Remember seeing this video in the early 80's on USA Night Flight. That's how I got turned on to The Residents. I have been insane ever since. These guys were WAY ahead of their time. Early video pioneers, early computer media pioneers, musical pioneers whose influence is felt by alternative, punk, new wave, noise rock. The Residents deserve to be in the conversation for one of the most influential bands of all time, and a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Thank you, Les Claypool, for introducing me to this amazing band

Exceptional. Listening to "Duck Stab" in the dark has been one of the most challenging experiences of my life.

I'm an amateur artist, and I love drawing the classy suit-wearing eyeball costumes. Man, that's timeless cool.

I found out about the Residents through looking through my parents' vinyl collection and finding the Commercial Album and was incredibly intrigued by the perspective cover. I did some research on them and now I love them. The weird, the wonderful and the just damn insane are things about the band that make me love the Residents so much.

"Duck Stab" was my entry point into The Residents when I was about 14. My sister knew a guy that she borrowed this record from. I met a kid in my high school design class that made me a copy of "Wormwood" and "Our Finest Flowers". It still remains some of the most enigmatic music I've ever heard and a band that really influenced my own art. (My channel name here that i've had since i was a junior in high school is even a reference to the Santa Dog album lol)

This seriously needs to be made into a movie. Skinny the itinerant worker who dwells in urban shadows is actually an agent for extraterrestrials, or something.

Favorite “band” ever. So, so timeless.

R.I.P. Hardy Fox, you'll be missed

There is something in the accordion chords on the start, they're so melancholic and beautiful to my brain and ears

I've listening to these nuts since 1983. They are a brilliant art collective.

Try listening to this in the woods at night

I've drank a lot of Absinthe this evening, cheers for freaking me out whilst drunk lol

This is like a really, really, reeeaaaally bad fever dream The...bassoon(?) in the background really adds to it.

These guys were making creepypastas decades before the internet was even a thing.

Beyond brilliance.

The residents + Rush = Primus

In an ideal world this would be a global Number 1 hit at Christmas.

It don't get any better than this!

Great song, timeless bass riff. The guy in the video kind of looks a little like Ed Gein. Primus' version is fantastic as well.

gran tema... the residents son increibles.

It'll never get old.....brilliant.

veo este vídeo y se me ponen los pelos de punta, me teletransporta a 1996, a enero y al programa undeground del canal 2, Rock&pop, "viva la revolución" conducido por el gran rolando ramos!!!!

i can't tell if this song is more sad or terrifying, but i know it's both.

Member of Resident's Fan Club since 1978!

Awesome, this just might be the greatest "music video" ever...

what a masterpiece, piece of art, the best ever.

I love the residents, grettings from México, My friend Wolf Adusse told me about this band, i met this song because he's writting a story about this song, inspired by a nightmare he had on 2017

"Duck Stan/Buster and Glen" is a soundtrack of my high school times. God I hated high school. But I love The Residents.

I don't feel alone on this earth anymore

This is absolutely amazing. Art.

complete and total win. Thank you, Residents (whoever you are!)

If David Lynch made music...

That's got to suck. You just left a psychiatric hospital and then these scary weirdos with eyes for heads find you and make you the centerpiece for their scary video, for their scary song about a drug addict. Enough to be straw that broke the camels back for any crazy.

what happened to Bridgit Terris though ? the guy we see in this video ? That's what I want know, now !

desea lo que digan es una muy buena cancion me encantan los residentss

For those who want to know what the song is about- I can't say, but if you want music that is linear with non-absurd lyrics you may want to listen to a band other than The Residents. On the other hand, if you like the mystery of not knowing and have an appreciation of absurdity and enjoy the challenge of art that makes you think then viva la Residents. Very much like a Lynch film or a story by Kafka.

New wave de lo más experimental. Esto es arte germinal...

Oh man!!! Those college days: the residents, the fall, secret chiefs, ministry

Huge classic !

One of or more of such music/media phenomena that are intentionally amorphous, flexible, & surreal, which promote significantly curious aspects of attraction.

Hello, guys! It seems like old Residents clips have starting vignettes that are actually weird video footage of them, with background music from early stuff (things from "Meet the Residents" or "Third Reich"). Do anyone know the name of the song on the beginning of this video (00:00 to 00:17)? Thanks a lot, Mole-People!

After listening to the residents for an hour I no longer feel pain. Not even Devienart can hurt me anymore... I just want my life back Randy...

How does this video not have more hits?

I'm scared. .. and I like it.

I love this song so very much. Last time I watched this video on KZfaq was in 2009.

You can certainly see where Les Claypool takes his vocal stylings from.

