The Residents

The Residents er en avantgarde/eksperimentel musik- og visuel kunstgruppe. De startede i 1972 og udgav deres første plade det år, en dobbelt 45 RPM kaldet Santa Dog. De har udgivet næsten 60 albums, lavet en række musikalske film, designet 3 CD-ROM-projekter og haft 6 større verdenstournéer. De er stadig aktive og har udgivet et nyt CD-Internet projekt, 13. Juni 2006 med titlen "The River Of Crime" som efter sigende skulle være formet efter radio-dramaer fra 1940'erne. En ny fuld-længde CD ("Tweedles") blev udgivet 31. oktober 2006 under Mute Records label.

De er kendte for deres hemmelighedsfulde stil, simple kunst og brugen af ny teknologi.

Hvem er The Residents? 
Det er ikke kendt i offentligheden hvem der er med i The Residents. Der har været mistanke om, at det var medlemmerne af The Residents' manager-team "The Cryptic Corporation." Cryptic startede i 1976 med Jay Clem, Homer Flynn, Hardy Fox og John Kennedy, der dog alle har afvist påstanden. Clem og Kennedy forlod Cryptic i 1982.
The Residents giver heller ikke interviews personligt. Dog har Flynn og Hardy Fox enkelte gange udtalt sig til presesen.

Man kunne fristes til at tro, at grunden til at The Residents ikke vil have deres navne ud, er at de føler at kunstnere arbejder bedst uden påvirkning fra publikum, kun skal dømmes ud fra deres arbejde og at bandmedlemmernes køn, etniske baggrund, udskiftninger af medlemmerne, personligheder og daglige liv udenfor bandet skulle være irrelevant for lytterne.

Diskografi

Albums 
 Meet the Residents – 1974
 The Third Reich 'n' Roll – 1976
 Fingerprince – 1976
 Duck Stab! – 1978
 Duck Stab/Buster & Glen – 1978
 Not Available – 1978
 The Residents Radio Special – 1979
 Eskimo – 1979
 Babyfingers – 1979
 The Commercial Album – 1980
 Mark of the Mole – 1981
 The Tunes of Two Cities – 1982
 Intermission: Extraneous Music from the Residents' Mole Show – 1983
 Title in Limbo – med Renaldo and the Loaf 1983
 The Mole Show Live at the Roxy – 1983
 Residue of the Residents – 1984
 George & James – 1984
 Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? – 1984
 Assorted Secrets – 1984
 Census Taker – 1985
 The Big Bubble: Part Four of the Mole Trilogy – 1985
 Stars & Hank Forever: The American Composers Series – 1986
 The 13th Anniversary Show Live in the U.S.A. – 1986
 The Thirteenth Anniversary Show – 1987
 The Mole Show Live in Holland – 1987
 For Elsie – 1987
 Snakey Wake – 1987
 Buckaroo Blues – 1988
 Santa Dog 88 – 1988
 God in Three Persons – 1988
 Buckaroo Blues & Black Barry – 1989
 The King & Eye – 1989
 Liver Music – 1990
 Daydream B-Liver – 1991
 Freak Show – 1991
 Our Finest Flowers – 1992
 Cube E: Live in Holland – 1994
 Gingerbread Man – 1994
 Hunters – 1995
 Have a Bad Day – 1996
 Pollex Christi – 1997
 Live at the Fillmore – 1998
 Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible – 1998
 Refused – 1999
 Wormwood Live – 1999
 Dot Com – 2000
 Diskomo 2000 – 2000
 Roadworms: The Berlin Sessions – 2000
 Roosevelt 2.0 – 2000
 Icky Flix – 2001
 High Horses – 2001
 I Murdered Mommy – 2001
 Eat Exuding Oinks – 2002
 Demons Dance Alone – 2002
 Kettles of Fish on the Outskirts of Town – 2003
 WB: RMX – 2003
 The King & Eye: RMX (remixed af Paralyzer) – 2004
 12 Days of Brumalia – 2004
 I Murdered Mommy – 2004
 Animal Lover – 2005
 The Way We Were (live CD/DVD) – 2005
 Cube E Box Set – 2006
 Tweedles – 2006

Singler 
 "Santa Dog" – 1972
 "Satisfaction" – 1976
 "The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles" – 1977
 "Santa Dog '78" – 1978
 "Diskomo" – 1980
 "The Commercial Single" – 1980
 "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" – 1984
 "Kaw-Liga" – 1986
 "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" – 1986
 "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" (Australia) – 1986
 "Hit the Road Jack" – 1987
 "Double Shot" – 1988
 "Holy Kiss of Flesh" – 1988
 "From the Plains to Mexico" – 1989
 "Don't Be Cruel" – 1989
 "Blowoff" – 1992
 "Santa Dog '92" – 1992
 "I Hate Heaven" – 1998
 "In Between Screams" – 1999

Opsamlinger 
 Please Do Not Steal It! – 1979
 Nibbles – 1979
 Ralph Before '84: Volume 1, the Residents – 1984
 Memorial Hits – 1985
 The Pal TV LP – 1985
 Heaven? – 1986
 Hell! – 1986
 Stranger Than Supper" – 1990
 Poor Kaw-Liga's Pain – 1994
 Louisiana's Lick – 1995
 Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses – 1997
 Residue Deux – 1998
 25 Years of Eyeball Excellence – 1998
 Land of Mystery – 1999
 Petting Zoo – 2002
 Kettles of Fish on the Outskirts of Town – 2002
 Best Left Unspoken...Vol. 1 – 2006

 Multimedia 
 Vileness Fats (ufærdigt filmprojekt) – 1972 – 1976
 Freak Show (CD ROM) – 1991
 Gingerbread Man (CD ROM) – 1994
 Bad Day on the Midway (CD ROM) – 1995
 Icky Flix (DVD) – 2001
 Eskimo (DVD) – 2002
 Disfigured Night DVD (DVD) – 2002
 Demons Dance Alone (DVD) – 2003
 The Commercial Album DVD – 2004
 Wormwood DVD – 2005
 The Way We Were CD/DVD – 2005
 The River of Crime June 2006
 Timmy August 2006

 Tournéer og "one-off" shows 
 The Boarding House – October 18 1971
 Halloween '71 – October 31 1971
 The Party of '72 – October 19 1972
 Oh Mummy! Oh Daddy! Can't You See That It's True? What The Beatles Did to Me, I Love Lucy Did To You – June 7 1976
 The House – 1982
 The Mole Show (Tour; U.S., Europe) – 1982-1983
 The Eyeball Show / The 13th Anniversary Show (Tour; U.S., Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand) – 1985-1986
 The Snakey Wake – August 24 1987
 The Boudisque 20th Anniversary Party – November 18 1987
 TELE 5 - Off Beat Night – March 15 1988
 Lincoln Center / Alice Tully Hall – July 21 1989
 Cube-E (Tour; U.S., Europe) – 1989-1990
 Ty's Freak Show – November 17 1991
 The Adobe Show / Disfigured Night – 1997
 Popkomm Festival / Disfigured Night (3 Performances; Germany) – August 1997
 The Fillmore '97 – October 31 1997
 The Fillmore '98 – October 31 1998
 Wormwood (Tour; U.S., Europe) – 1998-1999
 Icky Flix (Tour; U.S., Europe, Russia) – 2000-2001
 Demons Dance Alone (Tour; U.S., Europe, Russia) – 2001-2003
 The Way We Were (5 Performances; Australia) – March 4-12th, 2005

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