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- Date Released: January 1, 1979
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Electronic Experimental, Alternative Experimental, Post-Punk
- Label: Cryptic Corporation
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We Say...
Their least jokey and most haunting album: a programmatic tone-poem about life in the frozen North, with unnerving synthesizers that neatly evoke the endless icy tundra.
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They Say...
The most rewarding, the most difficult, and the most accomplished of all the Residents' albums, this was their departure into the field of imaginary ethno-musicography that they had begun on "Six Things to a Cycle" on Fingerprince. Ostensibly a musical documentary on the Eskimo, this is an album of icy atmospheres, poetic electronics, and imaginary landscapes, concocted around a loose narrative told in the liner notes. There's also a subtheme of indigenous populations overrun by western commercialism (is that native chant actually "Coca Cola is Life"?). Ex-Henry Cow member Chris Cutler plays a lot of the percussion on the album, especially on the finale, "Festival of Death," the only real piece of rhythmic music here, which shines out as anything but dark or sinister. In any other group's hands this would have been a pretentious disaster, but the Residents pull it off through spirit, humor, and sheer bravado.
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| 01. |  |
Walrus Hunt |
4:01 |
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| 02. | |
Birth |
4:33 |
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| 03. | |
Arctic Hysteria |
5:59 |
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| 04. | |
Angry Angakok |
5:20 |
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| 05. | |
Spirit Steals A Child |
8:43 |
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| 06. | |
Festival Of Death |
10:30 |
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06 Total Tracks, 39:06 Total Length
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Credits
- The Residents - Arranger // The Residents - Vocals // The Residents - Multi Instruments // The Residents - Producer // The Residents - Main Performer // The Residents - Liner Notes // The Residents - Story // The Residents - Instrumentation // The Residents - Instrument Design // Don Preston - Synthesizer // Don Preston - ? // Snakefinger - Assistant // Chris Cutler - Drums // Chris Cutler - Drums // Chris Cutler - Drums // Chris Cutler - Drums // Chris Cutler - Drums // Chris Cutler - Drums // Chris Cutler - Drums // Chris Cutler - Guest Appearance // Chris Cutler - Guest Appearance // Chris Cutler - Guest Appearance // Chris Cutler - Guest Appearance // Chris Cutler - Guest Appearance // Chris Cutler - Guest Appearance // Chris Cutler - Guest Appearance // Robert Schilling - Executive Producer
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