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Dot.Com (album)
''Dot.Com'' is an album released by avant rock musicians, The Residents, in 2000. It was released in a limited edition of 1200 copies. In 2000, Ralph America collected all of the MP3s they had released on the Buy Or Die website on a CD entitled dot.com. Each MP3 is a never-before-released track from The Residents' history, dating from 1969 to 2000. Walter Westinghouse, track 9, was a bonus: it had never come out in MP3 format, but only appeared on this CD. Track listing # The Sour Song # 1999 (Prince song), 1999 (Prince Cover) # Ninth Rain # Freak Show/Freak Show Soundtrack, Wanda # Conceiving Ada Titles # Paint It Black # Hunters (album), Hunters Opening Titles # Eskimo (album), Eskimo Opera Proposal Excerpt # Fingerprince, Walter Westinghouse (Live at the Fillmore '98) # I Murdered Mommy # The Residents#1965–1972: Origins and Residents Unincorporated, I Hear Ya Got Religion # Santa Dog For Gamelan Orchestra # Fire 99 - Santa Dog 2nd Millennium {{Authority c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Residents
The Residents are an American art collective and art rock band best known for their avant-garde music and multimedia works. Since their first official release, ''Meet the Residents'' (1974), they have released over 60 albums, numerous music videos and short films, three CD-ROM projects, and ten DVDs over the course of over half a century. They have undertaken seven major world tours and film score, scored multiple films. Pioneers in exploring the potential of CD-ROM and similar technologies, the Residents have won several awards for their multimedia projects. They founded Ralph Records, a record label focusing on avant-garde music, in 1972. Throughout the group's existence, the individual members have ostensibly attempted to work anonymously, preferring to have attention focused on their art. Much speculation and rumor has focused on this aspect of the group. In public, they appear silent and costumed, often wearing eyeball helmets, top hats and tails—a costume now recognized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Refused (album)
''Refused'', also known as ''Santa Dog '99'', is an album released on CD by the Residents in 1999 to celebrate the end of the millennium. It collects the 1972 '' Santa Dog'' EP as well as every rerecording of the title track (also known as "Fire") that had been made up to that point, as well as new recordings made especially for the album. It was originally released by Ralph America in a limited run of 1333 copies (in reference to the Number of the Beast The number of the beast (, ) is associated with the The Beast (Revelation), Beast of Revelation in chapter 13, verse 18 of the Book of Revelation. In most manuscripts of the New Testament and in English translations of the Bible, the number of ..., given that 1999 minus 1333 equals 666). The album cover shows Richard Nixon's refused copy of the original EP, which was mailed to him alongside other celebrities and close friends by the Residents. The track "Santa Dog '84 (A Work in Progress)" is a new version of the original, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eskimo (album)
''Eskimo'' is the sixth studio album by American art rock group the Residents. The album was originally supposed to follow 1977's '' Fingerprince''; however, due to many delays and arguments with management, it was not released until 1979. The pieces on ''Eskimo'' feature home-made instruments and chanting against backdrops of wind-like synthesizer noise and miscellaneous sound effects. The work is programmatic, each piece pairing music with text detailing a corresponding pseudo-ethnographic narrative. While ''Eskimo'' is officially maintained to be a true historical document of life in the Arctic, the stories are deliberately absurd fictions only loosely based in actual Inuit culture, and the chanting is a combination of gibberish and commercial slogans. The album satirizes ignorance toward and mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Diskomo A companion piece, ''Diskomo'', was released in 1980 as a 12-inch single, featuring a remix of the songs backed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant Rock
Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre. Artists aim to liberate and innovate, with some of the genre's distinguishing characteristics being improvisation (music), improvisational performances, avant-garde influences, odd instrumentation, opaque lyrics (or instrumentals), unorthodox structures and rhythms, and an underlying rejection of commercial aspirations. From its inception, rock music was experimental, but it was not until the late 1960s that rock artists began creating extended and complex compositions through advancements in multitrack recording. In 1967, the genre was as commercially viable as Popular music, pop music, but by 1970, most of its leading players had incapacitated themselves in some form. In Germany, the krautrock subgenre merged elements of improvisation and psychedelic rock with electronic music, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 (Prince Song)
"1999" is a song by American musician Prince (musician), Prince, the title track from his 1982 album of the 1999 (Prince album), same name. Originally peaking at number 44 on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100, a mid-1983 re-release later reached number 12 in the US, while a January 1985 rerelease, a double A-side with "Little Red Corvette", later peaked at number 2 in the UK. ''Rolling Stone'' ranked "1999" number 339 on their list of the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Following Prince's death, the song re-charted on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 at number 41, later moving up to number 27, making it the fourth separate time the song had entered the Hot 100 and the third different decade in which the song re-charted (as after its two 1980s entries, it made the chart again on January 16, 1999 at number 40). As of April 30, 2016, it has sold 727,363 copies in the United States. Background The inspiration for the song came from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freak Show/Freak Show Soundtrack
