Duck Stab / Buster and Glen

Submitted by Glyn Lewis on 17 February 2013 - 9:34pm

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The Residents

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USA

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Track-listing:

Constantinople*Sinister Exaggerator*The Booker Tease*Blue Rosebuds*Laughing Song*Bach Is Dead*Elvis And His Boss*Lizard Lady*Semolina*Birthday Boy*Weight Lifting Lulu*Krafty Cheese*Hello Skinny*The Electrocutioner

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Nominator:

Bean

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Meeting-date:

Thursday, 14 October 2010

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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Confused, amused but not abused

5-7-8-10

11

Experimental music with the emphasis on mental. There is a relentless left-field drive to every piece but there is also a great pop sensibility to this album – the songs are brief, tuneful, direct, simple, fun but they also have a creepy, mad, freaky carnival undercurrent.

The vocals on this are fantastic – weird, screechy, cartoon character voices, singing some unsettling and memorable lyrics. My personal favourites include lines such as ‘Your lichen covered corpuscles are filthy to my fists’, ‘release me licky lizard’, ‘do you still dare me to die? hello?’. It brings me happiness to hear such thoughts. But no this isn’t a comedy album. And Paul’s comment at the meeting about feeling manipulated by this music made me think of Bill Shankly’s famous quote about the offside rule – if a band isn’t trying to manipulate you intellectually or emotionally then they should be.

Birthday Boy is one of my all time favourite songs, a perfect distillation of the Residents sound – rumbling bass, slightly dischordant and distorted keyboard patterns, fantastic vocal interchanges across octaves – creepy pop perfection.
73

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Ha ha he he happy birthday to me

1-5-10

What a load of nonsense, call this music?

Is the easy answer. Make the effort and this is clever stuff, these guys are better than they're willing to let on. I've no idea what you'd call this, if you tried to pigeonhole it? Utter weirdness, I expect. Very enjoyable though, can't play it without a smile on my face.
73

reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Fuck A Duck

1-6-11

Entertainingly bonkers stuff from the anonymous eyeball underground heroes.
65

reviewed by

Richard Norbury