Genius. The Commercial Album is a great album (once you really think about it, all pop songs are nothing more than a verse and a chorus) and this is a great set of videos.
that scared the living shit out of me as a young boy of about 3. it was on bbc2 one night and i just freaked the hell out. the last part kinda reminds me of the mighty boosh. genius!
What would someone be trying to "pose" as by enjoying music while in different psychological states? Who are you to tell anyone if they "truly enjoy music." If someone likes to drink or smoke weed to enjoy a song even deeper, it's no different than liking sad songs when feeling depressed. Just a mood/setting thing.
Just wondering: Do you dislike anyone else as much as The Residents? If so, do you troll their sites too? Thanks. I mean - The Residents are so harmless and funny and weird and you won't change their fans' minds about them. Why do you keep trolliing their videos?
You don't need drugs to understand what The Residents are trying to convey through their songs. I've always looked at their music as auditory performance art.
The way this album was explained to me was this: the residents could not get airtime with their music. But they realized if they paid for less than 60 seconds advertising on the radio the stations we're obliged to play whatever they paid for. And they have an entire album to prove it
god i remember discovering this video when i was 12 or 13 and thought nothing but how quirky and interesting it was in older youtube days. Now at 25 I rediscovered it and didn't realize what great music it is.
Hearing "Perfect Love" for the first time caused me to instantaneously fall in love with the Residents. Most musicians prattle on for a garish five minutes in a vain attempt to conjure up a fraction of the meaning that the Residents can manage in two or three lines of simple verse.
@@ejsrocket saying that any band achieves what others “prattle on for a garish five minutes in a vein attempt to conjure up a fraction of” yada yada is a pretty pretentious music opinion.
Wow! I remember seeing this on a late night TV music show when I was a kid many moons ago and I've always remembered it. Thanks so much for posting it!
Before MTV there was a show on late at night on PBS from called LIVE FROM OFF CENTER which showed music videos, which were then pretty arty and cool. This is where I first watched The Residents and heard the line "They found a snail inside," which has stuck in my mind all this time.
Superb. I bought the Residents commercial album the day it came out on the strength of a review in Sounds, never looked back. Stunningly dark and surreal band.
I find the music incredibly enjoyable both on and off marijuana. But I have to admit, when on it, I tend to hear more subtleties in the music, particularly in the bass.
certainly. and since those 2 bands are my favourite ever, when I finally stumbled upon the residents' work I was totally blown away. The unseen four (or any number you may prefer, really) RULE
I still cannot, cannot, cannot, just CAN'T for the life of me decide whose genius I prefer . . . Negativland's or The Residents', since they both purposely do all of the don'ts required to excell as a Pop Music phenom & then end up with a steady following nonetheless. Get a copy of their classic Lp from '85, "The Big Bubble: Part Four of the Mole Trilogy" . . . pure genius. Thanks, matibbs, for uploading this gem ~ (•8-D
These are from the Commercial Album which was released in 1980. The videos were made somewhere between 80-84 (they were put out on VHS in 84). I can't remember at the moment I want to say '82. The Residents themselves formed in the late 60's and are still very active now. They just finished another US/European tour this winter.
Ya know, my momy had undergone an operation for an ailment which the doctors had beleived to be gallstones,.... but when the doctors had opend her up they found a snail inside her ????....... Ehhhh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh hehhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
The guitar on the album was most likely Homer or Snakefinger. I would bet money that Frith (who played with Henry Cow, not Hatfield) only contributed bass to the album, as the guitar sounds nothing like Frith. The bass parts on the album, though, sound very much like the bass parts he contributed to bands like Keep the Dog and Skeleton Crew. Definitely not Frith in this video, looks absolutely nothing like him.
Wouldn't you rather listen to music you love rather than hang out at sites whose music and art you apparently despise? I know I would. I certainly don't go to heavy metal and disco sites 'cause I dislike it most of it, by far and I can't see wasting my time trolling those sites. I like to think I'm very selective about music + selective of how I spend my time. I sure wouldn't want to waste time listening or putting lots of effort into trashing, what I consider, "bad" music, but that's just MHO.
@7Beyonder dude all I do is drugs :) Not really, but there's rhythm/melody in this :) How can you call it tuneless? I suppose you don't like Fantomas, People, Le Scrawl or anything "Avante Garde" or "artsy" huh? You're idea of an artsy band Tool or something? :P ah well, just messin with ya :) I'm on drugs
@daxombie im sure its possible to think of that stuff without drugs, but im just saying that i personally was on shrooms when i thought of it all. i have many other deep thoughts just like those ones when im competely sober, but thats just the kind of person i am. however, its a fact that drugs stimulate the third eye.
To whoever said the residents singer sounds like les claypool is ill informed. The residents have been around since Les was about 10 years old. Les has said many times that the residents are one of his biggest influences however. I personally love both bands, but the residents undoubtedly the progenitors, not visa versa.
well i got real high the other day a started surfin the net and came up on these guys. not much for them but i found one fact out about them that hit me hard. these guys are from my town of slidell LA, not shreveport. they lied about where they are from, im guessing to hide there id.
Thats probably my main reason for using drugs, thinking/inspiration/perception. On shrooms I realized that we would have no need for government, rules, and laws if there was no evil in the world, and I now believe that the reason we are here on Earth is to help each other.
ma che schifo di video, con tutti i soldi che si stanno facendo con questa porcata di musica(che nn ha senso, o ce l'ha ma nn lo capisco) potevano permettersi di fare dei video più carini. Cmq l'unica nota di positività è che sono originali, ma essere originali richiede lo sforzo di nn fare cagate bestiali!!!
i take drugs and relate it to my musical endeavors. HOWEVER - i complete agree with your comment. That immediate leap is so pop and cliché. but - if i'm a 'tube commenter - how big can my mind really be?
the resident i m lookin for a song called but i m not sure tnt but anyway the other song i discover a grt and i really love most of the video animation
Back on 31-October-93, Elvira was the guest VJ for Halloween night. She got to pick all of the videos for that night, and she showed several of the Residents' 1-minute videos. This is the first time I've seen them since then. Wow...
