Residents: Meet the Residents *****; Third Reich 'N' Roll *****; Finger Prince *****
Jon Savage, Sounds, 31 December 1977
NOT FOR the faint-hearted. Be warned. Residents specialise in cultural sabotage, sonic rearrangement, cryptic capers. They are (at the same time) very funny and vary scary.
Total word count of piece: 792
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