Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible

Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible Artist: The Residents
Label: East Side Digital
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 021561813328
EAN: 0021561813328
ASIN: B00000DCVX


Release Date: 1998-10-13

Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible


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Tracks:

  1. In The Beginning
  2. Fire Fall
  3. They Are Meat
  4. Melancholy Clumps
  5. How To Get A Head
  6. Cain And Abel
  7. Mr. Misery
  8. Tent Peg In The Temple
  9. God's Magic Finger
  10. Spilling The Seed
  11. Dinah And The Unclean Skin
  12. Bathsheba Bathes
  13. Bridegroom Of Blood
  14. Hanging By His Hair
  15. The Seven Ugly Cows
  16. Burn Baby Burn
  17. KILL HIM!
  18. I Hate Heaven
  19. Judas Saves
  20. Revelation

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Arguably the most disturbing of the Residents' numerous darkly amusing albums, Wormwood consists of 18 songs (bookended by the instrumentals "In the Beginning" and "Revelation") sung by the protagonists of Old Testament tales, featuring the Israelite god Yahweh in a capricious and vengeful mood. "Bleeding is better than breathing to God," complains the daughter of Jephthah in "Burn Baby Burn," a sentiment echoed by Abraham (whom God commands to sacrifice his son to prove his faith) in "Kill Him!" Lot sleeps with his daughters, Salome gets a head, Onan spills his seed, and a mysterious disconnected finger appears in increasingly outlandish tales conveyed by means of theatrical vocals and melodramatically overwrought keyboards. Don't believe their veracity? "Look it up!" suggest the Residents, who conveniently provide chapter and verse for each and every story. --Richard Gehr

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Residents Return With a Vengence.......2001-08-03

After a few years of writing CD-ROM, and educational television soundtracks the Residents returned to songwriting and being a stage act with this CD, and the tour that followed it.

Unlike the less polished "Roadworms" that followed this recording, this CD is packed with pop songs, experimental music, and the weird stuff we all want the residents to make noise about.

There's no doubt that the lyrics, and especially the liner notes of this recording will offend a number of people (like it did me a few times), and if you have extremely strong beliefs that are aligned with the Bible, this album is not for you. However, the music is the stongest the Residents have performed in years, and is not to be ignored by us hardened veterans of the One Eyed Whozits.

From the amazing (but too short) instrumental that opens the album, to the equally amazing, but more disturbing instrumental that ends this CD, this album is packed with pop songs such as "Burn Baby Burn" to the strong pathos of "Firefall".

The Residents have returned from the hades of soundtracks, and are in front of us with all their glory.

5 out of 5 stars Not fun at first..........2001-07-04

This album, most likely, will disappoint you. The music doesn't strike me as weird by The Residents' standards. It's almost kind of lame. It's a concept album with probably the most clear concept but the purpose is unclear. Does this album stink? NO WAY! It's a triumph! With developed songs, a great insert, and 61 minutes of music, this might be the best Residents album out there. I know it doesn't compare to older Residents albums but definately deserves as much credit as Freak Show - which is one of Their finest. VERY ESSENTIAL!

3 out of 5 stars The Residents Needed More.......2001-07-02

This album provides you with an all Residential view of the bible, some of the story are twisted to their point-of-view, but others do totally follow logic, like "Judas Saves." The music is techno-era, and other than the voice of Lot and a couple of others, the vocals are good too, but this in noway compares to older, better Rez albums.

2 out of 5 stars Compares to Superstar? Give me a break........2001-05-22

Uh, no. I've heard that comparison a few times, and every time I do, it sounds crazier and crazier. This...unusual album, which, I'll admit, has decent rock and roll music and some clever refrences (the reason for my two star gift) does not even fall into the same category as the masterpiece: Andrew Lloyd Webber's/Tim Rice's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR. The music is better in JCS, the religious messages are more accurate (the lyrics are much better), and the performance is a heck of a lot more wonderful. So for everyone who says that this album is "everything Superstar wanted to be", I gotta say, that isn't right. It really doesn't compare.

Honestly, I didn't agree when certain people thought Jesus Christ Superstar was a mocking of the Holy Bible, but I can certaintly understand the arguement that this album isis. "Judas saves"????? I could hardly write that.

Stick with Superstar.

2 out of 5 stars

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