Evergreen State College 1979, I think? I was an early fan of punk rock. I walked into one of the lecture halls for "free movies". They played this short by The Residents, the promo for The Cramps "Human Fly" and probably something by Devo. It scrambled my brain permanently. I wasn't the same person when I left.
From what I've heard, the reason that the "Paperheads" keep walking into frame was due to the fact that not only were they performing in front of the camera, they were working it, as well.
I would love to experiment with drugs listening to the residents. For me expands my mind and cleans all the shit out. Any bullshit I’ve got going on becomes comical and irrelevant. If it was really tripping balls the residents would be difficult, depending on my mood.
I saw the Residents at a few underground places in Berkeley, CA, about 1974. I used to hang around Rather Ripped Records waiting for the new Imports to come in. THE RESIDENTS would play their parties, usually behind cheesecloth. Never knew who they were, (obviously!), but one, Snakefinger, split off after they disbanded, and cut a 45, ep, whatever. I still have, it, autographed - how much can I pay someone to take it off my hands, lol?
+Susan HARDIN Watkins Heidarifar Snakefinger was a never part of the band, but he was a frequent collaborator (not always credited) while also putting out the occasional album himself. Like fellow Ralph Records labelmate Fred Frith, he's from England (while the Residents came from Louisiana).
1:16 * Got to know how to pony Maroney Mashed potato, do the alligator Put your hand on your hips now Let your backbone slip now Now do the Watusi Like my little Lucy (*few lines from "Hanky Panky" by Tommy James and the Shondelles)
I think this band will go far. They've got that certain something that sets them apart from the more run-of-the-mill girl groups, that's what I do think.
I have dreams at night when I'm sleeping that are just as atmospheric and strange feeling as Residents' videos. It's unsettling and engrossing all at the same time.
I don't even know if this was intentional or whether this is just something that I'm seeing in this video but The Residents seem to be the only rock & roll (?) band that were able to successfully incorporate authentic, legitimate Dada/Surrealist imagery into their work - music & video. This video just reminds me of weird ass Alfred Jarry/Ubu Roy kinda shit. It's disturbing & intriguing in equal measure. Once you see it you can't get it out of your head.
They were all college art geeks, so you're probably right on the money. They were also the types to just throw themselves into something instead of "studying" the craft, so a lot of it may just be the fact that this is real naïve/outsider art
saw this on a monitor at duffys bar in minneapolis before a band called echo and the bunnymen were on stage. husker du and the replacements played there frequently.
When they are just banging on the drums in the beginning, is terrifying, imagine your sitting in the corner of the room, in the dark, where they can't see you and all of a sudden they stop, just sit there and then turn and look at you.
if you say they were crazy, then you can say picasso was crazy, or any other great artist who found a new way of making art. they're not crazy, this avant-garde.
i've got the whole album and although i loved it i found it hard to listen to (not because of the strange noises) because i didn't know what half of the songs were that they were covering. did anyone else have that kind of problem?
Somewhere about 1980, I was in Memphis, at this funky punk club called Antenna. They played videos from Rock America (MTV was not yet born) I saw this … it made an impression …. And how!
This scared the crap out of me when I first saw it. Then I became a fan. My favorite albums are Third Reich & Roll, Duck Stab/Buster & Glen, Not Available, and Commercial Album.
ouma kokichi 'Land of a Thousand Dances' by Wilson Picket,they also played the guitar melody for the old song 'Wipeout',albeit dramatically slowed down.
The album is made up of riffs and bits and pieces of top 10 music of the 60's into the early 70's (there's a bit of "horse with no name). Honestly it's a remarkable work, the only effects used mostly sound on sound through old tape recorders. These people were seriously low budget in their early years!
