Soundtracks

Enter the name for this tabbed section: STRANGE CULTURE - HAECKELS TALE

Film and video Series 2
Strange Culture - director Lynn Hershman (Conceiving Ada) 2005 The surreal nightmare of internationally-acclaimed artist and professor Steve Kurtz began when his wife Hope died in her sleep of heart failure. Police who responded to Kurtz's 911 call deemed Kurtz's art suspicious and called the FBI. Within hours the artist was detained as a suspected "bioterrorist" as dozens of federal agents in Hazmat suits sifted through his work and impounded his computers, manuscripts, books, his cat, and even his wife's body.

• Six film cues including Main titles and End credits

Haeckel's tale - director John McNaughton (Henry Portait of a Serial Killer) Showtime 2005 19th Centrury horror tale. Sound track not used in broadcast version. Exclusive release.

• Ten film cues including Main titles and End credits

First Release
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Enter the name for this tabbed section: THE RIVERS OF HADES

The Rivers of Hades was part of the music conceived as an aural art piece to accompany the release party of The Residents toy figures recently designed by Steve Cerio. The original music was conceived to utilize two DVD players that were programmed to randomly play abstract bits of music. They would play 5.1 surround audio and each would play different things. The project (which required 12 speakers placed in a circle around the gallery) was entitled Chaos is not just a theory. In Greek mythology, Hades was a child of Chaos.

As these kinds of things go, it never quite worked out. The gallery never agreed to provide the sound system and some people felt it would be unpleasant for attending guests (correct) so by the time the toy release actually happened (there were several lengthy delays) The Residents had lost interest and had moved into other projects which did not allow them to even attend the toy release opening.

However, Homer Flynn, Leigh Barbier, and Steve Cerio did attend and showed non-Residents art work. The cover art above is from the work shown by Mr. Flynn.

The Rivers of Hades was adapted by The Residents from part of the music written for Chaos is not just a theory especially for this release. 2008.

First Release
CDR - November 2011 - RZ0810 - US

Tracks:
1. Acheron River - 3:22
2. Cocytus River - 13:13
3. Lethe River - 8:29
4. Styx River - 11:01
5. Phlegethon River - 8:46

Enter the name for this tabbed section: HUNTERS

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. This album was assembled by editors for The Discovery Channel and not by The Residents.
First Release
CD - 1995 - Milan - ML@35701 - US

Tracks

Hunters Prelude
The Deadly Game
Tooth And Claw
The Dangerous Sea
Rulers Of The Deep
Track Of The Cat
The Giant Grizzlies
Dawn Of The Dragons
Eye Of The Serpent
The Crawling Kingdom
The Savage Pack
Hunters Reprise

Note: The German and U.S. CD's each have different covers. The German release is titled "Räuber der Wildnis (Hunters)". The version through Columbia Record Club has all Residents contact information removed and replaced with "CRC".

Enter the name for this tabbed section: THE CENSUS TAKER

The Census Taker (aka Husbands, Wives, Money, & Murder) was a low-budget dark comedy 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 the final soundtrack included recycled songs from The Commercial Album and The Mole Show.

First Release
LP - 1985 - Episode (Ralph Records) - RZ8552 - US

Creeping Dread
The Census Taker
Talk
End of Home
Emotional Music
Secret Seed
Easter Woman/Simple Song
Hellno
Where is She?
Innocence Decayed
Romanian/Nice Old Man
Margaret Freeman
Light's Out
Where is She
Passing the Bottle
The Census Taker Returns

Enter the name for this tabbed section: EARTH VS FLYING SAUCERS

First Release
7″vinyl - 1986 - Cryptic - RZ-SP-1 - US

* Earth vs. The Flying Saucers
Note: This was a 1-sided single on transparent green vinyl and packaged in plain white sleeves. 800 copies were made and attached to the back cover of the first edition copies of "The Cryptic Guide to The Residents" book.

Enter the name for this tabbed section: GOD-O: music for a gallery opening