Icky Flix [DVD]

The Residents

Overview

Charting a singular musical and creative path, the Residents have, for nearly three decades, been one of the most original and uncompromising bands in American underground music, and just as their music observed few precedents, they were experimenting with music video and interactive digital technology long before either was commonplace in pop music. The Residents: Icky Flix is a special DVD release that collects over 100 minutes worth of sound and images from the Residents on one disc, including a restored and re-edited version of their early film "Vileness Fats"; cult classic videos for the songs "Hello Skinny," "This Is a Man's Man's Man's World," and "Constantinople"; "One Minute Movies," a collection of videos for songs from the album The Residents' Commercial Album; "condensed" versions of the CD-ROM releases Bad Day on the Midway and The Gingerbread Man; three brand-new videos; and much more. In addition, the DVD also allows users to choose between the original versions of the music used to accompany the films, and brand-new (and often radically rearranged) versions recorded by the group specifically for this DVD.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/15/2005
UPC:	0022891443797
Original Release:	2001
Rating:	NR
Source:	MUSIC VIDEO DIST.***
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:40:00
Sales rank:	48,702

Special Features

Choose between the original music or a brand spankin' new version; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound (new version); Digitally remastered and enhanced videos; Restoration of Vileness Fats footage; Over 30 minutes of never-before-seen videos; Over three hours of music; Instant interactive access to videos; Discography and more

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

The Residents	Performer
The Residents	Primary Artist,Director

Technical Credits

The Residents

Composer

Editorial Reviews

This is exactly the sort of thing DVDs were made for. The Residents' Icky Flix collects all of their videos, starting with 1976's "The Third Reich and Roll" and continuing through to "concentrates" of the group's CD-ROMs The Gingerbread Man and Bad Day at the Midway that were completed in 2000. Not only that, the disc adds on a brilliant, terrifying, and impossibly rare video by their Ralph Records compatriots Renaldo and the Loaf, "Songs for Swinging Larvae," and a new edit of the legendary never-completed film Vileness Fats. Most impressively, the separate audio tracks for each film give the viewer the choice of hearing either the original soundtrack for each video or a newly recorded (and in most cases, radically altered) version of the music. Not only that, but the group also created four brand new videos for older pieces of music, including 1978's "Constantinople," 1992's "He Also Serves" and "Kick a Picnic," and 1999's "Burn Baby Burn." The videos are exquisitely restored. "The Third Reich and Roll" is presented in color (previous video collections had featured a black-and-white print; ironically, everything in the entire video is either black or white) with its original end titles. The Vileness Fats footage looks worlds better than it had on 1984's haphazard Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats?, and the tighter edit makes the story simultaneously more linear and more disturbing. The digitally remastered soundtracks are similarly excellent. No Residents fan should be without this disc. ~ Stewart Mason