I randomly decided to thumb through my parents records which mostly consists of Shostakovich, Herb Alpert, and Elvis Costello. To my suprise I found Hello Dolly by Louis Armstrong. Are any of you truck drivers?
An ex girlfriend of mine used to listen to this years ago when depressed. She would sit in her dark, damp, spidery bedroom with this playing or "Lizard Lady" whilst trying to grow hair out of her nostrils.
The Residents have been haunting my dreams ever since I heard them on the radio, I looked them up and I always see a figure with an eyeball mask in my dreams. Their music isn't just records, it's the freaking feeling you get from thinking about them. Very cool, not my kind of music, but way too damn cool. (applauds)
the residents reminds me of a david lynch film: -you don't know whats really actually happening but you know it's happening. -well since I put it that way they both remind me of an LSD trip.
always liked the primus, heard of residents, that was a new experience, very weird, not in a bad way, time will tell whether i'll like this band.... currently undetermined...
@7Beyonder The main fact here being that no one, and I mean no one cares about what idiotic people like you think. Just face it, an impressive amount of famous musicians sing the praises of the residents, while you, my dear, are nothing but a judgemental ignorant. Slay what you can't understand is a common motto for your kind.
I'm waiting for the day when I go to a pub, and it's just me and an odd skinny man on the other side of the room. Eventually I'll notice the way he's made constant eye contact with me since I entered. Eventually it'll be all too much and I'll have to down my pint of Tim Taylor's and ask him what his purpose is. Upon which he'll reply 'I am Skinny of Residents fame.' Before disappearing mysteriously into the November fog to this music.
@OliTheShayman that's not how it's going tto happen.. first skinny wil bum a cigarette and if you give him one he'll ask for another before the first is even lit.. then he'll try to bum a beer and some more smokes, maybe even some change, after wich he disappears into the night leaving behind nothing but a bit of lost smoke..
I've seen The Residents twice now in the past couple of years or so. I can't believe I get to see them open for Primus on 12/30. Primus got me into The Residents, but both of them on the same night is going to be so insane.
@LoSeRrOcKiNoN You know these guys are anynymous, no one knows who they are. . . maybe Les Claypool is in this band!!! Probably not, but one can only dream.
@skinnydoggyz Well the singer is called Homer Flynn and the keyboardguy is Hardy Fox, the rest are sessionmusicians;) No mistery at all (at least not for the last 25 years)
This song is obviously about methamphetamine... Born in a bathtub? Eye dropper? Selling something every single night? Not to mention all of the orange tipped hypodeemic nerdles at the end scattered about the bathtub. I have seen that crap destroy a lot of talented people in my town. Prison, death or festering skin lesions anyone? Song came out in '78. Maybe they saw something nobody else did way back?
im lookin for a song by the residents and cant seem to find it..is about shooting a gun again and again and again..lyrics somethin like that..can anyone help me out
I've enjoyed the Residents since I was a little girl watching their VHS tapes with my father. Even now, we still own the VHS and have most of their CDs. I don't listen to it constantly, but I love their style and will always hold a special place in my heart for the weird little fuckers. Their songs and their mini-movie videos will always be in my collection.
"music video " was a brand new idea back in the late 70's/early 80's.
Even some of the silliest and most banal seemed really crucial
and they were really . Video was a new technology ,new art medium . Even MYV was "interesting " at the time. The Residents were crusaders in art ,music and film .They are still at the top of the heap in my humble opinion.
uh, dathoit, this is from the mid/late-seventies... the Residents had only just produced the 3rd Reich-n-Roll before, which was the first "music video"...
There's always such debate about what's art and what isn't
It seems to me, some things are art, and some things try very hard to be art.
I s'pose sometimes art is something that you can take meaning away from yourself rather than be told "oh the little red bits mean this"
I usually don't have a very hard time telling those apart... for me the only difficulties are with art I don't particularly like and art that's a knockoff, can never tell for sure about those
There are codes in allart .We can make meaning from agreed upon symbols and codes and structures.Teh great thing about contemporary art since wwIi is their are so many artists with their own systems and heirarchies art is now free from codified interpretation.form still rules basically but content s now free often to be categorized freely.Hollywood still uses the ols symbols.DaviD Lynch ,cronenberg,VonTrieretc have their own
I'd like to remind everyone that this is from the early 70's. its post dada, but if it was total crap we wouldn't be talking about it 40 years later.
