Wormwood

Residents | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 13, 1998)
• Original Release Date: October 13, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: East Side Digital
• ASIN: B00000DCVX
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,104 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. In the Beginning

2. Fire Fall

3. They Are the Meat

4. Melancholy Clumps

5. How to Get a Head

6. Cain and Abel

7. Mr. Misery

8. Tent Peg in the Temple

9. God's Magic Finger

10. Spilling the Seed

11. Dinah and the Unclean Skin

12. Bathsheba Bathes

13. Bridegroom of Blood

14. Hanging by His Hair

15. The Seven Ugly Cows

16. Burn Baby Burn

17. Kill Him

18. I Hate Heaven

19. Judas Saves

20. Revelation

Editorial Reviews

This CD is an out of print collectible! It is the original 1998 East Side Digital release. Catalog ESD 81332. There is a hole punch through the UPC.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Residents Return With a Vengence, August 3, 2001

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David Fields (Lincoln, Nebraska United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wormwood (Audio CD)

After a few years of writing CD-ROM, and educational television soundtracks the Residents returned to songwriting and being a stage act with this CD, and the tour that followed it.

Unlike the less polished "Roadworms" that followed this recording, this CD is packed with pop songs, experimental music, and the weird stuff we all want the residents to make noise about.

There's no doubt that the lyrics, and especially the liner notes of this recording will offend a number of people (like it did me a few times), and if you have extremely strong beliefs that are aligned with the Bible, this album is not for you. However, the music is the stongest the Residents have performed in years, and is not to be ignored by us hardened veterans of the One Eyed Whozits.

From the amazing (but too short) instrumental that opens the album, to the equally amazing, but more disturbing instrumental that ends this CD, this album is packed with pop songs such as "Burn Baby Burn" to the strong pathos of "Firefall".

The Residents have returned from the hades of soundtracks, and are in front of us with all their glory.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A thought-provoking musical analysis of the Bible, November 21, 1998

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Joey ([e-mail]) (Pensacola, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wormwood (Audio CD)

The Residents have brought us many treats over the years, which we've greedily devoured, but this piece is both musically satisfying and socially significant. It's a look at the darker parts of the holy Bible (like Lot's escape from Sodom and what happened after and the numerous naughties of King David). Though critical, the album's purpose (according to the liner notes) is "to neither vilify nor sanctify the book, but to allow it to be humanized." Excusing the split infinitive in that quote, the album is thoroughly poetic and thought-provoking. Wormwood is also a good introduction for the uninitiated Residents fan. An overall great album!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars El mejor disco de los Rez en años, July 4, 1999

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"saurio" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wormwood (Audio CD)

El último opus de la banda más extraña del planeta es, curiosamente, su obra más accesible pese al conflictivo tópico que une a sus veinte canciones: las curiosas historias de la Biblia, esas donde el libro sagrado se contradice a sí mismo. Con respeto pero sin dejar su habitual mirada irónica, The Residents desgranan un conjunto de canciones que dejarán satisfechos tanto a los viejos oyentes de la banda como a todos aquellos que quieren experimentar algo diferente al adormecido panorama musical FM. Los mejores temas: "Burn, baby, burn", "How to get a head", "Judas saves", "I hate heaven" y "Kill Him!". Escúchenlo, vale la pena.