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The Residents is tagged as: experimental, avant-garde, electronic, post-punk, avantgarde

The Residents are an experimental music and visual arts group largely shrouded in mystery and myth. The Residents began recording in 1969, although many of these recordings from their early years have still gone unreleased to this day. The earliest material from The Residents, traded among bootlegs, was recorded in 1971. The Residents’ first official release, Santa Dog, was released in 1972.
Allmusic had this to say about the Residents: “Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, the Residents remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions; cloaking their lives and music in a haze of willful obscurity, the band’s members never identified themselves by name, always appearing in public in disguise — usually tuxedos, top hats and giant eyeball masks — and refusing to grant media interviews. Drawing inspiration from the likes of fellow innovators including Harry Partch, Sun Ra, and Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, the Residents channelled the breadth of American music into their idiosyncratic, satiric vision, their mercurial blend of electronics, distortion, avant-jazz, classical symphonies and gratingly nasal vocals reinterpreting everyone from John Philip Sousa to James Brown while simultaneously expanding the boundaries of...
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Top 10 The Residents Songs
Perfect Love
Amber
Picnic Boy
Easter Woman
Constantinople
Red Rider
Japanese Watercolor
Die In Terror
End Of Home
Floyd
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Top 10 The Residents Albums
Commercial Album
Meet The Residents
The Commercial Album
Duck Stab
Eskimo
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Animal Lover
Coochie Brake
Fingerprince
God in Three Persons
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