The Third Reich 'n Roll
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| Studio album by The Residents | |||||
| Released | 1976 | ||||
| Recorded | 1974-1975 | ||||
| Genre | Experimental rock | ||||
| Length | 35:37 | ||||
| Label | Ralph Records | ||||
| Producer | The Residents | ||||
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The Third Reich 'n Roll is a 1976 album by the U.S. avant-garde rock group The Residents. Their second (officially) released album, it is a parody and satire 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:
- Let's Twist Again (German version)
- Monster Mash (opening noises only)
- Land of a Thousand Dances
- Hanky Panky
- A Horse with No Name
- Double Shot Of My Baby's Love[1]
- The Letter
- Psychotic Reaction
- Little Girl
- Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (German version)[2]
- Talk Talk
- I Want Candy
- To Sir, with Love
- Telstar
- Wipe Out
- Heroes and Villains
Hitler Was A Vegetarian:
- Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)
- 96 Tears
- It's My Party
- Keem-O-Sabe
- Nut Rocker
- Light My Fire
- Asia Minor
- Ballad of the Green Berets
- Yummy Yummy Yummy
- Rock Around the Clock[3]
- Pushing Too Hard
- Good Lovin' or Coconut (song)
- Gloria
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
- Sunshine of Your Love
- Hey Jude
- 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 by stamping the word "censored" over every Nazi reference.
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
- "Swastikas on Parade" – 17:30
- "Hitler Was a Vegetarian" – 18:27
- Bonus Tracks (1988 CD release only)
- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - 4:30 (mono)
- "Loser (is congruent to) Weed" - 2:09 (mono)
- "Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life " - 3:56
- "Flying" - 3:22
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[edit] References and footnotes
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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."
