THE RESIDENTS The Third Reich 'N' Roll LP RALPH 1976/1979 US 3rd pressing

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Anonymous Fab Four of the Avant-Garde whose absurd musical deconstructions have alternated between experimentalism and accessibility. Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, the Residents remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions; cloaking their lives and music in a haze of willful obscurity, the band's members never identified themselves by name, always appearing in public in disguise -- usually tuxedos, top hats and giant eyeball masks -- and refusing to grant media interviews. Drawing inspiration from the likes of fellow innovators including Harry Partch, Sun Ra, and Captain Beefheart, the Residents channeled the breadth of American music into their idiosyncratic, satiric vision, their mercurial blend of electronics, distortion, avant-jazz, classical symphonies and gratingly nasal vocals reinterpreting everyone from John Philip Sousa to James Brown while simultaneously expanding the boundaries of theatrical performance and multimedia interaction. It was commonly accepted that the four-member group emigrated to San Francisco, CA, from Shreveport, LA, at some point in the early '70s. According to longtime group spokesman Jay Clem -- one member of the so-called Cryptic Corporation, the band's representative body -- they received their name when Warner Bros. mailed back their anonymous demo tape, addressed simply "for the attention of residents." Finding no takers for their oddball sounds, the Residents founded their own label, Ralph Records...

"THE THIRD REICH 'N ROLL"

<1979 third pressing reissue, originally published in 1976>

LP     RALPH RECORDS     RR1075    

PRINTED IN U.S.A.      1979 3RD PRESSING, REPRESS

About this version:

This is the third pressing (1979 repress) with orange and green carrot on the front cover, 

and repeated image of small swastika pattern around the centre black and white liner notes area on the back cover.

[Full text around the front cover sleeve:]

"The Residents present The Third Reich 'N' Roll - This side explains why Hitler was a vegetarian - Ralph Records

 is a division of The Cryptic Corp. - Produced by Residents, Uninc. - Jacket by Porno/Graphics ".

[Full text around the back cover swastika design:]

"The Residents present The Third Reich 'N' Roll - This side is usually Swastikas On Parade - See Vileness Fats - 

Coming soon to a theater or drive-in near you - RR1075 - Recorded at El Ralpho Studios - World series 74-75".

SINGLE COVER 

THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

Notes: The Third Reich 'N' Roll consists of two suites; "Swastikas On Parade" and "Hitler Was A Vegetarian". Both are 'semi-phonetic' interpretations of Top 40 Rock 'n' Roll from the 60s.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

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LABEL: RALPH -  BLACK LABEL w/ARTWORK - RED TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) RR1075

Catalog on labels (as rim text): RR1075A / RR1075B

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched & Stamped): RR 1075A Re1 LKIKS ??? L-2255

   Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched & Stamped): RR 1075B Re1 LKIKS ??? L-2255-X

On labels: rim text reads "This Record...........© 1977 ? 1975 The Cryptic Corp. RR1075..."

(on Side A): This Side Is Usually

SWASTIKAS ON PARADE

(on Side B): This Side Explains Why

HITLER WAS A VEGETARIAN

On Back Cover: "WHY DO THE RESIDENTS HATE THE BEATLES?"

Produced by The Residents 1974-75

© 1979, The Cryptic Corporation

Important Message

The Residents freely admit............we can make them tomorrow.

Ralph Records

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: SWASTIKAS ON PARADE

Side B: HITLER WAS A VEGETARIAN

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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

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Technically the third album from the group, though released as a follow-up to Meet the Residents, this 40-minute assault on the music of the '60s follows Picasso's dictum of all artists killing their (aesthetic) fathers. Two side-long medleys of songs both classic ("Papa's Got a Brand New Bag") and obscure ("Telstar") are destroyed, deconstructed, mangled, spat on, spit out, ground up, and injected with gleeful humor. If there's any concept here, it's that the brain-numbing catchiness of pop music was fascism in disguise, keeping teenyboppers docile while selling them rebellion, hence the cover art of a gestapo-uniformed Dick Clark holding a carrot. Whether it's only much-suppressed love for these songs (as they went on to return again and again to the themes and artists examined here, including James Brown, "Land of 1000 Dances," and "Double Shot"), it's up to the listener to decide. Mostly any fan of the group will spend many hours trying to decode all the songs here, all the time with a smile on their face. (Officially, there are 29 songs, but there could be more)...(AllMusic)