WB:RMX

WB:RMX is a remix album by The Residents, derived from their then-unreleased 1971 demo tape The W***** B*** Album. It was first released February 22nd 2004 in Japan through Bomba Records, with American and European releases following at later dates through The Cryptic Corporation and Euro Ralph.
== History ==
=== Background ===
Since The Residents' inception, the group have loved to tease their history out to fans. Ralph would fill press releases with references to N. Senada, Santa Dog, Delta Nudes, and four album-length demo tapes that the group were involved in recording. One such tape, The W***** B*** Album, proved itself to be particularly popular among fans, who begged and campaigned for the tape's release on a near-constant basis. Copies of it had been leaked by Bill Reinhardt and eventually became commonplace on internet file-sharing programs, which only made people beg for the release moreso.
Eventually, 33 years after the tape was shelved, The Residents caved in. On January 1st, 2004, Big Brother announced that the album would finally be released, with some necessary remixing done by the band.
The original tape consisted of guitar-based freak out jams, which, while appropriate to be privately shared amongst hippies in the early 1970s, wasn't in keeping with the group's current image or the times. The Residents re-edited the entire album and overdubbed it with dance beats and modern synthesisers, creating a bizarre dance album similar to Diskomo and its remix.
=== Un-RMX version ===
Starting in 2012, The Residents began to release snippets of the original unremixed version of WB, with various tracks featuring on the compilation album Greatest Hiss, ultimately leading up to a limited edition vinyl release in 2018 and a CD version the following year.
== Release ==
WB:RMX was released on February 22nd, 2004 through Bomba Records in Japanhttps://web.archive.org/web/20040401200025/http://www.residents.com/C1016472556/E1703089565/index.html, while the Euro Ralph pressings followed released on the 23rd of March. The Cryptic Corporation's American pressing was released at a later date.
The Euro Ralph pressings included a CD edition, a single LP edition, and a deluxe LP edition with an additional 12" single containing an alternate remix of "Baby Skeletons and Dogs" and "Bijou", a track which was exclusive to the 12" singlehttps://web.archive.org/web/20040326012129/http://www.residents.com/C1016472556/E1068620072/index.html until its reissue in 2007 on the compilation album Best Left Unspoken... Volume Two. Bijou features anonymous guitar work by Nolan Cook. 
== Reception ==
=== Retrospective ===
In his September 2008 review,Mark Prindle, "The Rich Bunnell Honorary 'What's New?' Page", Mark's Record Reviews, September 12th 2008 (archived via archive.org) freelance music reviewer Mark Prindle considered WB:RMX to be an improvement on the "terrible" Warner Bros. Album, finding it "clever" that The Residents "plucked out the very few listenable moments... and created entirely new songs on top of them", while noting that "the songs themselves only strike gold about half the time".Mark Prindle, "WB:RMX", Mark's Record Reviews, September 12th 2008
== Track listing ==
# The Mad Sawmill of Copenhagen, Germany (2:41)
# Baby Skeletons and Dogs (3:22)
# Bop Bop (Shoobop Bop) (1:43)
# A Merican Fag (2:45)
# Oh Mummy Oh Daddy (4:03)
# Peace and Love (4:33)
# Christmas Morning Foto (1:33)
# Maggie's Farm (Dylan) (2:47)
# Snot and Feces Live at the Grunt Festival (1:48)
# Sweet Meat (3:23)
# Ohm Is Where The Art Is (3:41)
# Sell American (1:44)
# Love Theme From a Major Motion Picture (Whitaker, uncredited) (3:16)
# Pie In The Sky (Tangney, uncredited) (1:56)
# Art, The White Elephant (4:46)
Bonus 12" single (Euro Ralph deluxe vinyl edition only)
# Baby Skeletons & Dogs (2004 Remix) (6:11)
# Bijou (8:31)
== Credits ==
* Recorded in 1971 and remixed in 2003 by: The Residents
* Produced by: The Cryptic Corporation
== Release history ==
Year	Label 	Format	Region 	Notes
2004	Cryptic Corporation	CD 	USA 	
2004	Bomba Records 	CD 	Japan 	
2004	Euro Ralph 	CD 	Europe 	
2004	Euro Ralph 	LP 	Germany	Promo variations exists
2004	Euro Ralph 	LP+12"	Germany	Limited edition of 333
== See also ==
* The W***** B*** Album
* The Delta Nudes
* ERA B474
* The Delta Nudes' Greatest Hiss
* A Nickle If Your Dick's This Big
== External links and references ==
* WB:RMX at The Residents Historical
* WB:RMX at Discogs
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