Remember seeing this video in the early 80's on USA Night Flight. That's how I got turned on to The Residents. I have been insane ever since. These guys were WAY ahead of their time. Early video pioneers, early computer media pioneers, musical pioneers whose influence is felt by alternative, punk, new wave, noise rock. The Residents deserve to be in the conversation for one of the most influential bands of all time, and a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
BeefheartLynch My dad works with a former resident (this is a different singer, my dad works with the one that sang Constantinople) and he said "We just started in college doing this as a joke, the others got obsessed with the money and I left. We weren't making music just sounds."
souven ir The Residents intrigue me, not 'cause they're good or make good stuff but just are strange. It's weird and they're creepy people They're from North Louisiana
"Duck Stab" was my entry point into The Residents when I was about 14. My sister knew a guy that she borrowed this record from. I met a kid in my high school design class that made me a copy of "Wormwood" and "Our Finest Flowers". It still remains some of the most enigmatic music I've ever heard and a band that really influenced my own art. (My channel name here that i've had since i was a junior in high school is even a reference to the Santa Dog album lol)
This seriously needs to be made into a movie. Skinny the itinerant worker who dwells in urban shadows is actually an agent for extraterrestrials, or something.
I love the residents, grettings from México, My friend Wolf Adusse told me about this band, i met this song because he's writting a story about this song, inspired by a nightmare he had on 2017
Hello, guys! It seems like old Residents clips have starting vignettes that are actually weird video footage of them, with background music from early stuff (things from "Meet the Residents" or "Third Reich"). Do anyone know the name of the song on the beginning of this video (00:00 to 00:17)? Thanks a lot, Mole-People!
veo este vídeo y se me ponen los pelos de punta, me teletransporta a 1996, a enero y al programa undeground del canal 2, Rock&pop, "viva la revolución" conducido por el gran rolando ramos!!!!
For those who want to know what the song is about- I can't say, but if you want music that is linear with non-absurd lyrics you may want to listen to a band other than The Residents. On the other hand, if you like the mystery of not knowing and have an appreciation of absurdity and enjoy the challenge of art that makes you think then viva la Residents. Very much like a Lynch film or a story by Kafka.
That's got to suck. You just left a psychiatric hospital and then these scary weirdos with eyes for heads find you and make you the centerpiece for their scary video, for their scary song about a drug addict. Enough to be straw that broke the camels back for any crazy.
One of or more of such music/media phenomena that are intentionally amorphous, flexible, & surreal, which promote significantly curious aspects of attraction.
Crystal Meth. "Skinny was born in a bathtub." Much home made meth is cooked in bathtubs, therefore, that was how he was born, or how 'Skinny' was made. "And he grew so incredibly thin, even the end of an eyedropper sucked him in." (Most) people get crazy thin if they're a meth addict About selling things, a person is likely to go broke, likely lose their job if they are a serious addict, so they are going to sell whatever they can to get a fix.
This piece is low-level frightening for me. There's something spoiled and dreadful in it. The fringe of madness slumping across rotted boards at twilight, let's say.
Sarah Varela you don’t have to be sorry. Only a millennial would’ve never lived those days like we did. That’s the only thing you should be sorry for. Tick tock, wtf????? Get the hell outta my comment.
Secondo me Duck Stab/Buster and Glen è il loro miglior album e questo pezzo è fra i migliori. E' ancora emozionante e genera un'atmpsfera mentale unica.
@NEBNOC WRONG! The Residents came first. Primus merely just covered their songs, mainly because they are fans of the Residents. read more about the Residents, and you will know.
WOW .. came here because I'm watching Penn & Teller MTV Guest VJ Hour from 1986 #2 video of 10 they played.. I'm 52. Don't recall this from MTV . Different style , not bad
I have known about them and followed them since high school 1977. They were so mysterious then because no Internet and pre TV videos. You would see the albums or maybe you might read something in the UK musical press. The Residents have to be one of the greatest modern visual/video artists ever. They probably had tiny budgets for everything. But every image that they ever turned out was disturbing, odd, creepy or frightening. They never had an image that was cheezy.
I’ve first heard this song back in the 80’s and I just heard “The Days of Pearly Spencer,” a classic song by David McWilliams. While the two songs couldn’t be more different, the videos seem to have a connection, accidental, if not on purpose. Maybe I’m the only one who thinks this, then again I may be the only person to have had the honor of hearing both songs. Either, or the two are brilliant, if not amazing.
