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In my opinion, Lord, you're quite a dude.

Great Lord, send them to the bomb.

Sanjù, don't take offense, but you just said a load of crap. Someone might say, "Are we in an Alberto Sordi movie or what?"

of Renaldo and the Loaf absolutely download the video of Song for Swinging Larvae, it's really worth it. You should be able to find it easily.

So, let me make things clear. There's no doubt that they are the French version of The Residents; they capture the sick atmospheres and chants, but let's say they are "for fans only." Their music is much simpler and has a clear 80s flavor. Rather, download their stuff; if you have to spend, The Residents' discography is vast, and after them, definitely Renaldo and the Loaf, well before Ptolemaic.

Well, I'm clearly not sure about this, but the rez have faced the issue of making themselves known, especially after the anonymity of the 70s. In the sense that yes, their identity had to remain unknown, but they shouldn't remain unknown themselves. Because if someone proposes an artistic product to say something and nobody pays attention (not due to a lack of compromises, but simply because no one knows them), you communicate nothing at all. It's no coincidence that they have their own label, produce multimedia shows, and have indeed spokespersons (who, by the way, could very well be them). I am very inclined to believe that this is true.
Ah, about the Ptose: they are a group from the late 70s, considered the French residents, for whom they even did covers. You can easily find their album "Ignobles limaces/night of the reptiles":

sanjuro I did a little search and honestly, I couldn't find it. Unfortunately, putting "residents" and "faust" into Google yields an endless amount of results, and I can't remember how I got there. However, when I make the effort to find it, I will. Ah, the fact that the Residents are Flynn and Fox is something said worldwide by just Scaruffi; he may have sources that no one else does, but give me the benefit of the doubt on that...

I fully resonate with Tom Traubert's comment, even about "Pezzi di vetro," which is considered one of De Gregori's best songs but actually feels a bit too sentimental and doesn't really move me. I also agree with Sabatino, who says that "Signor Hood" is worth the album—a fantastic piece—without forgetting "Pablo" and "Le storie di ieri" (of which, however, I definitely prefer the version on Vol. 8). It's a nice album, featuring three of the best songs in the repertoire, but due to some dips compared to the first four albums, it's perhaps my least favorite. By the way, this sentence in the review struck me: "a music no longer despairing like the previous album (the 'album of the sheep')," which is true, but in my opinion, it’s not necessarily a merit. "La pecora" (just like "Alice") are precisely the more personal pieces suited for that atmosphere; to draw a parallel, I see them as closer to the spectral Drake of "Pink Moon" rather than Dylan, whom the prince has always claimed to be inspired by.

Ah Dave, come on. The closest thing I know to the residents of known groups are the Faust from their first album (Neu! don’t even enter the conversation, at most Can’s tracks like "Peking O" [already mentioned earlier by fantasticovegetale] could fit, along with groups like "Ptose," "Snakefinger," or "Renaldo and the Loaf," and others), but I doubt you would appreciate them. Anyway, let’s not talk about depth, let’s be serious: you give a reckless 5 to any Italian prog group and to Symphony X and then talk to me about depth? De gustibus and all that, they could even make you vomit the Rez, but lack of depth is a load of elephant dung with orchitis. Maybe quite the opposite, you might hate them for being too cerebral, but come on, lack of depth... let’s not go there again.

By the way, for your listening, you might want to lend an ear to Tuxedomoon's "Desire," which is indeed new wave, but definitely more "polished" and has something in common with Pink Floyd (who, in my opinion, took a lot from new wave in the latter part of their career), besides being a technically well-equipped group and musically even more so, with suite-like pieces that have something common with progressive, as long as you’re not expecting gratuitous displays.

@sanjuro: as soon as I find it, I’ll post a link where there was an interview with a spokesperson for the Residents, where they talked about a lot of nice things and mentioned this thing about the common musician.

But look, the day you stop viewing music as a challenge where, for example, if something is kraut it’s gold and new wave is crap, you would discover that, for instance, the leader of the Red Krayola, who I've read you like, later joined Pere Ubu, and many little things like that.