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CD Reviews
Cube-E Box: The History Of American Music In 3 E-Z Pieces pREServed
Review by Gary Hill
This new box set celebrates an interesting era in the history of the Residents. With three albums they brought their own flavor to three types of American music - or perhaps movements.

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Freak Show - 3cd Preserved Edition
Review by Gary Hill
In 1990 The Residents released an album called "Freak Show." That album is the bulk of the first disc of this new set.

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Ghost of Hope
Review by Gary Hill
The Residents' brand of sound is clearly not progressive rock in the traditional sense of the kind of music prog bands were doing in the 1970s.

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Gingerbread Man: 3CD pREServed Edition
Review by Gary Hill
The Residents are the kind of act that by definition won't appeal to everyone. I happen to like them quite a bit.

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God In Three Persons – 3CD pREServed Edition
Review by Gary Hill
In 1988 The Residents released a concept album titled “God in Three Persons.” This new edition is a three-disc set that includes the original album on the first disc with a couple bonus tracks.

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I Am a Resident
Review by Gary Hill
This is intriguing album. Then again, can't you say that of anything from The Residents?

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In Between Dreams: Live In San Francisco
Review by Gary Hill
The Residents' brand of sonic strangeness is not for everyone. I like it, but I completely understand why people don't.

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Intruder
Review by Gary Hill
The list is getting rather crowded, but this a contender for my best of 2018 list. Then again, you can pretty much count on The Residents for releasing music that works well for me.

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Metal Meat & Bone: The Songs Of Dyin' Dog
Review by Gary Hill

To some degree you have an idea what you are going to get when you dig into a new Residents CD. I always land them under progressive rock, largely because of the experimental nature of their sound.


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Present The Bunny Boy
Review by Gary Hill
I know a lot of people are probably going to quibble with my putting The Residents in under progressive rock. I have to say their form of weirdness really isn’t far from RIO (Rock In Opposition).
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Secret Show (Live In San Francisco), CD/DVD Edition
Review by Gary Hill
I love The Residents. I totally get why some people don't like them.

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The Big Bubble
Review by Gary Hill
The third (although it's called the fourth in the trilogy) in a planned series of albums from The Residents, this is my favorite of the three. It's much more vocal based (in fact, only one track is sans vocals), but the vocals are strange.

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The Mark of the Mole
Review by Gary Hill
When this was released in 1981 it was to be part of an ambitious project, the Mole Trilogy. It was to be an epic tale of two colliding cultures told through a series of albums.

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The Mole Show Live At The Roxy, 1982
Review by Gary Hill
This, as you can probably gather, is a live album from 1982. The Residents are captured in all their weirdness and in fine form.

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The Residents' Mole Box
Review by Gary Hill
This new box set is really great. Over the course of several years in the 1980s The Residents set out to record and release a multi-album concept project.

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The Tunes of Two Cities
Review by Gary Hill
The second album of a planned series that were intended to work as an extensive concept work, this is a bit more accessible than its predecessor. There is definitely more jazz in the mix, too.

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Triple Trouble: The Original Soundtrack Album
Review by Gary Hill
I never expect The Residents to do anything the way others do. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

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Wormwood Box
Review by Gary Hill
This is quite an impressive set. It includes nine-CDs and quite a bit of the music here has never been released before.

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DVD Reviews
The Residents - God In 3 Persons Live (Blu-Ray)
Review by Gary Hill
I have to admit that I'm a big fan of The Residents. That said, I don't think I ever fully understand what they are doing.

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The Residents - The Residents Present Triple Trouble Blu-Ray
Review by Gary Hill
You can count on The Residents to do things in an unexpected way. I wasn't quite sure what to expect here, but it definitely wasn't an actual movie.

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Book Reviews
The Residents - Faceless Forever- A Residents Encyclopaedia Written by Jim Knipfel & Brian Poole
Review by Gary Hill
One thing you can always count on from the Residents is that they are unconventional. I am a big fan of the band.

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