Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen Artist: The Residents
Label: Euro Ralph
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 4016368212722
ASIN: B0000081OA


Release Date: 2004-03-09

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen


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Tracks:

  1. Constantinople
  2. Sinister Exaggerator
  3. Booker Tease
  4. Blue Rosebuds
  5. Laughing Song
  6. Bach Is Dead
  7. Elvis and His Boss

Tracks:

  1. Lizard Lady
  2. Semolina
  3. Birthday Boy
  4. Weight-Lifting Lulu
  5. Krafty Cheese
  6. Hello Skinny
  7. Electrocutioner

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Album Description

This audio-only twin 3'' CD release in a spectacular gatefold digipak cover is the ultimate deluxe edition of Duck Stab / Buster & Glen. Digitally remastered and denoised. It was with this album that the Residents perfected, for one brief moment, the dark, mysterious twisted pop song that raised their profile in the experimental music scene and college radio world. The songs contained here (a combination of two EPs of earlier that year, Duck Stab and Buster and Glen) are short, the lyrics obscure but precise, the analog synth sounds masterful. Like Brian Eno, the Residents' lyrics were more about the sound of the words than the meaning, and what is here on Duck Stab is in the tradition of such absurdists as Odgen Nash or Lewis Carroll. Euroralph/Germany.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Fun,avantegarde musique.......2006-10-04


This is a great 2 disc cd that were originally two seperate albums to my understanding-"DUCKSTAB" and "BUSTER AND GLEN." The standouts on the first cd are CONSTANTINOPLE and BLUE ROSEBUDS. From the second cd as follows: Skinny, Semolina and Lizardlady. But I enjoy all of the tracks-their outlandish, fun and nowhere else will you find anything that sounds remotely like the Residents. Enjoy!

5 out of 5 stars Pioneering synth work wrapped up in weird clothes.......2005-12-01

I first heard The Residents on the "Dr. Demento" radio show back many years ago. I still remember the cut - "The Laughing Song" from "Duck Stab/Buster & Glen". "Weird" simply does not cover where these deranged people work and play.
Most interesting about this disc (mine is a combination CD of the two EP's) is the groundbreaking work with strange new sounds and textures that predate Trent Reznor by more than twenty years and undoubtedly pointed Devo down their own twisted path. Some effects are simply undefinable as recognizable instruments. Others, like the tape lag that rumbles underneath "Sinister Exaggerator" make the track sound like it's coming apart as it progresses.
Patience, a sense of humor and musical adventure are a must for this most original band, but the wonderful noises that await the open mind are well worth the trip into weirdness, and the humor is a nice respite from the stress of the workday world.

5 out of 5 stars Cute release from EuroRalph.......2001-11-30

Double 3" CD set. A beautiful release of this AMAZING recording!

5 out of 5 stars No Ducks were Stabbed in the Making of this Album.......2000-12-30

Residents fans fall into dozens of camps when it comes to their personal favorite works by these curious pop parodists with the odd eyeball outfits. Some prefer Third Reich n Roll's distortion of 60s rock classics; others find the Commercial Album's blatant non-commercialism satisfying, while several Residents fans--all perhaps members of subspecies of the marmot groupings--actually prefer the Mole Show and can recite its story (a skill no doubt as valuable as the ability to speak Klingon or to memorize major motel chain toll free numbers).

To see the Residents at their most intriguing, though, one cannot do much better than the Duck Stab/Buster & Glen album. The highlight of the work, "Constantinople", is a droning bit of whimsy whose effect is sufficiently hypnotic as to make you peruse the record for evidence of subliminal backwards masking. As is typical of the work, the entire album is synthesizer-laden, filled with ominously non-sensical lyrics, and a range of parody and homage which includes styles as diverse as 50s Elvis-style rock, the invented musics of Harry Partch, jazz which alternates between pre-bop and Sun Ra and veers into Beefheart-esque territory.

If you have not "bought into" the Residents, this is an excellent start--it's sophisticated and yet very D.I.Y., musically complex and yet arguably as much a product of Shreveport as San Francisco. My only real critique of this album is that it's entirely eerie, but perhaps that's one of the many points.

5 out of 5 stars

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