Third Reich & Roll
| The Third Reich 'n Roll | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
||||
| Studio album by The Residents | ||||
| Released | February 1976 | |||
| Recorded | October 1974 (A Side) October 1975 (B Side) |
|||
| Genre | Noise rock, avant-garde | |||
| Length | 35:57 | |||
| Label | Ralph, East Side Digital, Mute | |||
| Producer | The Residents | |||
| The Residents chronology | ||||
|
||||
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
The Third Reich 'n Roll is a 1976 album by the U.S. avant-garde rock group The Residents. Their second (officially) released album, it is a parody and satire of pop music and commercials from the 1960s. The work consists of two side-long pastiches of various songs from the period. Some are obvious, while others are almost unrecognizable. Although none of the songs are named on the album, The Residents' first website listed the tracks as the following:
Recorded in 1974.
Recorded in 1975.
Some of these songs are played simultaneously. America's "A Horse with No Name" is slightly newer than the rest of the hits on the album, but matches The Swinging Medallions' "Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)" exactly. Vocals from The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" are performed during a guitar solo to the tune of The Beatles' "Hey Jude" (performed by Gary Phillips of the band Earth Quake), and "Telstar" is played simultaneously with "Wipe Out".
The album generated controversy due to its cover art which featured television entertainer Dick Clark in a Nazi uniform holding a carrot while surrounded by swastikas and pictures of a dancing Adolf Hitler in both male and female dress. A version was marketed in the 1980s for German consumption which heavily censored much of the cover art by stamping the word "censored" over every Nazi reference.
...
Wikipedia