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The Residents - Fingerprince
East Side Digital
Artist: The Residents (www.residents.com)
Title: Fingerprince
Label: East Side Digital (www.noside.com/esd)
Genre: Weird
Originally released in 1976 (well, 2/3 of it anyway), Fingerprince, then named Tourniquet of Roses, was an ambitious little bugger. The Residents had enough music stuffs for 3 record sides, but it seems good ol' Ralph Records wouldn't hear of it. So the 3rd side, Fingerprince, was put out in 1979. This is the First Historic time that all of the Tourniquet's music has seen itself together in one place.
As unusual, nothing can touch The Residents. Perhaps no one wants to. They do dance to their own beat, which will sound warped at times, and not well the next. A good sampler is the orchestral closet tune, 'Flight of the Bumble Roach', which sounds as if most percussionists have missed the elevator and are now traveling by quicker shaft.
Likewise, 'Walter Westinghouse', another hick vocal, combines itself with a long sort of jungle new age sound. Drums, crickets (or moles, maybe), some little early keyboard effects, but very little. Then the dialogue between man and wife. They keep raising their pissed voices about broken bones, geez! And man, don't the wife sound like Dame Edna? Amazing 8 minutes. Sometimes you think the only people who Really understand what The Residents are doing are The Residents.
Perhaps the most significant element to Fingerprince is the lengthy ballet, 'Six Things to a Cycle', originally intended for performance at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. Whether it was just too wild for that gay city, or they couldn't get enough drums and vibes together in time, or they just couldn't stand the brief lyrics in Part 4, 'chew chew gum chew gum gum chew chew', we shall never know! But the bizarre fact is: the stuff Really rocks. Okay, not ROCKS. But it is as alternative as you can get while still being the ghost of music. The composers themselves call it 'progressive bunny-hop'. You can call it nameless, priceless, shit, inspired. Depends on how far open you can get your mind.
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