz1187]

*Can't* and as for you Abryan, Yes its just drug induced garble that only junkies can enjoy right? Go listen to Tom Waits asshole. Some people arent afraid to break away from the mold that society has plastered into music. They walk in their own direction, and people follow, is it genius? Divine inspiration? If you think their music is all crap, TRY LISTENING TO ALL OF IT. AND LEARN ABOUT WHY THEY DID SAID PROJECT.

[burnz1187]

Windex you certainly sound educated, its a good thing we have you here to tell us what is good and bad. Not that every single thing in this world can only related to one's perception. If you can recognize the genius of over 35 years of complete anonymity, that has generated a massive cult following. Why dont you march your fans over here to back you up?

[jbphburg]

It's too normal, give me something twisted...

[WindexNeedleInMatt]

what the fuck is this?

I'll tell you what it is: Shit.

this is not art or anything that should be revered as such. It is awkwardness in the form of shit. They're not covering songs, they're ruining them.

[abryan96]

thank you windex. I'm not against drugs in practice, but these people are groping for meaning without any creative gifts. Anyone who get's high enough can spill out bile like this. Some people need to be reminded that drugs don't actually expand the mind. they deteriorate it. the intensity of pretension in the tone of "music" like this is unbearable in how pathetic and lost admirers and creators of it are. no amount of shit like this or bullshit reverence of it will give life any more meaning.

[jbphburg]

Drugs are better than God and shoe polish combined.

[steamboatwillie]

abryan: I'm not going to argue that the Residents are creators of lifechanging monumental music, though I do enjoy much of it. But I don't see what in this video is at all pretentious. Did the residents ever claim to add meaning to life? no. And to call them and all who admire them pathetic? I don't really know what to say.

And Windex, on what grounds is this not art?

[monkeymaija]

Shinola baby

[jbphburg]

It's considered the best thing ever by some?

[Pr0jectWeird1605]

Are you kidding? Geez, some people

[socialista4ever]

mad, sad, skizofrenic....incredible!!!!

[F00tF00t]

The residents really scare me. I don't like them, but then again, I can't stop clicking on their stuff? twisted.

[dubbedcrazy]

i saw this on lsd and sniffed rush at the same time.......i highly recommend it although amil nitrates would be better than rush.........try this at home.......i did.....

[kennerguy66]

You're gay.

[dubbedcrazy]

actually i'm not....why were you looking...lol

but amil nitrates is a gay drug...your right about that. apparently its similar to rush

[JesustheLizard]

or at least he hangs out in gay bars, where did you get rush? and does it really get you high? or is it just like huffing any other dangerous chemical that suffocates your brain?>

[youandyamum]

Ahhhh........

[raouldukeofprunes]

Everyone who writes on YouTube can't spell and doesn't understand grammar. Why?

[lummoxedup]

Yew tellum, Dr. Spelliepants!!!!!

[ginasty]

that bothers me too.. i'm afraid for my generation.

[SparkyFlary]

You made a double negative in that sentence. Your grammar needs improving. :)

[raouldukeofprunes]

No I didn't...

[IronSaucer]

is it a matter of grammar, or just trying to type the quickest thing possible?

[Fruvous]

Awesome. :) So glad to find my all time favorite group of tuxedo'd eyeballs here.

[disannAPP]

Thank Someone this is a fucking cover of that woman abuser James Brown. But yes, this one could have been a little bit more sharpened so that the bizarre polarity between the lyrical message and the private life of the singer became more evident.

[swagar]

Give yourself a hand, pseudo-intellectual bastard! You've criticized something for vague reasons!!

When you've made over 60 albums, you're allowed to make a few of them covers.

[SheedyDoo]

The guys face in this video ist he lead singer.

[c0al]

... how do you know

oh fucking god why

[SheedyDoo]

look around.

[Germanicus666]

I wouldn't be sure that anybody whose face appears in a Residents video is actually a member of the band.

[Superjew14]

The Residents are so underated but, they done so much. In my opinion, they don't have the props they deserve.

[dazamaru]

@Superjew14 hmmmm........ maybe because they are no-talent cretins who perform other's music......rather badly

[Skymning]

@Superjew14 The fact that you, after three years, only got 24 thumbs up and still leads on the entire thread beneath the vid speaks for itself, and it agrees with you. This should be WAY more recognized than alot of the bullcrap out there.

[W4RW017]

This is some trippy shit..

[kfinnseth]

great song and video!viva(-;

[Pr0jectWeird]

what is strange to you, is perfectly normal to me.

Hail to thee, O Residents

[HailMetal12]

I second that notion, good man.

[Rensra]

Crazy...that's i gotta say...

I love's the Residents!

[reynaldbell]

James Brown+ Residents = otherworldly Genius.

[F00tF00t]

thanks so much for posting this, i love it!

[becstupak]

omg, this is what i grew up on!  beautiful, amazing residents! anyone who doesn't know this is awesome is a poo-head (not an eyeball head, dummy babies!)

[williwonti]

hahah your name is gothkid000

[Rensra]

Good ad hominem...(that's sarcasm)

[gothkid000]

IIIII didn't write this.

[IREALLYDONTCARE321]

get this dvd (Icky Flix), smoke a good amount of weed, then watch it

YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT

I AM NOT JOKING, IT IS GREAT

[33interzona]

is a cry for help

[33interzona]

Rubbish? man, you better start to use your thumb!

This is one of the most beautiful poems dedicated to women or a girl... God for Brown and God from the residents.

[ortizclaudio]

if you dig on this,,you are a dumass fool..sorry.

[martiriobaby]

Obviously if you dig on Aguilera,Spears or any of that you may find this rubbish...this art is not made for you 'cause you are not capable to understand it...so the problem is yours...I don't know you but it seems like the dumb ass fool is you and not us for listening to The Residents...

