Mark of the Mole

Mark of the Mole Artist: The Residents
Label: East Side Digital
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 021561812925
EAN: 0021561812925
ASIN: B000000PMB


Release Date: 1998-01-13

Mark of the Mole


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Tracks:

  1. Voices Of The Air
  2. The Ultimate Disaster: Won't You Keep Us Working?/First Warning/Back To Normality?/The Sky Falls!...
  3. Migration: March To The Sea/The Observer/Hole-Workers New Hymn
  4. Another Land: Rumors/Arrival/Deployment/Saturation
  5. The New Machine: Ideas/Construction/Failure/Reconstruction/Success
  6. Final Confrontation: Driving The Moles Away/Don't Tread On Me/The Short War/Resolution?

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars First listen.......2005-12-29

I have incredibly broad taste in music. I like music with an edge, sometimes with a "lot" of edge (Henry Cow improvisations, early Einsturzende Neubauten, Anthony Braxton's "For Alto"). I'm always looking for something new and different.

I just listened to "Mark of the Mole," and it is the strangest thing I have ever heard in my life. I find it almost impossible to describe.

The Residents' playing is functional, no pyrotechnics. The sythesizers sound like... well, they're not 80's cheesy. They can't be described as *anything* except subterranean, maybe. The vocals are creepy, like a children's record for a children's pageant staged by Edward Gorey. It is almost completely atonal throughout.

I think it's probably brilliant. And I enjoyed ever second. Don't ask me what I just heard, though - I'm still picking my jaw up from the floor.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent mid-period album from real musical artists........2002-05-19

This is my favorite Residents album, and probably their most creatively successful. Like most all of their recordings, it's hard not to listen to it as a whole, and doing so is a greatly rewarding experience. It is a narrative concept album, and one that was meant to be followed up by a string of sequals. The sequals are completely unnecessary to its appreciation, and it should be regarded as one complete work. I will not discuss the content of the narrative, though it is an allegorical tale of the nature of social behavior. Characteristic of the Residents, Mark of the Mole can be taken as a serious political commentary, or as a farsical romp. Or, both. This mixture of silliness and satire, along with decidedly unusual musical structure, often has the Residents compared to Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. I warn fans of these two not to preconcieve expectations of the Residents on this basis. While comparisons do hold merit based on the fringe nature of all of these artists, the Residents are a strictly unique experience, and for most an aqcuired taste.

5 out of 5 stars Fun fun fun!.......2001-07-04

What is it? It's spooky! It's political! It's not that political! It's not that spooky! It's the Residents doing a concept album! Well. What did you expect? It tells a story, and it's fun. Unfortunately, the Intermission tracks that used be on the CD have been remastered on it's own CD and we are charged extra money for them. This CD and Intermission work well together. This album is ESSENTIAL anyway.

5 out of 5 stars Goes great with mushrooms.......2000-10-24

I've yet to find a disk that goes better with mushrooms. Sit back,relax and enjoy the ride.

5 out of 5 stars

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  5. Africa ~ Toto
  6. Lokahi Lani
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  8. Fish Rising ~ Steve Hillage
  9. There Goes the Sun ~ Walker Kong
  10. Night Music

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