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"N-ER-GEE (A Crisis Bluesuite)" (alternatively "N-ER-GEE (Crisis Blues)", "N-ER-GEE" or "NRG") is a suite by The Residents, from their debut album Meet The Residents, released April 1st 1974 on Ralph Records. An excerpt was also featured on a flexidisc sampler promoting the album, released in the February 1974 issue of File Magazine.
The suite, which closes the album, obliquely refers to the then-current oil crisis of 1973 and resulting global recession. It prominently samples The Human Beinz' 1968 cover of The Isley Brothers' "Nobody But Me". The climax of the suite, a sung refrain ("Go home America / Fifty-five'll do"), is a direct reference to the thousands of American casualties incurred at that point in the Vietnam War.[1]
Just over ten minutes in length in its original mono mix, "N-ER-GEE" was remixed into a shorter stereo version in 1977; the stereo mix of the suite is almost three minutes shorter than the original release. Although it has never been played live to date, The Residents' founding composer and keyboardist Charles Bobuck produced a solo arrangement of the suite, which was released on the 2017 EP Clank Clank Clank.
Lyrics[]
The, the The end of the rainbow Is a speedin' up news But the, the The knot in the The fuse Is the speed that, That you lose?
Go home America Fifty-five'll do Go home America[2]
List of releases[]
- Meet The Residents Sampler (1974) [Version 1]
- Meet The Residents (1974) [Version 2]
- Meet The Residents stereo remix (1977) [Version 3]
- Clank Clank Clank by Charles Bobuck (2017) [Version 4]
- Meet The Residents pREServed CD edition (2018) [Version 2] [Version 3] [Version 5]
- Meet The Residents pREServed vinyl edition (2023) [Version 2] [Version 3] [Version 6]
List of versions[]
- ↑ Sycamore Street studio recording, February - October 1973 (sampler edit)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Sycamore Street studio recording, February - October 1973 (original mono version, 10:06)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Sycamore Street studio recording, February - October 1973 (1977 stereo remix, 7:16)
- ↑ Charles Bobuck studio recording, 2014
- ↑ Sycamore Street studio recording, February - October 1973 ("N-ER-GEE Crisis Outro", 0:55)
- ↑ Sycamore Street studio recording, February - October 1973 (outro "RDX" mix, 1:37)
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Meet The Residents (1974) Side A |