THE RESIDENTS
13th Anniversary Show Live
in Tokyo (East Side Digital)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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Having seen The Residents play live myself and knowing what an absolutely glorious thing that is to see and hear, I urge anyone out there who is a fan of the band to pick up a copy of this album and not be frightened off by the word "live" in the title. While most of the Residents' material sounds like it should be confined in a studio, they somehow transform their studio material into stage-worthy pieces extremely well, taking the eerie, epileptic-fit-causing quality of their songs to new levels of strangeness and making them almost completely new songs. On this particularly wonderful compilation of Residents' material, the band performs many of the songs from their repertoire, including tracks from Duckstab, which I consider by far their best studio album. Spanning their history of concerts in Tokyo from 1985 to 1999, this is one live album fans of the macabre and bizarre must have.

© 2001 - Holly Day