The Third Reich 'n' Roll

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The Third Reich 'n' Roll
The Third Reich 'n' Roll cover
Studio album by The Residents
Released 1976
Recorded 1974-1975
Genre Experimental rock
Length 35:37
Label Ralph Records
Producer(s) The Residents
Professional reviews
The Residents chronology
Meet the Residents (1974) The Third Reich 'n' Roll (1976)
 Fingerprince
(1976)


The Third Reich 'n' Roll is a 1976 album by the U.S. avant-garde pop group The Residents. Their second (officially) released album, it is a parody of pop music and commercials from the 1960s. The work consists of two side-long pastiches of various songs from the period. The liner notes state that approximately 30 songs have been utilised. Some are obvious, while others are almost unrecognizable. It has been suggested that the following is the album's "true" track listing (none of these songs are listed on the album cover):

Swastikas on Parade:

  1. Let's Twist Again (German version)
  2. Monster Mash (opening noises only)
  3. Land Of 1000 Dances
  4. Hanky Panky
  5. A Horse with No Name
  6. Double Shot Of My Baby's Love[1]
  7. The Letter
  8. Psychotic Reaction
  9. Little Girl
  10. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (German version)[2]
  11. Talk Talk
  12. I Want Candy
  13. To Sir, with Love
  14. Telstar
  15. Wipe Out
  16. Heroes and Villains

Hitler Was A Vegetarian:

  1. Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)
  2. 96 Tears
  3. It's My Party
  4. Keem-O-Sabe
  5. Nut Rocker
  6. Light My Fire
  7. Asia Minor
  8. Ballad of the Green Berets
  9. Yummy Yummy Yummy
  10. Rock Around the Clock[3]
  11. Pushing Too Hard
  12. Good Lovin' or Coconut (song)
  13. Gloria
  14. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
  15. Sunshine of Your Love
  16. Hey Jude
  17. Sympathy for the Devil

Some of these songs are played simultaneously. America's "A Horse With No Name" is slightly newer than the rest of the hits on the album, but matches The Swinging Medallions' "Double Shot of my Baby's Love" exactly. The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" is performed as the guitar solo to The Beatles' Hey Jude.

Better realized and executed than their first album, it also generated controversy due to its cover art which featured television entertainer Dick Clark in a Nazi uniform holding a carrot while surrounded by swastikas and pictures of a dancing Adolf Hitler in both male and female dress. A version was marketed in the 1980s for German consumption which heavily censored much of the cover art.

Rumor has it Dick Clark found the cover amusing, and has a framed copy in his office.

The album was originally released on Ralph Records.

An ultimate special edition hardbook containing all the original artwork and the full photo-session was released on MUTE RECORDS in September 2005.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Swastikas on Parade" – 17:30
  2. "Hitler Was a Vegetarian" – 18:27
  • Bonus Tracks (1988 CD release only)
  1. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - 4:30 (mono)
  2. " Loser (is congruent to) Weed" - 2:09 (mono)
  3. " Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life " - 3:56
  4. "Flying" - 3:22

[edit] See also

[edit] References and footnotes

  1. ^ The Residents would later recut a full version of this song during the sessions for God in Three Persons as well as incorporate it into the score of Cube-E.
  2. ^ It is widely considered that the use of a horn hit directly from the original King Records 45 of "...Brand New Bag" on Third Reich & Roll is the first ever commercially released record to sample James Brown, predating rap music's adaptations of Brown riffs, beats, and soundbites by about 15 years.
  3. ^ It is disputed by many listeners as to whether this song actually appears on the album; it may equally as validly be assumed to be a version of B. Bumble and the Stingers's 1961 "Bumble Boogie," their (also 1961) "Boogie Woogie," or Jimmy Dorsey's 1957 "J. D.'s Boogie Woogie."
The Residents
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)
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