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Mr. Skull, from the art for Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses, 1997

"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)

Meet The Residents Sampler flexidisc, from File Magazine, February 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

The Third Reich 'n Roll short film (1977)

Tracks included

Songs for Swinging Larvae music video (1981)

Tracks included

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

The companion disc included with 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.

Santa Dog (3:25)

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Vileness Fats (1:56)

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Meet The Residents (2:43)

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Not Available (2:59)

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The Third Reich 'N' Roll (2:33)

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Fingerprince (2:32)

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Duck Stab (3:07)

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Eskimo (2:51)

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The Commercial Album (3:08)

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Mark of the Mole (1:56)

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The Tunes of Two Cities (2:08)

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The Big Bubble (1:00)

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The Mole Show (1:14)

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George & James (1:13)

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Stars & Hank Forever (0:53)

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The 13th Anniversary Show (2:08)

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God In Three Persons (3:00)

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The King & Eye (2:34)

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Cube E: The History Of American Music In 3 E-Z Pieces (2:57)

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Freak Show (2:55)

Tracks included

Our Finest Flowers (2:49)

Tracks included

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

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.

The Gingerbread Man Concentrate (9:05)

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Freak Show Concentrate (9:14)

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Have a Bad Day Concentrate (6:41)

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Eskimo Concentrate (10:11)

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Fingerprince Concentrate (7:49)

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The Third Reich 'N' Roll Concentrate (10:28)

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Hunters Concentrate (3:41)

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CUBE E Concentrate (9:54)

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God in 3 Persons Concentrate (10:11)

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The Mole Trilogy Concentrate (8:58)

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Not Available Concentrate (9:47)

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Meet The Residents Concentrate (6:15)

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Icky Flix (2001)

Icky Flix DVD, 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

The Gingerbread Man (Concentrate) (9:34)

Contents

Bad Day on the Midway (Concentrate) (10:09)

Contents

pREServed (2018-present)

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

The Residents performing Oh Mummy! Oh Daddy! at the Longbranch Saloon in Berkeley, California, June 1976

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

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".

Mole Box (2019)

MOTM Mix One Concentrate (25:41)

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

The wedding ring, October 1971

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)

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Leftovers Again?! (2021)

Rusty Coathangers for the Doctor (held by pREServed engineer Scott Colburn)

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.[1][2]

Rusty Concentrate (7:39)

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Meet The Residents pREServed vinyl edition (2023)

The crawfish/starfish Residents, 1977

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)

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Leftovers Again?! Again!?! (Again) (2025)

Leftovers Again?! Again!?! (Again), the third and final entry in the "accidental" Leftovers Again?! trilogy, included two concentrates, one featuring music from the unfinished studio album Man, and another featuring unused music recorded for television.

Man Music Concentrate

Unused TV Music Concentrate

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)

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The Grove Street Studio (1978-80 Embracing Visibility)

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

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Interactive Media (1991-97 Game Design)

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The Big Band (1998-2003 Epic Productions)

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Storyteller (2005-2008 Once Upon A Time)

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Party Band (2009-2015 40th Anniversary)

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And Also (1974-2015 Volume One)

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And Also (1974-2015 Volume Two)

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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.

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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
Side B

See also

  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
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