Duck Stab / Buster & Glen

by The Residents

Duck Stab / Buster & Glen cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 30 November 1978
  • Label: Ralph
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:56:44
  • Community rating: 4.33/5 from 9 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Combining two previously unreleased EPs into a single, deeply unsettling album, The Residents produced one of their most accessible, yet fundamentally bizarre records. 'Duck Stab / Buster & Glen' is a wonderfully quirky, profoundly surreal collection of avant-garde pop miniatures, packed with cryptic nursery rhymes, ominous synthesizers, and disturbing vocal manipulation.

Genres

Descriptors: leftfield, avant-garde, bizarre, theatrical, satirical, experimental, conceptual

Tracklist

  1. Constantinople (2:24)
  2. Sinister Exaggerator (3:28)
  3. The Booker Tease (1:07)
  4. Blue Rosebuds (3:12)
  5. Laughing Song (2:14)
  6. Bach Is Dead (1:14)
  7. Elvis And His Boss (2:32)
  8. Lizard Lady (1:55)
  9. Semolina (2:53)
  10. Birthday Boy (2:42)
  11. Weight-Lifting Lulu (3:12)
  12. Krafty Cheese (2:03)
  13. Hello Skinny (2:40)
  14. The Electrocutioner (3:24)
  15. Guylum Bardot '78* (1:06)
  16. Soulful Sax* (2:19)
  17. Ow Boutthat* (0:49)
  18. When Johnny Comes Marching* (1:37)
  19. Unlisted* (1:59)
  20. Santa Dog '78 (1:51)
  21. Bach Is Dead (1982 Rehearsal) (1:21)
  22. Birthday Boy (1982 Rehearsal) (3:41)
  23. Constantinople (1982 Rehearsal) (2:10)
  24. DS/BAG Suite (Troms酶, Inconvenienced, 1986)* (13:21)
  25. Semolina (Live, 1986) (3:56)
  26. Hello Skinny (Icky Flix Version)** (3:06)
  27. Constantinople (Icky Flix Version)** (2:27)
  28. Lizard Lady / Hello Skinny (Live 2005) (5:09)
  29. Semolina (Live 2011) (3:46)
  30. Lizard Lady (Live 2011) (3:42)
  31. Blue Rosebuds (Live 2014) (3:07)
  32. Weightlifting Lulu (Live 2014) (3:29)
  33. Blue Rosebuds RMX (3:23)
  34. The Booker Tease (Re-Imagined) (2:24)
  35. Weightlifting Lulu (Re-Imagined) (3:16)
  36. Constantinople (Adobe) (1:54)
  37. Bach Is Dead (Re-Imagined) (2:26)
  38. Laughing Song (Re-Imagined) (2:23)
  39. The Electrocutioner (Re-Imagined) (2:38)
  40. Hello Skinny (Re-Imagined) (4:03)

Credits

  • The Residents - primary artist, composed by, arranged by, recorded by, producer
  • Pore No Graphics - cover, graphic design
  • Snakefinger - featuring [slithering almost everywhere], composed by
  • Graeme Whifler - photography by [duck stab photo], photography
  • Ruby - vocals [guest vocalist]

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