Animal Lover
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- "Animal lover" can also refer to one who expresses animal love.
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| Studio album by The Residents | ||
| Released | April 5, 2005 | |
| Recorded | 2005 | |
| Genre | Experimental Rock | |
| Length | 58:46 | |
| Label | Mute U.S. | |
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| The Residents chronology | ||
| Demons Dance Alone (2002) |
Animal Lover (2005) |
The River Of Crime (2006) |
Animal Lover is an album, released in 2005 by The Residents.
It portrays human life through the eyes of different animals. In the CD booklet, the lyrics to a song are preceded by a story from an animal's point of view. For example, "On the way (To Oklahoma)" begins with a story, from the animal's viewpoint, about a man obsessed with tigers. On the next page, the lyrics are shown, giving the listener the details behind the story. On this particular track, the man goes insane, thinks he's a tiger, and kills a dog. The story precedes the song itself, but also tells us what happened to the man.
However, not all tracks contain stories. "Dreaming of an Anthill (Teeming)", "Ingrid's oily tongue", and "Mr. Bee's bumble" are instrumental tracks. There aren't any stories to these songs in the booklet, perhaps to allow the listener him/herself to discern the story themselves.
The album also contains a bonus CD, generally called "...Imaginary Jack". According to the Cryptic Corporation, it really is one long track, divided to six parts to the enjoyment of the listener. The full title is actually the entire text written on the disc:
"I stood at my window staring at an arcing streetlight.
A sudden wind made me pull my shoulders to my ears.
I pissed into the dark.
It smelled like canned tuna.
My swollen lip throbbed.
I could still taste the blood.
My eyes rolled back looking for memories.
I stopped.
I was changing details in my mind, remembering only what I wanted it to be, not what it was.
I had only a short time to do what had to be done, after that it would all be forever absorbed by my imaginary Jack."
The bonus CD can be described as a remixed medley of the Animal Lover CD.
This album is released on MUTE RECORDS.
| The Residents | |
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| Album era (1972-1980) | |
| Meet the Residents (1974) | Not Available (1974, released 1978) | The Third Reich 'n' Roll (1976) | Fingerprince (1976) | Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (1978) | Eskimo (1979) | The Commercial Album (1980) | |
| Performance era (1981-1990) | |
| Mark of the Mole (1981) | The Tunes of Two Cities (1982) | Intermission (1983) | George & James (1984) | Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? (1984) | The Big Bubble (1985) | Stars & Hank Forever (1986) | God in Three Persons (1988) | The King & Eye (1989) | |
| Multimedia era (1991-1996) | |
| Freak Show (1991) | Gingerbread Man (1994) | Bad Day on the Midway (1995) | Have A Bad Day (1997) | |
| Band era (1997-2005) | |
| Wormwood (1998) | Icky Flix (2001) | Demons Dance Alone (2002) | Animal Lover (2005) | |
| Storyteller era (2006-present) | |
| The River of Crime (2006) | Timmy (2006) | Tweedles (2006) | |
| Related articles | |
| Snakefinger | N. Senada | Vileness Fats | Ralph Records | |
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