Cube-E Live

Residents | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 8, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Restless Records
• ASIN: B000003BI3
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #198,123 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Buckaroo Blues: From The Plains To Mexico

2. Buckaroo Blues: The Theme From Buckeroo Blues

3. Buckaroo Blues: The Stampede

4. Buckaroo Blues: The Trail Dance

5. Buckaroo Blues: Bury Me Not

6. Buckaroo Blues: Cowboy Waltz

7. Buckaroo Blues: Saddle Sores

8. Buckaroo Blues: The Theme From Buckaroo Blues (Reprise)

9. Black Barry: The Gospel Truth

10. Black Barry: Shortnin' Bread

11. Black Barry: Black Berry

12. Black Barry: Fourty-Four

13. Black Barry: Engine 44

14. Black Barry: New Orleans

15. Black Barry: Voodoo Queen

16. Black Barry: What Am I Gonna Do

17. Black Barry: Organism

18. The Baby King: Ober

19. The Baby King: The Baby King I

20. The Baby King: Don't Be Creul

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars O bury me not on the lone prairie, November 22, 2002

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Ryan Hennessy (Albany, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cube-E Live (Audio CD)

Probably the Residents' most fully-realized conceptual piece out of the many they've done. The Rez have never been known to play "gigs." All of their shows are performances. This one revolves around the idea that American music can be understood through three easy pieces. It goes like this...

Country western songs + African-American music = Elvis rock and roll.

To show this, the Rez put together a three act performance. Act 1 is the cowboy music, act two the jazz and blues, act three Elvis covers. Unfortunately, the recording obviously lacks the powerful visual element of the show which included giant 100 gallon cowboy hats, a blacklit Elvis with dancers, and a block-headed giant symbolizing the synthesis of cowboy and black music. Nevertheless, the idea comes through, with the Residents applying their typical strange, yet reverential this time around, treatment to songs from "Bury Me Not" to "Shortnin' Bread" to "Don't Be Cruel."

And when the grandfather tells his two ventriloquist dummy grandchildren about how Elvis was a baby that wanted to be king because "kings are good, kings are strong, and kings are the best of everything," you can't help but think that the Residents are speaking the truth.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Resident's best stage act on CD, October 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Cube-E Live (Audio CD)

You can think what you want of the Residents, but they do give a unique perspective of music in this modern, MTV - crazed era.

This musical piece is actually in three parts. The first part, based allegedly on cowboy poems the Residents read, is their most accessible musical tomes to date.

The second, called "Black Berry" is based on the Resident's visualization of the rise of black music as a popular musical genre. It isn't quite as successful as the first piece, but still stands well on its own.

The third piece, based on the life of Elvis, won't gel with you if you are an Elvis fanatic. But it is powerful stuff, ending with the Elvis figure being killed off by the English Invasion.

If you like the Residents, this is an essential recording. If you are just looking into the Residents, try "Duck Stab" for starters.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars from the plains..., February 13, 2002

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Diomidis Tsakiris (Iraklion Crete Greece) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cube-E Live (Audio CD)

Well, nothing is like a Residents' show. Have you ever seen one? Well if the answer is NO, never mind, nobody is perfect, you can listen to a live CD- and believe me Cube-E is one of the best.