This is just the kind of pretentious nonsense that makes me nuts. It's just very badly lit video. It just looks bad. Again, merely being unpleasant does not make it artistic. The local high school AV team could have done a better production.

By way of throwing them a bone, I'll give at least a passing grade to one song, "Ms Wonderful." Girl cradled the demon in her lap and sang him a lament about the children she was never going to have. This is a discernible meaning. There's some recognizable emotional content. Also, there's a somewhat distinctive tune. More like a couple of hooks, really, with not a whole lot of development. Still, it's somewhat memorable. I'll probably watch that part again sometime.

Also, in fairness they are an OLD group now. How many musical acts are still making credible new music 30 years on? Paul Simon and Elvis Costello spring to mind, not many others. If the idea of the Residents sounds interesting to you, you'd do better to get some of their earlier stuff, Eskimo, Duck Stab, even Diskomo.

Now, I hate to harsh on the Residents. They're something of a nostalgia act for me. I was buying their stuff by mail order as a teenager in the early 80s. I as much as bought the 12" vinyl disco remix of their famous anti-ambient Eskimo album, Diskomo. I even kind of liked it- though in retrospect their late protege Snakefinger was much more musically interesting.

Looking back, it was obviously mostly the IDEA of the Residents that appealed to me. They seemed avant garde, see, and surely none of my dumb Seger and Skynyrd listening classmates would get them. See, I was the only one COOL enough to appreciate this stuff.

Dang, but I was too cool for school. By the time I was getting out of school, though, cool was far less important than musical, and into the ol' memory trunk go the Residents.