The Warner Bros. Album

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The Warner Bros. Album
Studio album by The Residents
Released Unreleased
Recorded 1971
Genre Avant Garde
Length 38:28
Label N/A
Producer The Residents
The Residents chronology
The Warner Bros. Album
(1971)		 Baby Sex
(1971)

The Warner Bros. Album is the title of an album's worth of early recordings by the then-unnamed avant garde group the Residents that was sent to Warner Bros. Records in the hopes of obtaining a record contract. The band mailed it anonymously to Harve Halverstadt, who worked at the label with Captain Beefheart, one of the band's musical heroes. The tape was rejected and returned, addressed to "Residents, 20 Sycamore St., San Francisco". This is the origin of the group's name, which was at first "The Residents, Uninc." but was later shortened to The Residents. The Residents agree that Halverstadt made the right decision, as the tapes were of poor quality.

The entire album was broadcast on an Oregon radio station in 1977 during a Residents Radio Festival, and was later heavily reworked for release in 2003 as WB: RMX. Otherwise, the album has never been officially released, though bootlegs began circulating on the Internet around 2002.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Strawberry Fields Forever"
  2. "The Mad Sawmill Of Copenhagen, Germany"
  3. "Baby Skeletons And Dogs"
  4. "Bop Bop (Shoo Bop Bop)"
  5. "Snippet #1"
  6. "A Merican Fag"
  7. "Oh Mommy, Oh Daddy, Can't You See That It's True"
  8. "Baby Skeletons And Dogs (Reprise)"
  9. "The Mad Sawmill Of Copenhagen, Germany (Reprise I)"
  10. "Going To Arcaia Blues"
  11. "The Mad Sawmill Of Copenhagen, Germany (Reprise II)"
  12. "Black Velvet Original"
  13. "The Mad Sawmill Of Copenhagen, Germany (Reprise III)"
  14. "Jimi Hendrix Dildo"
  15. "The Mad Sawmill Of Copenhagen, Germany (Reprise IV)"
  16. "In The Still Of The Night"
  17. "Maggie's Farm"
  18. "Snippet #2" (possibly "Mad Sawmill" Reprise V - may be omitted from some track listings because of 2 second length)
  19. "Snot And Feces Live At The Grunt Festival"
  20. "Sweet Meat"
  21. "Oh Yeah Uhh Bop Shu Bop"
  22. "Ohm Is Where The Art Is"
  23. "Concerto In R Flat Minor I"
  24. "Concerto In R Flat Minor II"
  25. "Snippet #3"
  26. "Gagagapiggaeioupe"
  27. "Sell American"
  28. "Love Theme From A Major Motion Picture"
  29. "Prelude For Accordion, Sousaphone And French Horn"
  30. "Pie In The Sky"
  31. "Snippet #4"
  32. "Snippet #5"
  33. "Marching Toward Aeiou Blues"
  34. "In The Still Of The Night Again"
  35. "Snippet #6"
  36. "Oh Mommy, Oh Daddy, Can't You See That It's True Again"
  37. "Art, The White Elephant"
  38. "Snippet #7"
  39. "Snippet #8"
  40. "Psychedelic and Orgasmic Finale I"
  41. "Psychedelic and Orgasmic Finale II"
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