I've always wondered if this is about a meth addict's child just from the opening line "Skinny was born in a bathtub " (a reference to bathtub crank?)/"and grew so incredibly thin" "
This has got to be about meth use, right? Obviously meth correlates with being skinny, being born from the bathtub means the cooking of low grade speed, and skinny selling anything to anyone to get his fix. And just the zoom in on skinny's eyes, I see a black void, no differing shade of black for his iris. Idk if this is intentional or just limitations in what can be picked up.
@NEBNOC so wrong. Primus has a CD of all cover songs, and Sinister Exaggerator is on that. So it is pretty clear who did it first and who influenced whom. by the way another band I believe is influenced by The Residents is the Melvins
@thatlittleweirdkid that actually makes a lot of sense. "Skinny never looked at lights"- methamphetamines cause the pupil to dilate so that the sun and other lights are incredibly painful to look at, which is why tweakers wear shades. I actually do not think this song is about meth, but your analysis makes a lot of sense.
I don't get what is so compelling to keep rewatching this disturbing track. I don't think a song alone has given me so much anxiety as this but maybe that's why it's intriguing.
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Remember seeing this video in the early 80's on USA Night Flight. That's how I got turned on to The Residents. I have been insane ever since. These guys were WAY ahead of their time. Early video pioneers, early computer media pioneers, musical pioneers whose influence is felt by alternative, punk, new wave, noise rock. The Residents deserve to be in the conversation for one of the most influential bands of all time, and a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
I couldn't agree more. I first saw them on "Night Flight" as well, where they completely blew my mind.
I was trying to remember where I'd seen this in the distant past, and of course it was "Night Flight"!
BeefheartLynch My dad works with a former resident (this is a different singer, my dad works with the one that sang Constantinople) and he said
"We just started in college doing this as a joke, the others got obsessed with the money and I left. We weren't making music just sounds."
the residents wouldnt give a sh*t about the rock and roll hall of fame and neither should you. rrhof is a disgrace to rnr
Thank you! I thought my Night Flight memories were fever dreams!
Exceptional. Listening to "Duck Stab" in the dark has been one of the most challenging experiences of my life.
Been there! Triple points if you did it stoned.
watching all of their mini videos for their commercial DVD in one sitting is also very very challenging...
@@ELEcomments I can imagine!
@@crashpalace4834 wdym challenging?
@@jangofett913 Challenging in a good way! I never expected an album to creep me out so much, which made for a great visceral experience.
Thank you, Les Claypool, for introducing me to this amazing band
He has a lot to answer for doesn't he 🤭
Bohemia After Dark is how I first came across them, with this video in particular. But Les also helped
This video scaring the pants off me on Nightflight in the early eighties and PeeWee's playhouse in the mid eighties for me.
Of course, Les Claypool would be into this
Jim Goad did it for me. Best US writer living.
I'm an amateur artist, and I love drawing the classy suit-wearing eyeball costumes. Man, that's timeless cool.
souven ir The Residents intrigue me, not 'cause they're good or make good stuff but just are strange. It's weird and they're creepy people
They're from North Louisiana
"Duck Stab" was my entry point into The Residents when I was about 14. My sister knew a guy that she borrowed this record from. I met a kid in my high school design class that made me a copy of "Wormwood" and "Our Finest Flowers". It still remains some of the most enigmatic music I've ever heard and a band that really influenced my own art.
(My channel name here that i've had since i was a junior in high school is even a reference to the Santa Dog album lol)
Favorite “band” ever. So, so timeless.
You know you're a true residents fan when you use the word "band" in quotation marks lol respect
@@BennieTheResident is that bucket in your pfp a homage to Buckethead? I’m seeing him play in June!!!
R.I.P. Hardy Fox, you'll be missed
I was a friend of Hardy Fox's in the 80s.
Nice!@@calmputerconsult
There is something in the accordion chords on the start, they're so melancholic and beautiful to my brain and ears
I've listening to these nuts since 1983. They are a brilliant art collective.
What is an art collective?
This seriously needs to be made into a movie. Skinny the itinerant worker who dwells in urban shadows is actually an agent for extraterrestrials, or something.
it was supposed to be a movie wasn't it ? That's what I heard.... But with these guys we never know...
I've drank a lot of Absinthe this evening, cheers for freaking me out whilst drunk lol
Beyond brilliance.
laser beam HAHAHAHA you're funny
Nah it's just brilliant
This is like a really, really, reeeaaaally bad fever dream The...bassoon(?) in the background really adds to it.