[dazamaru]

snickers...

"ART"

hah. re-makes of James Brown is now considered "high art".....

amazing.

[trouduc00]

come again to hear this masterpice... you owe it!

[ortizclaudio]

absolute rubbish...gimme a break

[relayer1]

Edweena went to Vallianette

then left from there to college

and she took along a porcupine

who's name was known as Knowledge -

Well, their relationship was fraught

with pangs of loving hunger -

the porcupine could questionall,

but all she knew was slumber.

[caucau77]

That's from Buster & Glenn?

[eyevocal]

No, it's from George & James.

[reelden]

God to see some Residents videos<333

[airrunwesker]

I also recomend the "Monks"... from the 60s;!

[s2p3r]

who are they? maybe these 4 killed people just to keep their identity secret for years. or maybe those eyeballs are in fact they're heads.

[ellipsis00]

their

[sjilliang]

there

[distortionmaster]

Bloody raped the song..only christina agulera managed to make a cover that could live up to James's legacy...

[SaraTGinMD]

Try the live Residents version from the Icky Flix Tour...A wonderful version of this song

[clonexyourxlover]

lol christina aguilara.

[mutobare]

NOT AVAILABLE would be a good one to suit with visuals.

[SykesMacab]

I love The Residents, but MOMA does suck ass...and so does everything else that thinks of itself as art!

[c0al]

Even art?

[robertronics]

why not?

[MRmrsHIGHlow]

OH MAN YES... if they collaborated with JAN SWANKMAJER you would have an acid trip without the need to ingest a single thing. Of course this comes close. I am not a huge fan, but have seen them live in Chicago and value their presence a great deal... they are always striving to be creative... HAVE TO CREDIT THEM for that. Plus... they do have a bunch of fun songs.

[daggereyes1]

Did one of the Residents run over your cat or something?

[dazamaru]

They just fuck up songs by other artists. Not a original bone in their bodies.

Weak musicianship.

Leave James Brown's shit alone. This band is not deserving.

[ktuyx]

"Not an original bone in their bodies."

I'm guessing you've never listened to Mark of the Mole.

[MeFlerg]

One of the best things about the internet is that it provides a platform for people with no knowledge of given subjects to make grandiose claims AKA their "opinion" based on no factual evidence whatsoever.

Take a trip to the Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) and gaze at the permanent collection of works by The Residents. Perhaps you may consider studying music on your way there so you can make an informed decision upon arrival.

[dazamaru]

Excuse me...MeFlerg. But the beauty of the internet...is that I can have that said "opinion."

Lots of crap in MOMA...I've been there. Music, well I have studied music theory and performance, so I guess that makes me more informed than you.

If you think this is "original"..or "avant garde"...then it is you who needs the education. Calm down, clown. It's just a bad re-hash of James Brown. Don't need to be "informed" to see that.

Or maybe you need to listen to Oliver Messiaen.

[robertronics]

ohhhhhhh oliver messiaen!...let me tell you he wasn´t that revolutionary my man

you are just another conservatory student, that eats all that european crap and consider it as "holy", and ignore everything else.

go and listen to beethoven, but don´t come here and say that oliver messiaen is more original o revolutionary than the residents, because you´re wrong

maybe you need to listen to john cage or harry partch

[dazamaru]

robert-whatever,

Cage is boring...Partch is just weird. Talking voices and intermittent music. Snore.

Sorry to step on your daisys, but you commented to me first.

Don't feed the bear, if you dont want it to come back and destroy your ass.

If think re-makes of James Brown is "revolutionary"....lol

then it is you who is deluded.

"Revolutionary"...Hah.

[robertronics]

ok "bear". Whatever you say

[razieldumas]

Further proof that people who don't understand art shouldn't comment on it.

[dazamaru]

Raz...I concur.

[Luicfer0999]

wow daznmaru gave u an ass wiping robertronics OUCH!!!

[danthedude78]

you two name-droppers are made for each other

you're both so knowledgable, cultured and holy.

you should kiss

[dazamaru]

whatever, dude.

[lippanchenko]

That's Olivier Messiaen, no music theorist would let you get away with that, Mr Autodictat. Guess people are only as informed as their teachers, and yours is one ignorant philistine, bubs.

[scremt]

youre an idiot

[spadge321]

they really should get together with another of my faves,,

JAN SWANKMAJER

a seriously SURREAL film maker !!

[shiambles]

Lighting one up right now cant find pere ubu's 30seconds over tokyo anymore

[zantron]

The Residents are brilliant.

[LiteracyLabyrinth]

Quintessential Residents

saw this on a Rage episode and still love it. Esp last minute with the eyeball heads in reverse motion

[miettunen]

Hello, im a guy from finnnland. in the 70s i listened meet the residents lp and the suicide group and i was quit imppressed by them.

[returnsanecho]

i was a kid when i first heard this, i thought this was written by the residents.

[jejesus]

More than 20 years to see again this master work!!! James Brown and The Residents rule!!!

[djlionheart1962]

bought a video of their best clips (incl. this one) in a shop in Amsterdam, terrific stuff.

[flea036]

remembering smoking the weed and laughing my ass off, oh the 80s lol

[xloserincx]

YES!!! OMG!! so so glad to find this. One of my fave vids from the 80's

[labgnat]

dig it women

[geehawgirl]

Hey I am SO damned pleased to find this. Lost all my 80's vinyl in my last breakup (he's in possession of it in NYC, I'm in Cali) this Residents was one of the things I never thought I'd hear again.

[Saxkrig]

The residents are sooo great

[Gerkinstock]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!