Golden Goat
Golden Goat (AKA, Perfect Goat) is a song by Snakefinger, featuring The Residents. It appeared on his 1980 album 'Greener Postures' and has been performed by The Residents without Snakefinger many times.
Background
The song was first written by Snakefinger & The Residents in 1980 for Greener Postures, which The Residents produced.
Snakefinger would go on to perform the track at all of his concerts, bar his Blues Tour of 1983 - 1984, until his death in 1986.
The Residents' first re-working of the track came in 1992 when it was chosen to be recorded for their 20th Anniversary album 'Our Finest Flowers', retitled 'Perfect Goat' and slowed down a whole lot, and with the lyrics to Perfect Love added to the end.
performed as part of the Demons Dance Alone live show, featuring Molly Harvey on vocals.
A video of one of these 2002 performances was given it's own DVD, with additional bonus music videos and advertisements.
It was then re-worked again in 2005, for The Way We Were tour. This version featured a slow intro, but an overall fast tempo.
Releases
- Greener Postures (1980)[1]
- A Collection Of Songs Written And Produced With Snakefinger (1988)[1]
- Our Finest Flowers (1992)[2]
- Louisiana's Lick (1995)[2]
- Demons Dance Alone (2003)[3]
- Golden Goat (2003)[4][5]
- The Way We Were (2005)[6]
- Demonic! The Residents Live In Oslo! (2012)[7]
- RMX (2018)[8]
- Loss Of The Lizard Lady (2018)[3]