Seasoned Greetings
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"Seasoned Greetings" is a composition by The Residents, it is the last track of the penultimate track on The Residents' debut album Meet The Residents, released April 1st 1974 on Ralph Records.
History
Seasoned Greetings is probably most well known for being another dive into The Residents, specifically Residents, Uninc. love for Christmas. The songs only lyrics are a Resident simply wishing their family a merry Christmas.
A new arrangement of the song was demoed in 2014 by the group's long-time composer Charles Bobuck for a planned (but abandoned) 40th anniversary re-recording of Meet The Residents; this recording was later issued on the EP Clank Clank Clank in 2017. In 2020, The Cryptic Corporation asked The Residents to curate a selection of their favorite songs from their own back catalog for a Spotify playlist titled "Residents' Personal Favorites"; This was one of forty songs chosen.
Very interestingly the song was revisited by the hot sauce brand "El Enojado" announced in November 2020 that they would be releasing a hot sauce called "Seasoned Greetings" to honor The Residents. After The Residents caught wind of this they partnered up and release the hot sauce "Cry for the fire" based after the song of the same name.
Lyrics
Merry Christmas, Mom Merry Christmas, Dad Merry Christmas, Sis... I Love You. Uh, Uhh It's Christmas But, but there ain't nobody Raisin' much of a fuss. Christmas Christmas Christmas Ain't Nobody Raisin' no fuss... Nobody But ME!!!
List of releases
- Meet The Residents (1974) [Version 1]
- Meet The Residents stereo remix (1977) [Version 2]
- Clank Clank Clank EP by Charles Bobuck (2017) [Version 3]
- Meet The Residents pREServed CD edition (2018) [Version 1] [Version 2]
- Meet The Residents pREServed vinyl edition (2023) [Version 1] [Version 2]
List of versions
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sycamore Street studio recording, February - October 1973 (original mono version, 5:12)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Sycamore Street studio recording, February-October 1973 (1977 stereo remix, 5:06)
- ↑ Charles Bobuck studio recording, 2014 (1:38)
Listen online
- "Seasoned Greetings" (original mono version) on Spotify
- "Seasoned Greetings" (pREServed mono version) on Spotify
- "Seasoned Greetings" (pREServed stereo version) on Spotify
External links and references
- Meet The Residents at The Residents Historical
- Meet The Residents at RZWeb (archived via archive.org)
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Meet The Residents (1974) Side A |