17x7 The Ralph Singles

***17x7 Ralph Singles*** is a 17 disc box set released by Ralph Records in 1984. It contains all of their 7 inch singles released by Ralph Records between 1978 - 1984.

## Background

The box set features mostly Residents material, with them writing or producing 51% of the music.

## Track Listing

***Disc One: Satisfaction***

1. The Residents & The Pointless Sisters - Satisfaction (Jagger-Richard) (4:30)
2. The Residents & The Pointless Sisters - Loser≅Weed (Residents) (2:09)

***Disc Two: Duck Stab!***

1. The Residents - Laughing Song (Residents) (2:14)
2. The Residents - Blue Rosebuds (Residents) (3:11)
3. The Residents - Constantinople (Residents) (2:23)
4. The Residents - The Booker Tease (Residents) (1:09)
5. The Residents - Sinister Exaggerator (Residents/Snakefinger) (3:27)
6. The Residents - Bach Is Dead (Residents) (1:12)
7. The Residents - Elvis And His Boss (Residents) (2:30)

***Disc Three: The Spot***

1. Snakefinger & D. Preston - The Spot (Snaefinger/Residents) (3:00)
2. Snakefinger & The Residents - Smelly Tongues (Residents) (2:24)

***Disc Four: What Wilbur?***

1. Snakefinger - What Wilbur? (Snakefinger/Residents) (2:35)
2. Snakefinger - Kill The Great Raven (Snakefinger/Residents) (3:06)

***Disc Five: Rats & Monkeys***

1. Art Bears - Rats & Monkeys (Cutler/Frith) (3:13)
2. Art Bears - Collapse (Cutler/Frith) (4:55)

***Disc Six: Buy Or Die 1980***

1. MX-80 Sound - Don't Blame It On Me (Anderson/Stim) (3:15)
2. Snakefinger - Here Comes The Bums (Snakefinger/Residents) (2:52)
3. Tuxedomoon - 7 Years (Tuxedomoon) (3:07)
4. The Residents - The Festival Of Death (Excerpt) (Residents) (3:41)

***Disc Seven: The Model***

1. Snakefinger - The Model (Hutter-Bartos-Schult) (3:39)
2. Snakefinger - Talkin' In The Town (Snakefinger/Residents) (2:32)

***Disc Eight: Buy Or Die 1980 1/2***

1. The Residents - Easter Woman (Residents) (1:00)
2. The Residents - The End Of Home (Residents) (1:00)
3. The Residents - Amber (Residents) (1:00)
4. Snakefinger - Trashing All The Loves Of History (Snakefinger) (3:08)
5. Yello - Rock Stop (Blank/Meier) (2:30)
6. Fred Frith - Come Across (Frith) (2:45)

***Disc Nine: The Man In The Dark Sedan***

1. Snakefinger - The Man In The Dark Sedan (Snakefinger/Residents) (4:32)
2. Snakefinger - Womb To Worm (Snakefinger/Residents) (3:13)

***Disc Ten: O-Type***

1. MX-80 Sound - O Type (Pt. 1) (Anderson/Stim) (3:36)
2. MX-80 Sound - O Type (Pt. 2) (Anderson/Stim) (4:10)

***Disc Eleven: Someday You'll Be King & White Night***

1. MX 80 - Someday You'll Be King (Anderson/Ross) (3:15)
2. MX 80 - White Night (Anderson/Stim) (4:17)

***Disc Twelve: Dancing In The Street***

1. Fred Frith - Dancing In The Street (Stevenson/Gaye) (3:20)
2. Fred Frith - What A Dilemma (Frith) (3:12)

***Disc Thirteen: Bimbo***

1. Yello - Bimbo (Blank/Meier) (3:25)
2. Yello - I.T. Splash (Blank/Meier) (2:37)

***Disc Fourteen: What Use?***

1. Tuxedomoon - What Use? (Tuxedomoon)
2. Tuxedomoon - Crash (Belfer/Reininger)

***Disc Fifteen: Dark Companion***

1. Tuxedomoon - Dark Companion (Tuxedomoon) (4:10)
2. Tuxedomoon - 59 To 1 Remix (Tuxedomoon) (3:54)

***Disc Sixteen: Buy Or Die 1981***

1. Fred Frith - A Spit In The Ocean (Frith) (2:17)
2. MX-80 Sound - Why Are We Here (Anderson/Stim) (2:55)
3. Renaldo And The Loaf - Honest John's Indian Gets The Goat On The Way To The Cowboy's Conga (Renaldo/Loaf) (3:29)
4. Tuxedomoon - Incubus (Blue Suit) (Tuxedomoon) (3:49)

***Disc Seventeen: The White Single***

1. The Residents - This Is A Man's Man's Man's World (Brown) (3:41)
2. The Residents - Safety Is A Cootie Wootie (Residents) (6:40)