Featured In
ALBUMSecret Show (Live in San Francisco)The Residents
Albums by The Residents
ALBUMTriple Trouble: The Original Soundtrack AlbumThe Residents
ALBUMLeftovers Again?!?The Residents
ALBUMDuck Stab! Alive!The Residents
ALBUMMetal, Meat & Bone: The Songs of Dyin' DogThe Residents
ALBUMNot Available: Preserved EditionThe Residents
ALBUMGod in Three Persons: 3cd Preserved EditionThe Residents
ALBUMCommercial Album: Preserved EditionThe Residents
ALBUMEskimo: Preserved EditionThe Residents
ALBUMIntrudersThe Residents
ALBUMDuck Stab / Buster & Glen: 2cd Preserved EditionThe Residents
Artist Playlists
The Residents Essentials
Wild noise and oddball pop from these cryptic art-rockers.
Artist Biography
Over the course of a recording career spanning more than half a century, the Residents have 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. The Residents famously refuse to grant media interviews, though "representatives of the Cryptic Corporation," the business entity behind the group, would sometimes speak on their behalf. Drawing inspiration from the likes of fellow innovators including Harry Partch, Sun Ra, and Captain Beefheart, the Residents channeled 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 theatrical performance and multimedia interaction.
Hometown
Shreveport, LA, United States
Genre
Alternative