The header graphic for "Meet The Weezer Wiki", April 1st 2022
In January 2022, Meet The Residents Wiki administrator and Mysterious Spanish Lady Miss Doop conceived an annual tradition of altering the wiki's home page (and often either editing or creating a limited number of additional pages or files) on April Fool's Day.[1]
To date these edits have often reflected inside jokes either from the wiki's administrators, The Mysterious Spanish Ladies, or from the wider Discord Residents fan community, and have primarily involved changing the wiki's home page in a manner falsely suggesting that the wiki revolves around another subject than everyone's favorite anonymous four-piece multimedia outfit.
April Fool's Day 2022: Meet The Weezer Wiki[]
Logo for "Meet The Weezer Wiki", April 1st 2022
The first April Fool's Day prank on Meet The Residents Wiki, quietly (and intentionally poorly) constructed in the early hours of April 1st 2022 by "Mysterious Half-Japanese Girls" Miss Doop, Madam Janet and Lady J..
Thought to be related to an ongoing inside joke revolving around the band Weezer which originated in a Residents Discord fan server.
Pages affected[]
- Home page (by "Miss Doop" and "Lady J.")
- Identities of The Residents (by "Miss Doop" and "Madam Janet")
Pages created[]
- Rivers Cuomo Rap Battle (by "Miss Doop", deleted)
Files created[]
- Wiki logo (by "Miss Doop")
- Ignorance.png (by "Miss Doop")
- Image.png (by "Madam Janet")
- Cuomo.png (by "Cosmichobo1")
Deleted pages[]
Rivers Cuomo Rap Battle[]
The 'Rivers Cuomo' Rap Battle is a one off live performance by a member of The Residents and Rivers Cuomo, in which The Resident improvises a rap verse, for Cuomo to respond to.
April Fool's Day 2023: (Pete) Best of The Beatles Wiki[]
Logo for "(Pete) Best of The Beatles Wiki", April 1st 2023
The second April Fool's Day prank on Meet The Residents Wiki was constructed in the late hours of March 31st 2023 by members of "The Mysterious Hamburg Frauleins" (particularly "Lady J." and "Una Misteriosa").
The update to the home page focused the wiki jokingly on Pete Best, the pre-fame drummer for The Beatles, who is said to be the subject of a private inside joke shared by members of the "Frauleins" (some of whom have inexplicably referred to Best as the group's "patron saint").
Following the introduction of Meet The Residents' wiki's comix feature in January 2023, this year's April Fool's gag extended to include April 1st entries in the wiki's ongoing comic strip series, Mole Hill (by "Kula Kirby") and The Negative Zone (by "Una Misteriosa").
Pages affected[]
"(Pete) Best of The Beatles Wiki" as it appeared on April 1st 2023
- Home page (by "Lady J." and "Una Misteriosa")
- The Residents discography (by "Miss Doop")
- The Beatles (by "Lady J.")
Pages created[]
- Pete Best (by "Lady J.")
- Best of The Beatles (by "Lady J.")
Files created[]
- Wiki logo (by "Una Misteriosa")
- Ignoranceofpete.png (by "Una Misteriosa")
- Pete_Best2005.jpg (by "Lady J.")
- Best-of-beatles.png (by "Lady J.")
- Mole Hill #7 (by "Kula Kirby")
- The Negative Zone #7 (by "Una Misteriosa")
Deleted pages[]
Pete Best[]
Randolph Peter Best (né Scanland; usually known simply as Pete Best, born 24 November 1941) is an English musician known as the drummer of the English rock band The Beatles, who was unfairly dismissed from the band in 1962 after playing drums as a Beatle for the previous two years in Germany and England. He is one of several people who have been referred to as "the fifth Beatle".
Best's mother Mona Best (1924–1988) opened the Casbah Coffee Club in the cellar of the Best family house in Liverpool. The Beatles (at the time known as the Quarrymen) played some of their first concerts at the club. The Beatles invited Best to join the band on August 12th 1960, on the eve of the group's first season of club dates in Hamburg, Germany. Best was controversially replaced by Ringo Starr on August 16th 1962 when The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein fired Best at the request of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison following the band's first recording session.
