The Residents - Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible

I had seen The Residents a year before they released this album when they played at the Fillmore in San Francisco on Halloween. I went with my dearly departed friend and lover Jay (They had booked 4 shows in a row). We went in full costume and so did everyone else. The environment at the Fillmore was electric, in spite of their being 4 shows booked it was so crowded you could barely standup (I'm sure it was sold out and probably the other 3 shows were as well). People were anxious and excited and you could feel it in the air, seriously. Needless to say it was a great show so when I got a chance to see them again the next year I took my then Christian boyfriend who was trying really hard (but unsuccessfully) to get "into" the counter-culture of San Francisco. The entire performance was The Residents playing out the stories from the bible. I didn't realize that he would be offended by their renditions of the bible stories, but I guess he was because it seemed like the shock lasted for several weeks. The show the year before is one of the best shows I ever attended, the show for this albums was pretty amazing as well. The Christian never loosened up and a year later he left me for a girl who worked at a record label whom "his friends liked better".

The Residents are performance artists in a way that you cannot even come close to imagining the entire conceptual art by listening to their albums alone, but the albums are still pretty good.

This is the track listing from wikipedia

1. "In the Beginning" - (2:57) is about the creation of the Earth and is entirely instrumental.
2. "Fire Fall" - (3:34) is about Lot escaping from Sodom and watching his wife turn to salt.
3. "They Are The Meat" - (2:40) is about Ezekiel's visions whilst he is forced to eat only bread and sleep on his side.
4. "Melancholy Clumps" - (1:48) is about Noah building the Ark.
5. "How To Get A Head" - (4:05) tells us the tale of Salome requesting the head of John the Baptist.
6. "Cain And Abel" - (3:34) tells us the story of the jealous Cain killing his brother.
7. "Mr. Misery" - (2:19) is about Jeremiah and his suffering.
8. "Tent Peg In the Temple" - (2:54) is about the killing of Sisera.
9. "G-d's Magic Finger" - (2:41) is about the story of King Belshazzar.
10. "Spilling The Seed" - (2:44) is about the story of Onan.
11. "Dinah and the Unclean Skin" - (2:52) is about the story of Dinah.
12. "Bathsheba Bathes" - (2:52) is about King David and Bathsheba.
13. "Bridegroom of Blood" - (4:57) is about Moses being attacked by G-d and the wife of Moses intervening by performing circumcision on their baby.
14. "Hanging by His Hair" - (2:33) tells us the story of Absalom and his death.
15. "The Seven Ugly Cows" - (2:34) is about Joseph and his visions.
16. "Burn Baby Burn" - (2:59) tells us the story of Jephthah sacrificing his daughter.
17. "KILL HIM!" - (2:39) is the story of G-d telling Abraham to sacrifice his son and gives us an insight into his possible thoughts.
18. "I Hate Heaven" - (2:50) is based on the Song of Solomon.
19. "Judas Saves" - (3:55) is told from the point of view of Judas Iscariot. This song proposes that Judas's betrayal of Jesus was necessary so that people could have their sins forgiven. It also proposes that Judas had been told by G-d to do so. (Compare the theories put forth by the protagonist of Jorge Luis Borges' short story "Three Versions of Judas".)
20. "Revelation" - (5:38) is an instrumental inspired by the Book of Revelation, chapters 4-22.

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