@ronnysoeberg I know this is after forever but... The reason the newspaper heads look like they do is because that was the easiest way they could do a newspaper hat. It wasn't meant to represent the KKK. Also, the steaks, set and much else were props from the movie they were making at the time, "Vileness Fats". They just threw everything in there. The songs, btw, are "Land of 1000 Dances", "Wipe Out" and "Telstar", which are all part of "Swastikas on Parade", the first side of the album.
Oh and just so you know Thecuregalore94 Realise and realize are different spellings of the same word, and both are used to varying degrees throughout the English-speaking world. Realize is the preferred spelling in American and Canadian English, and realise is preferred outside North America. The spelling distinction extends to all derivatives of the verb, including realised/realized, realising/realizing, and realisation/realization.
I bought a Ralph Records VHS tape with The Residents, Tuxedo Moon, MX/80, Snakefinger and Renaldo and the Loaf. We watched it tripping hard on mescaline, we had to turn it off.
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This is how most adults in the seventies used to picture their kids' favourite music.
they were sadly so very very wrong
@@thelydiaspringexperiment6437 elp
How so? Personally, I believe it denounces pop rock of the 60's and 70's as being an appropriation of black culture.
@@gabrielpelletier5162 just as something alien and weird - not "proper" music like they used to listen to.
Incidentally, this is more like the music of the 2020's
I've read this was screened with Eraserhead at midnight screenings in the late 70s. What a combination!
What a perfect opener
Not to sound like one of those I was born in the wrong generation kids but I wish I was alive in the late 70s to watch that combination
Of course it was. Everything cool happened before I was born.
@@noone26667 You were born because of something cool happening.
Every Friday Midnight Show at the Nuart in West/LA. If you could prove you were on acid you got in FREE!
This has been in the darkest recesses of my mind for like 10+ years wtf, can’t believe I found it again after all this time
...same here, but nearly 40 yrs....😱🤡👺😵💫
I saw this in high school and the beginning jingle has never left my mind for long.
The Magic of TH-cam 🤗
I can't believe the residents have been active for 45 years.
its insane thing to think about but they still respectifully do what they do with pride
yes who let them get away with it this long
@@syaoranoni54326 I don't know... It's like they... reside... Like residents...
The Retirement Home Residents
49 and counting.
Evergreen State College 1979, I think? I was an early fan of punk rock. I walked into one of the lecture halls for "free movies". They played this short by The Residents, the promo for The Cramps "Human Fly" and probably something by Devo. It scrambled my brain permanently. I wasn't the same person when I left.
I believe according to The Residents history, this was filmed between 1974 and 1976
One the greatest music videos ever - classic and timeless.
From what I've heard, the reason that the "Paperheads" keep walking into frame was due to the fact that not only were they performing in front of the camera, they were working it, as well.
Usually I would want what they've been smoking but when it comes to the residents I really don't
Briskets.
Lol
i sure would want it
I would love to experiment with drugs listening to the residents.
For me expands my mind and cleans all the shit out.
Any bullshit I’ve got going on becomes comical and irrelevant.
If it was really tripping balls the residents would be difficult, depending on my mood.
'Frop'.
Praise Bob.
This is my first Residents experience. Creepy as Hell. I love it. Instant fan.
Hitler was a vegetarian is the standout track from the album. Listen to that one instead.
I always wondered what would happen if you crossed Eraserhead with American Bandstand.
48 years later and still ahead of it’s time. I love these guys.
Welp this proves I'm not doing enough drugs
none of us are...
Psst, you can be creative without drugs
@@mellowyellow6572 Prove it!
I saw the Residents at a few underground places in Berkeley, CA, about 1974. I used to hang around Rather Ripped Records waiting for the new Imports to come in. THE RESIDENTS would play their parties, usually behind cheesecloth. Never knew who they were, (obviously!), but one, Snakefinger, split off after they disbanded, and cut a 45, ep, whatever. I still have, it, autographed - how much can I pay someone to take it off my hands, lol?
