LS1 - Sketches For A Live Show

LS1 - Sketches For A Live Show is a collection of eight instrumental studio demos recorded by The Residents in 1982 for their planned (and later aborted) 10th Anniversary tour. The tracks were first released serially as free MP3s through Cherry Red Records' Residents mailing list newsletter from July 21st 2022 to March 10th 2023; all eight tracks were later compiled as a mini-album and released to streaming services in July 2023."The Residents were delighted to hear they'd been listened to by over 100,000 unique humans on Spotify last month. They don't understand what any of it means - they only know three or four people and haven't been online since the dial-up days - but they do REALLY love big numbers. Maybe it was the recently uploaded 'LS1 - Sketches For A Live Show' mini-album that attracted all of those new devotees... if they'd have known that, they'd have released it years ago…" Post to The Residents official Facebook page, September 5th 2023
The first two demos, "Give It To Someone Else" and "Birthday Boy" were included with the newsletter dated July 21st 2022; these were followed by "Ship's A Goin' Down" and "Constantinople", included in the following issue dated August 23rd.
Another two parts, part 5, "Red Rider" (mislabelled as "Die in Terror") and part 7, "The Talk of Creatures", were released in the November issue of the newsletter. The (apparently) final two parts of LS1, "Walter Westinghouse" and "Festival of Diskomo", were released in the March 2023 issue of the newsletter. 
== Track listing ==
=== Cherry Red Residents newsletter (2022-2023) ===
==== July 21st 2022 ====
* LS1 Part 1: Give It To Someone Else (1:10)
* LS1 Part 2: Birthday Boy (2:32)
==== August 23rd 2022 ====
* LS1 Part 3: Ship's A Goin' Down (2:45)
* LS1 Part 4: Constantinople (2:30)
==== November 10th 2022 ====
* LS1 Part 5: Die in Terror (1:24; mislabelled as "Red Rider")
* LS1 Part 7: The Talk Of Creatures (1:06)
==== March 10th 2022 ====
* LS1 Part 6: Walter Westinghouse (6:33)
* LS1 Part 8: Festival of Diskomo (7:35)
=== Streaming edition (2023) ===
# Birthday Boy (2:39)
# Ship's A Goin' Down (2:57)
# Walter Westinghouse (6:32)
# Constantinople (2:37)
# Commercial Treat (1:30)
# Give It To Someone Else (1:18)
# Commercial Treat 2 (1:11)
# The Festival of Deathskimo (7:48)
== Buy Or Die! ==
=== Listen online ===
* LS1 - Sketches For A Live Show on Apple Music
* LS1 - Sketches For A Live Show on Spotify
== See also ==
* The 10th Anniversary Show
* Assorted Secrets
* Cherry Red mailing list newsletter
== External links and references ==
* "Huddled Masses" at The Residents' official website
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