Residue Deux

Residue Deux 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: 021561813229
EAN: 0021561813229
ASIN: B000005ZVL


Release Date: 1998-04-07

Residue Deux


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Tracks:

  1. The Sleeper
  2. Whoopy Snorp
  3. Kamikazi Lady
  4. Boy in Love
  5. Shut Up! Shut Up!
  6. Anvil Forest
  7. Diskomo
  8. Jailhouse Rock
  9. Ups & Downs
  10. Scent of Mint
  11. Saint Nix
  12. Open Up
  13. From the Plains to Mexico
  14. The Replacement: In San Francisco
  15. The Replacement: Dumbo The Clown
  16. The Replacement: Is He Really Bring Roses?
  17. The Replacement: Time's Up
  18. Daydream Believer
  19. Safety Is A Cootie Wootie: part I-Prelude for a Toddler
  20. Safety Is A Cootie Wootie: part 2-Toddler's Lullaby
  21. Safety Is A Cootie Wootie: part 3-Safety is a Cottie Wootie
  22. Daydream in Space

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Amazon.com

San Francisco's anonymous Residents are a concept band with a penchant for concept albums. This equally frightening and funny grab bag contains the remastered contents of Residue, the group's 1983 collection of outtakes and compilation tracks, along with odds and sods from the later '80s. The early material will please Residents purists who prefer their predigital primitivism. But it's the two later song cycles--"The Replacement" and "Safety Is a Cootie Wootie"--that really startle us through a postrock, pre-electronica combination of terror, absurdity, and childlike fun. Even their parodies of easy targets like Elvis Presley ("Jailhouse Rock") or the Monkees ("Daydream Believer") have as much to do with underlining the cultural power of pop music as with inspiring a few cheap laughs. And if you've ever wondered what free-jazzer Sun Ra and soul boss Barry White might have in common, check out "Daydream in Space." --Richard Gehr

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Uneven, but great when it's great.......2001-12-27

This is a CD version of their Resideux album, which only contained the first dozen track sor so. Oddly enough, the added tracks are mostly much, much better, and makes Deux a definite improvement over the first one.

The Toddler's trilogy, the San Francisco songs and Space Is the Place are all top drawer Residents, and they each occupy lofty spots among my list of favorites of all the Rez's works. But when I play the CD, I have to stay close to the skip button to pass over throwaways like Kamikaze Lady and Jailhouse Rock.

One of the best things about "real" Residents albums is their ability to stay within a consistent style but still milk great variety within that style, so the album has a lot of variety but still sounds unified. Being a collection of residue, this CD doesn't have that, and styles jump pretty drastically in some places, making the already alarming music even more so.

However, it would have been a shame to not let the best tracks here go unreleased, so I'm willing to put up with a little grab-bagness to get to hear them.

4 out of 5 stars Like Your Head in a Microwave Too Long...........2001-09-08

As I listen to this CD and write this review, I can only tell you that listening to this CD will give you some laughs, raise any eyebrow or two, and never disappoint. It's like your head in a microwave too long...bits and pieces of raw material to be scraped off. This CD is just that: RAW and no longer a part of any cohesive whole. So turn out the lights, get blunted and listen to this.

4 out of 5 stars

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