Summer Tunes

Summer Tunes (also referred to as the Summer Beach PartyBig Brother, "Tour Merch update", The Residents Blog, September 27th 2008) is a title informally ascribed to a series of free MP3 releases by The Residents and Snakefinger (with The Vestal Virgins), which were uploaded to The Residents' official blog between June 13th and 29th 2008.Big Brother, "Enjoy the rest of your summer", The Residents Blog, June 29th 2008 
The tracks include selected instrumentals, remixes, album tracks and other assorted rarities. It has since occasionally been mistaken by fans for an official compilation album since its unofficial 2017 upload to YouTube; otherwise, it has not been reissued or made available since the tracks were removed from the blog at the end of June 2008. 
==History==
The MP3s in the collection were selected by The Residents and The Cryptic Corporation so that fans could have "groove-like SUMMER tunes for your ipod when you are at the pool or hanging around the soda shop".Big Brother, "It's truly summer folks", The Residents Blog, June 13th 2008 They were uploaded to the group's official blog by its administrator Big Brother between June 13th and 29th 2008.
The tracks are largely demos, remixes and instrumental versions of songs by The Residents and their late friend and collaborator Snakefinger (including some tracks with his backing band The Vestal Virgins). Assorted album tracks are also included, as well as "Marching to the Beach", an outtake said to originate from the Part Three of The Mole Trilogy sessions which was later reissued on Mole Suite in 2011 and Mole Box in 2019. The music featured on the 2008 tour-only release Dogtag (Bunny Intermission) has also been noted as being "closely related" to the Summer Tunes tracks.
The collection had mostly been removed from the group's website by the end of the month. It has not been reissued since; however, it was uploaded to YouTube on March 5th 2017 by fan MrWzzW, under the title Summer Tunes. As the group's blog was long defunct by this point and the video's accompanying description was ambiguous (stating only that the collection was released in 2008), the upload has caused some confusion among fans who could not locate the release in the group's official discography or on their Discogs page.
==Releases==
Date 	Track 	Notes
June 13	Bombay 	Instrumental version of 'Bad Day In Bombay' by The Vestal Virgins, 1987
June 14	Baha 	Early version of 'Baja' from Demons Dance Alone, 2002
June 15	Seed 	Reworked version of The Secret Seed, from The Tunes Of Two Cities, 1982
June 16	Hunk 	Big Hunk O' Love, from The King & Eye RMX, 1989
June 17	Yeti 	Yeti: What Are You?, by Snakefinger, 1982
June 17	Justice 	There's No Justice In Life, by The Vestal Virgins, 1987
June 17	I Gave Myself 	I Gave Myself To You by The Vestal Virgins, 1987
 	I Followed 	Instrumental version of 'I Followed George's Dream' by Snakefinger, 1982
June 18	Komorov 	The Death Of Komarov, from Freispiel, 2002
June 19	Makemoo 	Make Me Moo, from Demons Dance Alone, 2002
June 20	Old Brown Cow 	Brown Cow from Tweedles, 2006
June 21	BDM Credit Roll 	Bad Day On The Midway credits theme, 1995
June 22	I Hate Heaven 	From Wormwood, 1998
June 23	Jude 	Judas Saves from Wormwood, 1998
June 23	Arksedan 	Mr. Lonely, from Our Finest Flowers, 1992
June 24	Dixie 	God's Teardrops from Have A Bad Day, 1995
June 25	Rosebud 	Blue Tongues from Our Finest Flowers, 1992
 	Sleeper 	The Sleeper, from Residue, 1979
 	VF 	Vileness Fats, from Icky Flix, 2001
 	Censored 	The Census Taker, from The Census Taker, 1984
 	Twinkie 	My Brothers Skin, Arkansas, 2009
 	Sister 	Little Sister, from The King & Eye, 1989
June 29	Marching to the Beach	AKA Marching To The We, from the Mole Suite, 1990
== See also ==
*BOG
*The Residents Blog, June 2008
*dot.com
*The 12 Days of Brumalia
*"Marching To The We"
*Dogtag (Bunny Intermission)
*List of free online releases
== External links and references ==
* The Residents Blog, archived June 25th 2008 by archive.org
*The Residents Blog, archived July 1st 2008 by archive.org
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