also to:
peknoman
art only matters what it means to the VIEWER. if the artist could call the shots, I could jack off onto a chain saw and say it represented my hate of our national trade deficit. your work must evoke some (hopefully positive) reaction from the viewer.
lol at the 'i dont get this kinda art' comments. There's nowt to get man, the code's are subjective and can mean whatever you want it to mean, this is why when artists are like 'this song means..' I'm like bullshit! it means nowt before its placed in its social context haha
Its not that absurd. THe voice is annoying, maybe cause i've heard it being emulated by annoying buskers in my town?
artist are the only one to know the real meaning of their art. they decided each word, each sound, everything and each piece was put in direct rder to follow the idea of the artist. if you decide to give it another meaning it is free to you, but the only tue meaning of art is in the hand of its creator.
wow! what a load of bollocks, can you not see all the massive red flags in your wording? 'true' 'real' 'meaning' 'idea' 'art' 'decided' what do each of these mean? why do you assign so much importance to this cultural hierarchy? Fuck what the artist 'meant' its specific to each person and cant be anything else. Fuck i hate pretentious art.
But your reasons for valueing it as such seem completley arbitrary, 'stupid games' are worth just as much as 'hard work' in the sense of 'what you get out of it' saying one has value over the other is art elitism. Everything has its place, and pretentious art is at the bottom of my aesthetics pile haha, but thats only my opinion, i got no 'right' to tell you whats what.
This isn't pretentious art, they're not saying what they make is whatever whatever whatever. Other people are saying that on youtube. They just produced it, and hey it's somewhat out of the norm but it IS still art. I mean, I really enjoy it and I just discovered it a few days ago without any use of hard drugs.
borders beyond the absurd... almost gets too precious halfway thru, but fixes the glitches by the end....Don't understand it but it's some sort of art
So, I listened to a couple of these songs, and this band isn't for me. Respect to what they do. I think they're talented. I just don't like this music.
@LukeKellylives You are cool and you are not a dick, I hate those arrogant assholes who bash the music because they dont like it and mock the people who listen to it. Cheers to you my friend!!
@LukeKellylives Thanks for being 'spectful. The Residents are an earful and no mistake. I love them for their ferocity...then again I am a huge fan of Ives and Shostakovich. I'll save the easy listening for my sister.
@LukeKellylives I know that this is an old comment. But props for saying what so many can't. Just cause someone doesn't like something, doesn't make it bad or invalid. A lot of residents stuff is an act of experimentation and often it is less about being easy to listen to, and more about pushing boundries and new ideas (which isn't always GOOD, the atom bomb was a new idea too at one point ;P)
@LukeKellylives perfect analogy for the spinach cheese rolls my mother maid tonight, and like the residents my dog will appreciate the fueling satisfaction despite the unfavorable discomforting choice of ingredients.
They are amazing. I saw them on halloween in SF in the early 90s and it was by far one of the trippiest concerts I have ever been to. Performance art at its finest.
I was like 13 when I volunteered to work for KQED (PBS) in San Francisco off of Harrison. This was 1979 and it was several years before MTV came out. It was a time of very creative film making. The Residents had did a video with PBS (Or PBS Used their music). I painted some backdrops for the video which I believe was this song. I remember parking a police car in the south of market when I didnt even have a license (Which I thought was very cool) anyways I miss making videos at PBS.
haha dude, i guess it's because your initial response came off as arrogant/sarcastic (which I guess wasn't now). maybe you're not american? how you phrased that sentence was very condescending in the american language. You put "when i was 12" at the end of the sentence, almost as if it was a punchline... you know? it's like that joke from Borat... "This is a nice suit... NOT!". it's not a big deal bud. you were just misinterpreted by myself included. that really is awesome you were 12 though!
Listen don't even bother yourself with why some assholes gave you a - 2 (i gave ya +1) they probably can't grasp the residents ...and even more the fact that a joung guy actually enjoys listening and viewing their work ....in a nutshell = ya didn't do anything wrong , they suck ppl of course not the residents ....greets to you all RESIDENTS addicted so am I !!!! ....Taboulinou (Europe)
Possibly the most creative American pop? band of all time, certainly the most unusual. I remember and seeing this video at the old 9:30 club in washington DC and being completely freaked out. Love these guys.
