The Residents : Sinister Exaggerator
What Here Come the Warm Jets might have sounded like had Eno been a silly boy.
-Jeff Salamon writing in the Spin Alternative Record Guide
In November of 1978, The Residents released Duck Stab/ Buster + Glen, the band's most pop-oriented and accessible album. That said, there is nothing truly pop oriented or accessible about this album. This time the self-imposed anonymous members of the San Francisco art band appear to deconstruct Booker T and the MG's ("Booker Tease"), The Ventures ("Weight Lifting Lulu"), and Kraftwerk ("Kraft Cheese"). Among those who were amused, music critic Robert Christgau who gave the album a grade of A-, writing:
Much to my annoyance, I not only find myself nyaahing along to these weird, misanthropic, exuberantly absurdist post-art-rock fragments, I find myself giggling. Just the thing to divert precocious but obnoxious ten-year-olds.
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