Twenty Twisted Questions
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Twenty Twisted Questions is a 1992
LaserDisc LaserDisc (LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium. It was developed by Philips, Pioneer Corporation, Pioneer, and the movie studio MCA Inc., MCA. The format was initially marketed in the United State ...
by American avant-garde group "
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 vid ...
". It is a compilation of the band's history up to
Freak Show A freak show is an exhibition of biological rarities, referred to in popular culture as "Freak, freaks of nature". Typical features would be physically unusual Human#Anatomy and physiology, humans, such as those uncommonly large or small, t ...
, their then multimedia project. The footage was released in Europe as a
PAL Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a color encoding system for analog television. It was one of three major analogue colour television standards, the others being NTSC and SECAM. In most countries it was broadcast at 625 lines, 50 fields (25 ...
VHS VHS (Video Home System) is a discontinued standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by JVC. It was the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period of the 1980s and 1990s. Ma ...
without the LaserDisc features.


Track listing


Side 1


Video and Film Art

# The Third Reich 'n Roll ##(Swastikas on Parade) # Eloise # One Minute Movies ## Moisture ## Act of Being Polite ## Perfect Love ## Simple Song # This is a Man's Man's Man's World # Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers #
Don't Be Cruel "Don't Be Cruel" is a song that was recorded by Elvis Presley and written by Otis Blackwell in 1956.Victor (2008), ''The Elvis Encyclopedia'', p.115-116 It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2004, it was ranked No. 197 in ' ...
#
Freak Show A freak show is an exhibition of biological rarities, referred to in popular culture as "Freak, freaks of nature". Typical features would be physically unusual Human#Anatomy and physiology, humans, such as those uncommonly large or small, t ...
## Everyone Comes to the Freak Show ## Harry the Head ## Nobody Laughs When They Leave


Side 2


Performance Art

# The Mole Show (Narrated by
Penn Jillette Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American Magic (illusion), magician, actor, comedian, musician, inventor, television presenter, and author, best known for his work with fellow magician Teller (magician), Teller as half of the t ...
) # The 13 Anniversary Show ## Where is She? # Cube-E ## Buckaroo Blues ## Black Barry ## The Baby King


Music and Graphic Arts

''Featured discography from The Residents from 1972 ( Santa Dog) to 1991 (
Freak Show A freak show is an exhibition of biological rarities, referred to in popular culture as "Freak, freaks of nature". Typical features would be physically unusual Human#Anatomy and physiology, humans, such as those uncommonly large or small, t ...
)''


End Credits, Bonus Track

# Production Credits # Ty's Freak Show (This track was recorded on November 17, 1991, using
NEC is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered at the NEC Supertower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It provides IT and network solutions, including cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), Inte ...
's video editing software at the Fairmont Hotel in
San Jose, CA San Jose, officially the City of San José ( ; ), is a cultural, commercial, and political center within Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. With a city population of 997,368 and a metropolitan area population of 1.95 million, it is ...
)


Production credits


Critical response

At the time, Entertainment Weekly video critic
Ty Burr Ty Burr (born August 17, 1957) is an American film critic, columnist, and author who reviews films for ''The Washington Post'' and writes the film and popular culture newsletter "Ty Burr's Watchlist". Burr worked as a film critic at ''The Boston ...
rated it a C+. He said that the video "...is for undiscriminating fans only: It's the high-tech version of a souvenir T-shirt."


References

{{The Residents The Residents albums 1992 compilation albums 1992 video albums LaserDisc releases