que mamadas????? the residents es una de las agrupaciones musical y visualmente de las mejores,,,desde 1968 llevan trabajando y cadavez son mejores los discos,,,,chequen el disco eskimo del 79 y el ultimo bunny boy
Now these guys are hands-down the weirdest band on the face of the Earth. So weird in fact, that they were impossible for me to ignore. After years of sitting on the fence over The Residents, I finally immersed myself in their music over the last couple of days, starting with "Duck Stab" and "Buster & Glen". Combined, those albums are about 30 minutes long, but I find myself playing it over and over again. I'm totally hooked on these guys, whoever they are! :D
@Akira625 I agree that this band is grate, but it is not at all the weirdest bandon the face of the earth, I would even say that the resident are part of the main stream of expérimental music
@skinnydoggyz well yes, but that's not what I said, I said that they were part of the main stream OF experimental music (and not of music in general).
sure it is hipster stuff.not that im saying its bad at all.. its just that.. the residents are indeed part of the great underground music of the world... a big big part and inspiration for other bands
The lyrics make the video... Love Duck Stab and saw the Residents several times. First time was their 13th Anniversary Tour. I was forever changed. I see them whenever I can.
I used to play Residents music on my Public Radio program... and I would grin and giggle like a naughty school boy when someone told me to "turn that shit off!"
I'm a big fan of both bands too. GG is the world's greatest shock rocker/performance artist in terms of sheer barbarism. But the Residents may be one of the most unusual bands in the world, even stranger than Zappa, Zorn or Beefheart.
i've noticed that a lot of.. lets say strange folk such as us (i'm assuming) like the same artists. I'm also a fan of the three you listed. Are you a buckethead fan?
Buckethead is one of those bands I've heard mentioned numerous times, but have had very little exposure to. I have a feeling they'd be up my alley though.
Someone needs to actually take this song and mix it with Hello Dolly by Louis Armstrong.
eternal0star 2 months ago
This creeped me out.
Iamtheweirdone 3 months ago
Klasyka awangardy :)
at3usz 3 months ago in playlist Residents Snakefinger
MOIRA SCAR!
LuLuCorpse 4 months ago
I MUST KNOW WHAT SKINNY SAW.
joralebedev 5 months ago
Hello, Dali
cynon767 6 months ago
I randomly decided to thumb through my parents records which mostly consists of Shostakovich, Herb Alpert, and Elvis Costello. To my suprise I found Hello Dolly by Louis Armstrong. Are any of you truck drivers?
Scottishpunk77 6 months ago 4
An ex girlfriend of mine used to listen to this years ago when depressed. She would sit in her dark, damp, spidery bedroom with this playing or "Lizard Lady" whilst trying to grow hair out of her nostrils.
rob16248 6 months ago in playlist The Residents 3
Helloooooooooo Dolly.
Komodoensis 7 months ago
It's so surreal and scary David Lynch could have made it!
CaptainBeefheart86 7 months ago 5
c'mon Edwina
tennispaful 7 months ago
classic!
HolophraseOfficial 7 months ago
The Residents have been haunting my dreams ever since I heard them on the radio, I looked them up and I always see a figure with an eyeball mask in my dreams. Their music isn't just records, it's the freaking feeling you get from thinking about them. Very cool, not my kind of music, but way too damn cool. (applauds)
ShockerSpine 8 months ago
this is not just "music", there are sensations, a spirit, feelings just the residents can raise inside here
outromac 9 months ago
you think these guys hung out with david lynch?
dukeisland1 9 months ago
the residents reminds me of a david lynch film: -you don't know whats really actually happening but you know it's happening. -well since I put it that way they both remind me of an LSD trip.
fckYTreg 10 months ago
always liked the primus, heard of residents, that was a new experience, very weird, not in a bad way, time will tell whether i'll like this band.... currently undetermined...
BloodSpade1984 10 months ago
is.. the end about the gift of being real?
nigrobat 10 months ago
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MorbidBliss22 10 months ago
@MorbidBliss22 loser = weed
nigrobat 10 months ago
@MrMeddled
You are fucking delusional. "Creativity?" They just rehash old RnB tunes, da fuck are you talking about?
"soundtrack?" Yea, soundtrack on how to be complete failures hiding under eyeballs.
Some one teach these cretins how to play instuments...please?
7Beyonder 10 months ago
@7Beyonder I've seen your channel and you listen to the most bad taste music ever. Your opinion is like a fart into a church.
hoxvoxbox 10 months ago
so the skinny guy is a member of the Residents?
No wonder they hide their faces...sheesh.
Just crap.
