Music Banter - The Residents

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1719228)

Not Available is my favourite but I always forget to recommend that one. Listen to Not Available.

I second this. Not Available is incredible. I might like Wormwood slightly more overall, if not just for the live concert film version of the album. If you have 1:44:00 to kill, I HIGHLY recommend watching it all.

(Hopefully someone who has the ability to will post a link to the video of it on YouTube.)

^ Here ya go...

I saw them play in a small venue on this tour. As weird and wonderful as the video is, it was a genuinely psychedelic experience seeing them perform it live.

I hope to see them live before they hang it up for good (if that ever happens). Sounds like quite an experience. How was the setlist when you saw them?

The Residents - Wormwood Tour (1999)

How to Get a Head
Mr. Misery
Tent Peg in the Temple
God's Magic Finger
Dinah and the Unclean Skin
Cain and Abel
Burn Baby Burn
Fire Fall
King of Kings
Bridegroom of Blood
Bathsheba Bathes
Attitude is Everything
Hanging by His Hair
Judas Saves
Revelation
Jesus Loves Me
In The Beginning
Old Time Religion

^ That was the setlist for the show I saw during the Wormwood tour. I think that was pretty much the standard setlist for the entire tour. They might have changed one or two songs every once in a while during the tour, though.

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Originally Posted by Mord (Post 1718554)

I listened to The Residents the other day for the first time. I kinda hated them.

Just sayin'...

Not Available is such a haunting record in some ways. I have to be in a certain mood to really let it take me somewhere, but I think it stands at the peak of their output.

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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi (Post 1951778)

I'm a dum dum ding dong and misinterpreted what you said, thinking you saw them on their current tour. I'm so incredibly jealous that you saw the wormwood tour.

I admit, Im jelly too.

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Originally Posted by Treop (Post 1952125)

I'm a dum dum ding dong and misinterpreted what you said, thinking you saw them on their current tour. I'm so incredibly jealous that you saw the wormwood tour.

I've seen them six times on six different tours. I did see them recently on the 21'st of April during their current tour.

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Here's the setlist from that show...

Jelly Jack the Boneless Boy
Mickey the Mumbling Midget
Baby Sister

Dream #1: The Cowboy Dream
The Black Behind
The Monkey Man
It's a Man's Man's Man's World

Dream #2: The Train Wreck Dream
Rushing Like a Banshee
Train vs Elephant
From the Plains to Mexico

Dream #3: Nixon Sings The Blues
Hunger Hound
Tell Me
Die! Die! Die!

Dream #4: The Ballerina Dream
Africa Tree
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
Tourniquet of Roses

Encore:
Cowboy Waltz
Six More Miles (to the Graveyard)

Here's the encore on video...

The Residents - Cowboy Waltz & Six More Miles (To the Graveyard)

Interesting setlist. I would be curious to hear how Tourniquet of Roses has transformed. Re-listening to that song now for the first time in a while makes me wish they would release a pREServed version of Fingerprince. Earlier today they did announce some more of those planned for the future including God in Three Persons, and then teased something about a production of that same album.

Interesting stuff.