Track Listing 1. Bimbo 2. Night Flanger 3. Reverse Lion 4. Downdown Samba 5. Magneto 6. Massage 7. Assistant's Cry 8. Bostich 9. Rock Stop 10. Coast To Polka 11. Blue Green 12. Eternal Legs 13. Stanztrigger 14. Bananas To The Beat 15. Thrill Wave 16. IT Splash 17. Gluehead 18. Smirak's Train 19. Bostich (N'est-ce pas)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Ursli Weber, Yello | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Universal Music | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes When SOLID PLEASURE first hit the racks in the early 1980s (on the Residents' very own Ralph Records label), few were prepared. The bizarre trio, comprising electronics maven Boris Blank, guitarist/sound sampler Carlos Peron, and Swiss wacko Dieter Meier, was a breath of fresh air in the moribund synth-pop scene. Opening with the ping-pong analog funk of "Bimbo," an utterly original panoply of sounds ran throughout the record's two sides like some mysterious serpent twisting its way into the jungle underbrush. Simply put, you've never heard anything quite like it.You might call the catchy gurgling electronic beats and wheezing sounds of "Blue Green" synth-pop, but if this is popular music then we need to re-evaluate Stockhausen's catalog. However, SOLID PLEASURE is indeed pop; there's a strange accessibility to this kaleidoscope of intangible sounds and rhythms. Oddball, obscure, obtuse--acquiring SOLID PLEASURE will convince even the most jaded '80s throwback that there was some integrity to that discombobulated time.
Editorial Reviews 3 stars out of 5 - Their least conventional album, it sounds as simultaneously out of time and novel as it ever did. Mojo
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