Black Shroud Records

Company logo, as seen on the LP labels for The Big Bubble

**Black Shroud Records** is a fictional record company within the mythology of The Residents' Mole Trilogy, particularly Part Four of the trilogy, the 1985 album *The Big Bubble*, which is presented as an album by the fictional garage band of the same name, issued on the label.

In the credits for the album-within-the-album, Black Shroud Records is said to be managed by company president Frankie DuVall, and its postal address is given as 566 Folsom Street, Chubsville, N.E.S..

The label appears to have Zinkenite sympathies; The Big Bubble's song "Cry for the Fire" causes controversy among Chub society as it features a verse in the forbidden Mohelmot language.

## See also

* The Mole Trilogy
* *The Big Bubble* (album)
* Frankie DuVall
* The Big Bubble (band)
* Chubville
* 566 Folsom Street, San Francisco

## External links and references

* *The Big Bubble* at Discogs

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *The Big Bubble* liner notes, 1985
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *The Big Bubble* fictional album credits, 1985

**Cast of Characters**
Mohelmot · Chubs (Innisfree · The Scientist) · The ObserverDarkness · The Evil DisposerCross (Zinkenites · Kula Bocca · The Big Bubble · Frankie DuVall)
**Part One: *Mark of the Mole* (1981)**
(video game · novel)
**Side A: Hole-Workers at the Mercy of Nature**
"Voices of the Air" · "The Ultimate Disaster" · "Migration"
**Side B: Hole-Workers vs. Man and Machine**
"Another Land" · "The New Machine" · "Final Confrontation"
**Part Two: *The Tunes of Two Cities* (1982)**
(*The Comix of Two Cities*)
**Side A:** "Serenade For Missy" · "A Maze Of Jigsaws" · "Mousetrap" · "God Of Darkness" · "Smack Your Lips (Clap Your Teeth)" · "Praise For The Curse"
**Side B:** "The Secret Seed" · "Smokebeams" · "Mourning The Undead" · "Song Of The Wild" · "The Evil Disposer" · "Happy Home (Excerpt From Act II of "Innisfree")"
***Intermission: Extraneous Music From The Residents' Mole Show* (1982)**
**Side A:** "Lights Out (Prelude)" · "Shorty's Lament (Intermission)"
**Side B:** "The Moles Are Coming (Intermission)" · "Would We Be Alive? (Intermission)" · "The New Hymn (Recessional)"
**The Mole Show (1982-1983)**(*Mole Dance 82* · *Live At The Roxy* · *La Edad de Oro* · Uncle Sam Mole Show · VHS · *Live In Holland* · DVD bag set)
**Part Three: ???**
"Now It Is Too Late" · "Going Nowhere" · "Tired Old Man" · "Marching To The We" · *Mole Suite*
**Part Four: *The Big Bubble* (1985)**(fictional band · **Black Shroud Records**)
**Side A:** "Sorry" · "Hop A Little" · "Go Where Ya Wanna Go" · "Gotta Gotta Get" · "Cry For The Fire"
**Side B:** "Die-Stay-Go" · "Vinegar" · "Firefly" · "The Big Bubble" · "Fear for the Future" · "Kula Bocca Says So"
**Part Five: ???**
**Part Six: ???**
**Related works**
"Open Up" · "Anvil Forest" · The 10th Anniversary Show (*Assorted Secrets*) · *PAL TV LP* · The 13th Anniversary Show · *Mole Box: The Complete Mole Trilogy pREServed* ("From MOM1" · "Untitled" · "Jingle Bell" · "Another Another Land")
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