Residue Deux

Residents | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 7, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1983
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: East Side Digital
• ASIN: B000005ZVL
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #468,444 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sleeper

2. Whoopy Snorp

3. Kamikaze Lady

4. Boy in Love

5. Shut up! Shut Up!

6. Anvil Forest

7. Diskomo

8. Jailhouse Rock

9. Ups and Downs

10. Scent of Mint

11. Saint Nix

12. Open Up

13. From the Plains of Mexico

14. In San Francisco

15. Dumbo the Clown

16. Is He Really Bringing Roses?

17. Time's Up

18. Daydream Believer

19. Prelude for a Toddler

20. Toddler's Lullaby

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Menace, melody, and surreal verse worthy of Dr. Seuss., October 10, 1998

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This review is from: Residue Deux (Audio CD)

While the Residents' primary focus has always been the concept album, the group inevitably generates material that strays beyond conceptual restraints. In 1983, twelve choice out-takes, B-sides, and compilation tracks were released on LP as RESIDUE. RESIDUE DEUX augments the LP with eleven rarities, including two suites from the band's late '70s prime, "The Replacement," and "Safety Is a Cootie Woodie," a haunting meditation on the terrors of childhood. While RESIDUE aspired only to provide a home for "orphan songs," the updated RESIDUE DEUX takes on the character of an unintentionally revealing retrospective. An early '80s shift to digital working methods marked the loss of the exhilarating, instinctive primitivism that distinguished the pre MOLE SHOW Residents. The band's subsequent high-tech period is represented by four lackluster selections, including polite covers of the Monkees' "Daydream Believer," and Sun Ra's "Space Is the Place." The elision of the original liner notes suggests Residential reluctance to underscore the weakness of their post-1983 material by including recording dates. A few latter-day clinkers aside, RESIDUE DEUX showcases a mind-bending confluence of menace, melody, and surreal verse worthy of Dr. Seuss. --Michael Draine (appeared first in EXPOSE #16)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Uneven, but great when it's great, December 26, 2001

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Jim Owen (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Residue Deux (Audio CD)

This is a CD version of their Resideux album, which only contained the first dozen track sor so. Oddly enough, the added tracks are mostly much, much better, and makes Deux a definite improvement over the first one.

The Toddler's trilogy, the San Francisco songs and Space Is the Place are all top drawer Residents, and they each occupy lofty spots among my list of favorites of all the Rez's works. But when I play the CD, I have to stay close to the skip button to pass over throwaways like Kamikaze Lady and Jailhouse Rock.

One of the best things about "real" Residents albums is their ability to stay within a consistent style but still milk great variety within that style, so the album has a lot of variety but still sounds unified. Being a collection of residue, this CD doesn't have that, and styles jump pretty drastically in some places, making the already alarming music even more so.

However, it would have been a shame to not let the best tracks here go unreleased, so I'm willing to put up with a little grab-bagness to get to hear them.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Like Your Head in a Microwave Too Long...., September 7, 2001

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Phillip Edwards (Dallas, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Residue Deux (Audio CD)

As I listen to this CD and write this review, I can only tell you that listening to this CD will give you some laughs, raise any eyebrow or two, and never disappoint. It's like your head in a microwave too long...bits and pieces of raw material to be scraped off. This CD is just that: RAW and no longer a part of any cohesive whole. So turn out the lights, get blunted and listen to this.