Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

Duck Stab redirects here. For the 1978 EP, see Duck Stab!

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

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 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, as well as his vocal on "Constantinople".

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
• 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.
• "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.