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FINEST FLOWERS ALBUM CLUB #3: XXX Residents - Attack of the Kill
er Black Eyeball
By: Meisekimiu Date: March 14, 2018, 11:05 pm
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[center]XXX Residents - Attack of the Killer Black Eyeball
HTML https://img.discogs.com/Kmofh9ymUnJU3QXkoswd6HU96c0=/fit-in/500x498/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2840988-1303494950.jpeg.jpg
Album Title: Attack of the Killer Black Eyeball
Artist: XXX Residents
Release Year: 2009
Purchase Links: Amazon.com
HTML https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002PS4AF6?tag=&linkCode=as1&creative=6339<br
/>| Amazon.co.jp
HTML https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B002PS4AF6?tag=&linkCode=as1&creative=6339<br
/>| Tower Records (JP only)
HTML http://tower.jp/item/2622672/ATTACK-OF-THE-KILLER-BLACK-EYE-BALL-%5bCD%EF%BC%8BDVD%5d
(I don't usually explicitly say this but... you may be able to
listen to some songs on Youtube if you find them)
Alright, enough of the safe Ralph selections for our album club!
Time to get a bit more crazy... and yet still definitely
Residential. Obviously this isn't an actual Residents album so
it'll never be Project of the Week, so let's discuss it here!
Have you heard of this strange Japanese Residents remix album
before? If not, why not try giving it a listen? It might not
exactly be the kind of music most people who come to a Residents
forum are exactly searching for, but hey, it's easier to tap
your foot to this than the wind.
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[center]Do you have a recommendation for the next Fine Flower we
should discuss? Private message me the album info as well as
your own introduction to the album and maybe it'll be the next
one we talk about?![/center]
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Re: FINEST FLOWERS ALBUM CLUB #3: XXX Residents - Attack of the
Killer Black Eyeball
By: ADeadlyFriend Date: March 19, 2018, 7:41 pm
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Certainly looks interesting. Makes me wonder what kind of
following the Rezzies have in Japan.
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Re: FINEST FLOWERS ALBUM CLUB #3: XXX Residents - Attack of the
Killer Black Eyeball
By: Meisekimiu Date: June 25, 2018, 2:27 pm
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I don't really like cover bands. I'd say that the only cover
band I've consistently liked is The Residents as Randy, Chuck,
and Bob. And they're only technically a cover band if you follow
The Residents' own strange truths and half truths they put out
about their works. I get why cover bands exist, and I get why
they make money. I look at bands I like and wish to become them,
and I realize that the only way to ever go to a Beatles concert
ever again is through the fake British accents of Beatles cover
bands.
Still, something seems... wrong about sort of "stealing" a
band's identity and performing their music live as them. When it
comes to XXX Residents, I'm a bit more conflicted. On one hand,
they aren't really a cover band. But on the other hand, they do
perform live occasionally and as such market themselves as a
"cosplay band". I guess to me it is just a bit too strange to
see the eyeball headed Resident figures standing behind
turntables and making techno trance music. Though I do have to
say it definitely does seem "residential" to bring a vacuum
cleaner up on stage and remix that sound.
Attack of the Killer Black Eyeball is XXX Residents' only album
currently. Unlike The Residents, they do not perform original
avant-garde music, but instead produce techno remixes of
Residents music. I know for a fact that many pretentious fans of
The Residents would scoff at the idea at a serious techno remix
(Diskomo 2000 was "ironic" so it is allowed to exist of course).
But I'm always open to new music, and hey, how "normal" can a
Residents remix album really sound, especially when it's
produced by some weird Japanese people? I picked up this album
last year along with The Ghost of Hope in the Tower Records in
Shibuya and was super excited to listen to it when I got home.
Unlike The Ghost of Hope which I needed to listen to
immediately, I waited until I was back in the US to properly
listen to this one.
I popped it in like a normal Residents album and really made an
effort of actually listening to it... and I was pretty
disappointed. It really is just a normal techno remix album. The
songs drone on for quite a while, with the occasional familiar
Residents sample being thrown into the song. I put the album
away and thought "well, at least it is a rare oddity" and that
was that.
I think a few months later I ripped the CD and gave it a listen
while I was doing some work on the computer. I just needed some
background music and... wow, the album was suddenly much better!
It really does need to be approached with the standard mindset
that goes into listening to more mainstream electronic music:
you don't just sit there and listen to it. It's club music. You
put it on and let it be the background music to whatever you're
doing. You dance to it in the club. You drink and get high to
it, but not even the pretentious spiritual type of high, just
the "gotta have fun!" kind of drugs (note: I don't do drugs so
if that sounds naive, then, well, there you go). I think I could
give this album to my friends and they'd still think it's weird,
but it is very close to just being normal
techno/EDM/electronic/whatever music. I don't know the
differences in the genres to properly label what this is.
The standout track from this album is "Harsh Noise For Hotel
Missy Kyoto". Unlike all the other tracks, it isn't really part
of the whole techno megamix this album has going on. It's pretty
much just a weird cover of "Serenade for Missy", although I
still feel like it samples the original quite a bit and just
overlays a new texture over top of it. Everything else on the
album really is just a techno song that samples and remixes a
Residents song, all of the remixes being their older works. The
Census Taker is the latest work sampled in these albums to my
knowledge, and a lot of Duck Stab/Buster & Glen and Fingerprince
are sampled. It's pretty disappointing, since when it comes to
remixed Residents music (outside of any RMX projects which...
are pretty much new things instead of remixes in my view) I'm
more interested in the later parts of The Residents' catalogue.
For some reason I think Tweedles would be an excellent candidate
for Techno-ification, though I'm not entirely sure why.
That's about all I have to say about this album. It's not a good
album to really listen to, but I do enjoy putting it on in the
background occasionally. I'm not really a big fan of just
straight up techno music you'd play in a club, so I wasn't
really predisposed to like this album much to begin with. Still,
it's fun to hear music like this and be able to actually sing
along to these samples which are pretty engrained into my mind
at this point. It is a really interesting oddity, and as a
computer programmer who likes to fill 8 hours of work every day
with background music, droning electronic music like this really
can be a blessing sometimes. And if I had to choose any droning
electronic music, I really would prefer that electronic music to
be vaguely Residential.
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