The Residents are an experimental music and visual arts group largely shrouded in mystery and myth. The Residents began recording in 1969, although many of these recordings from their early years have still gone unreleased to this day. The earliest material from The Residents, traded among bootlegs, was recorded in 1971. The Residents’ first official release, Santa Dog, was released in 1972.Allmusic had this to say about the Residents: “Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, the Residents remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions; cloaking their lives and music in a haze of willful obscurity, the band’s members never identified themselves by name, always appearing in public in disguise — usually tuxedos, top hats and giant eyeball masks — and refusing to grant media interviews. Drawing inspiration from the likes of fellow innovators including Harry Partch, Sun Ra, and Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, the Residents channelled the breadth of American music into their idiosyncratic, satiric vision, their mercurial blend of electronics, distortion, avant-jazz, classical symphonies and gratingly nasal vocals reinterpreting everyone from John Philip Sousa to James Brown while simultaneously expanding the boundaries of theatrical performance and multimedia interaction.
01 - Black Scars
02 - Burning Madrone
03 - Mary Achi
04 - Memory of Transgression
05 - Rats Fight for Water
06 - Restrained in the Ward
07 - Carlos Buys a Round
08 - Dollhouse
09 - Last Rites for Billy Bago
10 - Blow Row
11 - The Red Powder
12 - Shoeless Thorn Game
13 - Temple of Dragan
14 - War Zone
15 - Hassled by Mamasan
16 - Drunk again in Van Horn, Texas
17 - Oil Jobber
18 - Una Noche Lost
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