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Originally Posted by Holerbot6000
Your Residents avatar reminds me that the only time I might have been guilty of this is when bands you dearly love start putting out records you don't like very much. You want to give them the benefit of the doubt and you want to like that new stuff, but it just doesn't ring your bell, but you can feel like you're betraying your band if you ultimately turn your back.
I dearly dearly loved the Residents early stuff but after the Mole show, when two of the original four guys left, it just wasn't the same. I think God in Three Persons was the record where I finally had to say, this wasn't the band I fell in love with, and I was still buying these albums out of sheer loyalty. It can be hard to let go, but at least we'll always have 'Walter Westinghouse'...
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You know, I have to be completely honest with you. I've been a member of this forum for something like 7 years. When I first joined I was pretty compelled to find an avatar that was a great representation of my personality and also looked pretty cool. The Residents' logo with the eyeball, top hat, and a tuxedo conveyed a sense of mysterious eccentricity with a touch of sophistication which I thought was perfect for me, (for the first five years my logo was just the torso), but when I first chose it I had know idea who The Residents were. Well, no, that's not entirely true. I knew that they were an obscure band form the bay area of San Francisco whose song
Making Plans for Nigel Primus had covered about 20 years ago on a short EP called
Miscellaneous Debris. I know I've heard Primus' version of that song, but since it's been roughly 20 years since I listened to the album I have no idea how the song goes.
As you can probably imagine, being an active music forum member with an avatar of The Residents' logo eventually will spawn attempts at conversation with me regarding the band, and it has, which also created a dilemna: Do I lie and tell people how into the band I am when I'm actually not? Do I give the deflective smile and nod when someone asks about me with a casual eyeball reference? Do I create complex and controversial arguments about the bands music based on research culled from the rest of the internet, or do you make it a point to get to know The Resident's material as quickly and as thoroughly as possible, so as to more accurately and honestly represent the music behind the band behind my avatar?
To tell the truth, I've done all except for the latter. Why? I just didn't really feel like getting into them and you know lying and being an all around fakety-fake is really what the internet is all about, and I would tell you that I wrestled a water buffalo naked--which, incidentally, is true in the figurative sense-- if it meant you being my e-friend.
As a matter of fact, at some point I made it my intention to never listen to The Residents' music ever. On top of that, with the exception of perusing Google image for a new variation of the top hat avatar occasionally, I've managed to remain as ignorant of the band as I possibly could with quite a huge degree of success. I think I can easily say that I am
the biggest fan of never hearing The Residents' music that has ever existed.
If that's not the epitome of the
...Arty Piece of **** flushed down a wormhole, then I don't know what is.