+Susan HARDIN Watkins Heidarifar i'll give ya $20 for it
+Susan HARDIN Watkins Heidarifar Snakefinger was a never part of the band, but he was a frequent collaborator (not always credited) while also putting out the occasional album himself. Like fellow Ralph Records labelmate Fred Frith, he's from England (while the Residents came from Louisiana).
Do you still have that Snakefinger 45 Susan? I would be interested.
Still have it? I loved that EP, I'd give u, like. 60 bucks for it
Man I love The Beatles
I hate Beatles, i love The Residents!!
Sucuzinho Docinho The Residents LOVE The Beatles!
@@terrypussypower RESIDENTS >>>> BEATLES
I love both equally.
@R. M isn't this The Beatles?
I'm going to wear this to work.
+Nathan Justice Love your Mr. Bungle pic! Best band ever
+Nathan Justice LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i'm wearing this to church this week.....
that might be a bad idea
Lmao hi Nathan, primus still sucks
1:16 * Got to know how
to pony Maroney
Mashed potato,
do the alligator
Put your hand on your hips now
Let your backbone slip now
Now do the Watusi
Like my little Lucy
(*few lines from "Hanky Panky" by Tommy James and the Shondelles)
I thought it was "Shotgun"
Love you man. You saved me
This is one of the best pieces of art i have ever seen.
+Ammad Naeem lol
+Ammad Naeem you really need to get out more.
lol
+Gnathorn lol
worst music ever.
This is enough to destroy anyone's mind in 5 minutes!
Andrew Kieswetter 😆😆😆
Ha! Implying that I had any mind left before this!
My fondest childhood musical memories have been irreversibly altered forever.
And that's GOOD!!!
I think this band will go far. They've got that certain something that sets them apart from the more run-of-the-mill girl groups, that's what I do think.
Catchy chorus
they can't do this forever they are pretty old at this point but hats of to them they did it long enough and they will do it un till they die
Think they'll go far....they've been at it since the 70's. They made it!
@@etelebulcsumarton2234 they swapped
@@Dotdotdot51516 you mean they got new young members ?
I have dreams at night when I'm sleeping that are just as atmospheric and strange feeling as Residents' videos. It's unsettling and engrossing all at the same time.
I don't even know if this was intentional or whether this is just something that I'm seeing in this video but The Residents seem to be the only rock & roll (?) band that were able to successfully incorporate authentic, legitimate Dada/Surrealist imagery into their work - music & video. This video just reminds me of weird ass Alfred Jarry/Ubu Roy kinda shit. It's disturbing & intriguing in equal measure. Once you see it you can't get it out of your head.
>successfully
They were all college art geeks, so you're probably right on the money. They were also the types to just throw themselves into something instead of "studying" the craft, so a lot of it may just be the fact that this is real naïve/outsider art
What a timeless classic
For those who don’t know, this song is actually called “Land Of A Thousand Dances” and it’s originally from the 1960s. This version is from the ‘70s.
The entire album is a collab of rock songs of the 60's
@@floresmaya4563 Yes, and the end of this video is the song "Wipe Out".
saw this on a monitor at duffys bar in minneapolis before a band called echo and the bunnymen were on stage. husker du and the replacements played there frequently.
The pre-eyeball stuff was the most inventive!!!
It’s crazy to think that these guys were originally a hippie group from Louisiana
There is no description worthy of what this may or may not be. Its art for its sake pure and unapologetic I love it whatever it is
When they are just banging on the drums in the beginning, is terrifying, imagine your sitting in the corner of the room, in the dark, where they can't see you and all of a sudden they stop, just sit there and then turn and look at you.
I completely forgot they get blasted at the end 😂 awesome editing and use of newspaper. The album is ridiculous.
el Giron Clearly you meant to say the album is ridiculously GOOD!!
@@terrypussypower yessssss, ridiculously good.
@@terrypussypower something can both be completely absurd and brilliant at the same time, it's not mutually exclusive
Drogo Burrows And your point is....?
