Ritual: Magnetic North

Ritual: Magnetic North is a compilation album released by Touch in 1985. The Residents contributed one track for it. 
== Background ==
In 1985 The Residents were asked to contribute to Touch's newest compilation album. The theme of the album is Rituals, and so the group contributed Theme For An American TV Show, which had been recorded as a commission by a TV producer, who ultimately rejected it earlier in the year. Also contributing to the album are Residents collaborators Renaldo And The Loaf. 
The song would be performed by the group throughout their 13th Anniversary Tour, and would eventually be re-recorded for their I Am A Resident project in 2018.
The album collects musical inspired by rituals, mostly recorded between October 1982 and August 1985, although, it does feature two songs recorded in 1928 and 1942, Closing Prices Paper Late & Urban Psychology, respectively.
== Track listing ==
=== Side A: X ===
# Hydrobeast - Within Living Memory
# Regular Music - Purcell Manoeuvres
# Margaret Sambell - Metal Harmonics
# S/Z - Call It Power
# Gilbert And George - The World Of...
# Biting Tongues - Feverhouse
# Einstürzende Neubauten - Das Letzte Biest Am Himmel
# Closing Prices Paper Late
# Kent And Sayer - Memory Ground
# Nocturnal Emissions - Um Eh Eh Eh
#Renaldo And The Loaf - Extracting The Re-Re
# Kill Ugly Pop - One Minute Of Pure Venom
# Strafe Für Rebellion - Rauperaha (Song Of The Maori Rebellion)
# Fast Forward - Mamba
# David Cunningham - Two Different Places
# Touch 33 - North Star
# Greater Than One - Making Love To A Green Monkey [Extract]
=== Side B: Y ===
# Autocue
#The Residents - Theme For An American TV Show
# Gilbert And George - Shadowed Valley
# Camberwell Now - Daddy Needs a Throne
# Wolfgang Wiggurs - Casting of the Skin
# Cabaret Voltaire - Diffusion
# Gregorio Spini - Passing
# Japanese For Monks
# Last Few Days - Too Much Is Not Enough
# Zazou And Bikaye - Signorina
# Val Denham & A.M. McKenzie - I Touched the Memory
# Gilbert And George - Another World Of…
# Ricardo Mandolini - Cançion De Madera Y Agua (Song Of Wood And Water)
# Greater Than One - Urban Psychology
# S/Z - Who is the Author?
# Touch 33 - Greenhouse Effect
# Silent Tongues - Sadhu Ritual Chant
== Liner notes ==
This 5th edition of TOUCH is based on the theme of Ritual. It contains a c90 cassettte MAGNETIC NORTH and kaing a visual + written montage to the music over 90 pages in a riot of colours. Included in this new collection are works by: Assorted Images, Joseph Beuys, Neville Brody, Cabaret Voltaire, Camberwell Now, David Cunningham, Einstürzende Neubauten, Gilbert and George, Last Few Days, Leaving the 20th Century, Kill Ugly Pop, Ricardo Mandolini, Russell Mills, Regular Music, Renaldo and the Loaf, The Residents, Jon Savage, Robert Spridgeon, Ski Wisniewski, Strafe Für Rebellion, Trashmuseum and Zazou & Bikaye.
First edition 3,000
== Release history ==
The album was released in October of 1985 in a limited edition of 3,000 exclusively in the UK. The first pressing came with a 90 page book. In 1986 a second pressing was issued, without the book.
== See also ==
* The Census Taker
* The 13th Anniversary Show
* I Am A Resident!
== External links and references ==
*Ritual: Magnetic North at Discogs
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