The Residents

http://www.residents.com/

Everyone's favorite anonymous avant-rock group, they're The Residents from Shreveport, Louisiana! Anyway, they've got a ton of records out, so I figured that since they seem to be relatively popular among SubGenii, perhaps there would be a use to have sort of a critical guide to the records for which people recommend as good starters and bad starters and whatnot. Anyway, here's a list of all the records, in chronological order:

• Meet the Residents
• Not Available
• The Third Reich N Roll
• Fingerprince
• Duck Stab
• Eskimo (and DVD)/Diskomo
• The Commercial Album (and DVD)
• The Mark of the Mole
• The Tunes of Two Cities
• Title In Limbo
• The Mole Show
• The Mole Show/Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats VHS
• Intermission EP
• Residue/Residue Deux
• The Big Bubble
• George and James
• Assorted Secrets
• Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?
• 13th Anniversary Show Live In Tokyo
• Stars and Hank Forever
• God in 3 Persons
• The Snakey Wake
• The King and Eye
• Buckaroo Blues
• LiveR Music
• Stranger Than Supper
• Cube-E Live In Holland
• Freak Show
• Daydream B-LiveR
• Our Finest Flowers
• 20 Twisted Questions
• Gingerbread Man
• Hunters
• The Residents Have a Bad Day
• Pollex Christi
• Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses/Roosevelt 2.0
• Live At The Fillmore
• Disfigured Night VHS/DVD
• Wormwood
• Land of Mystery
• In Between Screams
• Refused
• Wormwood Live
• Dot.Com
• Roadworms
• Icky Flix (Soundtrack CD and DVD)
• High Horses
• Demons Dance Alone
• Demons Dance Alone DVD
• Kettles of Fish on the Outskirts of Town
• WBRMX
• The King and Eye RMX
• The 12 Days of Brumalia
• I Murdered Mommy
• Animal Lover
• Wormwood Live DVD
• The Way We Were

Or, if you want to cut to the chase, here are the ones tagged by visitors as Essential:

• The Third Reich N Roll
• Fingerprince
• Duck Stab
• Eskimo (and DVD)/Diskomo
• The Commercial Album (and DVD)
• 13th Anniversary Show Live In Tokyo
• God in 3 Persons
• Freak Show
• Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses/Roosevelt 2.0
• Refused
• Icky Flix (Soundtrack CD and DVD)
• Demons Dance Alone
• WBRMX

(Help for compiling this and research goes to RzWeb, Ralph America, EuroRalph, The Moles, and DarKrow for correctin' me on the George and James thing.)