Duck Stab set for April 28 Release
Feb/19/08 09:17 AM
At some point in 1977, The Residents happened to
stumble onto a review of their album, The Third
Reich 'N' Roll, and the reviewer was joyously
proclaiming, "Kids today don't want to listen to
music like The Residents make. There is no fun in
it. You certainly can't dance to it." That kind
of pissed The Residents off, not so much because
he said their music was no fun, but more because
it implied that kids were complete idiots.
So The Residents set out to make an album of shorter, more fun tunes to prove to the world that it would be just as unpopular as their other recordings. So The Residents recorded Duck Stab.
However, when it came out in February of 1978, it was an instant smash. The kids ate it up, proving that The Residents were wrong yet again, and the pesky reviewer knew what he was talking about. The kids were idiots after all.
Duck Stab produced several instant classics. Hello Skinny, Constantinople, Bach is Dead, and Blue Rosebuds became anthems of Residents mania. The very reviewer who didn't take to earlier Residents works proclaimed, "Duck Stab lifts the country out of the slumber of the Seventies."
Even now, 30 long years later, Duck Stab is, to many people, the ultimate Residents album. The kids obviously grew into adult idiots. The Residents gave up trying to prove that catchy music would be unpopular and announced that next they would record an album of wind noises and grunting. Which is exactly what they did. But that is another story.
Mute UK Duck Stab Link
So The Residents set out to make an album of shorter, more fun tunes to prove to the world that it would be just as unpopular as their other recordings. So The Residents recorded Duck Stab.
However, when it came out in February of 1978, it was an instant smash. The kids ate it up, proving that The Residents were wrong yet again, and the pesky reviewer knew what he was talking about. The kids were idiots after all.
Duck Stab produced several instant classics. Hello Skinny, Constantinople, Bach is Dead, and Blue Rosebuds became anthems of Residents mania. The very reviewer who didn't take to earlier Residents works proclaimed, "Duck Stab lifts the country out of the slumber of the Seventies."
Even now, 30 long years later, Duck Stab is, to many people, the ultimate Residents album. The kids obviously grew into adult idiots. The Residents gave up trying to prove that catchy music would be unpopular and announced that next they would record an album of wind noises and grunting. Which is exactly what they did. But that is another story.
Mute UK Duck Stab Link