OTHER Music Albums (excludes LIVE albums - see PERFORMANCE section)
This was originally a one-hour cassette which Ralph Records distributed to various radio stations. In 1983, Ralph released it to the public.
In 2002, Ralph re-released the Radio Special on CD as Eat Exuding Oinks (the title taken, of course, from the song Walter Westinghouse).
Renaldo & the Loaf was a British band from Portsmouth, UK. This sounded nothing like either Renaldo & the Loaf or The Residents.
Ralph Records put together a special collection for their 10th Anniversary in 1982. Rather than just do the usual bundle of songs from all the groups they hired Penn Jillette to be locked into a room in the motel across the street from the Ralph headquarters and for the next six days to listen to every recording Ralph had ever released.
Residue is a collection of songs which never made it onto any albums. It was compiled by Ralph Records from "mop tapes", tapes used to soak up extra material that's left lying around after an album is put together. An expanded Residue release called Residue Deux appeared in 1997.
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.
Buckaroo Blues from UWEB
Liver from UWEB
Daydream B-Liver from UWEB
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.
Toward the end of 1999, The Residents recorded their "end of the millenium" edition of Santa Dog. Ralph America first released the track as one of their "free MP3 of the month" promotions, then followed that up with Refused, a collection of all released Santa Dogs, including Santa Dog 1999 and four other new tracks for 2000: Flood, Famine, Plague, and Pestilence.
In 2000, Ralph America collected all of the MP3s they had released on the Buy Or Die website on a CD entitled dot.com. Each MP3 is a never-before-released track from The Residents' history, dating from 1969 to 2000.
The release is the same as the Roosevelt disc from Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses, with the addition of an abridged version of Pollex Christi. Limited edition of 1200 numbered copies in wooden cigar box with postcard.
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.
Original recordings from 1971 by The Residents. Remix 2003 by The Residents
The 12 Days of Brumalia was an internet event presented by The Residents and Residents.com. For 12 days, starting on December 25th, a new song was posted on Residents.com web site along with an illustration and a quote. On the 13th day, The Residents presented the epic musical work, The Feast of Epiphany.
Ralph America collected the audio track for a CD release in the summer of 2004.
Best Left Unspoken V1 Collection of rare instrumentals
Best Left Unspoken V2 Collection of rare instrumentals
Best Left Unspoken V3 Collection of rare instrumentals
An album, which had a working title of "That Slab Called Night," was to be a concept project based on the effect darkness has on perception, the world of the shadow. Though never completed, The Residents thought it would be insightful to sort through the now over ten years old music and create something new...Night of the Hunters.
A fresh look at the musicaly dense favorite from 2005. Animal Lover Instrumental
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