Bass clarinet.
It don't get any better than this!
Try listening to this in the woods at night
Nick Carlson check
Done
Challenge accepted. 😁
Never
I listen to this in the woods EVERY night
In an ideal world this would be a global Number 1 hit at Christmas.
It'll never get old.....brilliant.
This is absolutely amazing. Art.
Great song, timeless bass riff.
The guy in the video kind of looks a little like Ed Gein. Primus' version is fantastic as well.
The residents + Rush = Primus
what a masterpiece, piece of art, the best ever.
complete and total win. Thank you, Residents (whoever you are!)
I love the residents, grettings from México, My friend Wolf Adusse told me about this band, i met this song because he's writting a story about this song, inspired by a nightmare he had on 2017
Awesome, this just might be the greatest "music video" ever...
Songs for Swinging Larvae is a strong contender.
Twilight Zoney
gran tema... the residents son increibles.
Hello, guys! It seems like old Residents clips have starting vignettes that are actually weird video footage of them, with background music from early stuff (things from "Meet the Residents" or "Third Reich"). Do anyone know the name of the song on the beginning of this video (00:00 to 00:17)? Thanks a lot, Mole-People!
I think it remains unreleased to this day.
Moony Moon its a shame i really like it
Member of Resident's Fan Club since 1978!
veo este vídeo y se me ponen los pelos de punta, me teletransporta a 1996, a enero y al programa undeground del canal 2, Rock&pop, "viva la revolución" conducido por el gran rolando ramos!!!!
i can't tell if this song is more sad or terrifying, but i know it's both.
I'm so happy I discovered these guys
New wave de lo más experimental.
Esto es arte germinal...
Awesome . The band was great also. Music love it
How does this video not have more hits?
If David Lynch made music...
evelsteev he does
he already does, look up BlueBob
SUBVERSIVE MEDIA Listen to Crazy Clown Time
what do you mean if?
For those who want to know what the song is about- I can't say, but if you want music that is linear with non-absurd lyrics you may want to listen to a band other than The Residents. On the other hand, if you like the mystery of not knowing and have an appreciation of absurdity and enjoy the challenge of art that makes you think then viva la Residents. Very much like a Lynch film or a story by Kafka.
I love this song so very much. Last time I watched this video on TH-cam was in 2009.
I don't feel alone on this earth anymore
I'm frying balls and just stumbled onto this and have no whisper of what to say what is this
Who are you
yeahman I alone don't feel on this earth anymore.
yes, it took some time to digest.
That's got to suck. You just left a psychiatric hospital and then these scary weirdos with eyes for heads find you and make you the centerpiece for their scary video, for their scary song about a drug addict. Enough to be straw that broke the camels back for any crazy.
When you put it that way.. :(
don't tell me...you were there at the shoot?
You're an idiot ain't you.
Hexy Ko Telling the truth is idiotic?
Something in me doubts that they were in costume when they where doing takes with him
One of or more of such music/media phenomena that are intentionally amorphous, flexible, & surreal, which promote significantly curious aspects of attraction.
My favorite music video of all time.
ngl kinda fire 🔥
what happened to Bridgit Terris though ? the guy we see in this video ? That's what I want know, now !
"Duck Stan/Buster and Glen" is a soundtrack of my high school times. God I hated high school. But I love The Residents.
awesome, the video reminded me of some class from the 70's
i couldn't breathe watching this song
I'm scared. .. and I like it.
desea lo que digan es una muy buena cancion
me encantan los residentss
A mi igual uwu
Crystal Meth.
"Skinny was born in a bathtub." Much home made meth is cooked in bathtubs, therefore, that was how he was born, or how 'Skinny' was made.
"And he grew so incredibly thin, even the end of an eyedropper sucked him in." (Most) people get crazy thin if they're a meth addict
About selling things, a person is likely to go broke, likely lose their job if they are a serious addict, so they are going to sell whatever they can to get a fix.
See my reply above.I was thinking the same thing.
Hello, Skinny. I love The Residents.
This piece is low-level frightening for me. There's something spoiled and dreadful in it. The fringe of madness slumping across rotted boards at twilight, let's say.
i read that many times and couldn t understand what thats supposed to mean
Slug bait but less edgy
Skinny looks like an interesting person,
Catchy little tune !
Once you hear this song it's in your brain... Forever.
The Residents. A universe.
I love hearing The Residents. But now my psychiatrist is bringing my medicines and I need to put on my straightjacket before bed! :D
Hello Residents. This one is about me, thanks so much!!
