Triple Trouble (album)

Triple Trouble - The Original Soundtrack Recording"I am right now finalizing graphics on the soundtrack, that will probably be coming out in June. (It will be called) Triple Trouble, yeah, right." - Homer Flynn, Industry Tactics with Friendly Rich, "Ep. 145 - Homer Flynn", February 13th 2022 (alternatively Triple Trouble: The Original Soundtrack Album) is a soundtrack album by The Residents, featuring seven "collaged suites" containing extended musical cues, dialogue, and some "familiar themes" from the group's 2022 feature film of the same name. 
The album was released through Cherry Red Records and MVD Audio on November 18th 2022, with three vinyl variants (including a picture disc and a "die-hard" art object edition) distributed by Psychofon Records."Seasoned Greetings!", Cherry Red mailing list newsletter, January 8th 2022Facebook post by Psychofon Records, September 11th 2022 
== History ==
On November 16th 2016, The Residents published a YouTube video announcing that they would be making a film titled Double Trouble, set in the universe of their "Randy, Chuck and Bob" project, while also acting as a spiritual sequel to their unfinished feature film Vileness Fats. Production eventually slowed, leading The Residents to rewrite the script, at which point it become an entirely new film, now titled Triple Trouble. 
Homer Flynn confirmed the release of a soundtrack album in December 2020, at that time with the working title Endless Illusions. Flynn also noted that ideas developed by The Residents while recording the Triple Trouble soundtrack had "opened up a door for what they might want to do with the next album.""Homer Flynn Interview 12/17/20", Esoterica the Podcast on YouTube
The soundtrack (later simply titled Triple Trouble) was "in the can" as of May 2022, with graphics finalized in February. It was initially planned for release in June, but was ultimately delayed to follow the film's premiere at the Chicago Underground Film Festival in September. 
=== Writing ===
For Triple Trouble, The Residents worked with Eric Drew Feldman, who has been working closely with the group since August 2015. The album prominently features lines of dialogue from the film, sometimes in alternative versions. 
The soundtrack features several samples of earlier works by The Residents, the most apparent being "Fire Fall" from Wormwood, and "The Importance of Evergreen", "Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats?" and "Willie's Last Word" from the soundtrack to the 1984 video Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?.
"Killing Time" appears to resemble "Train Vs. Elephant" from the 2017 album The Ghost of Hope; the title may also be a reference to the posthumously released Hardy Fox album of the same name.
== Release ==
Following the film's premiere, the CD edition of the Triple Trouble soundtrack was announced for release and made available for pre-order on September 9th 2022 through Cherry Red Records and MVD Audio.
Later in the month Psychofon Records announced three vinyl variants, a standard black vinyl edition and two special limited editions: a picture disc featuring a zoetrope image of an eyeball-masked Resident (who dances when the vinyl spins) limited to 250 copies, and a "die hard art object" edition, consisting of a white-streaked transparent vinyl LP, screwed to a foam block and housed in a large tin "film canister" with handmade spray paint artwork by Psychofon's art department;Post by Andreas Mathews, The Residents unofficial Facebook group, September 24th 2022 limited to only 100 copies. 
Pre-sale for the vinyl editions opened on October 1st.Post by Andreas Mathews, The Residents unofficial Facebook group, September 13th 2022 A sampler track comprised of elements of a number of musical cues from the soundtrack and a Randy Rose monologue from the film, titled "Trouble Comin' Every Day", was uploaded to YouTube on November 16th 2022, two days prior to the album's release.
==Track listing== 
#Lost Inside a Soul (5:15)
#*Confession
#*Walking In The Woods
#*Under The Sink
#*Sister Juanita
#*Under The Sink Again
#Walking in Circles (4:47)
#*Killing Time
#*Walking In Circles
#*White Fungus
#*Trees Are Like Life
#*Importance of Evergreen
#Let Caution Be Your Cry (5:53)
#*In The Basement
#*Malfunction
#*Sidewalk Drawings
#*Suzi's Theme
#Finding My Father (4:49)
#*The Footlocker
#*Fire Fall
#A Phantom Philosophy (7:25)
#*Mom's Attic
#*Randy's Ghost
#*Junior Dreams Of Eyeballs
#*Mold Is A Fungus
#*Afraid To Go Out
# Empty As An Elephants' Graveyard (6:16)
#*News Bulletin
#*Elephants' Graveyard
#*Bubbles In Golden Gate Park
#*Bookcase Out Of Control
#Fungus is Forever (7:18)
#*The Fungus Farm
#*THEY'RE HERE!
#*Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats
#*Willie's Last Word
== Credits ==
* Written, arranged, produced and mixed by The Residents and Eric Drew Feldman
* Published by Pale Pachyderm Publishing
* Artwork by Porno Graphics
* Prepared for disc by Nick Watson
== Release history ==
Year	Label 	Format	Region
2022	Cherry Red Records, MVD Audio	CD 	UK
2022	Psychofon Records 	LP 	Germany
==See also==
*Triple Trouble (film)
*Vileness Fats
*Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats? (soundtrack album)
*"Trouble Comin' Every Day"
==Buy Or Die!==
*Triple Trouble - Original Soundtrack CD edition at Cherry Red Records (UK/EU)
*Triple Trouble - Original Soundtrack standard vinyl edition at Psychofon Records (EU)
*Triple Trouble - Original Soundtrack zoetrope vinyl picture disc at Psychofon Records (EU)
*Triple Trouble - Original Soundtrack "die hard art object" vinyl edition at Psychofon Records (EU)
==External links and references==
*Triple Trouble - The Original Soundtrack Recording at Discogs
*"Trouble Comin' Every Day" on YouTube
*Anomany Podcast Episode 67: The Residents
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