The Third Reich 'n Roll

Infobox Album | Name = The Third Reich 'n Roll
Type = Album
Artist = The Residents


Released = 1976
Recorded = 1974-1975
Genre = Experimental rock
Noise Rock
Length = 35:37
Label = Ralph Records
Producer = The Residents
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:9e5f8qxtbt94 link] | Last album = "Meet the Residents" (1974)
This album = "The Third Reich 'n Roll" (1976)

Next album = "Fingerprince"
(1976)

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

Swastikas on Parade:
# 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 LoveThe Residents would later recut a full version of this song during the sessions for "God in Three Persons" as well as incorporate it into the score of "".]
# The Letter
# Psychotic Reaction
# Revolution 9Although Revolution #9 was never by any means a pop hit, it seems that the Residents did their own version. Comparing the two shows similarities: combat sounds, strange horn sounds, trafic noises, yelling, and orchestral samples. The Residents' verison most likely starts 9 minutes and 22 seconds in with the car crash sound.]
# Little Girl
# Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (German version)It is widely considered that the use of a horn hit directly from the original King Records 45 of "...Brand New Bag" on "Third Reich & Roll" is the first ever commercially released record to sample James Brown, predating rap music's adaptations of Brown riffs, beats, and soundbites by about 15 years.]
# Talk Talk
# I Want Candy (Highly ambiguous)
# To Sir, with Love (Highly ambiguous)
# Telstar
# Wipe Out
# Heroes and Villains (Highly ambiguous)

Hitler Was A Vegetarian:
# Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)
# 96 Tears
# It's My Party
# Keem-O-Sabe Keem-O-Sabe is identifiable as the Native American-sounding introduction for Light My Fire. ]
# Nut Rocker (Highly ambiguous)
# Light My Fire
# Asia Minor(Highly ambiguous)
# Ballad of the Green Berets
# Yummy Yummy Yummy
# Rock Around the ClockIt is disputed by many listeners as to whether this song actually appears on the album; it may equally as validly be assumed to be a version of B. Bumble and the Stingers's 1961 "Bumble Boogie," their (also 1961) "Boogie Woogie," or Jimmy Dorsey's 1957 "J. D.'s Boogie Woogie." ]
# Pushing Too Hard
# Good Lovin'
# Gloria
# In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
# Sunshine of Your Love
# Hey Jude
# Sympathy for the Devil

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. The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" is performed as the guitar solo to The Beatles' Hey Jude.

Better realized and executed than their first album, it also 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.

Rumor has it Dick Clark found the cover amusing, and has a framed copy in his office.

The album was originally released on Ralph Records.

An ultimate special edition hardbook containing all the original artwork and the full photo-session was released on MUTE RECORDS in September 2005.

Track listing

#"Swastikas on Parade" – 17:30
#"Hitler Was a Vegetarian" – 18:27

*Bonus Tracks (1988 CD release only)
# "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - 4:30 (mono)
# "Loser (is congruent to) Weed" - 2:09 (mono)
# "Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life " - 3:56
# "Flying" - 3:22

ee also

*Hitler in popular culture

References and footnotes