Everybody’s favourite wild-eyed enigmas, The Residents return with another two classic albums to tip your top hats to this week and this time, it’s Not Available and A Nickle If Your Dick’s This Big that get the pREServed reissue treatment!
Formed in the early 1970s, The Residents have been charting a unique path through the musical landscape for almost fifty years. From far-out, experimental recordings to highly conceptual, innovative multi-platform projects, the band refuses to stand still, and continues to move in several different directions at once.
Among the band’s extensive back catalogue, one record sits alone – composed in accordance with the group’s infamous Theory Of Obscurity, ‘Not Available’, and the saga that surrounded its release, comprises perhaps the most truly ‘Residential’ work the group have yet produced, and remains their most intriguing album among fans and critics alike. Now, over forty years after that saga unfolded, and produced using the original masters and multitrack tapes, this package explores and expands the classic album in unprecedented detail – Disc 2 reveals the original 1974 ‘X Is For Xtra (A Conclusion)’ recordings which were adapted, edited, remixed and reprocessed into ‘Not Available’ by Ralph Records in 1978. Familiar and recognisable in places, entirely unheard in others, this revelatory new material sheds paradigm-shifting light on a masterpiece of 20th Century pop culture.
Remastered, expanded, and pREServed for future generations – this is The Residents as we’ve always wanted to hear them, and the latest in a series of archival reissues that will continue throughout 2020 and beyond. Look out for forthcoming ‘American Composers’, ‘Cube-E’, ‘Freak Show’ and ‘Gingerbread Man’ sets.
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TRACK LISTING
DISC ONE
NOT AVAILABLE
1. PART ONE: EDWEENA
2. PART TWO: THE MAKING OF A SOUL
3. PART THREE: SHIP’S A’GOING DOWN
4. PART FOUR: NEVER KNOWN QUESTIONS
5. EPILOGUE
AVAILABLE LIVE
6. SHIPS A’GOING DOWN (1982 REHEARSAL)
7. SHIPS A’GOING DOWN (LIVE, 1986)
8. MOURNING GLORIES (LIVE, 2014)
DISC TWO
X IS FOR XTRA (A CONCLUSION)
1. MEHICO RON DEVOO
2. THEME FROM X (WITH ROMAN OVERTONES)
3. THEME FROM X (PT 2)
4. SOLOME AND GOITER
5. NEW MEXICO DREAM
6. HO HO BUMPED HIS TOE
7. WHERE TO BEGIN?
8. FAIRLY WELL
9. LOVE SPRONG
10. AH SPARE US, GUS
11. SLOW TEXTURE
12. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
13. LITTLE A (AN AUTHENTIC FOLK SONG)
14. ASONAROSE
15. ANACONDA MONTANA
16. TUNE OF THE UNKNOWN
17. SOUNDTRACK MUSIC PIECE 17
18. O SOLO MEOW
19. MEHICO RON DEVOO FINALE
(DISC 2 ENTIRELY PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
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A NICKLE IF YOUR DICK’S THIS BIG
Released on CD for the first time, this set captures the group’s earliest work – two legendary album length demo tapes and three live recordings made under the direction of their mentor, The Mysterious N. Senada, between the Springs of 1971 and 1972. Packed with non-songs, poetry, mutant cover versions, sonic experiments and ambitious suites, ‘The W***** B*** Album’ and ‘B.S.’ set the groundwork for all that was to follow in the studio, whilst the three live recordings show the group – then a large, rambling collective rather than anything resembling a band – exploring the live-show-as-performance-art space they continue to inhabit to this day. This is must-hear material for both fans of The Residents and those interested in post-hippy, pre-punk DIY avant-garde experimentalism.
Remastered, expanded, and pREServed for future generations – this is The Residents as we’ve always wanted to hear them, and the latest in a series of archival reissues that will continue throughout 2020 and beyond. Look out for forthcoming ‘American Composers’, ‘Cube-E’, ‘Freak Show’ and ‘Gingerbread Man’ sets.
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TRACK LISTING
DISC ONE
THE W***** B*** ALBUM
1. STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER
MAD SAWMILL OF COPENHAGEN, GERMANY PT. 1
BABY SKELETONS AND DOGS
BOP BOP SHU BOP
STUFFED GENITAL
CHRISTMAS MORNING ROTO
EVERY DAY I MASTURBATE ON A MERICAN FLAG
OH MUMMY, OH DADDY, CAN’T YOU SEE THAT IT’S TRUE
BABY SKELETONS AND DOGS #2
2. MAD SAWMILL OF COPENHAGEN, GERMANY PT. 2
GOING TO ARCATA BLUES
MAD SAWMILL OF COPENHAGEN, GERMANY PT. 3
BLACK VELVET ORIGINAL
MAD SAWMILL OF COPENHAGEN, GERMANY PT. 4
JIMI HENDRIX DILDO
MAD SAWMILL OF COPENHAGEN, GERMANY PT. 5
IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT
MAGGIE’S FARM
MAD SAWMILL OF COPENHAGEN, GERMANY PT. 6
SNOT AND FECES LIVE AT THE GRUNT FESTIVAL
SWEET MEAT
3. OH YEA UHH BOP SHU BOP
OM IS WHERE THE ART IS
CONCERTO IN R FLAT MINOR
GAGAGAPIGGAEOUPE
SOLD AMERICAN
LOVE THEME FROM A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
PRELUDE FOR ACCORDION, SOUSAPHONE AND FRENCH HORN
OH GOD YOU’RE A PIE IN THE SKY
SHORT CIRCUIT COMES TO TOWN
MARCHING TOWARDS A E I O U BLUES
4. IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT AGAIN / RUMBA
FOURTH CRUCIFIXION IN FIVE YEARS
OH MUMMY, OH DADDY, CAN’T YOU SEE THAT IT’S TRUE AGAIN
ART THE WHITE ELEPHANT
PSYCHEDELIC AND ORGASMIC FINALE
5. THE BOARDING HOUSE SHOW
6. PHILIP’S WEDDING CONCENTRATE*
DISC TWO
B.S.
1. WE STOLE THIS RIFF
2. HOLELOTTADICK
3. B.S.
4. DEEPSEA DIVER SONG
5. KING KONG
6. CANTATEN TO DER DYIN’ PRUNEN
7. INTRO TAPE/SOMETHIN’ DEVILISH
8. N. SENADA TRIBUTE
9. THE FOURTH CRUCIFIXION
10. JAMES DEAN’S DEATH
11. HALLOWED BE THY WEAN (INCORPORATING PINK LEMONADE, SANDMAN, EAT ME MOTHER, A SELECTION OF UNTITLED INSTRUMENTALS, BUMBLE BEE, ELOISE, SNAKEFINGER’S WEDDING, KAMIKAZE LADY, MISS PEGGY HONEYDEW AND D IS FOR DOORKNOB, A NUMBER OF ANNOUNCEMENTS, THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD AND MORE)
12. CHRIS’ PARTY *
* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
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