WOW Demos 1

WOW Demos 1 (originally announced as The Wonder of Weird Demos, then as The Wonder of Weird Demos 1) is a two disc compilation album by The Residents, featuring demo recordings made in late 2012 in preparation for their Wonder of Weird live tour. 
The album was released by Klanggalerie on November 15th 2021. A second compilation featuring later versions of the same demos, titled WOW Demos 2, followed on December 28th. 
== History ==
The Residents recorded these demos in late 2012, in preparation for their 40th Anniversary tour, which was themed around sexuality and titled The Wonder of Weird. 
The show, the second in the group's Randy, Chuck and Bob Trilogy of tours, featured singer Randy Rose, keyboardist Charles Bobuck, and guitarist Lionel Bob; personae which The Residents had introduced in their previous show, Talking Light, in 2010.
At least twenty of the demos featured on this compilation were later overdubbed with additional guitar; these later versions were included on the following album, WOW Demos 2.
== Release ==
The Wonder of Weird demos appear to have been originally released as "Easter eggs" hidden on various pages of The Residents' official website. The files as released on the website had only vague, unspecified filenames (ie. "page0_1") and were not announced by the group, leaving it up to "sleuths" to locate the files. 
Lisa French (a Mysterious Spanish Lady and administrator of this wiki) had been supplied fifteen of the demos by fan Tom-Erik Løe on July 1st 2020, and had then uploaded the demo tracks together in a video on her YouTube channel on the same day,Comment by Lisa French, The Residents unofficial Facebook group, November 30th 2021 identifying the individual tracks in the video description. The release of The Wonder of Weird Demos on Klanggalerie was announced in January 2021."Coming Soon" at Klanggalerie, archived January 18th 2021 by archive.org 
In May 2021, French downloaded another twenty-eight Wonder of Weird demos through the same file sharing program; these included eight more "page0" tracks, and twenty tracks titled "page3_x". The "page3" tracks featured the later, overdubbed versions of the previous demos. French then sent the complete collection of 43 demos to Walter Robotka of Klanggalerie, receiving a "thank you" credit on the back cover of WOW Demos 1. The later "page3" demos formed the basis of the follow-up album, WOW Demos 2.
==Track listing ==
Disc One (56:32)
#Jack The Boneless Boy (5:48)
#Shorty's Lament (4:38)
#Double Shot (11:25)
##Double Shot (2:51)
##Kiss of Flesh (8:34)
#Handful Of Desire (3:43)
#Bathsheba Bathes (3:32)
#Teddy (4:14)
#Hanging By His Hair (4:55)
#Black Behind (4:39)
#Honey Bear (5:03)
#The Whispering Boys (4:42)
#Baby Sister (3:58)
Disc Two (41:56)
#David's Dick (3:02)
#Mahogany Wood (4:04)
#Give It To Someone Else (3:03)
#Loser ≅ Weed / Picnic In The Jungle (4:24)
#My Brother Paul (3:38)
#Spilling The Seed (3:00)
#The Confused Transsexual (3:41)
#Struggle / The Sailor Song (3:01)
#Crocodile Tears (3:01)
#The Monkey Man (3:21)
#The Man In The Dark Sedan (4:37)
#Never Known Questions (3:12)
==See also==
*The Wonder of Weird
*WOW Demos 2
*The Wonder of Weird (album)
*The Randy, Chuck and Bob Trilogy
== External links and references==
*WOW Demos 1 at Klanggalerie
*WOW Demos 1 on Discogs
Category:The Wonder of Weird
Category:Compilations
Category:Randy, Chuck and Bob
Category:Klanggalerie
Category:2012
Category:2021