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2) I’ve had “Eskimo” by the Residents for a while, and it’s beautiful. Can anyone recommend other stuff by the group? I know a bit about their discography, but a jumping in point would be helpful, as I’ve only heard about the records, not actually heard them.
Well, I'm not a big Residents fan, but I have Eskimo, and a few others. Of what I have, I'd say try picking up Meet The Residents. That one is okay, I like it more than Eskimo, at any rate.
3) Brian Eno. I have “Discreet Music” and “Music for Airports.” I want more of this fine stuff, but I don’t want any of that jazz shit he so often falls into. I guess this could be a request for anything ambient: my record collection is pitiful on that score.
You owe it to yourself to get Another Green World. It's nothing even remotely like Discreet Music or Music For Airports, it's his most pop/rock album, but it is amazing and beautiful, and I think it's his finest work that I've encounted (outside of his production work - he's produced a lot of my favorite records). About half of it is instrumental...some are mood pieces, some are really melodic, some are just ethereal...the vocal songs are fantastic, "Sky Saw" has this powerful otherworldly guitar riff, and "St. Elmo's Fire" is one of the most beautiful pop songs I know, and "I'll Come Running" is a really cute and lovely song which is about shoe fetishes. "Golden Hours" is another gem...it sounds a bit like Suicide crossed with "No Surprises" by Radiohead. I can't say enough nice things about that album.
As far as other Eno goes, I really like the Eno/Cluster album...Cluster is a duo from Germany who are part of the Krautrock phenomenon. Their records are pretty good, but I think this is the best of their work, personally. It's a relatively ambient record, it's mostly drones and loops, but the songs are pretty short so they don't overstay their welcome. A lot of the album is very pretty.
No Pussyfooting is a pretty good record that he did with Robert Fripp, it's pretty much exactly how one would expect a record made by those two guys would sound...ambient and full of alien sounding guitars.
"Swastika Girls" is a really good one - the guitars on it are really shimmering and gorgeous.
I've heard lots of lovely things about Here Come THe Warm Jets, but have never heard it myself.
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It's just... well I'd HEARD about them for years, I'd just never gotten around to LISTENING to them. But that's all changed now. A quick listen of skintight and I know "I must now listen to this album every day for some time.." 
), I notice there's an offshoot called OOIOO about to release a new album. Any good?