Meet The Residents

"So what we have here is a pretty definitive audio document of the early Residents from 1972 to 1974, with some great sleeve-notes which of course may or may not contain the red herrings that we have come to love the band for. Fans of the Residents will enjoy this new edition, it builds on the indispensable original Meet The Residents LP (in both its versions) with some great unheard tracks as well as the phenomenal Santa Dog single. If you have never heard Meet The Residents before I envy you, there's a universe of fun ahead for you. One of the most intriguing, innovative and puzzling records of all time has been done justice here".

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"It's difficult to explain in 2017 the impact Meet The Residents (9/10) had upon those few of us fortunate to hear it in 1977. The Residents weren't interested in traditional forms of expression or recording techniques - although the anonymous, eyeball-sporting San Francisco art-rock outsiders clearly had a morbid dislike for The Beatles.Much of this debut album is screaming and distortion and uncanny disorientating vocal sounds, and always that tinny piano and sense of wrongness. Unbearably sad in places, unbearably funny, every now and then the album would break out into bona fide deconstruction ... The reissue comes with a bonus mono mix and oodles of rubbish/brilliance, including the legendary Santa Dog EP, which is an absolute stone-cold classic.".

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