13th Anniversary Show - Live in Japan

13th Anniversary Show - Live in Japan Artist: The Residents
Label: East Side Digital
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 021561814721
EAN: 0021561814721
ASIN: B000044U2V


Release Date: 2000-02-01

13th Anniversary Show - Live in Japan


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Tracks:

  1. Lizard Lady
  2. Semolina
  3. Hello Skinny/Constantinople
  4. Jailhouse Rock
  5. Where Is She?
  6. Picnic In The Jungle
  7. Smelly Tongues
  8. Eloise
  9. The Ship's A'Goin' Down
  10. The New Machine
  11. Tourniquet Of Roses
  12. Passing The Bottle
  13. Monkey And Bunny
  14. Theme From An American TV Show
  15. Man's World
  16. Walter Westinghouse
  17. Easter Woman
  18. Amber
  19. Red Rider
  20. Die In Terror
  21. The Coming Of The Crow/Eva's Warning
  22. Cry For The Fire

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Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars WEIRDER THAN MOST.......2003-05-17

This is a live album although with The Residents, one cannot tell! Between-song banter there's aplenty, but audience reaction is not obvious. Standout tracks include the magnificent Jailhouse Rock and the quirky This Is A Man's World with its cartoon character voices. I wonder what James Brown thinks of it? Their quasi-orchestral arrangements are much n evidence, along with those strangled synth sounds. Things get really strange on tracks like Coming Of The Crow and Cry For The Fire, while elsewhere there are some jazzy edges. The Residents made some of the weirdest music ever but the problem is, sometimes it all sounds the same. I wouldn't recommend his album to those who want to discover this band's distinctive sonic experiments. Rather get an album that contains tracks like the studio version of Semolina, Blue Rosebuds and The Spot (with Snakefinger).

2 out of 5 stars All Alone, Has No Hone..........2002-01-05

After the Mole Show debacle, The Residents (temporarily) changed for the worse. The Big Bubble (their worst recording of all time) and the 13th Anniversary Tour were the results of the "band" regrouping. Anyone familiar enough with The Residents phases and sounds can easily figure that a number of the original foursome flew the coop after the Mole Show. The lone survivor took it one the road. Flat, bland, and one dimensional, this recording shows the remaining Resident (now known as Mr. Skull) trying to regroup. Fortunately, with the discovery of new sounds, styles, MIDI, and the like, the "group" got it back together. But "The 13th Anniversary Show" demonstrates that art indeed imitates life. As in the early Residents tune "The Sandman", here our front man is "All Alone, Has No Hone To Edge His Knify Bone."

5 out of 5 stars Great Album.......2001-07-02

This is one of my favorite albums by the Residents, ESD breaks up the tracks by song, rathar than how they are performed, which is by suite. for instance, The Ship's 'A' Goin' Down, The New Machine, and Torniquet of Roses all go into each other. The audience doesn't clap after each song, but they do after each suite. All the songs here are great, especially the version of "Walter Westinghouse" Some others you might dig: "Picnic in The Jungle," "Monkey & Bunny," and the suite of Commercial Album songs.

5 out of 5 stars A Great Album to Start With.......2000-11-29

As a matter of fact this WAS my first Residents album. I am now an owner of most of the Residents' music. The music in this show is dark, haunting, manical (Smelly Tongues), aggressive, and absolutely satisfying. Its long enough to hold hour of listenig value, but all of the "retranslations" are different from one another. Listen to this at 3 AM, in a dark room, with sterio headphones. I did when I first got it. The climax of the show might give you a migraine.

Thanks to technology, this performance can be heard with the audience. Previous releases of the show included the "empty house" affect.

4 out of 5 stars An improvement over the Mole Show Live recording.......2000-04-17

In 1985 the Residents, suffering from losses from the Mole Show, the loss of Ralph Records as a viable alternative record company, and needing a new lease on life,were talked into a Japan tour by Bomba records. Happily, they accepted the challange.

The resulting album from that tour is an improvement over the flat sounding "Mole Show" recordings that have come from that earlier act. The music rises and fades, and sounds like they are actually playing instruments rather than suffering the flat synthetic sound of the Mole Show.

By far the highlight to this recording is the guitar workings of Snakefinger, a man who was probably one of the most underated and overlooked guitarists of his era. His range of musical abilities, ranged from folk to advant garde, with blues and jazz in the middle show his considerable talent, and the world is a poorer place without him. Of course, we hear the rock and advante garde ranges in this recording, and it is recommended that you seek out and find out more about this lost talent.

This is a recoring of a "greatest hits tour" rather than of the concept tours of the Mole Show or E Cubed. However, in the sense of musical talent shown and pure entertainment for the audience, this recording is a success.

Happily the show ends with "Cry for Fire" with Snakefinger blistering his way throught the acme of a guitar solo that ends this song, and this album. Inexplicably (was it purposely done in the show?) the guitar solo fades out, the audience can be heard applauding, and the show ends.

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