7Beyonder 10 months ago
@7Beyonder The main fact here being that no one, and I mean no one cares about what idiotic people like you think. Just face it, an impressive amount of famous musicians sing the praises of the residents, while you, my dear, are nothing but a judgemental ignorant. Slay what you can't understand is a common motto for your kind.
taniaowatatsumi 9 months ago
@taniaowatatsumi
LOL..no one cares, but you took the time to respond....whatta doofus. .Maybe the others are smarter than you. They didnt respond....
7Beyonder 9 months ago
i'm desesperately searching for the icky flix dvd download, anyone has a link? i can't buy it from amazon since they won't ship it to where i live.
oRISHI12 10 months ago
Compare with "Neptune" from Holst.
Rusticating 10 months ago
The Residents are America's Shadow to the Grateful Dead.
kara65louky 11 months ago
That's not as simple as a perfect song and video: that's scary...
virlennenklein 1 year ago
weird. I love the primus cover of this song though.
jiedde78 1 year ago
I'm waiting for the day when I go to a pub, and it's just me and an odd skinny man on the other side of the room. Eventually I'll notice the way he's made constant eye contact with me since I entered. Eventually it'll be all too much and I'll have to down my pint of Tim Taylor's and ask him what his purpose is. Upon which he'll reply 'I am Skinny of Residents fame.' Before disappearing mysteriously into the November fog to this music.
Some day, it will happen.
OliTheShayman 1 year ago 5
@OliTheShayman that's not how it's going tto happen.. first skinny wil bum a cigarette and if you give him one he'll ask for another before the first is even lit.. then he'll try to bum a beer and some more smokes, maybe even some change, after wich he disappears into the night leaving behind nothing but a bit of lost smoke..
TheOnkruidt 1 year ago
It seems odd to me that the first time I got high was also the first time I heard The Residents. That was 1979. Does that seem odd to anyone else?
electricfoot 1 year ago
@electricfoot The Jungians would call that synchronicity- meaningful coincidence.
23moksha 1 year ago
I've seen The Residents twice now in the past couple of years or so. I can't believe I get to see them open for Primus on 12/30. Primus got me into The Residents, but both of them on the same night is going to be so insane.
Steve9842007 1 year ago
this makes me uncomfortable which is how I know it's good art. respect!
steinber 1 year ago
David Lynch + The Residents give people nightmares :(
Rachenviel 1 year ago 3
Wonderfull!!! Long life to the masters... long life to the N. Senada´s childrens!!!
TheVirtualShaman 1 year ago
haha same as me. i also started with dug stab. really addictive music. already three days in their ban
jeanpierke 1 year ago
when it starts singin "Hello Dolly" i... get scared speechless o.o
MONKASTEVE 1 year ago 2
Primus made it better :0
44Daddy44 1 year ago
hello skinny, this is really baffling, the only no-way in the fall
saravlinder 1 year ago
I love primus and how they introduce their fans to other great and weird artists.
theC4K3is4lie 1 year ago
I love Primus, and I can tell that Les Claypool was a huge fan of this band. This band is one of my favorites now.
LoSeRrOcKiNoN 1 year ago
@LoSeRrOcKiNoN You know these guys are anynymous, no one knows who they are. . . maybe Les Claypool is in this band!!! Probably not, but one can only dream.
skinnydoggyz 1 year ago
@skinnydoggyz That. Would. RULE.
LoSeRrOcKiNoN 1 year ago
@skinnydoggyz Considering that The Residents formed in 1969 and Les Claypool was born in 1963, probably not. But that would be really cool. :D
yourmom416 1 year ago
@skinnydoggyz Well the singer is called Homer Flynn and the keyboardguy is Hardy Fox, the rest are sessionmusicians;) No mistery at all (at least not for the last 25 years)
atzenanu 1 year ago
sounds like Primus
AnticrustPizza 1 year ago
LukeKellylives opinion is void because he loves Sublime.
asmoron 1 year ago 3
This song is obviously about methamphetamine... Born in a bathtub? Eye dropper? Selling something every single night? Not to mention all of the orange tipped hypodeemic nerdles at the end scattered about the bathtub. I have seen that crap destroy a lot of talented people in my town. Prison, death or festering skin lesions anyone? Song came out in '78. Maybe they saw something nobody else did way back?
oinkst 1 year ago 2
@oinkst Yea...sorta like Resident fans....
