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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: The Residents the only cutting edge???
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Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 05:31:37 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 31 05:31:37 1985
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> From: rosen@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Rob Rosen)

> The Residents' music is difficult to describe, but I doubt that I will
> find many individuals who will disagree with me when I say that they
> are truly unique; I'll even go so far as to say they DEFINE the
> cutting edge of modern music.

Isn't that going a little overboard?  I mean I like The Residents as
much as the next guy -- you know I have my Ralph Records 12th aniversery
"Meet The Residents" picture disk hanging on my wall and pray every
night before I go to sleep that someday I'll find out who really are
underneath those eyeballs -- but somehow I find them hard to take very
seriously.  And if I did take them seriously, now wouldn't The Residents
scoff at me?

It seems to me, that "the cutting edge" is a place where other music
should evolve towards in the future.  And it seems to me that one group
like The Residents is quite enough.  (Though, actually, Renaldo and The
Loaf are quite like them, and I like RaTL better.)

		"My mother made me eat boysenberries"

		 Doug Alan
		  nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)