Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen
Studio album by The Residents
Released	November 1978
Recorded	October 1977-August 1978
Genre	Avant-garde
Length	34:30
Label	Ralph East Side Digital
The Residents chronology
Duck Stab! (1978) Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen (1978) Eskimo (1979)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Glorious Noise	(Recommended) [2]

Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen is an album released in 1978 by The Residents. It is often called Duck Stab!, after Duck Stab!, a seven-song EP released earlier in 1978 featuring shorter songs similar to the first side of Fingerprince. Buster and Glen was intended to follow Duck Stab!, but instead was the B-side of LP with the former release as the A-side. The 1995 Euro Ralph CD reissue of the album included Duck Stab! and Buster and Glen as two separate 3" mini CDs, marking the first and only time where the latter has been presented as a standalone EP as originally intended.

The shorter length of the songs made the album more accessible for fans who had recently heard "Satisfaction", and songs like "Constantinople" and "Hello Skinny" helped cement the band's cult following. This album features guitar by Philip "Snakefinger" Lithman.

Track listing

All tracks by The Residents

1. "Constantinople" - 2:23
2. "Sinister Exaggerator" - 3:28
3. "The Booker Tease" - 1:04
4. "Blue Rosebuds" - 3:08
5. "Laughing Song" - 2:12
6. "Bach Is Dead" - 1:12
7. "Elvis and His Boss" - 2:29
8. "Lizard Lady" - 1:54
9. "Semolina" - 2:48
10. "Birthday Boy" - 2:41
11. "Weight-Lifting Lulu" - 3:11
12. "Krafty Cheese" - 1:59
13. "Hello Skinny" - 2:41
14. "The Electrocutioner" - 3:20

• Bonus tracks (1987 CD release only)

15. Disaster
16. Plants
17. Farmers
18. Twinkle

Personnel

• The Residents – Arranger, Producer
• Ruby – Vocals
• Snakefinger – Vocals, Guitar
• G. Whifler – Photography

In popular culture

• The album is among the albums contained in Robert Dimery's book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.^[3]
• "Sinister Exaggerator" is covered by Primus on their 1992 EP Miscellaneous Debris. The songs "Constantinople" and "Hello Skinny" are also covered as a medley by Primus on the 2002 reissue of Frizzle Fry.
• "Bach is Dead" is covered by Idiot Flesh on their 1997 album Fancy.
• "Hello Skinny" and "The Electrocutioner" are covered by Flat Earth Society on their 2000 album Bonk.

References

1. McCarthy, Kieran. Duck Stab/Buster & Glen at AllMusic
2. Glorious Noise review
3. Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (23 March 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2.