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Twenty Twisted Questions

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| name = Twenty Twisted Questions

| type = video

| artist = The Residents

| cover = Residents Twenty Twisted Questions.jpg

| alt = LaserDisc Cover

| released = May 28, 1992{{cite web |url=http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/26134/V1053L/The-Residents:-Twenty-Twisted-Questions |title=LaserDisc Database |access-date=Jan 1, 2012}}

| recorded = 1972–1992

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| genre = Experimental, avant-garde, noise rock, multimedia

| length = 60 minutes

| label = Voyager Company

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Twenty Twisted Questions is a 1992 LaserDisc by American avant-garde group "The Residents". It is a compilation of the band's history up to Freak Show, their then multimedia project. The footage was released in Europe as a PAL VHS without the LaserDisc features.

Track listing

=Side 1=

==Video and Film Art==

  1. The Third Reich 'n Roll
  2. (Swastikas on Parade)
  3. Eloise
  4. One Minute Movies
  5. Moisture
  6. Act of Being Polite
  7. Perfect Love
  8. Simple Song
  9. This is a Man's Man's Man's World
  10. Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers
  11. Don't Be Cruel
  12. Freak Show
  13. Everyone Comes to the Freak Show
  14. Harry the Head
  15. Nobody Laughs When They Leave

=Side 2=

==Performance Art==

  1. The Mole Show (Narrated by Penn Jillette)
  2. The 13 Anniversary Show
  3. Where is She?
  4. Cube-E
  5. Buckaroo Blues
  6. Black Barry
  7. The Baby King

==Music and Graphic Arts==

Featured discography from The Residents from 1972 (Santa Dog) to 1991 (Freak Show)

==End Credits, Bonus Track==

  1. Production Credits
  2. Ty's Freak Show (This track was recorded on November 17, 1991, using NEC's video editing software at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA){{cite web|title=Related Live Events|url=http://www.residents.com/historical4/freakshow/page7/page7.html|access-date=2012-01-01}}

Production credits

* Directed by The Residents

  • Produced by The Cryptic Corp.
  • Executive Producer: Michael Nash, The Voyager Co.
  • Music Written and Performed by The Residents and Published by Pale Pachyderm, [BMI] Except where noted
  • Edited by Skip Sweeny, Video Free America; Laurie Schmidt, San Francisco Production Group
  • Technical Director: Morgan Holly
  • Production Coordinator: Kim Finneran

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  • The Voyager Company
  • Package Design by Rex Ray
  • Liner Notes by Barry Walters
  • Music Selected by Uncle Willie
  • Special Thanks: Chris McGregor, Ty Roberts, Light Source/NEC, OSC/Digidesign, Apple Computer, New Tek Inc.
  • (Copyright notices for track optimized for frame by frame feature.)
{{cite web|title=End Credits, 24:33- 24:51|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfVE3Qg8oOY#t=24m33s.

|access-date=1 January 2012|author=The Residents|author2=The Voyager Company |year=1992}}

Critical response

At the time, Entertainment Weekly video critic Ty Burr rated it a C+. He said that the video "...is for undiscriminating fans only: It's the high-tech version of a souvenir T-shirt."{{cite news|last=Burr|first=Ty|title=The Residents: Twenty Twisted Questions|url=https://ew.com/article/1992/06/26/residents-twenty-twisted-questions/|publisher=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=1 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421064044/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,310954,00.html|archive-date=April 21, 2009|url-status=live|date=26 June 1992}}

References

{{Reflist}}

{{The Residents}}

Category:The Residents albums

Category:1992 compilation albums

Category:1992 video albums

Category:LaserDisc releases