Third Reich 'n' Roll [Import]

third reich 'n' roll [import]

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Product Description
Originally released in 1976 , Third Reich 'n' Roll is a groundbreaking album which features only two tracks, 'Swastikas On Parade' and 'Hitler Was A Vegetarian', both intense, deconstructed cover versions of 1960's hits. The band found themselves isolated from mainstream radio-friendly rock and quickly concluded they had created an album about fascism and in particular, the fascism of rock 'n' roll. This deluxe release of the classic album includes a 32 page booklet including all the photo sessions from the time, the original sleeve art and an 'historical' text explaining the concept and its relevance to culture today. Mute. 2005.

Third Reich 'n' Roll,Residents,Rock/Pop

Third Reich 'n' Roll [Import]

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Residential "Bubblegum"
Dark Experimental Concrete
So Bloody Twisted
Oh sure!
Total genius

The Third Reich 'N Roll
The Residents
Manufacturer: Mute U.S.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000AP2ZQW
Release Date: 2005-10-04

Tracks:

Swastikas On Parade
Hitler Was A Vegetarian

Customer Reviews:

Residential "Bubblegum".......2007-03-28

Long before Negativland, the Tape Beatles, John Oswald and Two Live Crew began "sampling" bits of music and rearranging it and getting sued over the practice, there were The Residents. My favorite Eyeball Buddies- sans the eyeballs- slipped this album under the radar of Corporate owned musical licence. Ten years after the "Bubblegum music" craze of the mid 60's died out, the Residents remade all those horrible songs in their atonal style, deconstructing them and giving them the roasting they deserved!

All blended together into a vomit stew they named: Swastikas on parade!

In their "Hitler was a Vegetarian," they roast the most famous group in history, The Beatles! And in the end, much the way that Negativland does, they spliced together cut tape samples of Beatles songs into a quagmire of quicksand. As you sink into it up to your neck, you get dizzy with the never ending seranande- "Yeah-Yeah-Yeah-Yeah!" Then they mock Paul Mc Cartney, sarcasticly saying: "Please everybody, if we haven't done what we could have done, we tried!"

For those of us who thrive on sarcasm, satire and the 'Pee Wee Herman on angel dust' sounds of The Residents, this one is a MUST for your collection!

Dark Experimental Concrete.......2007-02-02

Another great Recording by the mysterious avant-garde eyeball masked group The Residents. This needed bonus tracks, or maybe seperated into sections. overall an awesome jaw dropping expperience, in my opinion not their best, but overall extremely impressive!

So Bloody Twisted.......2006-11-14

In a perverse way, this is genius. Take 60s pop, mangle it and string it together in the most atonal manner and this is what you get. One one level, it's absolute dreck of the most unlistenable sort. On another level, it's a crafty inversion of the happy-go-lucky sounds of a bygone era. Somehow, despite the warbled and grizzled vocals, the vacous production and the frustrating repetition, there's a humourous spark that drives the entire album. I mean, for crying out loud, look at the titles on these uber-long tracks.

In the end, you do have to concede to the fact that the album itself is a great work of disjointed pastiche. A tad challenging, yes, but it's got a wealth of laughs that totally make it worth your while.

Oh sure!.......2006-06-22

You can have yourself on and tell yourself that this is a work of genius... but in reality, all it amounts to is dreck. Remember those no-talent shlubbs in the garage two houses away? Banging away on out-of-tune intruments as they murder the classic pop of the 60s? Yeah, well... deja vu!!

This five-star pile of atonal doggie-doo might evoke a few laughs, but so does King Uszniewicz & the Uszniewicztones.

If you are a music lover... stay away from these guys. If you are after unlistenable brain-ache, then be my guest and buy this cd.

Total genius.......2006-06-15

I've been aware of The Residents for a rather long time, since my teens, so I know that this group always preferred to be anonymous, and experimented with music video way before MTV. There's been rumors floating about that the owners of Ralph Records were indeed the Residents, but of course they denied that. There's many reasons why this group preferred to be anonymous. One of them is so they were allowed total artistic freedom and not have fan expectation. It's easy for the media to make all sorts of assumptions of any music artist you can think of, so that's the reason why this group preferred to be anonymous.

Third Reich 'n Roll (1976), which is their second album, is my first try at the Residents, and this is one twisted avant garde album! Here the band does twisted remakes of oldies from the '60s as a reaction towards how the band felt about the music industry and the target for mass-consumption. They were obviously not pleased about how commercialized the music industry was, and I have to admit that many of these songs they mutate I couldn't stand in their original form (I thought that the oldies were simply corporate rock for the '50s and '60s, and because of that, that was the reason psychedelic and prog rock in general had to happen). Often the band would include synth effects, and experimental passages to go between the songs they mutated. Krautrock fans would undoubted enjoy this, as this stuff would remind me of how a group like Faust would go about doing covers of oldies songs, do it in such an avant garde fashion as to certainly clear away any party. The album consists of only two cuts, "Swastikas on Parade" and "Hitler was a Vegetarian", which all go through the same thing. The former was recorded in 1974, the latter in 1975, and with the latter it was no dounbt the band fell in love with this new keyboard they got: the ARP String Ensemble (basically, the American version of the Solina) as it got plastered throughout the whole cut.

So if you can't stand the oldies and you need these songs mutated and twisted, then you need this album.

