Available Nonsensical

"Available Nonsensical" is a title ascribed to two alternate mixes of The Residents' suite "The Making of a Soul" (from their 1978 album Not Available) which were released as Free! Weird! MP3 files in September 2019 and February 2021 respectively.

The first "Available Nonsensical", released September 20th 2019, is an extraction of the song's so-called "hidden monologue" which was first released on The Residents' Official News BOG on March 10th 2004. The monologue is present but inaudible in the album version of "The Making of a Soul", and is a remnant from the earlier track "Where To Begin", which ultimately formed part of the suite.

The second "Available Nonsensical" is an alternative instrumental arrangement of the "Mourning Glories" section of "The Making of a Soul", first heard in the YouTube trailer for the Not Available pREServed CD edition on November 5th 2019. This version was apparently re-discovered in the group's tape archives after the track listing for the pREServed edition had been finalised, and so, it was not included, instead being released later as a Free! Weird! MP3 file on February 12th 2021. A similar arrangement can be heard on the limited edition white-label 7" single Not Available (Work in Progress), released in 2023.

Lyrics

The "hidden monologue" (first version)

Once upon a time in a faraway land, south of the steaming jungles,
north of the mighty rivers, and east and west of the wastelands, there lived a human person. 
He named himself by making up a sound he liked. 
His name was only a grunt, but he liked it, 
and liking something was a perfect awareness that he'd had that was not directly associated with his survival. 
In fact, he made this almost every facet of his life. 
He preferred to make up things he liked, 
but you'd hardly expect less from a human person. 

The man met a human person and they liked each other, 
and that's what they liked about liking each other. 
But then, they hung up about what they liked, 
and suddenly one day couldn't remember what they liked, or why they liked, 
and wonder if they even really liked each other; 
and this was the second awareness not directly associated with their survival. 
The choice seemed to be that you stop wondering how you're starting to like what the other person didn’t like.
The third awareness was the most important, and it came shortly after the second.
Briefly stated, it is that it didn't matter anyway,
and both human persons lived happily ever after,
except for those not directly associated with human survival.

See also

• Not Available
• X Is For Xtra
• "Where To Begin?"
• "Available Piece"
• "Solome & Goiter"
• "New Mexico Dream"
• "Mourning Glories"

Resources

• First version ("hidden monologue") (MP3 file, 229 kbps, 1:18)

External links and references

• Not Available pREServed CD edition trailer on YouTube

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