''Freak Show'' is a studio album by American art rock band The Residents, released in 1990. It marked the beginning of The Residents' obsession with emerging computer technology in the 1990s, and much of the music was made with various MIDI devices. The interactive ''Freak Show'' CD-ROM was released in 1994. A ''Freak Show'' stage performance by a theater company at the Archa Theater in Prague premiered on November 1, 1995. Kyle Baker worked on a graphic novel, ''The Residents: Freak Show'', which was released in 1992 by Dark Horse. Several of the songs were also performed live during the 1997 25th anniversary concerts at the Fillmore in San Francisco. After the CD-ROM's success, the album was re-released as ''The Freak Show Soundtrack'' with a different cover. A limited edition, ''The Freak Show Special Edition'', was released in 2002 to mark the band's 30th anniversary. Critical reception ''Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conceiving Ada
''Conceiving Ada'' is a 1997 film produced, written, and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Henry S. Rosenthal was co-producer of the film. Synopsis Emmy Coer is a computer scientist obsessed with Countess Ada Lovelace, author of the first computer algorithm, written for Charles Babbage's " Analytical Engine". She is upset to discover that she is pregnant, believing that the pregnancy will interfere with her work. Afraid of losing her boyfriend, she decides to keep the baby. Emmy tries to work on a way of communicating with Lovelace in the past by way of "undying information waves". Emmy eventually succeeds and is able to communicate with Ada and learn about her studies, her work and how she felt that in many ways her work was hampered by her children and by the time she lived in. Emmy wants to bring Ada into the present by allowing her to inhabit her body. A dying Ada refuses, insisting that Emmy needs to live her own life. However, by 2002 Emmy is raising a daughter who has bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paint It Black
"Paint It Black" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. A product of the songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it is a raga rock song with Indian, Middle Eastern and Eastern European influences and lyrics about grief and loss. London Records released the song as a single on 7 May 1966 in the United States, and Decca Records released it on 13 May in the United Kingdom. Two months later, London Records included it as the opening track on the American version of the band's 1966 studio album '' Aftermath'', though it is not on the original UK release. Originating from a series of improvisational melodies played by Brian Jones on the sitar, the song features all five members of the band contributing to the final arrangement although only Jagger and Richards were credited as songwriters. In contrast to previous Rolling Stones singles with straightforward rock arrangements, "Paint It Black" has unconventional instrumentation, including a prominen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunters (album)
''Hunters'' is an album by American art rock band The Residents. Released in 1995, it is a soundtrack album commissioned for the Discovery Channel series ''Hunters: The World of Predators and Prey''. The entire album is ten hours long, the largest soundtrack project that The Residents had attempted. The series with the music first aired in December 1994 and the soundtrack CD was released early in 1995. Track listing # "Hunters Prelude" # "The Deadly Game" # "Tooth and Claw" # "The Dangerous Sea" # "Rulers of the Deep" # "Track of the Cat" # "The Giant Grizzlies" # "Dawn of the Dragons" # "Eye of the Serpent" # "The Crawling Kingdom" # "The Savage Pack" # "Hunters Reprise" Credits * Manufactured By – BMG Music * Copyright © – Milan Entertainment, Inc. * Produced At – The Magic Shop * Mastered At – Master Cutting Room * Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Telenova Productions, Inc. * Manufactured By – HMG (2) * Distributed By – BMG Music * Copyright © – Telenova Produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fingerprince
''Fingerprince'' is the third studio album by American art rock group the Residents, released in 1977. It was allegedly intended to be a three-sided record titled ''Tourniquet of Roses,'' but due to financial difficulties in fulfilling such a project, the record was instead cut down to a regular two-sided album. The album is considered a transitional period for the Residents, between the early avant-garde stylings of ''Meet the Residents'' and '' The Third Reich 'n Roll'' and the minimalist song structures of ''Duck Stab'' and '' Commercial Album''. Music ''Fingerprince's'' first side consists of short, minimalist songs featuring skeletal drum machines, emphasized horn and percussion sections, murky atmospherics (except for the upbeat "You Yesyesyes") and a bigger focus on vocals and lyrics. The second side consists of one 17-minute track titled "Six Things to a Cycle", originally written as a ballet. It is an instrumental suite composed of six movements, with a strong focus o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Murdered Mommy
The Residents are an American art collective and art rock band best known for their avant-garde music and multimedia works. Since their first official release, ''Meet the Residents'' (1974), they have released over 60 albums, numerous music videos and short films, three CD-ROM projects, and ten DVDs over the course of over half a century. They have undertaken seven major world tours and film score, scored multiple films. Pioneers in exploring the potential of CD-ROM and similar technologies, the Residents have won several awards for their multimedia projects. They founded Ralph Records, a record label focusing on avant-garde music, in 1972. Throughout the group's existence, the individual members have ostensibly attempted to work anonymously, preferring to have attention focused on their art. Much speculation and rumor has focused on this aspect of the group. In public, they appear silent and costumed, often wearing eyeball helmets, top hats and tails—a costume now recognized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
