The Big Bubble: Part Four of the Mole Trilogy

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The Big Bubble is an album by The Residents, released in 1985. It was what the band made after the fans waited 3 years for the next chapter of the Mole Trilogy: they got part 4 instead. This also ended up being the last, as parts three, five and six never materialized. As the tour was an unmitigated financial disaster that had also led to the virtual dissolution of the band at one point, it is no surprise that they were not too anxious to continue any further.

Part four is similar to The Tunes of Two Cities as it focuses on the music within the culture. In this case, it's a band called the Big Bubble, which is forefronting the Zenkinite movement (Zenkinites being a crossbreed of Moles and Chubs) and breaking the law by singing in the banned Mohelmot language.

The album has something of a rocking sound, with guitars and a drum machine, however, the timing is erratic since the vocals were recorded first and the instrumental tracks were built around them, rather than vice verca, which is the more common procedure.

The four models portraying the Big Bubble on the cover are not the Residents.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Sorry"
  2. "Hop a Little"
  3. "Go Where Ya Wanna Go"
  4. "Gotta Gotta Get"
  5. "Cry for the Fire"
  6. "Die-Stay-Go"
  7. "Vinegar"
  8. "Firefly"
  9. "The Big Bubble"
  10. "Fear for the Future"
  11. "Kula Bocca Says So"

[edit] Bonus tracks

The following tracks were included only on the 1989 CD release:

  1. Prelude for Toddler
  2. Toddler Lullaby
  3. Safety Is a Cootie Wootie
The Residents
Album era (1972-1980)
Meet the Residents (1974) | Not Available (1974, released 1978) | The Third Reich 'n' Roll (1976) | Fingerprince (1976) | Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (1978) | Eskimo (1979) | The Commercial Album (1980)
Performance era (1981-1990)
Mark of the Mole (1981) | The Tunes of Two Cities (1982) | Intermission (1983) | George & James (1984) | Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? (1984) | The Big Bubble (1985) | Stars & Hank Forever (1986) | God in Three Persons (1988} | The King & Eye (1989)
Multimedia era (1991-1996)
Freak Show (1991) | Gingerbread Man (1994) | Bad Day on the Midway (1995) | Have A Bad Day (1997)
Band era (1997-2005)
Wormwood (1998) | Icky Flix (2001) | Demons Dance Alone (2002) | Animal Lover (2005)
Storyteller era (2006-present)
The River of Crime (2006) | Timmy (2006) | Tweedles (2006)
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Snakefinger | N. Senada | Vileness Fats | Ralph Records
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