The Tunes of Two Cities

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The Tunes of Two Cities
Studio album by The Residents
Released 1982
Genre Rock

The Tunes of Two Cities is an album by The Residents, released in 1982. It is part two of the Mole Trilogy. Rather than forwarding the story of the battle between the Mole People and the Chubs, the record's concept is to display the differences between the two cultures through their music. The music of the Chubs is light cocktail jazz, while that of the Moles tends toward industrial religious hymns. A major feature of this album is that it was one of the first to use the E-mu Emulator, one of the earliest commercial digital samplers.

The Mole Trilogy is a development of the dark, avant garde rock music of The Residents.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Serenade for Missy"
  2. "A Maze of Jigsaws"
  3. "Mousetrap"
  4. "God of Darkness"
  5. "Smack Your Lips (Clap Your Teeth)"
  6. "Praise for the Curse"
  7. "The Secret Seed"
  8. "Smokebeams"
  9. "Mourning the Undead"
  10. "Song of the Wild"
  11. "The Evil Disposer"
  12. "Happy Home" (Excerpt from Act II of "Innisfree")
  • Bonus Tracks (1988 CD release only)
  1. Open Up
  2. Anvil Forest
  3. Scent of Mint
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)
Related articles
Snakefinger | N. Senada | Vileness Fats | Ralph Records
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