The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

This audio-only twin 3' CD release in a spectacular gatefold digipak cover is the ultimate deluxe edition of Duck Stab / Buster & Glen. Digitally remastered and denoised. It was with this album that The Residents perfected, for one brief moment, the dark, mysterious twisted pop song that raised their profile in the experimental music scene and college radio world. The songs contained here (a combination of two EPs of earlier that year, Duck Stab and Buster and Glen) are short, the lyrics obscure but precise, the analog synth sounds masterful. Like Brian Eno, The Residents' lyrics were more about the sound of the words than the meaning, and what is here on Duck Stab is in the tradition of such absurdists as Odgen Nash or Lewis Carroll. Euroralph/Germany.

1) Constantinople
2) Sinister Exaggerator
3) Booker Tease
4) Blue Rosebuds
5) Laughing Song
6) Bach Is Dead
7) Elvis and His Boss
8) Lizard Lady
9) Semolina
10) Birthday Boy
11) Weight-Lifting Lulu
12) Krafty Cheese
13) Hello Skinny
14) Electrocutioner