Name: Meet The Residents
Brand: The Residents

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CRYPT5139

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2014-09-24

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Scorpio

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

The Residents

Genre GB

Experimental / Avant-Garde / Industrial / Noise

Label GB

Crypt

Recorded as a break from their film project Vileness Fats, the album was home produced and recorded throughout 1973 with help from fellow musician Snakefinger and based around N. Senada's "Theory of Phonetic Organization". Its album cover brought the band to prominence, being a parody of <i>Meet the Beatles!</i>, The Beatles' second US album release. EMI and Capitol were angry with the cover and threatened to sue (though it is rumored that George Harrison or Ringo Starr loved the cover and bought a copy). Due to the labels' complaints a 1977 reissue had a different cover, still parodying The Beatles but this time featuring "John Crawfish, George Crawfish, Paul McCrawfish, and Ringo Starfish", with illustrations of the applicable sea creatures wearing Beatles suits.

Meet The Residents

Music GB