The Third Reich 'N Roll

The Third Reich 'N Roll Artist: The Residents
Label: East Side Digital
Category: Music


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


UPC: 021561812420
EAN: 0021561812420
ASIN: B000000PM6


Release Date: 1997-09-09

The Third Reich 'N Roll


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Tracks:

  1. Swastikas On Parade
  2. Hitler Was A Vegetarian

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars BIZARRO MUSIC.......2006-11-06

THIS IS A CD OF BIZARRO MUSIC FROM A TRULY BIZARRO BAND. WHAT THEY DO IS TAKE A LOT OF LYRICS OF POP SONGS FROM THE 60'S AND USE THEM WITH A LOT OF SOUND EFFECTS, RHYTHMS AND ATONAL PHRASES TO CREATE SOMETHING UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT. IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO LISTEN TO SOMETHING MELODICALLY ACCESSIBLE, I SUGGEST YOU FIND ANOTHER CD TO LISTEN TO, BUT IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HEARING ONE BAND'S INTERPRETATION OF POP MUSIC, THEN YOU SHOULD GIVE IT A LISTEN

5 out of 5 stars Twisted Pop.......2003-11-10

As a young lad in the 60's, I had a big AM radio in my bedroom. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I'd turn on the radio, watch the warm orange glow of it's tubes seep through the vents and tune in to WLS, a high-powered Chicago station many miles from my Pennsylvania home. WLS played all of those great top 40 hits, from motown to cheesy bubblegum.

Fifteen years later, I spotted this Residents LP at the local record store. Based solely on the cover art (Dick Clark in nazi regalia clutching a carrot while miniature cartoon gay Hitlers danced in the clouds), I bought it. With shock and delight I listened as the Residents completely trashed and distorted those beloved top 40 hits from my childhood.

The Third Reich 'N Roll is the most twisted rendition of 'cover tunes' that you'll ever hear. Highly recommended, although it's not for everyone. Most people will not understand it or like it.

5 out of 5 stars On The Edge...Or Over It?.......2002-12-20

A lot of people in 1976 merely talked about rock and roll radio being taken over by a kind of programming tyranny, but only the Residents were brash enough to slam the idea up in plain sight. That they used two suites of dashes and crashes from some of the 1960s most incandescent hits to do it was probably jarring enough; that they had the temerity to caricature Dick Clark visibly as a storm troop was probably even more audacious (however much it had become a truism among some of the rock avant garde), especially since they launched the whole shebang with a clip from Chubby Checker's German translation of "The Twist." They also slashed away at the nimrod contingencies who liked to harp on the long-brandished accusations that rock was trafficking in subliminal messagemongering...hell, the Residents DELIBERATELY put subliminal messages into this one. As you might imagine, not everyone got the joke or the message; I remember there actually having been a few mild protests over the band's deployment of the Nazi references. But considering what today's radio programming is like in a lot of ways, just maybe the Residents in their insane way were as far ahead of the curve as their most die-hard devotees had it. For the sheer pleasure of hearing what sounds like an inside-out reading of the signature riff of Iron Butterfly's "Possession" beneath a vocal of inspired psychedelic parodying midway through one of the suites, that alone would have made it worth the price.

5 out of 5 stars A Chronicle of The Early Residents Sound.......2002-08-20

I will spend no time discussing why you shouldn't be offended by the title or the images. I will spend no time talking about the concept of the recording. I will say that serious Residents fans should have this recording. The reason is that all of the early, hard to find, and largely undocumented sounds of the Residents are captured here in one form or another. This CD does not contain any of the music from early unreleased tapes such as "Baby Sex" (you need to get your hands on the long out of print UWEB titles or "History Mystery" from "Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses" for that). But the sounds on 3rd R&R are the gelling of the "Kamakazi Lady / Eloise / Sandman" style. The closest readily available Residents work to the early unreleased material.

5 out of 5 stars

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