Fingerprince

by The Residents

Fingerprince cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 15 February 1977
  • Label: Ralph
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:53:17
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 8 ratings

Artists on this release: A. Dekbar, Tony Logan, Snakefinger, Don Jackovich, Zeibak

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Originally intended as a three-sided album, The Residents' third released record is a profoundly bizarre, heavily abstract plunge into avant-garde terror and obscure tape manipulation. 'Fingerprince' is a remarkably dissonant, wildly surreal masterpiece that pairs unsettling minimal synthesizers with cryptic, wonderfully quirky modern classical arrangements and an deeply ominous, unsettling atmosphere.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, atmospheric, dissonant, distorted, textured, experimental, theatrical, lo-fi

Tracklist

  1. You Yesyesyes (2:59)
  2. Home Age Conversation (2:05)
  3. Godsong (3:42)
  4. March De La Winni (0:59)
  5. Bossy (1:02)
  6. Boo Who' (2:51)
  7. Tourniquet Of Roses (3:16)
  8. You Yesyesyes Again (2:46)
  9. Six Things To A Cycle (17:44)
  10. Monstrous Intro (0:41)
  11. Death In Barstow (2:03)
  12. Melon Collie Lassie (2:52)
  13. Flight Of The Bumble Roach (2:14)
  14. Walter Westinghouse (8:05)
  15. Leapmus (February, 1976)* (14:36)
  16. Entrance To Crypt* (1:10)
  17. Clumsy Climb* (1:55)
  18. Piano Dittie* (1:21)
  19. You Yesyesyes ('Oh Mummy' Mix)* (1:53)
  20. Whoopy Snorp (3:44)
  21. God Song (1982 Rehearsal) (1:33)
  22. Walter Westinghouse (1982 Rehearsal)* (6:45)
  23. God Song (Studio Rehearsal)* (1:32)
  24. Tourniquet Of Roses (Troms酶, 1986)* (2:44)
  25. Walter Westinghouse (Live 1997) (6:24)
  26. Once I Went To Barstow (Live 2011) (4:47)
  27. Melon Collie Lassie (Live 2014) (3:33)
  28. Fingerprince Concentrate (7:52)

Credits

  • The Residents - primary artist, composed by, arranged by, engineer, design [cover], layout, vocals, guitar, horns, synthesizer, keyboards, percussion
  • Pore No Graphics - design [cover], layout
  • The Cryptic Corporation - liner notes
  • Don Jackovich - percussion
  • Tony Logan - percussion
  • Richard McCaffree - photography by [liner]
  • A. Dekbar - violin
  • Zeibak - vocals
  • Snakefinger - vocals, guitar

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