i bet i'm the only person on the org who has a copy of this CD, but i hope my bet is wrong because i'd like to know what other people think of it.

i'm a big fan of the residents' old skool stuff - their first five or six albums are just mind-blowing. it's like they walked down a diving board of john lennon's 'revolution 9' from the white album, took a big ol' jump, and dived into the ocean of weird.

i think they got a little lame in the '80s, though that's when i first discovered most of their work, and it's they were doing cool stuff like soundtracks for pee wee's playhouse and making freakish home videos...so it was easy to be distracted by the fact that most of their actual ALBUMS weren't exactly phenomenal.

by the mid-90s, i was kinda pooped out on them...they were too far into computers and CD-ROM projects, and to me, it denied the really primitive, creatively spliced and edited music they made in the beginning. they had too many toys. the spontaneity of their weirdness was gone. dead. now they were just kinda...i dunno..."quirky".

then a couple of years ago, they recorded an album called "demons dance alone". it was fabulous. it was the return of the residents i loved - of "duck stab" and "commercial album" residents. it was catchy and weird and stream of consciousness and disturbing and silly and all kinds of stuff. i wanted to know more about the songs. i wanted to understand what they were talking about. i love it when art makes me want to know more. the residents were back.

so i was excited about this new album...and in true confounding residential fashion, that is where i will end this rant, because i need to listen to it a few more times to digest it better. if anyone's interested, i'll be back when the bowels of my ears start to rumble with response.