Tracks:
Boots
Numb Erone
Guylum Bardot
Breath and Length
Consuelo's Departure
Smelly Tongues
Rest Aria
Skratz
Spotted Pinto Bean
Infant Tango
Seasoned Greetings
N-Er-Gee (Crisis Blues)
Fire
Explosion
Lightning
Aircraft Damage
Tuesday #1 (Guylum Bardot Version)
Boots Again
Numb Erone (Inka)
Tuesday #2 (Smelly Tongues Version)
Consuela's Return
Breadth and Length Version
Numb Erone
Spotted Pinto Bean (Tuesday #5)
7733 Variations
Performer Notes:
- Includes the entire SANTA DOG EP as bonus tracks.
- The Residents' 1972 debut album featured a cover that defaced The Beatles' first long-player. A banner across the top announced their arrival from "North Louisiana," but they sounded like they could have come from a parallel galaxy. The fragmented songs sound like they'd been listening in to Earth radio programs from some outpost in outer space, with delicious, disorienting results that tickle, confuse, and challenge the unassuming listener's ear.
- Though they later evolved into cunning exponents of the non-clichd possibilities of electronic instruments, this album finds them using primarily acoustic instruments, often distorted or treated through extreme effects. Their songs are partly cinematic landscapes and partly pop music blown through a wood chipper. Their identities were hidden behind mutated Beatles imagery, listed as Paul McCrawfish, John Crawfish, George Crawfish, and Ringo Starfish. And though those names never appeared on any of their albums again, they have never revealed their identities. MEET THE RESIDENTS was the opening salvo for these legendary, brilliant avant-garde oddballs.
Format: CD (2 Disc)
Studio/Live: Studio
Release Date: 19 January, 2018
Label: Cryptic Corporation
Dimensions: 13.3 x 0.5 x 13.3 centimeters (0.06 kg)