Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen, later renamed as just Duck Stab, is the fifth studio album by The Residents, released in November 1978. It is named after the first side of the album, Duck Stab!, a seven-song EP released earlier in 1978 featuring shorter songs similar to the first side of Fingerprince. Buster and Glen, the B-side of the album, was intended to follow Duck Stab! presumably in early 1979.
After the first pressing of Duck Stab! quickly sold out—which was an oddity for the band—they decided to re-release it as an album, merged with the unreleased Buster and Glen. This was also in part due to the audio quality of the original EP, which The Residents stated was poor.[5]
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.
The album was reissued in 2018. It was digitally remastered, and included extra live, rehearsal, unreleased and reimagined tracks. It was released within a six panel digipack sleeve bringing the total of songs to 40.[6]
"Blue Rosebuds" was covered by Shock Headed Peters on the compilation album "Devastate To Liberate" in December 1985
"Sinister Exaggerator" is covered by Primus on their 1992 EP Miscellaneous Debris. The songs "Constantinople" and "Hello Skinny" were released as a CD single by Primus and are also included as bonus tracks on the 2002 reissue of Frizzle Fry.
"Bach is Dead" is covered by Idiot Flesh on their 1997 album Fancy.
"Hello Skinny" and "The Electrocutioner" are covered by Flat Earth Society on their 2000 album Bonk.
^Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (23 March 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. p. 58. ISBN978-0-7893-2074-2.
