They still tour and have a new album coming out. But yeh, born too late to experience them in their prime. Could easily argue they are more of a concept than a band. Kind of like how GWAR does not have any original members anymore.
This is so haunting. It manages to turn the darkest emotions into a strange euphoria. When the girl sings, "Mr. Cuckoo has fallen asleep" I really like the small rest between "a' and 'sleep". It messes with the rhythm and mimics the way a music box sounds as it's winding down. I also love the way the chord progressions alternate between nostalgic and menacing.
This is one of the most affecting Residents songs, period. Say what you want about their body of work, this is a powerful piece of work. RIP Hardy. You were amazing.
it's almost baffling that i listen to bands that make a brand out of how sad they are (y'know, doom metal and stuff) but nothing comes close to how devastating this song is
I just wanted to say thank you Residents, You have helped me in the worst of times and have made me happy. you never fail to amaze me. I'm pretty sure the residents probably will never see this comment but i just want to say thank you for all you have done. I look up to you guys as heroes. Thank you so much.
If you ever decide to fully delve into the Resident's catalogue, you'll find yourself being uneasy with every album you hear, only to become hopelessly obsessed with everything they've ever done. I think they may be from another planet... Not kidding
One thing I love about The Residents is that while they mostly do messed up videos, but they are just capable of making such an emotional piece as anyone else, but still able to keep that Residents touch.
So much pain in the world...We all look for a glimmer of hope even when there appears to be none...They have seemed to achieved it here...Thank You Residents.💔
Very proud to say that I shook the hand of Homer Flynn last January when the Residents Came to London UK. The Residents and I go back forty years since I first saw them on Whistle Test and was captivated.
SpectreEelman Yeah . You read so many comments on RU-vid about so and so being underrated. TheResidents are truly underrated, not well known enough. Geniuses with no peers.
First listen: "I really like this!" Second listen: "This is really sad..." Third listen: *silently sobs* This is the only song that has ever legitimately made me weep. Kudos to The Residents for wrecking my soul...
I've never heard this before just now. It's beautiful and haunting. Sounds like despair, and emptiness and loneliness. Could be the soundtrack playing in my head on any given day. Had me in tears on the first listen.
residentfan2 My dad works with a guy who was with them for a short while He said this "These guys didn't know how to play their instruments, I wanted to play music!"
It really is one of those songs that make you smile even if bleeding and dying,for you know your anguish has found a soundtrack..............................
I remember the first time I ever listened to this/watched it. Makes me feel nostalgic now. Time passes too fast, I think this song encapsulates that feeling
One of my favourite Residents songs. There is a lo-fi live version of this song with Nolan Cook on slide guitar that kicks ass. Part of the Talking Light tour I do believe.
Love this song, love the animation. Animal Lover is -in my opinion- one of the Essential Albums by The Residents. I mean, for people who don't know them, this is a very good album to start with.
Somewhere, in San Anselmo, there is a place of memorial and great creation. Much of what we adore came from this place. We know not where, exactly. But Hardy is there.
The last time I saw The Residents live (I'm one of those lucky people who saw them live more than once before Hardy Fox died), they finished the show with this song (it was the Bunny Boy tour). Beautiful was too weak a word.
i liked this band when they were hooked up with ralph records, close to there beginning, but this is something i missed. not normal residents, but a damd good song. thanks for this. made my day an i will be getting it. got about 10 albums, all ralph records. favs: happy birthday to me, constantanopel, an this is a mans world.
Beautiful music, and so lovely movie. So sad story of daughter and father. At the scene in the train, there is a distanse between them. Maybe father is not good at having skinship with his daughter(0:10). Mother(already gone) was may burying the relationship of family. Father loved daughter, but not strong enough at keep her beside, because he is poor and busy, so he is on the way to leave his daughter with his relative. I guess. At the scene in the park (maybe it close to the relative house), father disappeared. I guess, he is still alive, but his heart gone away from his daughter. She got thrown away. What a sad story! She wants to have skinship, hug a tree trunk and think of last memory with her father. I'm Japanese, and I think many of Japanese has sadness with relationship like them. Maybe animater of this movie also Japanese I guess. Because landscape and details are very familiar to me. This family was living in Tokyo, and daughter was taken to countryside that relative house is. I strongly wish she is still alive, and she will grab happiness.
This video messed me up pretty bad inside the first time I saw it. It appears to be a working class dad and his daughter coming home from the mother's funeral... Awful, but a perfect match for what is possibly one of The Resident's most beautiful songs.
Might I add that there are moments where their expressions seem melancholic. Like there's an implied cold distance between them. Maybe I'm looking a bit deep, but I think that's the beauty of the song. The video compliments the song's tone and lyrical content perfectly. I'd consider this official if it was associated with The Residents themselves.
Nice to see somebody else's video adaptation of this song. I was pleasantly surprised to hear them play this song as their encore when I saw them on the Bunny Boy tour.
Steven said little Ted was dead I read in a letter today The same for Monica's monkey he said Quietly it passed away Mister Coo Coo has fallen asleep His eyes were black and his beak was brown Mister Coo Coo has fallen asleep But soon his home will be underground The wind was cold and the world was old When I went to my window today The sky was dark as a hopeless heart When I went to my window today
Don't watch this if you are depressed. When you are sad it can feel that sadness and darkness are the default state of the world, and that happiness and light are just small interruptions of that darkness. It's NOT TRUE. The darkness is just surrounding you, tainting all that you see and feel with its mark. It's not the truth at all. There is love and light and happiness and a billion small wonderful things happening every moment of the day. They are secret, and hidden sometimes, but they outweigh the darkness by millions of times.
Actually, as someone dealing with major depressive disorder, music like this helps me through my tough times. Can´t really explain how, but The Residents seems to strike that perfect cord of harmony of the human psyche. For me it´s like their music perfectly understands my mood, their deconstructions of popular music, surrealistic lyrics and sound, with a disregard for conventional music composition gives me a reason to continue my existence.
@@theheavymetalbrony2257 yes, i feel exactly the same. Even to the degree that in a time of intense emotional distress I discovered harsh noise for myself, which i couldn't understand before, because it sounded exactly how I felt, and that made it enjoyable and ultimately healing.
@@Emnor1993 It´s quite the paradox, isn´t it? A perfect harmony in a discordian mood. With any trouble you may have in life, I do hope that this music have some sort of positive outcome towards it.
