On their second album, The Residents anticipated sampling culture by around a decade, using a combination of primitive technology, sarcasm, and spite to record these two side-long mash-ups of various hits from the 1960s. America, Wilson Pickett, James Brown, The Strangeloves, The Doors, Cream, The Beatles, Iron Butterfly, The Rolling Stone - all find themselves in the firing line as The Residents deconstruct their songs and put them back together with silly vocals, lazy instrumentation, and plenty of 'wrong' notes. It's hilarious, but the reason it works is because there's a strange reverance for the original material that shines through - this album is as much a tribute to the '60s as it is a criticism. Probably the band's finest moment.
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