Official News Blog, January 2008
The Residents' Official News Blog was a news blog maintained by Big Brother of The Cryptic Corporation beginning in August 2003, previously known as the Official News BOG (or simply BOG) until April 2007.
The BOG became The Cryptics' (and thus, The Residents') main outlet for communication with their fans until the website's redesign in April 2008.
This page collects posts made to this news blog in January 2008, as archived on archive.org, transcribed to this wiki by a Mysterious Spanish Lady.
Blog entries
Testing New Search Engine ===>
Jan/05/08 04:01 PM
- I am testing the Lijit search engine on the Historical. If you have problems let me know. Not fine tuned yet.
Animal Lover Instrumental
Jan/08/08 12:21 PM
- Ralph America begins pre-sale tomorrow (9th) for Animal Lover Instrumental.
- Ralph AM will also offer a tee-shirt bearing the cover image.
Social Networking
Jan/17/08 07:08 AM
- It is hardly noteworthy, but I shall note it anyway. I just made a simplistic and informationally repetitive FACEBOOK page for The Residents.
- If you want to visit it, you can find a link in the list of links on the right side of this page. Prepare to be underwhelmed.
WOOF AL(i)
Jan/22/08 07:08 AM
- Buy or Die
- Order Animal Lover Instrumental here:
- Ralph America
Animal Lover Instrumental Unwrapping
Jan/23/08 02:34 PM
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- My copy just arrived. Watch your mailbox for yours.
Can You Hear Me Now?
Jan/30/08 10:06 AM
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- Back in the early '70's The Residents weren't organizing material into albums, they just did stuff, usually experimental fragments. One day they took some of these fragments and strung them together and sent them off to Warner Bros as a demo where it was ill received as commercial. The Residents being restless re-inventors, rebuilt the demo a few times, recording new material and redoing older material to tighten it up. However they never got it to be what they thought it should be and set it aside, unfinished, to start on a new project.
- So the work sat around. At some point a villainous thief stole a bunch of recordings from the studio, some version of the demo was taken and then sold for personal gain and leaked onto the internet. The original fragments remained untouched however.
- Around 2002-03 The Residents were experimenting with remix tools and pulled some stuff off the shelf to play around with. Yes it was that same old collection of fragments that had gone into the Warners demo some thirty years earlier.
- It proved to be a great amusement to The Residents and soon we all got a surprise from Cryptic Corporation, WB:RMX. I doubt that they think that they have finally finished that project they started so long ago, but I'm sure they think they have many new fragments to work with now.
- The album first asks permission to "let me take you down" and then they lead you on a veritable trip through a wonderland of psychedelia. Suggested listening is track 2, Baby Skeletons and Dogs, where they twist two benign images, dogs with bones and babies into one horrific image. This is solid '70's fare for The Residents who dug deeply into surrealism. The new remix is crisp and almost rocks. Also a standout track is their take on Dylan's Maggie's Farm (track 8) which will have you tapping your toes instantly as it slowly degrades and eventually falls into thoughtful chaos. The other tracks never disappoint because they frantically behave like a precocious child needing attention. Then suddenly, the chillout (track 13) Love Theme from a Major Motion Picture assures you that all is okay. This tune has already been licensed for a Korean compilation as it manages to be both old time nostalgic and upbeat modern at the same time.
- It is not an easy listening album. It is often like having boulders dropped on your head from a wheelbarrow. Good thing that Residents fans are all masochists. In general, we are lucky that the group still hasn't finished this demo because it means we might get more versions in the future like some wacky Santa Dog series.
- Your assignment: Give WB:RMX a spin on headphones. I guarantee it will impress the ears.
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See also
External links and references
- The Residents' Official News Blog, archived January 6th 2008 by archive.org
- The Residents' Official News Blog, archived January 13th 2008 by archive.org
- The Residents' Official News Blog, archived January 20th 2008 by archive.org
- The Residents' Official News Blog, archived January 26th 2008 by archive.org
- The Residents' Official News Blog, archived February 3rd 2008 by archive.org
