A quasi-Greg Earle anti-critic flame :-)

[hsut@ec.purdue.edu (Tsun-Yuk Hsu)]

	In last week's Village Voice you will find a misinformed and
uninformative review of a concert given by everyone's favorite synth-
eccentrics, the Residents. Just who is this Mary Passantino who wrote
the article??? It's people like her who give critics a bad name :-) :-)

	(Oops, that should be Rosemary, not Mary. None of us is perfect :-)

	In her cursory overview of the Residents' work (in that self-righteous
all-knowing style typical of many critics, of course), she completely
neglects what is generally considered the Residents' technical masterpiece,
the concept album ESKIMO. She also mentions in passing the infamous
album cover with Dick Clark's head on Hitler's body, and makes the
incredible blunder of attributing it to NOT AVAILABLE, when in fact
it was on the cover of THIRD REICH AND ROLL. Then Rosemary condemns the
Residents' "dinosaur antics" (her exact words) after the COMMERCIAL ALBUM,
citing as examples the Mole Trilogy, VILENESS FATS and RESIDUE. Of course
self-respecting Residents fan knows that VILENESS FATS contains music
from a video the Residents made back in the early '70s, while RESIDUE
is a compilation of leftover tracks from many albums, so these two
albums are hardly representative of recent trends in the Resident's
work. AND of course she neglects to mention the hilarious GEORGE AND
JAMES, whose freshness and zaniness would dispell any fears that the
Residents are taking themselves too seriously.

	And I thought misinformation was only a symptom of the sickness
of net.music :-) :-)

				Bill Hsu