#58. The Residents might scare you. I know they scared Mike when I took him on one of our first dates. I don’t think it was intentional, but it turned out to be a good test of how game he was. He never heard of them, thought them kind of evil, but got a quick look into what he would get into if he hung around.
I have a couple of shirts from that show (the Cube-E tour), but this isn’t one of them. I picked this up a few years ago, probably at the House of Blues show, and it’s the wonderfully parodied artwork of Meet The Beatles from their debut album Meet The Residents.
If you want the aural equivalent of their twist pop mash ups, check out The Third Reich ‘n Roll from 1976. If you prefer your Residents in bite sized doses, check out The Commercial Album from 1980, which is comprised of 40 songs, each 60 seconds in length. There are also some perfectly twisted videos made for these, which had quite an impact on me when I would watch those late Night Flight shows on the USA Network in the fledgling days of cable TV. How about spending the next minute with The Residents?
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