7Beyonder 10 months ago
@7Beyonder
Funny you should mention that. Woe to the children of these generations.
oinkst 10 months ago
This put me in an awkward mood.
jessicoww 1 year ago 2
kinda creepy ?
mandahsrandomaccount 1 year ago
i found the song..its called mark of the male..really awsome
therevengeftw 1 year ago
im lookin for a song by the residents and cant seem to find it..is about shooting a gun again and again and again..lyrics somethin like that..can anyone help me out
therevengeftw 1 year ago
@therevengeftw
You've probably found the song by now, but I believe you are talking about "Mark of the Male" off the album "Tweedles"
Shreeves16 1 year ago
I've enjoyed the Residents since I was a little girl watching their VHS tapes with my father. Even now, we still own the VHS and have most of their CDs. I don't listen to it constantly, but I love their style and will always hold a special place in my heart for the weird little fuckers. Their songs and their mini-movie videos will always be in my collection.
Snoogans6669689 1 year ago
awesomenessity
Afafa0das0Usurper 1 year ago
Skinny is a figment of what I could imagine one of my darkest nightmares could be
Riotgirl93 1 year ago
Freaky, scary and a so so so disturbing video and song! I love it :D
Mumzzen 1 year ago
I want this song inside me
D4MVP 1 year ago 4
@D4MVP I want to have Skinny as my pet :D
Mumzzen 1 year ago
The first video on the related list is "Overcome Anxiety & Fear". That HAS to be planned.
Aschenmonster 1 year ago 2
Pointless lyrics but a lot of fun.
ZLUGGO 1 year ago
that skinny dude gives me the creeps!!!
MissTuffett 1 year ago
@MissTuffett
Who is he?
ZLUGGO 1 year ago
Nicademus666 - you are right .
"music video " was a brand new idea back in the late 70's/early 80's.
Even some of the silliest and most banal seemed really crucial
and they were really . Video was a new technology ,new art medium . Even MYV was "interesting " at the time. The Residents were crusaders in art ,music and film .They are still at the top of the heap in my humble opinion.
sisterdiggins 2 years ago 13
uh, dathoit, this is from the mid/late-seventies... the Residents had only just produced the 3rd Reich-n-Roll before, which was the first "music video"...
nicademus666 2 years ago
There's always such debate about what's art and what isn't
It seems to me, some things are art, and some things try very hard to be art.
I s'pose sometimes art is something that you can take meaning away from yourself rather than be told "oh the little red bits mean this"
I usually don't have a very hard time telling those apart... for me the only difficulties are with art I don't particularly like and art that's a knockoff, can never tell for sure about those
In dunno, I'm not very eloquent...
badluckshadow13 2 years ago
I like this song. It's scary.
jimwg2112 2 years ago 8
There are codes in allart .We can make meaning from agreed upon symbols and codes and structures.Teh great thing about contemporary art since wwIi is their are so many artists with their own systems and heirarchies art is now free from codified interpretation.form still rules basically but content s now free often to be categorized freely.Hollywood still uses the ols symbols.DaviD Lynch ,cronenberg,VonTrieretc have their own
lovesGenet 2 years ago
hay nato, good call on this one!
I'd like to remind everyone that this is from the early 70's. its post dada, but if it was total crap we wouldn't be talking about it 40 years later.
also to:
peknoman
art only matters what it means to the VIEWER. if the artist could call the shots, I could jack off onto a chain saw and say it represented my hate of our national trade deficit. your work must evoke some (hopefully positive) reaction from the viewer.
dahtHoit 2 years ago 5
lol at the 'i dont get this kinda art' comments. There's nowt to get man, the code's are subjective and can mean whatever you want it to mean, this is why when artists are like 'this song means..' I'm like bullshit! it means nowt before its placed in its social context haha
Its not that absurd. THe voice is annoying, maybe cause i've heard it being emulated by annoying buskers in my town?
easthousepinballwiza 2 years ago 4
artist are the only one to know the real meaning of their art. they decided each word, each sound, everything and each piece was put in direct rder to follow the idea of the artist. if you decide to give it another meaning it is free to you, but the only tue meaning of art is in the hand of its creator.
peknoman 2 years ago 2
wow! what a load of bollocks, can you not see all the massive red flags in your wording? 'true' 'real' 'meaning' 'idea' 'art' 'decided' what do each of these mean? why do you assign so much importance to this cultural hierarchy? Fuck what the artist 'meant' its specific to each person and cant be anything else. Fuck i hate pretentious art.
easthousepinballwiza 2 years ago
for some art is a hard work that deserve respect, for other it is a stupid game.
