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Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, the Residents remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions; cloaking their lives and music in a haze of willful obscurity, the band’s members never identified themselves by name, always appearing in public in disguise — usually tuxedos, top hats and giant eyeball masks — and refusing to grant media interviews. Drawing inspiration from the likes of fellow innovators including Harry Partch, Sun Ra, and Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, the Residents channelled the breadth of American music into their idiosyncratic, satiric vision, their mercurial blend of electronics, distortion, avant-jazz, classical symphonies and gratingly nasal vocals reinterpreting everyone from John Philip Sousa to James Brown while simultaneously expanding the boundaries of theatrical performance and multimedia interaction.
>v.o one of the coolest records of all time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xcwt9mSbYE >itcofck one of the coolest records of all time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09iNZODJEMo >dsofm the coolest record of all time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrojrDCI02k >industrial-noise intro >guitar w/phaser >excellent slide guitar >okc >pretentious try-hard "experimental" bullshit Tom Yorke sings like he owns a bonsai collection and cries when he accidentally snips a leaf wrong. I can imagine the pallid cabbage of his face puckering into a spoiled pout with every faux-affected lisp and sigh and it disgusts me. Listening to Radiohead is like being bugged to go eat at the new Ethiopian restaurant by your friend who's desperate to see himself as "cultured." No wonder this album resonates so heavily with a generation that's raised on youtube and thinks the world owes them a living.