THE RESIDENTS Commercial Album NM- LP 1st Press 1980 Ralph? RZ-8052-L +DUCKSTAB

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This auction is for:
THE RESIDENTS
COMMERCIAL ALBUM
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RALPH Records RZ-8052-L
Original 1980 issue • Stereo LP
Original RALPH 'Buy or Die' inner sleeve included
FIRST PRESSING • LIMITED EDITION
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Bonus DUCKSTAB LP
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COMMERCIAL ALBUM:
VINYL is NM-
Full gloss, super clean with only a very few small, faintest sleeve marks revealed under hard bright light, that are 100% inaudible. Labels are immaculate both sides.
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COVER is EX
Very crisp and clean with a few mild edge creases and one corner crease. No shelf wear, writing or soil. Edges straight, corners sharp. Seams and spine completely intact with splits.


DUCKSTAB:
1987 issue RALPH RZ-87521
VINYL is EX+
Extremely clean with a only a few very light hairlines/sleeve marks. Label side 1 is pristine. Label side 2 has "In Protest of Boredom"* Eyeball sticker, otherwise pristine.

COVER is EX
Generic black cover (as handed out at Cryptic Corp. S.F. office) has just a touch of shelf wear. No creases, writing or soil. Edges straight, corners sharp. No splits.

STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

FIRST PRESSING COMMERCIAL ALBUM Limited to 15,000 copies
with Purple RALPH Logo on back cover - and and an incorrect track order printed on the sleeve for tracks 8-14
(this track order is correct as printed on A-side label).

Sequentially listed tracks on sleeve and on labels regardless of sides: 1 to 40.
© ? 1980, The Cryptic Corporation
Published by Pale Pachyderm Publishing

Featuring special guest appearances by
Snakefinger,  Chris Cutler, Don Jackovich, Mud's Sis, Sandy Sandwich, Fred Frith

Original "Buy or Die" RALPH RECORDS inner sleeve is in NM, LIKE NEW, with no creases, writing or splits.

40 songs, each exactly one minute long. These strange and oddly beautiful little songs pastiche the advertising jingle while advancing the Residential "Theory of Obscurity" - although the songs are not endorsements of any known products or services. The Residents have obscurely stated that any of these songs should be repeated three times in a row to form a "pop song". The Residents purchased 40 one-minute advertising slots on San Francisco's most popular Top-40 radio station at the time, KFRC, such that the station played each track of their album over three days. This prompted an editorial in Billboard magazine questioning whether the act was art or advertising.

When MTV was in its infancy, the Residents' videos were in heavy rotation since they were among the few music videos available to broadcasters. The Residents' earliest videos are in the New York Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection. Indeed video's were made for ALL of these 40 tracks and some are among the very best the Residents ever made.

TRACK LISTING
SIDE A
Easter Woman 1:00 Perfect Love 1:00 Picnic Boy 1:00 End Of Home 1:00 Amber 1:00 Japanese Watercolor 1:00 Secrets 1:00 Red Rider 1:00 My Second Wife 1:00 Suburban Bathers 1:00 Floyd 1:00 Dimples And Toes 1:00 The Nameless Souls 1:00 Die In Terror 1:00 Love Leaks Out 1:00 Act Of Being Polite 1:00 Medicine Man 1:00 Tragic Bells 1:00 Loss Of Innocence 1:00 The Simple Song 1:00

SIDE B
Ups And Downs 1:00 Possessions 1:00 Give It To Someone Else 1:00 Phantom 1:00 Less Not More 1:00 My Work Is So Behind 1:00 Birds In The Trees 1:00 Handful Of Desire 1:00 Moisture 1:00 Love Is... 1:00 Troubled Man 1:00 La La 1:00 Loneliness 1:00 Nice Old Man 1:00 The Talk Of Creatures 1:00 Fingertips 1:00 In Between Dreams 1:00 Margaret Freeman 1:00 The Coming Of The Crow 1:00 When We Were Young 1:00

Disc kept in separate ANTI-STATIC inner sleeve to protect both the original inner and the vinyl.
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve.
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NOTE on the Added DUCKSTAB LP
Supplied here as a BONUS due to generic-only cover / "In Protest Of Boredom" sticker on label.

*IN PROTEST OF BOREDOM was a radio show back in 1980's on Public Radio station KAZU - hosted by JERRY FORD, who was also the leader of the avant Punk band BENT.

He also worked for me at my record store back in 1980's and introduced me to various Cyptic Corp. people (as well as Snakefinger and various original Mothers of Invention members).

This copy i am assuming was from his Radio show promos - we both visited the Cryptic Corp. offices quite regularly in those days ...me for buying LPs and 45s for the store and only a bit for promos; Jerry's show was much more the perfect showcase for RESIDENTS material, though I also fitted them in quite often ...from these albums I would often play CONSTANTINOPLE (Duckstab) and MOISTURE plus THE ACT OF BEING POLITE (Commercial Album) on my "Psychorotic Cure" program.

Please see my other listings for more RESIDENTS
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...continuing over next few days and weeks
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