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Nightmare Fuel: The Residents
A lot of music by The Residents count as Nightmare Fuel.

  • Their disturbing cover of "I Can't Get No Satisfaction", which mentions that the narrator stabs and kicks whenever he can't get popcorn at the movies, among other things.
  • Large chunks of The Commercial Album, including "Die In Terror," "Margaret Freeman," and "My Work Is So Behind."
  • Third Reich And Roll album contained forty disturbing cover versions of top forty songs from the 1960s. Among many bizarre warpings, the bitter-breakup garage-pop standard "Hey Little Girl" becomes a genuinely chilling piece with a mocking, serial killer-like vocal and grimly march-like music which features plenty of ominous buzzing, droning and rumbling noises in the background (powertools? Brrr...). It must have been a very bitter breakup, indeed.
  • The entire final section of Baby Sex, when not incredibly silly - hell, even when incredibly silly - is pure Nightmare Fuel for the uninitiated.
  • When not beautiful and morose, their album Animal Lover tends towards the seriously disturbing.
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