peknoman 2 years ago
But your reasons for valueing it as such seem completley arbitrary, 'stupid games' are worth just as much as 'hard work' in the sense of 'what you get out of it' saying one has value over the other is art elitism. Everything has its place, and pretentious art is at the bottom of my aesthetics pile haha, but thats only my opinion, i got no 'right' to tell you whats what.
easthousepinballwiza 2 years ago 2
This isn't pretentious art, they're not saying what they make is whatever whatever whatever. Other people are saying that on youtube. They just produced it, and hey it's somewhat out of the norm but it IS still art. I mean, I really enjoy it and I just discovered it a few days ago without any use of hard drugs.
jackyjackson 2 years ago
Well why arent the band commenting on these videos? why dont they wanna share what they feel? its not really that wierd or 'out of the norm'
easthousepinballwiza 2 years ago
borders beyond the absurd... almost gets too precious halfway thru, but fixes the glitches by the end....Don't understand it but it's some sort of art
6eeyore9 2 years ago
<3 it!
wildcherry604 2 years ago
This song and video is what made me realize just how amazing the residents are GENIOUS!!!
neckface1980 2 years ago 2
this is sooo fu**ing creepe.. i'm scared O.o'
lellanbellan 2 years ago
he looks like pee-wee herman
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rustafari50 2 years ago
Res rock......my mind....
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phetops 2 years ago
Great post! I still have the vinyl of
The Commercial Album
cttxlv 2 years ago
KEEP MUSIC EVIL !
liveincorridor 2 years ago 2
I confused
cojindemotorola 2 years ago
So, I listened to a couple of these songs, and this band isn't for me. Respect to what they do. I think they're talented. I just don't like this music.
LukeKellylives 2 years ago 20
fair enough.
it is clever but its weird.
i like it though.
been around over 40 years now i think.
stigonbass 2 years ago 2
@LukeKellylives You are cool and you are not a dick, I hate those arrogant assholes who bash the music because they dont like it and mock the people who listen to it. Cheers to you my friend!!
Nitro487 1 year ago
@LukeKellylives well put, unique music takes many listenings to understand the best, if it doesn't appeal then don't waste your time.
skinnydoggyz 1 year ago
@LukeKellylives Thanks for being 'spectful. The Residents are an earful and no mistake. I love them for their ferocity...then again I am a huge fan of Ives and Shostakovich. I'll save the easy listening for my sister.
kara65louky 11 months ago
@LukeKellylives I know that this is an old comment. But props for saying what so many can't. Just cause someone doesn't like something, doesn't make it bad or invalid. A lot of residents stuff is an act of experimentation and often it is less about being easy to listen to, and more about pushing boundries and new ideas (which isn't always GOOD, the atom bomb was a new idea too at one point ;P)
eternal0star 9 months ago
@LukeKellylives perfect analogy for the spinach cheese rolls my mother maid tonight, and like the residents my dog will appreciate the fueling satisfaction despite the unfavorable discomforting choice of ingredients.
nigrobat 8 months ago
Fantastic!
Crawenx 2 years ago
Awesome! Haven't seen this vid in over 10 yrs. Thanks for posting.
spacewurm 2 years ago
this song is about being on really powerful drugs. skinny lives in a bath tub. after you take barabituates you see skinny
ddisdead 2 years ago
hes the devil
vaf88 2 years ago
I have a friend we call 'Skinny' it's funny because some of this song resembles him. :)
LucidDream 2 years ago
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listentohella 2 years ago
They are amazing. I saw them on halloween in SF in the early 90s and it was by far one of the trippiest concerts I have ever been to. Performance art at its finest.
07BSPtC 2 years ago
Such a cool song/video.
chrisrave 2 years ago
My god these videos are so addicting
flippedoverturtle 2 years ago 4
so you feel the same thing .....thnx really ....TABOULINOU
taboulinou 2 years ago
I was like 13 when I volunteered to work for KQED (PBS) in San Francisco off of Harrison. This was 1979 and it was several years before MTV came out. It was a time of very creative film making. The Residents had did a video with PBS (Or PBS Used their music). I painted some backdrops for the video which I believe was this song. I remember parking a police car in the south of market when I didnt even have a license (Which I thought was very cool) anyways I miss making videos at PBS.
redtide2012 2 years ago 4
i'm 22. how am i only realizing how amazing this band is now?
listentohella 2 years ago 3
I´m 13. I realized it the first time I listen to them: When I was 12
gurkenhamster 2 years ago
AWESOME!
listentohella 2 years ago
Thanks.
