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Mike Nobody wrote:"Created over a period of three years, Eskimo was unlike anything anyone had heard before. Instead of an album made up of songs, The Residents produced a series of acoustic landscapes: each track is the sound of a story taking place, rather than the traditional song telling a story."

http://youtu.be/fPilr89JlRs

The unspoiled native environment of the Eskimos, intruded upon by modern civilization, gradual begins to change.
Folk art and language begins to reflect this urbanized environment.

Wow! That had a huge influence on me ... got it when it was first released ... Eskimos chanting tv commercial jingles! Awesome!!

Orchid Spangiafora's "Flee Past's Ape Elf" and Negativland's first album, were a couple of other gems found around that time.

VinnyViolin wrote:

Mike Nobody wrote:"Created over a period of three years, Eskimo was unlike anything anyone had heard before. Instead of an album made up of songs, The Residents produced a series of acoustic landscapes: each track is the sound of a story taking place, rather than the traditional song telling a story."

http://youtu.be/fPilr89JlRs

The unspoiled native environment of the Eskimos, intruded upon by modern civilization, gradual begins to change.
Folk art and language begins to reflect this urbanized environment.

Wow! That had a huge influence on me ... got it when it was first released ... Eskimos chanting tv commercial jingles! Awesome!!

Orchid Spangiafora's "Flee Past's Ape Elf" and Negativland's first album, were a couple of other gems found around that time.

I was considering posting some Negativland.
But, some here would not consider that "music" or "art".

The album Eskimo reminds me of liner note I read on the back of an album of Pygmy music. After much effort searching through the forest to find the nomadic Pygmies and then to get them to share their music, the Pygmies agreed to share one of their deeply sacred songs ... after a little bit the researchers realized that they were singing "Oh My Darling Clementine"

you know...i'm always reluctant to spray urine on someone else's bowl of cheerios knowing that their bowl of b-feast cereal is likely near and dear to them....

but that stuff does absolutely nothing for me. there's just nothing there to hold my attention and nothing to keep me interested.

...maybe after eating a bunch of 'shrooms or spending some quality time w some lebanese blonde and a hookah but as is.....feh. not my cup 'o meat.

too long, nice genre, no vocals..

Another 39 minute track. wtf.

A vivid imagination is plenty ... but Shrooms & hash might sometimes help if things are a running little slow in that department.
Alternatively a movie might help corral your dissipating attention.
http://youtu.be/duIdkblpaJU

Chief Engineer Scott wrote:too long, nice genre, no vocals..

Another 39 minute track. wtf.

Okay, too long?
How about...
The Residents - One-Minute Movies
http://youtu.be/MTJJb1UqjuA

Ah sorry no melody means you lost me from the get go.

The WALRUS Hunt illustrates to some the cycle of life (and the struggles within) ..To me, It is a reminder of the salient fact that we are cursed with the imperitive to consume at the expense of one life to uphold another life. We are foreverm cursed with the the imperative to flee from those that would consume us. Life is a gift, tainted with that nag screen from time to time...

My favorite music video of all time ... http://youtu.be/Kb8zCsjcNvk

Loved the whole Eskimo work...Nicely Done... and I see that the mere titles were just enough descriptors to open the world to each piece...had my imagination going strong.