PAL TV LP

PAL TV LP is a compilation album by The Residents, released in October 1985 in the United Kingdom by Doublevision. The album was released to promote the label's PAL format release of The Residents' 1984 VHS Mole Show/Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?.
In 2019, an expanded edition of PAL TV LP was released on CD by Austrian label Klanggalerie, featuring the complete Mole Show Live at The House recording as a bonus.
== Background ==
The Residents made their home video release debut in 1984, with the Mole Show/Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats? VHS and Betamax tapes. These were in the American NTSC video format, which meant that European video devices could not play them. Therefore, European Residents fans were extremely unlikely to be able to watch it, even if they imported the tape from the US. 
Fast forward to 1985, when Doublevision, the video label of British industrial band Cabaret Voltaire, agreed to release PAL video format versions of the tapes, finally making them watchable across Europe. To promote this, the label also decided to put out the "soundtrack" to the VHS. 
Side A of this compilation has four songs from the Mole Show performance held in Utrecht. These tracks had remained unreleased up to that point, although they would later be a part of the live album Mole Show: Live in Holland. Side B was also composed by four tracks, this time directly taken from the Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? master tapes. 
== Release ==
The compilation was released in the United Kingdom in October 1985 by Doublevision. The first 5000 copies were pressed on red vinyl, but they also had a printing error, as both sides were mislabeled (the labels for side A on side B, and vice-versa.) The second run of copies, now on black vinyl, would fix the misprint.
PAL TV LP was reissued in 2019 by Klanggalerie. This expanded edition includes all tracks from the original (although it features a shortened version of "The Knife Fight"), as well as the complete unedited Mole Show Live at The House concert from 1982 as a bonus. What differences this version of the concert from the one on Assorted Secrets is that it has one additional minute of pre-show chatter.
== Track listing ==
All tracks composed by The Residents unless otherwise noted.
=== Original release (1985) ===
==== Side A: The Mole Show Live ====
# Smack Your Lips (Clap Your Teeth) (4:15)
# Another Land (4:25)
# Final Confrontation (7:34)
# Happy Home (2:53)
==== Side B: Extracts of Fats ====
# Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? (4:09)
# Broccolli & Saxophone / Eloise (3:35)
# Lord It's Lonely (1:31)
# The Knife Fight (8:00)
===Klanggalerie CD reissue (2019) ===
# Smack Your Lips (Clap Your Teeth) (4:08)
# Another Land (4:24)
# Final Confrontation (7:42)
# Happy Home (2:36)
# Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? (4:12)
# Broccolli & Saxophone / Eloise (3:37)
# Lord It's Lonely (1:33)
# The Knife Fight (7:13)
# The Mole Show Live At The House (April 10th, 1982) (35:13)
## Voices of the Air
## The Ultimate Disaster
## Migration
## Another Land
## The New Machine
## Final Confrontation
== Liner notes ==
This PAL TV LP was released to commemorate the availability for the first time ever, of a 60 minute videocassette through Doublevision of The Residents performing in their celebrated video movies The Mole Show (Live) and Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? for European PAL (v) standard video players. Now, we in the UK and Europe can also enjoy one of America's favorite pastimes in the comfort of our own homes!
== Release history ==
Year	Label 	Format	Region
1985	Doublevision	LP 	UK & EU
2019	Klanggalerie	CD 	AT
== Buy Or Die! ==
* PAL TV LP at Klanggalerie (EU)
== See also ==
* Mole Show/Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?
*Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats? (album)
* The Mole Show (tour)
== External links and references ==
* PAL TV LP at RZWeb (archived via archive.org)
* PAL TV LP at Discogs
Category:Compilations
Category:Soundtracks
Category:Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?
Category:Vileness Fats
Category:The Mole Show
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Category:Assorted Secrets
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Category:1985