Do you know, why they gave me -2 thumbs for my commentar?
Did I do anything wrong?
gurkenhamster 2 years ago 13
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haha dude, i guess it's because your initial response came off as arrogant/sarcastic (which I guess wasn't now). maybe you're not american? how you phrased that sentence was very condescending in the american language. You put "when i was 12" at the end of the sentence, almost as if it was a punchline... you know? it's like that joke from Borat... "This is a nice suit... NOT!". it's not a big deal bud. you were just misinterpreted by myself included. that really is awesome you were 12 though!
listentohella 2 years ago
Listen don't even bother yourself with why some assholes gave you a - 2 (i gave ya +1) they probably can't grasp the residents ...and even more the fact that a joung guy actually enjoys listening and viewing their work ....in a nutshell = ya didn't do anything wrong , they suck ppl of course not the residents ....greets to you all RESIDENTS addicted so am I !!!! ....Taboulinou (Europe)
taboulinou 2 years ago
excellent! that's what i'm talking about,
it's like a parody to Armstrong's Hello Dolly, freaking f**king out!
slisbtor4ok 2 years ago
That guy's my neighbor. He has 27 cats that live in an '83 Cutlass and needs to mow his lawn.
Aleowiciuos 2 years ago 3
fucking faved
5/5
boitahaki 2 years ago 3
Possibly the most creative American pop? band of all time, certainly the most unusual. I remember and seeing this video at the old 9:30 club in washington DC and being completely freaked out. Love these guys.
Darrylizer1 2 years ago 3
Sinister (exaggerators) !!
DIMLOADER 2 years ago
que mamadas????? the residents es una de las agrupaciones musical y visualmente de las mejores,,,desde 1968 llevan trabajando y cadavez son mejores los discos,,,,chequen el disco eskimo del 79 y el ultimo bunny boy
ANGELSIX 2 years ago
Now these guys are hands-down the weirdest band on the face of the Earth. So weird in fact, that they were impossible for me to ignore. After years of sitting on the fence over The Residents, I finally immersed myself in their music over the last couple of days, starting with "Duck Stab" and "Buster & Glen". Combined, those albums are about 30 minutes long, but I find myself playing it over and over again. I'm totally hooked on these guys, whoever they are! :D
Akira625 2 years ago 24
I concur, indeed.
ExistentialGirl 2 years ago
My favourite residents song is the cover they do of
Hank Williams - Ramblin' Man
not sure it is on here tho :(
JackattackMF 2 years ago
@Akira625 Ya. . . Beefheart is similar in that way.
skinnydoggyz 1 year ago
Do yourself a favor and get Eskimo. Probably one of the weirdest and most brilliant albums they ever put out.
jontadeu 1 year ago
@jontadeu i can second that. just got "eskimo" last week and my brain is still dealing with it.
steinber 1 year ago
@steinber word, if you haven't already checked them out, some of my favorites are fingerprince vileness and commercial
skinnydoggyz 1 year ago
@Akira625 you should really check into TuxedoMoon as well. Half Mute and Scream With A View are awesome
FranzifromMulberrys 1 year ago
@Akira625 I agree that this band is grate, but it is not at all the weirdest bandon the face of the earth, I would even say that the resident are part of the main stream of expérimental music
hammerhackers 1 year ago
@hammerhackers there is no mainstream experimental
skinnydoggyz 1 year ago
@skinnydoggyz well yes, but that's not what I said, I said that they were part of the main stream OF experimental music (and not of music in general).
hammerhackers 1 year ago
I remeber seeing this when it came out. It scared teh shot out of me. So far that reason i love it.
sonofsilence 2 years ago
sure it is hipster stuff.not that im saying its bad at all.. its just that.. the residents are indeed part of the great underground music of the world... a big big part and inspiration for other bands
physickdj 2 years ago
bowiefan is so.. damn...well words cant describe my anger.. what an ignorant.. mr bungle.. talk about hipster stuff hahaha
physickdj 2 years ago
I don't think Mr. Bungle is anywhere near "hipster", and I'm in awe that someone who enjoys Mr. Bungle could find this boring.
