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"Weight-Lifting Lulu" (sometimes printed "Weight Lifting Lulu" or "Weightlifting Lulu") is a song by The Residents, recorded in 1978 for the EP Buster & Glen. While the EP was never issued as a stand-alone release, it featured as the B-side to the album Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen, paired with the earlier Duck Stab! 7" EP. The album was released on Ralph Records on November 30th 1978.
The song features a violin part which anticipates the melody of the song "Hello Skinny", heard later on the album.
An instrumental sketch for a "re-imagined" arrangement was recorded in 2012 for the 35th anniversary of Duck Stab!, and released on the compilation D*ck S*ab - 35th Anniversary.
The song was part of a Duck Stab! suite performed live on the group's Shadowland tour in 2014. A live recording of one of these performances is featured on the 2015 live album. The "re-imagined" and Shadowland versions are both included on the 2018 pREServed edition of Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen.
A radically different live-in-the-studio arrangement of the song was filmed for the Night Flight Plus streaming TV special Duck Stab! Alive!, which aired in June 2021. It is also featured in the set list of the group's Dog Stab! tour, expected to re-commence in Europe in 2023.
Lyrics[]
Original photo-montage incorporated into the Buster & Glen cover art
Sweet scented woman, your strange sounding name Was Weight-Lifting Lulu, but I'm not to blame For putting the gun in your grand daddy's hand As he was imprinting your face in the sand.
The part of the pork chop that you left behind, Has given me breakfast and rendered me blind; I still want you, baby, and I miss you so much. I hated your body, but I needed your touch.
Weight-Lifting Lulu Is under the lawn Weight-Lifting Lulu Forever is gone Weight-Lifting Lulu Forever is gone Weight-Lifting Lulu Is under the lawn.
Weight-Lifting Lulu Forever is gone Weight-Lifting Lulu Is under the lawn.
Weight-Lifting Lulu Forever is gone Weight-Lifting Lulu Forever is gone Weight-Lifting Lulu Forever is gone Weight-Lifting Lulu Forever is gone Weight-Lifting Lulu Forever is gone Weight-Lifting Lulu Forever is gone Weight-Lifting Lulu Forever is gone Weight-Lifting Lulu Forever is gone Weight-Lifting Lulu Forever is gone Weight-Lifting Lulu Forever is gone[1]
List of releases[]
- Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen (1978) [Version 1]
- D*ck S*ab - 35th Anniversary (2012) [Version 2]
- Shadowland (2015) [Version 3]
- Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen pREServed edition (2018) [Version 1] [Version 3] [Version 2]
- Duck Stab! Alive! (2021) [Version 4]
List of versions[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Grove Street studio recording, 1978 (3:12)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Instrumental studio recording, 2012 (3:16)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Shadowland live recording, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France, May 10th 2014 (3:29)
- ↑ 25th Street Recording live studio recording, May 2021 (2:49)
See also[]
Buy Or Die![]
Listen online[]
- "Weight-Lifting Lulu" on Spotify
- "Weight-Lifting Lulu" on Apple Music
- "Weight-Lifting Lulu" (pREServed remaster) on Spotify
- "Weight-Lifting Lulu" (pREServed remaster) on Apple Music
- "Weight-Lifting Lulu" (2012 "re-imagined" version) on Spotify
- "Weight-Lifting Lulu" (2012 "re-imagined" version) on Apple Music
- "Weight-Lifting Lulu" (Shadowland version) on Spotify
- "Weight-Lifting Lulu" (Shadowland version) on Apple Music
- "Weight-Lifting Lulu" (Duck Stab! Alive! version) on Spotify
- "Weight-Lifting Lulu" (Duck Stab! Alive! version) on Apple Music
External links and references[]
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Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen (1978) Side A: Duck Stab! |