History Music / TheThirdReichNRoll

* GutturalGrowler: "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is sung this way.

The album remains one of their most popular. It has only two tracks, "Swastikas on Parade" and "Hitler Was a Vegetarian", which take up the whole album. Many well-known pop melodies can be recognized, though this not always easy.

However, ''The Third Reich 'n Roll'' is a ConceptAlbum poking fun at the Nazis. It features an absurd complot theory that the Nazis actually created rock 'n' roll to brainwash the youth.[[note]][[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Another interpretation]] is that the group REALLY pokes fun at conformity in pop music, comparing it to fascism/nazism. Still, the record is ''hardly'' flattering to Nazis.[[/note]] They supposedly did so through famous ''Series/AmericanBandstand'' presenter Dick Clark, which explains why he is shown on the cover in a Nazi uniform. In line with this theory The Residents covered a handful of well known rock and pop tunes from the 1950s and 1960s and sang them in a German-sounding voice with a lot of Teutonic noise and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII imagery. Pure NightmareFuel to some, a hilarious CoverAlbum to others.

The album remains one of their most popular. It has only two tracks, "Swastikas on Parade" and "Hitler Was a Vegetarian", which take up the entire album. Many well known pop melodies can be recognized, though this not always easy.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Subverted. Apart from Hitler and Dick Clark, countless rock artists have their most famous songs demolished in bizarre covers.

However, ''The Third Reich 'n Roll'' is a ConceptAlbum poking fun at the Nazis. It features an absurd complot theory that the Nazis actually created rock 'n' roll to brainwash the youth.[[note]][[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Another interpretation]] is that the group REALLY pokes fun at conformity in pop music, comparing it to fascism/nazism. Still, the record is ''hardly'' flattering to Nazis.[[/note]] They supposedly did this through famous ''Series/AmericanBandstand'' presenter Dick Clark, which explains why he is shown on the cover in a Nazi uniform. In line with this theory The Residents covered a handful of well known rock and pop tunes from the 1950s and 1960s and sang them in a German-sounding voice with a lot of Teutonic noise and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII imagery. Pure NightmareFuel to some, a hilarious CoverAlbum to others.

However, ''The Third Reich 'n Roll'' is a ConceptAlbum poking fun at the Nazis. It features an absurd complot theory that the Nazis actually created rock 'n' roll to brainwash the youth.[[note]][[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Another interpretation]] is that the group REALLY pokes fun at conformity in pop music, comparing it to fascism/nazism. Still, the record is ''hardly'' flattering to Nazis.[[/note]] They supposedly did this through famous ''Series/AmericanBandstand'' presenter Dick Clark, which explains why he is shown on the cover in a Nazi uniform. In line with this theory The Residents covered a handful of well known rock and pop tunes from the 1950s and 1960s and sang them in a German sounding voice with a lot of Teutonic noise and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII imagery. Pure NightmareFuel to some, a hilarious CoverAlbum to others.

* NoSwastikas: In order to get this album released into Germany, a censor bar was slapped onto every swastika and Nazi reference. The ploy would've worked if all of the Nazi references weren't small and scattered everywhere.

* MusicAndSoundEffects: At one point during "Swastikas on Parade" a fire alarm, a crying baby, gun shots and driving cars can be heard.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Despite the fact that rock 'n' roll only emerged ''after'' World War II, this album suggests that the Nazis were behind it.

* GutturalGrowler: "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is sung in this way.

** Also, the very first seconds of the entire record are sampled from an actual German-language version of Chubby Checker's "Let's Twist Again".

* TranslatedCoverVersion: Their cover of "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" is a literal German translation of the song. Other covers on this album tend to be sang in English with a mock German accent.

However, ''The Third Reich 'n Roll'' is a ConceptAlbum poking fun at the Nazis. It features an absurd complot theory that the Nazis actually created rock 'n' roll to brainwash the youth.[[note]][[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Another interpretation]] is that the group REALLY pokes fun at conformity in pop music, comparing it to fascism/nazism. Still, the record is ''hardly'' flattering to Nazis.[[/note]] They supposedly did this through famous Series/AmericanBandstand presenter Dick Clark, which explains why he is shown on the cover in a Nazi uniform. In line with this theory The Residents covered a handful of well known rock and pop tunes from the 1950s and 1960s and sang them in a German sounding voice with a lot of Teutonic noise and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII imagery. Pure NightmareFuel to some, a hilarious CoverAlbum to others.

!! Tropes On Parade:

* PunBasedTitle: "Third Reich 'n Roll".

''The Third Reich 'n Roll'' is a 1976 studio album by the American AvantGardeMusic band Music/TheResidents. It was released in 1976 to immediate controversy because of the Nazi imagery used on the album cover and in the lyrics themselves.

However, ''The Third Reich 'n Roll'' is a ConceptAlbum poking fun at the Nazis. It features an absurd [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories complot theory]] that the Nazis actually created rock 'n' roll to brainwash the youth.[[note]][[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Another interpretation]] is that the group REALLY pokes fun at conformity in pop music, comparing it to fascism/nazism. Still, the record is ''hardly'' flattering to Nazis.[[/note]] They supposedly did this through famous Series/AmericanBandstand presenter Dick Clark, which explains why he is shown on the cover in a Nazi uniform. In line with this theory The Residents covered a handful of well known rock and pop tunes from the 1950s and 1960s and sang them in a German sounding voice with a lot of Teutonic noise and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII imagery. Pure NightmareFuel to some, a hilarious CoverAlbum to others.