Crystal Meth. "Skinny was born in a bathtub." Much home made meth is cooked in bathtubs, therefore, that was how he was born, or how 'Skinny' was made. "And he grew so incredibly thin, even the end of an eyedropper sucked him in." (Most) people get crazy thin if they're a meth addict About selling things, a person is likely to go broke, likely lose their job if they are a serious addict, so they are going to sell whatever they can to get a fix.

musica de la dimension desconocida

Secondo me Duck Stab/Buster and Glen è il loro miglior album e questo pezzo è fra i migliori. E' ancora emozionante e genera un'atmpsfera mentale unica.

1:05 MY EYES! MY EYES!

i couldn't breathe watching this song

"Hello Dolly, Helo Dolly, Hello Dolly, HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

awesome, the video reminded me of some class from the 70's

ngl kinda fire 🔥

I love hearing The Residents. But now my psychiatrist is bringing my medicines and I need to put on my straightjacket before bed! :D

Hello, Skinny. I love The Residents.

My favorite music video of all time.

This piece is low-level frightening for me. There's something spoiled and dreadful in it. The fringe of madness slumping across rotted boards at twilight, let's say.

First heard this as a pre-teen, and realized that there was finally a song as weird as me.

Escuchar esto bien pasao de yerba debe ser una odisea.

Skinny looks like an interesting person, Catchy little tune !

Once you hear this song it's in your brain... Forever.

Perfect for 90s late night tv

Still my favorite.

RIP Hardy Fox

WOW .. came here because I'm watching Penn & Teller MTV Guest VJ Hour from 1986 #2 video of 10 they played.. I'm 52. Don't recall this from MTV . Different style , not bad

Hello Residents. This one is about me, thanks so much!!

The residents rule! They are the best band ever! [s]Rock on RESIDENTS!!

I've always wondered if this is about a meth addict's child just from the opening line "Skinny was born in a bathtub " (a reference to bathtub crank?)/"and grew so incredibly thin" "

takes me back pure gold classic,

Rare Masterpiece for me !

RIP Bridgit Terris. PIR Terris Bridgit. Terror Bardot Tilly. Telly Savalas, Ernest Borg-9

This is my favorite children's story

One of my favorites...

I have known about them and followed them since high school 1977. They were so mysterious then because no Internet and pre TV videos. You would see the albums or maybe you might read something in the UK musical press. The Residents have to be one of the greatest modern visual/video artists ever. They probably had tiny budgets for everything. But every image that they ever turned out was disturbing, odd, creepy or frightening. They never had an image that was cheezy.

so good song!

The BEST Residents song..............

So comforting and satisfying. 🧿🎩

This has got to be about meth use, right? Obviously meth correlates with being skinny, being born from the bathtub means the cooking of low grade speed, and skinny selling anything to anyone to get his fix. And just the zoom in on skinny's eyes, I see a black void, no differing shade of black for his iris. Idk if this is intentional or just limitations in what can be picked up.

@NEBNOC WRONG! The Residents came first. Primus merely just covered their songs, mainly because they are fans of the Residents. read more about the Residents, and you will know.

One of my faves!

What's behind this song is creepy, but the rhythm pleases me.

You know it’s this kind of “gangsta rap” music that is corrupting today’s youth.

Speechless

The music video equivalent of, “Eraserhead” by David Lynch LMFAO

Beautiful

Frizzle Fry!

Those truck drivers need to start looking out for Skinny starting here in a month. Get you that Hello Dolly record!

I’ve first heard this song back in the 80’s and I just heard “The Days of Pearly Spencer,” a classic song by David McWilliams. While the two songs couldn’t be more different, the videos seem to have a connection, accidental, if not on purpose. Maybe I’m the only one who thinks this, then again I may be the only person to have had the honor of hearing both songs. Either, or the two are brilliant, if not amazing.

The residents were something then...and something now.

I love drugs!!!!

@SealPool This is actually the best explanation I've seen yet.

XD i've searched for experimental music and i viewed this band, the residents... OMG!

Just turned 20 years old a few weeks ago😂 found out about the Residents through some Spotify auto generated playlist- Eventually showed them to my boyfriend, he personally finds them ‘odd’. To me though, they’re interesting, not sure if it’s because of my special interest in obscure music (I’m on the Autism spectrum-) But anyway.. TLDR: Not really sure how I feel about them, but there’s definitely some good songs 🫶🏻

Yeah I got all of their videos on MPEG4. Cheers!

Been hearin this long time now. Choice.

Charming.

Helloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-- *head explodes*

I don't get what is so compelling to keep rewatching this disturbing track. I don't think a song alone has given me so much anxiety as this but maybe that's why it's intriguing.