This is the song that, aptly enough, got me into the residents. It's friggin sweet! PS: Don't take me too seriously on this one... but the urban landscape+building+heater combo kind of reminds me of Eraserhead. Does anyone else feel the same way?
I'm interesred by all that can be said about the Residents. Believe me or not while I started reading in your comment " PS don't take me too seriously", at this very second this word you wrote (= "seriously") immediatly came in a flash twinned with the word Eraserhead and this word popped suďdenly in my head for no definite reason.. and I KNEW that you were going to mention this film. until some seconds later I read what you wrote a few lines after that... and .. I'm also a big fan of this film ( I had it on vhs cassette long ago, I must have seen it 20 or 30 times)...
That´s how I got into the Residents to be honest. I´ts almost word for word from a comic strip called Nemi; An eyeball with a tophat approaches into the frame, in the third panel the eyeball opens it mouth to reveal sharp theeths. The fourth panel shows an worried Cyan talking to Nemi on the phone, Nemi tells her that one shouldn´t listen to The Residents before going to sleep, there´s not many people who can handle it. I searched YT for The Residents and discovered Diskomo, it was like nothing I´ve ever heard before and made me search for more of their music, I´ve been trapped ever since :)
My dad loved The Residents and so I grew up with them and loved their music. The Commercial Album/DVD was such a great album. I remember stealing it from my dad’s huge box of Residents stuff and playing this song and Amber over and over.
They still got it played on the radio, they paid for advertizement spots, the requirment for advertizements were they has to be one minute long. They bought 40 spots, one for each song. And of course another word for advertizements are commercials, there for, there album The Commercial Album is a rather appropriate name.
Imagine this song as a soundtrack of a videoclip with a bunch of those "Uncanny Valley Efect" images (creepy humanoid robots/dolls and stuff). Terrible and terrific!
Comment on comment... It also occurs that this is one of their better videos. Production wise, quality wise, appropriateness to music, etcetera, this has got to be the best I've seen yet. Phantoms is pretty great as well.
