Also an album by
The Residents, possibly their only album on which a majority of the songs have a
hummable tune.
"Wormwood" is a
concept album, subtitled "Curious Stories from
the Bible". The songs are strict, almost literal retellings of biblical narratives, usually told from the point of view of a Biblical character...and they're so bizzare it makes you wonder how we could've possibly built a civilization on a book as fucked up as this one. Topics include:
Judah's oldest son marries the beautiful
Tamar, and
God kills him because he
pulls out while
fucking so as not to
impregnate her...
Jephtach promises God that if he wins in battle he'll
sacrifice the first animal that comes out of his house to greet him, and when that animal turns out to be his daughter, he kills her...
Jeremiah has a really scary
trip and sees the
throne of God, etc.
Tracklist:
- In the Beginning (2:57) - Genesis 1-3
- Fire Fall (3:34) - Genesis 19
- They are the Meat (2:40) - Ezekiel 4:4-15, 8-11
- Melancholy Clumps (1:43) - Genesis 6-8
- How to Get a Head (4:05) - Mark 6:17-29
- Cain and Abel (3:34) - Genesis 4
- Mr. Misery (2:19) - Jeremiah, Lamentations
- Tent Peg in the Temple (2:54) - Judges 4-5
- God's Magic Finger (2:41) - Daniel 5
- Spilling the Seed (2:44) - Genesis 38
- Dinah and the Unclean Skin (3:12) - Genesis 34
- Bathsheba Bathes (2:52) - 2 Samuel 11
- Bridegroom of Blood (4:57) - Exodus 4:24-26
- Hanging by his Hair (2:33) - 2 Samuel 13:20-30, 16:20-22, 18:9-15
- The Seven Ugly Cows (2:34) - Genesis 39-41
- Burn Baby Burn (2:59) - Judges 11:31-40
- KILL HIM! (2:39) - Genesis 22
- I Hate Heaven (2:50) - The Song of Solomon
- Judas Saves (3:55) - Mark 14:17-46
- Revelation (5:38) - Revelation of John 4-22