Soundtracks
When the Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? video came out, The Residents released a soundtrack album as well.
The Census Taker (aka Husbands, Wives, Money, & Murder) was a low-budget horror film from the mid-eighties. It was The Residents' first motion-picture soundtrack commission, though they hadn't been director Bruce R. Cook's first choice. Two soundtracks had already been commissioned and rejected when Penn Jillette suggested the band to Cook. By then there wasn't very much time left to write music so much of final soundtrack included recycled songs from The Commercial Album and The Mole Show.
Hunters is a ten episode nature series photographed by Wolfgang Bayer and produced by The Discovery Channel. At ten hours long, it is the largest soundtrack project that The Residents have ever attempted.
The Residents Have a Bad Day is the soundtrack album from the highly successful Bad Day on the Midway CD-ROM game. Its format is not quite that of a traditional soundtrack album. Instead of just "stringing a bunch of tunes together," the band used Bad Day on the Midway as the inspiration for a suite of (mostly instrumental) songs. Have a Bad Day is an album based on Bad Day on the Midway, rather than an album of music from the CD-ROM.
This is the soundtrack from the abandoned CD-ROM project of the same name. A lot of thought had been put into the project, and a team had been assembled. This gathers up the (very long) treatment for the project, puts it in a (very long) booklet, and a DVD sized digipak with slip cover. Of course the CD-ROM never did become a reality as a product, and there is no video on this release, only audio.
The Residents have released a CD collecting some of the new music from the Icky Flix DVD. The 55-minute CD contains about half of the songs, including the new Vileness Fats music.
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