The word “ridiculous” neither means “absurd” or “brilliant”.
I want to know what they were like as children.
Something tells me they might have eaten bugs just to freak other kids out
Is it weird that my brain no longer registers these kind of things as weird, like at all?
Same, probably we doomed
Saw these guys with Devo back in 1976 and they just blew me away, love this like crazy!!
Bryan Rodgers WITH Devo?! I just came in my pants
It was the first time I had ever seen either one of them...BLEW MY MUSICAL MIND!!!
Woah that's awesome, had no idea those two did a show together, especially not way back then.
No shit? That must have been a badass show. Early DEVO material is awesome too. Chinese Digital Rock N Roll
I saw them a few years ago and they didnt make music , it was more of a story telling , didnt like it but i know they can make a good show live
Idols! Simply clever and smart musicians! Greetings from Italy
And now we present... THE PYRAMID HEAD CANTINA BAND!!!
Wonderful if also a little disturbing! Saw this on The Old Grey Whistle Test many many years ago as a teenager. Impressive then impressive now. Class
The beatles after the lobotomy
I WATCH THIS EVERYDAY.
The middle part was an “FBI, open up!” joke before it was cool.
Aah, ....v nice to find this!
Saw 'Vileness Fats' last in some little independent cinema in West Berlin, in the 80's...
I wake up with this in my head all the time.
saw them friday night in Chicago and the same thing happened to me but with Semollina
David Lynch's favourite band?
no....
not even close
Not sure but he probably knows and listens to it...
David lynch's favourite band is Rammstein, but in my opinion he knows the residents😂
One of Matt Groening’s favorites
if you say they were crazy, then you can say picasso was crazy, or any other great artist who found a new way of making art. they're not crazy, this avant-garde.
all avante garde artists are great in the best way
2008 my arse! I remember seeing this in the mid 1970s on "The Old Grey Whistle Test" About 1977.
+Spillage66 The video was uploaded in 2009, it might have been reissued.
Me too
I saw it on the whistle test too. I was 13. The paperheads dancing was the funniest thing I'd ever seen.
God bless the residents. Let them sweep the crap of sheeran and bieber away before them. The saviours we need so much now!!
So an interview from Euronymous of Mayhem brought me here, because he listed this as a band he liked. I am...surprised and a little confused.
Euronymous liked these? Oh god😂😂
@@nope8827 honestly, I can see it.
@@burninsherman1037 makes a lot of sense he loved experimental electronic music
I WATCH THIS EVERY DAY.
This is my fave Residents' video. True Art.
I really love the residents
yup.
Dancing to the groove!
The architects of avant garde underground performance art!
it's really strange, but i like this!!!!
Once again, The Residents reveal a reality beyond what we've taken for granted.
i've got the whole album and although i loved it i found it hard to listen to (not because of the strange noises) because i didn't know what half of the songs were that they were covering.
did anyone else have that kind of problem?
Devo is normal
Very much so, but its groovy af
Dadaism
Correct answer. Check out Hugo Ball and Harry Partch, it actually is art.
Mamaism
Yes
Somewhere about 1980, I was in Memphis, at this funky punk club called Antenna. They played videos from Rock America (MTV was not yet born) I saw this … it made an impression …. And how!
"The Beatles like this"
Today's youth: Billie Eilish is so weird and creative.
Me:
😅
Where the fuqq is billie eilish creative and weird?
I actually came here from a similar comment on a David Bowie video
This, yes 😂
Very creative comment format you have for sure.
i watch this everyday.
Me: mom can we see KKK?
Mom: we have KKK at home
KKK at home:
I had this album back in the 1980's.
Im one of the biggest fans of The Beatles .. I dont know why I really like this song
This scared the crap out of me when I first saw it. Then I became a fan. My favorite albums are Third Reich & Roll, Duck Stab/Buster & Glen, Not Available, and Commercial Album.
It is actually on display with a Devo video at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.
He’s a real jerk!
