List of concentrates

**"Concentrate"** is a term used by The Residents to denote an edited, "concentrated" medley of previously recorded material, usually around ten minutes in length (though this has varied considerably).

The term was introduced in 1997 with the release of the retrospective compilation and box set *Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses*, much of which consisted of "concentrate" edits of selected albums from the group's discography; however The Residents had enacted the concept much earlier, with the 1974 promotional *Meet The Residents Sampler* flexidisc consisting of a shortened edit of their debut album.

The Residents have often returned to the concentrate concept in the years following the release of the *Huddled Masses* box set, beginning with a series of video concentrates (with newly recorded soundtracks) for the *Icky Flix* DVD in 2001. A series of further "concentrates" of material from the group's archives have appeared on releases in the pREServed series of expanded remasters, from 2018 onwards. Many tracks of a similar nature, though not specifically labelled as "concentrates", have also been released.

This article lists the concentrates released by The Residents to date, with details of the songs included and timestamps.

## Pre-*Huddled Masses* (1974-1996)

### *Meet The Residents Sampler* (1974)

The flexidisc *Meet The Residents Sampler* included with the February 1974 issue of File Magazine featured an almost seven minute suite of excerpts of five songs from the then-upcoming debut album by The Residents, in a manner similar to what would (more than twenty years later) become known as "concentrates".

This unique suite of excerpts was reissued much later as a single-sided white label 7" single included with some copies of the three LP pREServed vinyl edition of *Meet The Residents* in January 2023.

#### Tracks included

* Numb Erone (0:00 - 0:26)
* Guylum Bardot (0:27 - 0:47)
* Smelly Tongues (0:46 - 1:52)
* Rest Aria (1:53 - 3:38)
* N-ER-GEE (Crisis Blues) (3:39 - 5:02)
* Seasoned Greetings (5:01 - 6:27)

### *Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated Guide to The Residents* (1993)

The companion CD included with copies of the 1993 book *Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated Guide to The Residents* featured a series of short tracks comprised of clips from all of the group's major projects up to and including 1992's *Our Finest Flowers*, compiled and curated by former UWEB fan club president Uncle Willie.

## *Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses* (1997)

The term "concentrate" was introduced with the 1997 compilation and box set *Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses*. Intended as The Residents' 25th Anniversary release, the set featured a number of medley suites consisting of excerpts from their major projects, each labelled as a "concentrate". The two CD version of the compilation contained a number of additional concentrates which were not heard on the four disc box set edition, which instead included selections of tracks in place of the concentrate edits.

The *Gingerbread Man* concentrate was later included as a bonus track on the 2016 CD reissue of the album; an alternate, video concentrate was created in 2001 for the *Icky Flix* DVD, featuring a newly recorded alternative soundtrack by The Residents. The *Hunters* concentrate was featured on another retrospective box set, *80 Aching Orphans*, in 2018. The *Fingerprince* concentrate was included as a bonus track on the two CD pREServed edition of the album later in the same year.

## *Icky Flix* (2001)

The Residents returned to the "concentrate" concept again with the release of their 2001 retrospective DVD *Icky Flix*; the DVD contained a number of newly edited video concentrates of material such as the unfinished feature film *Vileness Fats* and the CD-ROM games *Gingerbread Man* and *Bad Day on the Midway*, with each also receiving a newly recorded alternative soundtrack by The Residents.

In 2023, a restored and remastered version of the *Icky Flix* *Vileness Fats* concentrate was released on the DVD and Blu-ray editions of The Residents' feature film *Triple Trouble*.

### Vileness Fats (Concentrate) (17:26)

#### Contents

* Title (0:00 - 0:27)
* The Mother's House (0:28 - 2:56)
* The Rebels' Cave #1 (2:57 - 6:12)
* The Banquet Hall (6:13 - 9:02)
* The Nite Club #1 (9:03 - 10:25)
* The Rebels' Cave #2 (10:26 - 10:53)
* The Nite Club #2 (10:54 - 17:22)
	+ *Vileness Fats* Scene 28 (10:57 - 11:27)
	+ *Vileness Fats* Scene 32 (11:28 - 11:54)
	+ *Vileness Fats* Scene 34 (11:55 - 13:03)
	+ *Vileness Fats* Scene 33 (13:04 - 13:46)
	+ *Vileness Fats* Scene 34 (13:46 - 17:11)

## pREServed (2018-present)

### *The Third Reich 'n Roll* pREServed CD edition (2018)

The two CD pREServed edition of *The Third Reich 'n Roll* featured an eleven minute concentrate of pieces from the backing tape for The Residents' Oh Mummy! Oh Daddy! live performance at Rather Ripped Records' fifth anniversary party in Berkeley in June 1976 (the recording of the performance itself is featured elsewhere on the set).

#### 'Oh Mummy' Backing Tape Concentrate (11:04)

##### Tracks included

* Numb Erone (0:00 - 1:46)
* Satisfaction (1:47 - 4:22)
* Spotted Pinto Bean (4:23 - 5:11)
* It's My Party (5:12 - 5:42)
* Wipeout (5:43 - 7:07)
* Aircraft Damage (7:08 - 11:04)

### *Commercial Album* pREServed CD edition (2019)

#### Commercial Commercials Concentrate (3:25)

The pREServed two CD edition of *Commercial Album* contains a track titled "Commercial Commercials Concentrate", which consists entirely of a three minute promotional radio commercial featuring very short snippets of all forty songs from the album, in album order, with each title spoken by a male announcer, closing with the entirety of "When We Were Young".

### *A Nickle If Your Dick's This Big* (2019)

The 2019 pREServed two-disc compilation *A Nickle If Your Dick's This Big* compiled the long-unreleased 1971 demo albums *The W\*\*\*\*\* B\*\*\* Album* and *B.S.*, alongside live recordings from the era, including an almost eight minute long concentrate edit of the never before heard live performance at Philip "Snakefinger" Lithman's green card wedding in October 1971.

