The Residents - The Third Reich 'n Roll (1976)

The Third Reich 'n Roll is a 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. The liner notes state that approximately 30 songs have been utilised. Some are obvious, while others are almost unrecognizable. It has been suggested[by whom?] that the following is the album's "true" track listing (none of these songs are listed on the album cover):

1. Swastikas on Parade (recorded 1974)– 17:34
-Let's Twist Again (German version--sampled)
-Monster Mash (opening noises only)
-Land of a Thousand Dances
-Hanky Panky
-A Horse with No Name
-Double Shot Of My Baby's Love
-The Letter
-Psychotic Reaction
-Revolution 9
-Little Girl
-Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (German version)
-Talk Talk (The Music Machine)
-I Want Candy (Ambiguous)
-To Sir, with Love (Ambiguous)
-Telstar
-Wipe Out
-Heroes and Villains (Ambiguous)

2. Hitler Was A Vegetarian (recorded 1975)– 18:27
-Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)
-96 Tears
-It's My Party
-Keem-O-Sabe (The Electric Indian)
-Nut Rocker (Ambiguous)
-Light My Fire
-Asia Minor (Ambiguous)
-Ballad of the Green Berets
-Yummy Yummy Yummy
-Rock Around the Clock
-Pushing Too Hard (The Seeds)
-Good Lovin'
-Gloria
-In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
-Sunshine of Your Love
-Hey Jude
-Sympathy for the Devil

3. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - 4:38 (mono)
4. Loser (is congruent to) Weed" - 2:12 (mono)



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.

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.

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RIP Dennis Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010)

Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper, best known for directing and starring in the 1969 cult classic Easy Rider, died on Saturday from complications of prostate cancer, a friend of the actor said. Hopper was 74.

In a wildly varied career spanning more than 50 years, Hopper appeared alongside his mentor James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and Giant in the 1950s and played maniacs in such films as Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet and Speed.

He received two Oscar nominations - for writing Easy Rider (with co-star Peter Fonda and Terry Southern), and for a rare heartwarming turn as an alcoholic high-school basketball coach in the 1986 drama Hoosiers.

But his prodigious drug abuse, temper tantrums, propensity for domestic violence and poor choice of movie roles often made him a Hollywood pariah.

Hopper felt over-indulgence was a requirement for great artists. He once claimed he snorted lines of cocaine "as long as your arm every five minutes, just so I could carry on drinking ... gallons" of alcohol.

Still, his legacy rests securely on Easy Rider. Regarded as one of the greatest films of American cinema, it helped usher in a new era in which the old Hollywood guard was forced to cede power to young filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese.

The low-budget blockbuster, originally conceived by Fonda, introduced mainstream moviegoers to pot-smoking, cocaine-dealing, long-haired bikers.

"We'd gone through the whole '60s and nobody had made a film about anybody smoking grass without going out and killing a bunch of nurses," Hopper told Entertainment Weekly in 2005. "I wanted Easy Rider to be a time capsule for people about that period."

Hopper and Fonda were joined on screen by a then-unknown Jack Nicholson as an alcoholic lawyer, but it was not a harmonious set. Hopper clashed violently with everyone and Fonda later described him as a "little fascist freak." Their friendship was destroyed.

"Dennis introduced me to the world of Pop Art and 'lost' films," Fonda said in a statement. "We rode the highways of America and changed the way movies were made in Hollywood. I was blessed by his passion and friendship."

Hopper's 1971 directorial follow-up, The Last Movie, shot amid what he later called "one long sex and drug orgy" in Peru, was a flop.

He was often gripped by paranoid delusions. In 1982, while filming Jungle Warriors in Mexico, he ran naked into the jungle, convinced World War Three had started. He was put on a plane home but jumped out onto the wing as it was about to take off, fearful that the plane was on fire. Upon his return, he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for three months.

He starred in bad movies just for the money, such as Super Mario Bros and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and turned down important projects that could have enhanced his legend, such as Taxi Driver and Reservoir Dogs.

Hopper also found himself typecast as the psychotic villain thanks to such films as Blue Velvet in which he played a gas-huffing rapist, and the 1994 smash Speed in which his character rigged a city bus to explode.

Outside of Hollywood, he was a noted photographer, painter, sculptor and art collector. He lived in a warehouse-style compound in the coastal suburb of Venice, in a neighborhood that was gang-infested until a decade ago.

Indeed, his private life was never dull. His marriages included an eight-day union in 1970 with Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and Papas, who later told Vanity Fair that she was subjected to "excruciating" treatment.

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R.I.P. DIO

Ronnie James Dio (July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010) was an American heavy metal vocalist and songwriter. He performed with, amongst others, Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, and his own band Dio. Other musical projects include the collective fundraiser Hear 'n Aid. He was widely hailed as one of the most powerful singers in heavy metal, renowned for his consistently powerful voice and for popularizing the "devil's horns" hand gesture in metal culture. Prior to his death, he was collaborating on a project with former Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Vinny Appice, under the moniker Heaven & Hell, whose first studio album, The Devil You Know, was released on April 28, 2009. Dio died of stomach cancer on May 16, 2010.




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