The "Na na na" part sounds familiar to the beginning of Here Comes the Hotstepper
ouma kokichi 'Land of a Thousand Dances' by Wilson Picket,they also played the guitar melody for the old song 'Wipeout',albeit dramatically slowed down.
The album is made up of riffs and bits and pieces of top 10 music of the 60's into the early 70's (there's a bit of "horse with no name). Honestly it's a remarkable work, the only effects used mostly sound on sound through old tape recorders. These people were seriously low budget in their early years!
@ronnysoeberg I know this is after forever but... The reason the newspaper heads look like they do is because that was the easiest way they could do a newspaper hat. It wasn't meant to represent the KKK. Also, the steaks, set and much else were props from the movie they were making at the time, "Vileness Fats". They just threw everything in there. The songs, btw, are "Land of 1000 Dances", "Wipe Out" and "Telstar", which are all part of "Swastikas on Parade", the first side of the album.
This is where I wanted to be...
This is where I am.....
This is where I want to stay.
Siempre regreso a ver a los residents cuando no encuentro mucha inspiración y ellos me devuelven una sonrisa.
Wow! And these guys are from Shreveport, Louisiana? Hicks go to San Francisco in the late 60's, freak out on acid, and look what happens.
I was 16 when I first heard this...and later became a member of "Uncle Willie's Eyeball Buddies" ...
The Residents forever!!!
I don't like this world but I admire their ability to access it.
One thing I admire about the residents is for how long they have been around only one member ever revealed who he was
Hardy Fox, Homer Flynn, Jay Clem and John Kennedy are The Residents in their prime.
I love easy listening music.
yo sabía que estos muchachos SON buenos... gracias por compartir!!-
Truly one of the most awesome, entertaining, and educational music videos of all time. And a warning about totalitarianism!!
Oh and just so you know Thecuregalore94 Realise and realize are different spellings of the same word, and both are used to varying degrees throughout the English-speaking world. Realize is the preferred spelling in American and Canadian English, and realise is preferred outside North America. The spelling distinction extends to all derivatives of the verb, including realised/realized, realising/realizing, and realisation/realization.
I feel like I'm watching some particularly bizarre cognitohazard SCP...
I feel like David Lynch was involved with this. Wow.
😂 HOLY FUCK! I love this fucked up place I found myself at rn, great fucking band.
Holy hell.
I literally can't feel my legs.
@@OficinaPignon sure am! I appreciate the concern.
I have this video on icky flix dvd.
The back of my apartment abutted the back of El Ralpho Studios.
primus sucks
Hell yeah.
Thank you, I was looking for this in the comments 👌👌
I just came here from the candyman
primus sucks
they really sucka
Better than the Beatles
The most hipster comment ever
nah man this is the beatles
Residents are actually the Beatles in disguse
@tiIebreaker well, that's one of the rumours, the other one has it, that they are aliens. I tend to the latter!
If not for the Residents NEGATIVLAND would not exist
I feel like The Residents' video style has a kindred spirit with Terry Gilliam.
I think this played on midnight sessions with Eraserhead at some cinemas in the late 70s
2:37 0:
long love for the residents
novateurs, avant-gardistes et experimentateurs depuis toujours !
And of course,man...that's an awful lot of newspapers they used in that. lol!
Funny enough, I think that's WHY they made this - they had a load of newspapers in their warehouse and needed to get rid of them. XD
Half german expressionism / half Frank Sidebottom....FAB!
i'm sure someone else has said it... but the little preamble bit of this video always makes me think of eraserhead
another masterpice!
This is a fucking fever dream and i love it
Man this song is fire
I hope this song plays as the last human on Earth dies from Covid.
I bought a Ralph Records VHS tape with The Residents, Tuxedo Moon, MX/80, Snakefinger and Renaldo and the Loaf. We watched it tripping hard on mescaline, we had to turn it off.
Rest in peace Hardy Fox.