Oh man!!! Those college days: the residents, the fall, secret chiefs, ministry
Sprry but im here from tick tock
Sarah Varela you don’t have to be sorry. Only a millennial would’ve never lived those days like we did. That’s the only thing you should be sorry for. Tick tock, wtf????? Get the hell outta my comment.
@@sentinela8775 Mr.Bungle!
Secondo me Duck Stab/Buster and Glen è il loro miglior album e questo pezzo è fra i migliori. E' ancora emozionante e genera un'atmpsfera mentale unica.
The residents rule! They are the best band ever! [s]Rock on RESIDENTS!!
After listening to the residents for an hour I no longer feel pain. Not even Devienart can hurt me anymore...
I just want my life back Randy...
So comforting and satisfying. 🧿🎩
You can certainly see where Les Claypool takes his vocal stylings from.
@NEBNOC WRONG! The Residents came first. Primus merely just covered their songs, mainly because they are fans of the Residents. read more about the Residents, and you will know.
Rare Masterpiece for me !
@SealPool This is actually the best explanation I've seen yet.
Beautiful
"Hello Dolly, Helo Dolly, Hello Dolly, HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
HELLOOOOOOOO FROM THE OTHER SIDE!!!!! Akd jajaja
Hello Daddy
yeah.....great.
musica de la dimension desconocida
The BEST Residents song..............
Perfect for 90s late night tv
@Maive Muker ok and?
Escuchar esto bien pasao de yerba debe ser una odisea.
WOW .. came here because I'm watching Penn & Teller MTV Guest VJ Hour from 1986 #2 video of 10 they played.. I'm 52. Don't recall this from MTV . Different style , not bad
takes me back pure gold classic,
This is my favorite children's story
@djrustye No, the triskelion legs are an emblem native to the Isle of Man, where Cremaster 4 takes place.
Speechless
so good song!
I have known about them and followed them since high school 1977. They were so mysterious then because no Internet and pre TV videos. You would see the albums or maybe you might read something in the UK musical press.
The Residents have to be one of the greatest modern visual/video artists ever. They probably had tiny budgets for everything. But every image that they ever turned out was disturbing, odd, creepy or frightening. They never had an image that was cheezy.
One of my faves!
One of my favorites...
I’ve first heard this song back in the 80’s and I just heard “The Days of Pearly Spencer,” a classic song by David McWilliams. While the two songs couldn’t be more different, the videos seem to have a connection, accidental, if not on purpose. Maybe I’m the only one who thinks this, then again I may be the only person to have had the honor of hearing both songs. Either, or the two are brilliant, if not amazing.
Still my favorite.
I've always wondered if this is about a meth addict's child just from the opening line "Skinny was born in a bathtub " (a reference to bathtub crank?)/"and grew so incredibly thin" "
You know it’s this kind of “gangsta rap” music that is corrupting today’s youth.
What's behind this song is creepy, but the rhythm pleases me.
First heard this as a pre-teen, and realized that there was finally a song as weird as me.
Stoner rock at its finest
brilliant!
Yeah I got all of their videos on MPEG4. Cheers!
This has got to be about meth use, right? Obviously meth correlates with being skinny, being born from the bathtub means the cooking of low grade speed, and skinny selling anything to anyone to get his fix. And just the zoom in on skinny's eyes, I see a black void, no differing shade of black for his iris. Idk if this is intentional or just limitations in what can be picked up.
@NEBNOC so wrong. Primus has a CD of all cover songs, and Sinister Exaggerator is on that. So it is pretty clear who did it first and who influenced whom.
by the way another band I believe is influenced by The Residents is the Melvins
@MrMonsterstiffy
I was there too! It was and is still amazing.
@thatlittleweirdkid that actually makes a lot of sense. "Skinny never looked at lights"- methamphetamines cause the pupil to dilate so that the sun and other lights are incredibly painful to look at, which is why tweakers wear shades.
I actually do not think this song is about meth, but your analysis makes a lot of sense.
jesus this is good
what has been seen cannot be unseen. O.o
I don't get what is so compelling to keep rewatching this disturbing track. I don't think a song alone has given me so much anxiety as this but maybe that's why it's intriguing.
This clip should be no. 1 on the list of the most disturbing videos on the internet.
RIP Hardy Fox
:'(
Charming.
Been hearin this long time now. Choice.
I love this song a ton! But I do prefer the Primus cover.