#### Philip's Wedding Concentrate (7:44)

##### Tracks included

* N. Senada Tribute (0:00 - 0:55)
* Eat Me Mother (0:56 - 2:02)
* Kamakazi Lady (2:03 - 3:02)
* The Fourth Crucifixion (3:03 - 4:16)
* D For Doorknob (4:17 - 5:08)
* Pink Lemonade (5:09 - 5:43)
* The Three Most Important Things In The Whole Wide World (5:44 - 7:02)
* Bop Bop Shu Bop Bop (7:03 - 7:44)

### *Leftovers Again?!* (2021)

The limited edition vinyl compilation *Leftovers Again?!* (released on Record Store Day in 2021) opens with a seven minute concentrate of the long-unreleased 1970 demo tape *Rusty Coathangers for the Doctor*.

Intriguingly, this concentrate is itself a shorter edit of a longer, 22 minute concentrate of the tape, which the group are known to have compiled around 2019 (possibly for the compilation *A Nickle If Your Dick's This Big*) and then promptly decided not to release, apparently having been "freaked out" by its contents and wishing never to hear it again.

#### Rusty Concentrate (7:39)

##### Tracks included

* "Bye Bye Birdie" Edit Piece (0:00 - 0:14)
* Rusty Coathangers for the Doctor (0:15 - 4:36)
* Untitled Instrumental #2 (4:37 - 5:22)
* Untitled Instrumental #3 (5:23 - 5:50)
* Untitled Instrumental #4 (5:51 - 7:10)
* Rusty Coathangers for the Doctor #2 (7:05 - 7:39)

### *Meet The Residents* pREServed vinyl edition (2023)

The three LP vinyl pREServed edition of *Meet The Residents* included a newly created, fifteen minute "Meet The Residents Alternate Concentrate", consisting of alternate takes and other supplemental material from the sessions of the album, most of which had been previously released in different edits on the CD pREServed edition.

#### Meet The Residents Alternate Concentrate (15:22)

##### Tracks included

* Boots (with RDX outro) (0:00 - 1:12)
* Numb Erone 'Live' (extended) (1:13 - 4:57)
* Guylum Bardot Version (extended) (4:58 - 7:23)
* Breath and Length Version (extended) (7:24 - 9:22)
* Smelly Tongues Version (alternate edit) (9:23 - 11:01)
* Russian Love Song (unedited outro) (11:02 - 11:17)
* Skratz (instrumental) (11:18 - 12:56)
* Spotted Pinto Bean Version (with studio chatter) (12:57 - 13:41)
* N-Er-Gee Crisis Outro (extended) (13:42 - 15:22)

## Other examples

### Radio Thoreau singles (2014)

As part of his Radio Thoreau remix project in 2014, The Residents' founding composer Charles Bobuck composed a series of nine digital singles in the style of the earlier "concentrates", focused on eras of the group's history, rather than specific albums.

#### The Sycamore Street Studio (1974-77 Embracing Obscurity)

##### Tracks included

* Boots
* Smelly Tongues
* Rest Aria
* Spotted Pinto Bean
* Edweena
* The Making of a Soul
* Never Known Questions
* Swastikas on Parade
* Hitler Was a Vegetarian

#### The Grove Street Studio (1978-80 Embracing Visibility)

##### Tracks included

* Constantinople
* Semolina
* Hello Skinny
* Laughing Song
* Bach Is Dead
* The Festival of Death
* Moisture
* Suburban Bathers
* The Simple Song
* Easter Woman
* Ups and Downs
* When We Were Young

#### Performance Art (1982-1990 Taking It On The Road)

##### Tracks included

* The Secret Seed
* God of Darkness
* Happy Home
* Lizard Lady
* Picnic in the Jungle
* Cry for the Fire
* Buckaroo Blues
* The Gospel Truth
* Black Barry
* Organism
* Blue Suede Shoes
* The Baby King
* Roll Over Beethoven

### *Theory of Obscurity Soundtrack* (2014)

In December 2014, contributors to the Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for the documentary film *Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents* received a 52 minute MP3 file, simply titled *Theory of Obscurity Soundtrack*, consisting of an album length concentrate of music heard in the film. To date, the *Theory of Obscurity Soundtrack* has never been released elsewhere.

### *Not Available (Work in Progress)* (2023)

The limited edition white label 7" single *Not Available (Work in Progress)*, released alongside the pREServed expanded vinyl edition of *Not Available* in 2023, features a two-part suite comprised of excerpts (mostly alternate and instrumental mixes and outtakes) from a work-in-progress mix of the album compiled by Ralph Records in 1978.

#### Tracks included

##### Side A

* Edweena (alternate instrumental intro and verse with backing vocals)
* The Making of a Soul (instrumental section)

##### Side B

* The Making of a Soul (instrumental section, continued)
* Edweena (instrumental verse section)
* Asonarose (alternate mix)
* Ship's A'Going Down (instrumental)
* Never Known Questions (instrumental)

## See also

* The Residents discography
* *Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses*
* *Icky Flix* (DVD)
* pREServed

## External links and references

* *Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses* at The Residents Historical
* *Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses* at RZWeb (archived via archive.org)

1. ↑ "There was a 22 minute 'concentrate' of *Rusty* they edited together a year or so ago, but I think it freaked them out!" Richard Anderson, comment in The Residents Facebook group, January 15th 2020
2. ↑ "They did prepare a 22 minute edit of *Rusty* but decided they really didn't like it and never wanted to hear it again! True story." - Richard Anderson, private message to former wiki contributor Tom-Erik Løe, ca. July 2020