Following his dismissal from The Beatles, Best started his own band, the Pete Best Four, later joining and starting many bands over the following years. Failing to find commercial success, Best retired from the music industry to work as a civil servant for twenty years, before returning to music and starting the Pete Best Band.
In the 1990s Best received a major monetary payout for his work with The Beatles, following the release of their 1995 compilation of their early recordings on Anthology 1; Best played the drums on ten tracks featured on the album, including the Decca auditions.
Discography[]
Albums[]
- Best of The Beatles (1965)
- The Beatle That Time Forgot (1981)
- Rebirth (1981)
- Back to the Beat (1995)
- Beyond The Beatles 1964-1966 (1996)
- Live at the Adelphi Liverpool 1988 (1996)
- Best (1998)
- Casbah Coffee Club 40th Anniversary Limited Edition (1999)
- The Savage Young Beatles (2004)
- Haymans Green (as The Pete Best Band) (2008)
Singles[]
- "I'm Gonna Knock on Your Door" b/w "Why Did I Fall in Love with You" (1964)
- "Don't Play With Me (Little Girl)" b/w "If You Can't Get Her" (1965)
- "If You Can't Get Her" b/w "The Way I Feel About You" (1965)
- "Kansas City" b/w "Boys" (1965)
- "(I'll Try) Anyway" b/w "I Wanna Be There" (1965)
- "I Can't Do Without You Now" b/w "Keys to My Heart" (1965)
External links and references[]
Best of The Beatles[]
Best of The Beatles is the debut album by popular Liverpool drummer Peter Best, released on the Savage label in 1966. The album's title, although plain enough to be enticing to the many regional Pete Best fans in the Liverpool area, nevertheless confused some fans of Best's former band The Beatles, who were then, despite massive success in the pop music industry, at the very apex of their decline into artistic mediocrity and eventual dissolution.
As the title suggest, on this album, Best demonstrates the "Liverpool Beat" that his overrated, highly successful former band The Beatles were missing after dismissing Best prior to reaching international acclaim and, to the dismay of many female fans, replacing him with the squat, rhythmically (and nasally) challenged hack Richard "Ringo Starr" Starkey.
Despite high fan demand in the years since its release, the album has only been reissued once, in 1971. Best continues to insist that he will reissue his debut "only when the world deserves it". Nevertheless, the song "I'm Blue" achieved worldwide popularity in 1998 when it was covered by Italian Eurodance group Eiffel 65.
Track listing[]
Side A[]
- Last Night (2:05)
- Why Did You Leave Me Baby (1:59)
- Shimmy Like My Sister Kate (2:00)
- I Need Your Lovin' (2:29)
- Nobody But You (2:07)
- I Can't Do Without You Now (3:00)
Side B[]
- Casting My Spell (1:58)
- Wait & See (2:00)
- Some Other Guy (1:55)
- I'm Blue (3:10)
- She's Alright (2:22)
- Keys To My Heart (2:10)
See also[]
External links and references[]
April Fool's Day 2024: Meet The Residents 50th Anniversary[]
"Meet The Residents 50th Anniversary" by "dare", April 1st 2024
April 1st 2024 marked the 50th Anniversary of the release of The Residents' groundbreaking debut album Meet The Residents, and by extension, is the date often considered to mark the official 50th Anniversary of The Residents themselves.
In respect of this auspicious occasion, The Mysterious Spanish Ladies opted not to employ a "prank" redesign of the wiki for April Fool's Day 2024; instead, artist and contributor "dare" supplied a commemorative comic strip marking the anniversary of the album, which was available on the home page of Meet The Residents Wiki for the entire month of April.
The Ladies' traditional April Fool's Day wiki redesign is expected (or feared) to return in 2025.
Files created[]
- "Meet The Residents 50th Anniversary" comic strip (by "dare")
See also[]
External links and references[]
- ↑ "I really wanna do something for April Fools on the wiki haha", "Miss Doop", message posted in Mysterious Spanish, Uninc. Discord server, January 4th 2022