Perhaps the quintessential independent musicians of the 1970s, the Residents (formed by composer Hardy Fox and vocalist Homer Flynn) performed in android costumes and never revealed their faces or identities.
Relocated from Louisiana to San Francis…
Perhaps the quintessential independent musicians of the 1970s, the Residents (formed by composer Hardy Fox and vocalist Homer Flynn) performed in android costumes and never revealed their faces or identities.
Relocated from Louisiana to San Francisco in 1966, they debuted in 1972, during the dark age that followed the demise of the hippie movement and the collapse of acid-rock. They composed their most innovative works between 1974 and 1976, when the new wave wasn't even born yet, but their isolation from the music scene remained absolute until the new wave allowed them to emerge as new prophets of a way to make, perform and conceive music. "Obscure" and cryptic, their pieces were part of a multimedia show whose antics transposed the music-hall into the new wave and whose sound emphasized a collage-style approach to composition.
The Tunes Of Two Cities (january 1982 - Ralph, 1982), under the guise of documenting the musical customs of the "two cities," i.e., alternating the demented jazz cocktail of one with the "industrial" music of the other, confirmed as much the talent in packing gags of the first genre (Serenade For Missy, Smack Your Lips) as the aforementioned weakness in the tragic-futurist register of the second genre.
Source: https://www.scaruffi.com/vol4/resident.html
Tracklist:
A1 Serenade For Missy 00:00
Guitar – Snakefinger
Saxophone – Norman Salant
A2 A Maze Of Jigsaws 03:14
A3 Mousetrap 06:01
A4 God Of Darkness 09:21
A5 Smack Your Lips (Clap Your Teeth) 12:26
Guitar – Snakefinger
A6 Praise For The Curse 16:11
B1 The Secret Seed 18:54
B2 Smokebeams 21:37
Guitar – Snakefinger
B3 Mourning The Undead 24:17
B4 Song Of The Wild 27:19
B5 The Evil Disposer 30:36
B6 Happy Home (Excerpt From Act I 33:47
