I was actually thinking more along the lines of "rap/hip-hop turned Residential". Like, not necessarily mocking the genre, but doing their own interpretation/version of it. Kind of like what Tom Waits did with Real Gone. It's still Tom Waits, but he's using a different set of tools on this album. Also, about "Voodoo Doll", is that the only track from Intruders that has ever been played live? I can see how that album could be difficult for live shows since a lot of the tracks have spoken word and are narrative-based. "The Scarecrow" could be interesting for an extended jam though. Also, unrelated to the above, but I was re-reading this older interview between Mark Prindle and Hardy Fox: Hardy Fox interview I'm interested in this quote: -- Prindle: What scale are The Residents playing in mainly, when they do that? Fox: All sorts of different ones. Sometimes they make them up! They'll do things like only play the black keys, or only play the white keys, or put pieces of tape on certain random keys and limit the full band to just those notes. -- I'm wondering what albums/songs used this technique. Maybe stuff from The Commercial Album? My music theory chops really aren't great, though I'm learning. I'm interested in seeing if there are Residents tracks that employ scales seemingly made up by the band, or scales/notes that musically "shouldn't" work, but somehow do, if that makes sense.
That's 6AM for me, I really hope this is archived. I can think of some songs like the "Census Taker" and "Vileness Fats" themes which only use black keys, and the Eskimo liner notes mention an "Eskimo scale" which I don't know if they actually employ. About notes that "shouldn't" work... I think that's pretty much everything they did before the synths showed up! I don't think that guitar was EVER tuned properly.
One of several old articles where Homer talked about the influence of Morricone: PressReader.com - Your favorite newspapers and magazines.
Also, unrelated, but compare the brass sound at 12:38 in this Residents track... to the sound at 0:06 at the beginning of this Kill Tony clip... YouTube What is this sound effect? Is it a generic effect from some library of sounds that The Residents and the Kill Tony team both have access to? Or did they create these sounds independently?
Apparently they get archived on the website but I guess it takes a while, cause the latest one in the archives is from two months ago
Hardy was not afraid of using generic sound effects in his music, lmao. I'm sure I've heard that brass sound somewhere else
I'd say that he used it pretty skillfully! It fits pretty well with the track and doesn't seem out of place IMO. Are there any other sound effects in Residents music that can be identified as generic/belonging to a library of sound effects? I mentioned the AfroNova connection on Tweedles in an earlier post: "Official" Residents Thread The only thing I can think of is the beginning of "Mickey the Mumbling Midget", when the character with the exaggerated stereotypical German accent says "Mumble for the folks, Mickey" - a sound effect plays and I feel like I've heard it somewhere else, probably another computer game from the 90s.
I agree, this is really solid. I dig the variety of vocalists, and the fact that all of the tracks are actual songs (no spoken word monologues). The Alvin Snow version of "Hungry Hound" also reminds me of this Russian song (vocals-wise): Lastly, not related to the album, but I think I stumbled upon another interesting use of sound effects. Check out the strings at the beginning of this video: YouTube I hear the same strings in "Elevations" from Tweedles!
That is correct! "Metal, Meat and Bone. My hound loves the sound of Metal, Meat and Bone." Also, I'm not sure if you have Spotify, but the album is available there if you're like me and don't have a physical copy.
Was the mystery of the cut-off Midnight Man ever solved?! i've not heard back from Richard @ Cherry Red.
According to Apple Music it's supposed to be 5 min 39 sec long??? The Residentsの「Metal, Meat & Bone: The Songs of Dyin' Dog」