Namuhni 2 years ago 3
This has been flagged as spam show
You guys need to listen to Mr.Bungle if you want avant-garde. This is a boring waste of time!
bowiefan441970 2 years ago
Que mamadas son estas...
ricagardo 2 years ago
После просмотра клипа жить хочется!
alpromtlt 2 years ago
WOW!
zyatkoff 2 years ago
man.
that was terrifying...
godkat 2 years ago
I made the terrible mistake of trying to watch this while mid psychedelic trip... absolutely terrifying.
wambloerst 2 years ago
Wow! I must try that one day!
MrShimazu 2 years ago
Early Boredoms has a lot in common with Residents. All fantastic music.
yodro 2 years ago
CONTINUED....
Skinny sold a soldier to me
Skinny sold a wife
Skinny sold a suction cup
And a knife
Skinny found a Hello Dolly
record in the hall
He sold it to a truck driver
in the fall
THANX FOR THE VIDEO...
simoril666 2 years ago
Skinny was born in a bathtub
And he grew so incredibly
Even the end of an eyedropper
sucked him in
Skinny never knew any questiong
Skinny never looked at the lights
But Skinny sold something
every single night
simoril666 2 years ago
wow, claypool pulls off this singer's voice really well. I'm liking it :D
jacklow01 2 years ago
IS THIS FOR REAL?
hedcase23 2 years ago
yes hedcase, more real than you or EYE... the true Res fans will get the joke.
nicademus666 2 years ago
Okay. This is officially the scariest music video ever.
I love The Residents. So so much!
MorbidBliss22 2 years ago
caroliner
toztizok 2 years ago
The first twenty seconds are the best part, in my opinion
EverDownward 2 years ago
This is creepier than the Primus cover!
Spagetti901 2 years ago
I call it "Schaurig Schön" (eerily beautiful..)
CountVanAccount 2 years ago 2
Oh Skinny, whatever will you sell next?
HarryPartridge 2 years ago 5
creepy..
Gustava10 2 years ago 5
WTF . i´ve been searching for music like this Band.
I allready have A band named Coil (Awesome too).
Can someone recommend me bands like this?
Greetings . Thanks .
hypnosfera1980 2 years ago
If your into odd music, a band you might like is Mr. Bungle, Mike Patton (Faith No More) is the lead singer, weird but good band!
Tr3no 2 years ago 2
Tuxedomoon are somewhat similar, try some of their earlier stuff
Ardrow 2 years ago
Goon Moon.
Jcolinsol 2 years ago
You might also wanna try Captain Beefheart. try his album "Trout Mask Replica", it's awesome.
YiftachCarmeli 2 years ago
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psychedelic95 2 years ago
any thing that has to do with les claypool or any bands he has to do with
BdAdtkSS13 2 years ago 2
umm primus is a weird band
pink floyd is pretty weird
buket head
Spagetti901 2 years ago
they re killers,i saw them on 2008 tour..residents immortals
iskander667 2 years ago
i want to see this guys live =/
alternogrunge 2 years ago
The lyrics make the video... Love Duck Stab and saw the Residents several times. First time was their 13th Anniversary Tour. I was forever changed. I see them whenever I can.
festerfree 2 years ago
I used to play Residents music on my Public Radio program... and I would grin and giggle like a naughty school boy when someone told me to "turn that shit off!"
All kneel before the Residents....
royism 2 years ago 2
Awesome... Anything between the Residents and GG Allin - I'll listen to it or die trying...
KoivuTheHab 2 years ago
most likely not sadly hahahahahaha
looshkin66 2 years ago
I'm a big fan of both bands too. GG is the world's greatest shock rocker/performance artist in terms of sheer barbarism. But the Residents may be one of the most unusual bands in the world, even stranger than Zappa, Zorn or Beefheart.
CodyRicheson 2 years ago 3
zappa & beefheart are awesome
but who is zorn?
turduckenband 2 years ago
John Zorn is a brilliant avant-garde jazz musician, check out his band Naked City.
xxjayyoungxx 2 years ago
Take the Jazz away. that music is nothing like Jazz.
CountVanAccount 2 years ago
oh ok thanks man
turduckenband 2 years ago
i've noticed that a lot of.. lets say strange folk such as us (i'm assuming) like the same artists. I'm also a fan of the three you listed. Are you a buckethead fan?
SouthernPreps 2 years ago
Buckethead is one of those bands I've heard mentioned numerous times, but have had very little exposure to. I have a feeling they'd be up my alley though.
CodyRicheson 2 years ago
Buckethead isn't a band, but it's just one dude.
NJPJMommaDJ 2 years ago