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BIZARRO MUSIC
Twisted Pop
On The Edge...Or Over It?
A Chronicle of The Early Residents Sound
pointing & laughing at fascist pop media

The Third Reich 'N Roll
The Residents
Manufacturer: East Side Digital
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000PM6
Release Date: 1997-09-09

Tracks:

Swastikas On Parade
Hitler Was A Vegetarian

Customer Reviews:

BIZARRO MUSIC.......2006-11-06

THIS IS A CD OF BIZARRO MUSIC FROM A TRULY BIZARRO BAND. WHAT THEY DO IS TAKE A LOT OF LYRICS OF POP SONGS FROM THE 60'S AND USE THEM WITH A LOT OF SOUND EFFECTS, RHYTHMS AND ATONAL PHRASES TO CREATE SOMETHING UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT. IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO LISTEN TO SOMETHING MELODICALLY ACCESSIBLE, I SUGGEST YOU FIND ANOTHER CD TO LISTEN TO, BUT IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HEARING ONE BAND'S INTERPRETATION OF POP MUSIC, THEN YOU SHOULD GIVE IT A LISTEN

Twisted Pop.......2003-11-10

As a young lad in the 60's, I had a big AM radio in my bedroom. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I'd turn on the radio, watch the warm orange glow of it's tubes seep through the vents and tune in to WLS, a high-powered Chicago station many miles from my Pennsylvania home. WLS played all of those great top 40 hits, from motown to cheesy bubblegum.

Fifteen years later, I spotted this Residents LP at the local record store. Based solely on the cover art (Dick Clark in nazi regalia clutching a carrot while miniature cartoon gay Hitlers danced in the clouds), I bought it. With shock and delight I listened as the Residents completely trashed and distorted those beloved top 40 hits from my childhood.

The Third Reich 'N Roll is the most twisted rendition of 'cover tunes' that you'll ever hear. Highly recommended, although it's not for everyone. Most people will not understand it or like it.

On The Edge...Or Over It?.......2002-12-20

A lot of people in 1976 merely talked about rock and roll radio being taken over by a kind of programming tyranny, but only the Residents were brash enough to slam the idea up in plain sight. That they used two suites of dashes and crashes from some of the 1960s most incandescent hits to do it was probably jarring enough; that they had the temerity to caricature Dick Clark visibly as a storm troop was probably even more audacious (however much it had become a truism among some of the rock avant garde), especially since they launched the whole shebang with a clip from Chubby Checker's German translation of "The Twist." They also slashed away at the nimrod contingencies who liked to harp on the long-brandished accusations that rock was trafficking in subliminal messagemongering...hell, the Residents DELIBERATELY put subliminal messages into this one. As you might imagine, not everyone got the joke or the message; I remember there actually having been a few mild protests over the band's deployment of the Nazi references. But considering what today's radio programming is like in a lot of ways, just maybe the Residents in their insane way were as far ahead of the curve as their most die-hard devotees had it. For the sheer pleasure of hearing what sounds like an inside-out reading of the signature riff of Iron Butterfly's "Possession" beneath a vocal of inspired psychedelic parodying midway through one of the suites, that alone would have made it worth the price.

A Chronicle of The Early Residents Sound.......2002-08-20

I will spend no time discussing why you shouldn't be offended by the title or the images. I will spend no time talking about the concept of the recording. I will say that serious Residents fans should have this recording. The reason is that all of the early, hard to find, and largely undocumented sounds of the Residents are captured here in one form or another. This CD does not contain any of the music from early unreleased tapes such as "Baby Sex" (you need to get your hands on the long out of print UWEB titles or "History Mystery" from "Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses" for that). But the sounds on 3rd R&R are the gelling of the "Kamakazi Lady / Eloise / Sandman" style. The closest readily available Residents work to the early unreleased material.

pointing & laughing at fascist pop media.......2002-05-18

The Residents are awesome; this album is hilarious. They recorded their own musical tracks on top of top 20 hits, then took away the actual pop hit music, so what you're left with is just the bubblegum madness they re4corded over the hits. They also made a statement about the lack of individual worth of all these greatest hits by throwing them together into 2 long collages that are 2 epic "songs" made up of so many smaller ones without individual mention anywhere on this album that just kind of turn into one another without wsarning. This is my favorite Residents cd.

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The Third Reich 'N Roll
The Residents
Manufacturer: East Side Digital
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008JYN
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Swastikas On Parade
Hitler Was A Vegetarian
Satisfaction
Loser=Weed
Beyond The Valley Of A Day In The Life
Flying

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The Third Reich 'N Roll
The Residents
Manufacturer: East Side Digital
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000AANWAK
Release Date: 2005-09-27

Tracks:

Swastikas on Parade
Hitler Was a Vegetarian

Album Description

Originally released in 1976 , Third Reich 'n' Roll is a groundbreaking album which features only two tracks, 'Swastikas On Parade' and 'Hitler Was A Vegetarian', both intense, deconstructed cover versions of 1960's hits. The band found themselves isolated from mainstream radio-friendly rock and quickly concluded they had created an album about fascism and in particular, the fascism of rock 'n' roll. This deluxe release of the classic album includes a 32 page booklet including all the photo sessions from the time, the original sleeve art and an 'historical' text explaining the concept and its relevance to culture today. Mute. 2005.

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