Duck Stab

Residents

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 27, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 1978
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mute U.S.
• ASIN: B0017TCSOE
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #105,786 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
2008 digitally remastered 30th Anniversary Edition of the ultimate Residents album: still strange and other-worldly but catchy and hummable at the same time. Duck Stab was originally released in February 1978 in response to a review of The Third Reich 'N' Roll which stated, "Kids today don't want to listen to music like The Residents make. There is no fun in it. You certainly can't dance to it." Even now, 30 long years later, Duck Stab is, to many people the ultimate Residents album. The kids obviously grew into adult idiots. The Residents gave up trying to prove that catchy music would be unpopular and announced that next they would record an album of wind noises and grunting. Which is exactly what they did. But that is another story. Mute. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Pressing, Great Packaging, Minor Classic, July 11, 2008

By	K. Tkacs "curmudgeonly" (Connecticut, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I purchased this album when it was first released on vinyl just on the merits of the opening track "Constantinople." It is a skewed, energetic setting for trivial, almost non-existent lyrics. It's funny, clever, and bizarre.

This is a wonderful 'pressing' packaged very handsomely in a CD-sized, glossy hardcover book. I first discovered that Residents albums were being packaged this way when I recently picked up the two double-album discs comprising the so-called 'Mole Trilogy.' I decided to take a chance on this disc (as well as The Commercial Album) and was very happily surprised to see that these, too, had been released in these wonderful packages, with booklets containing artwork and lyrics. My only complaint with the packaging is that the shrink wrap was pulling the binding over at a bad angle, but neither the booklet nor the disc seem to have been permanently harmed.

For my money, the two albums in The Residents' "American Composer" series are the ones I listen to most often, but this single-CD compilation of two old classic LPs is still worth having, if not for "Constantinople," then for the eerie "Hello Skinny."

5.0 out of 5 stars weather sucks, March 12, 2009

By	Gary Ballard "garycook" (willoughby ohio) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was looking for this cd every where and I went to a local store where they get hard to find cds but I listen to pandora radio on the internet while going through my email I heard one of the songs on this cd and an ad said I can buy this disc now from you guys the only complaint I have is my order was delayed because of the weather which kinda pissed me off but when I got it I was HAPPY I never knew there was a book with it to frigging AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!