Artist: The Residents
Label: Ralph
Produced By: The Residents
Tracklisting:
Voices Of The Air
The Ultimate Disaster
- Won't You Keep Us Working?
- First Warning
- Back To Normality?
- The Sky Falls!
- Why Are We Crying?
- The Tunnels Are Filling
- It Never Stops
Migration
- March To The Sea
- The Observer
- Hole-Workers New Hymn
Another Land
- Rumors
- Arrival
- Deployment
- Saturation
The New Machine
- Ideas
- Construction
- Failure / Reconstruction
- Success
Final Confrontation
- Driving The Moles Away
- Don't Tread On Me
- The Short War
- Resolution?
Review[]
Part one of the Mole Trilogy, or, rather, the first Mole Trilogy, sets the stage for the story of the Moles (underground workers) and the Chubs (Bourgeois Leisure-Types); the Moles' world is flooded, and so they must come up to the world of the Chubs where they face discrimination; the story is a metaphor for underground culture versus mainstream culture, and it's a much darker album than the Residents typically did at the time. It was recorded out of frustration as being seen as "Pop Music Pranksters" (as a result of albums like Duck Stab and The Commerical Album, and to a lesser extent Eskimo) and, as such, it didn't have any elements that could really be seen as amusing. It's a really good album, but I have to admit, it's not one I go back to a lot—it tends to be one of those albums where I have it listed in my brain as a really good album, and when I go back to listen to it, I go "yes, this is a very good album!", but I just don't seem to think to put it on very often. It's definitely worth checking out, though. - Rev. Syung Myung Me