The Residents
The Third Reich 'n' Roll

THE REVIEW

I often come across people who spend loads of money on the latest Vasco Rossi album, download Nek’s ringtone, or buy the magazine Cioè featuring the Green Day on the front page. Basically, I often meet people who are crazy about music but have no clue what it really is. For these people, King Crimson is an unknown band playing crappy music, Pink Floyd are old and their music is deemed unsuitable for our times, and genres not derived from MTV, like jazz and its various branches, are considered dead. Yet, Britney Spears is a great artist, even though “art” is an incomprehensible word for them.

Less often, I find people who follow fascist-nazi ideology. According to these individuals, “negros” don’t deserve dignity because they are “negros”, true values are Christian ones hence it’s right to exterminate Jews, communists boil babies to fertilize fields, and gypsies are all thieves because a gypsy who doesn’t steal is an exception rather than the norm... Essentially, they unhesitatingly follow what Mussolini, Hitler, and their “successors” preached.
There isn’t a coherent line of reasoning behind the two types of people mentioned above, merely a jumble of confused ideas stuffed into their heads by the masses and mixed together to form an unstable yet rigid mindset, provided no questions are asked that might shake and topple this myth.

Year 1976, The “Residents” release their second official album: The Third Reich & Roll. It’s a parody of songs from the era grouped into two tracks: Swastikas On Parade and Hitler Was A Vegetarian. The first contains Let's Twist Again (translated into German), Land Of 1000 Dances, Hanky Panky, A Horse With No Name, Double Shot Of My Baby's Love, The Letter, Psychotic Reaction, Hey, Little Girl, Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, Talk Talk, I Want Candy, To Sir, With Love, Telstar, Wipe Out, and Heroes And Villains; while the second track includes Judy In Disguise (With Glasses), 96 Tears, It's My Party, Light My Fire, Ballad Of The Green Berets, Yummy Yummy Yummy, Rock Around The Clock, Pushing Too Hard, Good Lovin', Gloria, In A Gadda Da Vida, Sunshine Of Your Love, Hey Jude, and Sympathy For The Devil. In the special version of this album, bonus tracks Satisfaction, Loser = Weed, Beyond The Valley Of A Day In The Life, and Flying appear.

The parodies are in true Residents style but with the addition of some typical Third Reich sounds, such as the German police siren, World War II airplanes, voices that seem recorded from the old radios of the time, etc.

PS: This album is not recommended for those who fall into the two categories mentioned above; they might get seriously, seriously offended, eh.
POW!