Aircraft Damage

"Aircraft Damage" (informally known as "Kick A Cat") is a song by Arf & Omega with The Singing Lawn Chairs, produced by Residents, Uninc. for inclusion in their later-abandoned feature film Vileness Fats, and released on the Santa Dog double 7" EP in December 1972.
== History ==
"Aircraft Damage" was composed by Residents, Uninc. in 1972 for inclusion in the introductory sequence of their (ultimately unfinished) feature film Vileness Fats. 
Intended as the film's opening musical number, it is a chant performed by Arf and Omega Berry (portrayed by Palmer Eiland and George Ewart respectively), conjoined twins and tag team wrestlers, who are invoking Weescoosa (an immortal native American princess) to appear and rescue the village of Vileness Flats from an invasion by a villainous gang of Bell Boys. 
The song (the only musical number from the film which is known to have been recorded to completion by the group) was first released on their debut double 7" EP Santa Dog in December 1972, where it featured as the closing track. 
On the EP, the song is credited to Arf & Omega with The Singing Lawn Chairs; The Singing Lawn Chairs were a group of female vocalists led by Pamela Zeibak, a singer who would go on to perform with the group throughout the 1970s. 
=== Later renditions ===
"Aircraft Damage" was performed live during The Residents' first official live performance at Rather Ripped Records in Berkeley, California in 1976, with Palmer Eiland and George Ewart both appearing and reprising their roles as Arf and Omega for the performance.
For the group (and song's) 20th anniversary in 1992, it was mixed with Snakefinger's "Picnic In The Jungle" to produce "Kick A Picnic" for the album Our Finest Flowers.
In 1999 the song was re-recorded for the Refused album, this version was retitled 'Pestilence". The song was partially re-recorded again in 2001, as part of the Vileness Fats segment of the Icky Flix retrospective DVD, in a mash-up with "The Knife Fight".
== Legacy ==
"Aircraft Damage" has been reissued a number of times since its initial release on the Santa Dog EP. It first appeared on the 1977 promotional release The Residents Radio Special alongside the other tracks from the EP. 
Short samples of the track are heard in the 1984 VHS featurette Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?, where it is heard alongside the footage from the sequence the song was originally intended for. 
It has since been included on expanded CD reissues of the group's debut album Meet The Residents in 1988 and 2018, as well as compilations centered specifically around the group's early recordings such as ERA B474 in 2012 and The Delta Nudes' Greatest Hiss in 2013. 
== Lyrics ==
 Arf & Omega: Weescoosa! Weescoosa!
 Arf: New Mexico delivers --
 Arf & Omega: Weescoosa!
 Omega: But the message must be anyway;
 Arf: Adenauer's gilded flower's towered over me for years,
 Omega: But now I need a new excuse;
 Arf & Omega: Weescoosa! Weescoosa! Weescoosa!
 Omega: Knows the way.
 Arf: She'll free that tree strewn river gravy --
 Omega: Rushin' down the animal death knoll stream;
 Arf & Omega: Feeding mouths with wings of trouts and wheeling trays of peppered snouts
 Arf: To inside civil eyed horny totin' baking pies;
 Omega: Eyes are big for what they wait.
 Arf: They stand on backs TOO WEAK for stakes!
 Omega: The game will have to change before the effervescence is real.
 Arf: And I don't even CARE!!!
 Omega: Ah boy! Hamburgers... Mayonnaise... Mustard... Kicking cats and Vileness Fats 
 for caviar --
 Arf: Do you ever?
 Omega: Do you ever --
 Arf & Omega: Wonder who you are?
 Omega: Well, kick a cat --
 Arf: Kick a cat --
 Arf & Omega: Kick a cat today!
 Omega: Fish are dumb --
 Arf: Pluck an eye from one!
 Arf & Omega: Kick a cat, kick a cat, kick a cat today; fish are dumb, pluck an eye 
 from one!
 The Singing Lawn Chairs: 
 Kick a cat
 Kick a cat today
 Kick a cat
 Kick a cat today
 Weescoosa Knows The Way...Ima Buddy, Ima Buddy's Totally Impartial Companion to Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated BIG MAMAS, 1992
== Credits ==
* Performed by: Arf And Omega featuring The Singing Lawn Chairs
* Written by: B. Barnes and C. America
== List of releases ==
* Santa Dog (1972) El Ralpho mono studio recording, 1972 (3:53)
*The Residents Radio Special (1977) El Ralpho mono studio recording, 1972 (edited version, 3:45)
*Mole Show / Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats? VHS (1984) El Ralpho mono studio recording, 1972 (excerpt, 0:21)
*Meet The Residents Classic Series edition (1988) 
* Liver Music (1990) Oh Mummy! Oh Daddy! live recording, Longbranch Saloon, Berkeley, California, June 7th 1976 (edited version, 2:18)
* Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses (1997) 
* Refused (1999)
* Icky Flix DVD (2001) Icky Flix studio recording, 2001 (4:28)
*Eat Exuding Oinks! Ralph Records' 1977 Radio Special (1977) 
* Live! ...On The Outskirts DVD (2002) 
* Kettles Of Fish On The Outskirts Of Town (2003) 
* Oh, Mummy! Oh, Daddy! Can't You See That It's True; What The Beatles Did To Me, I Love Lucy Did To You (2010) Oh Mummy! Oh Daddy! live recording, Longbranch Saloon, Berkeley, California, June 7th 1976 (5:09) Oh Mummy! Oh Daddy! live recording, Longbranch Saloon, Berkeley, California, June 7th 1976 (reprise, 1:30)
* ERA B474 (2012) 
* The Delta Nudes' Greatest Hiss (2013) 
* The Residents Present The Delta Nudes (2017) 
*Meet The Residents pREServed edition (2018) 
*The Third Reich 'n Roll pREServed edition (2018) Oh Mummy! Oh Daddy! instrumental backing tape, 1976 (3:55)
=== List of versions ===
== See also ==
* Vileness Fats 
**Scene 1 and Scene 2
* Arf and Omega Berry
* Weescoosa
* Santa Dog
== External links and references ==
Category:Songs
Category:Santa Dog
Category:Vileness Fats
Category:The Delta Nudes
Category:Non-album tracks
Category:Refused
Category:Arf and Omega Berry