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Following the success of Bad Day on the Midway, The Residents released Have a Bad Day, a companion / soundtrack album based on music from the CD-ROM.

The group was also putting together a very ambitious pitch for their next multimedia project, I Murdered Mommy!, which was going to be presented to Bad Day publisher Inscape. However, the market for CD-ROMs was quickly changing toward products of more assurable commercial value, and The Residents' future in game development did not seem so promising.

Aside from this and a film score commission for Lynn Hershman-Leeson's Conceiving Ada, not much else happened in 1996 as the Cryptic Corporation kept themselves busy managing both of their Ralph labels.

Timeline[]

  • Early in the year, The Residents begin sketching out another CD-ROM project, I Murdered Mommy.

January[]

  • 9th: The Residents attend Primus' Tales from the Punchbowl release party at Bimbo's 365 Club. They hand out copies of Bad Day on the Midway and perform "Hello Skinny" on stage with the band. This was The Residents' first live performance since 1991's Freak Show performance in San Jose.
  • The November 1995 performance of Freak Show Live from Prague is broadcast.

February[]

  • The Eyesore preview single is released by Ralph America.[1]
  • Sometime during this year, The Residents visit Gugum Gumbira and his wife Euis Komariah in Bandung, Java, and have a recording session together. This session inspires The Residents to later record "Spaghetti Sunda".[2]

March[]

April[]

May[]

  • The Comix of Two Cities volume 1 is released by Aeon. It collects the first two issues of the original 1982 series.[5] Five more volumes are released in the following months, coming to 12 issues in total (the latter six having been unissued until now).

August[]

  • 25th: The Residents are commissioned to score Lynn Hershman-Leeson's film Conceiving Ada.
  • 28th: The Residents agree to compose the soundtrack to a Tales from the Crypt CD-ROM by Inscape. Have a Bad Day is released in the US.

October[]

  • 24th: The Residents are "dropped" from their scoring job for Tales from the Crypt.

December[]

  • The Residents are introduced to Max Steinway, N. Senada's former partner. Steinway shows the group a composition by N entitled Pollex Christi. The Residents, once again inspired by their old mentor, begin working on a MIDI version of the composition along with assistance from Steinway.

Releases[]

  • Have A Bad Day (CD, East Side Digital / Euro Ralph, ESD 81202 / CD 013)

Re-releases[]

  • Eskimo (CD, Euro Ralph, CD 016)

Compilation appearances[]

  • Eyesore: A Stab At The Residents (CD, Vaccination Records, VAC006)
    • First officially licensed Residents cover album
    • Includes a live, previously unrleased version of "Benny The Bouncing Bump"
    • It also includes a cover of "Smelly Tongues" by Snakefinger, in which The Residents are featured.
  • A Compendium Preview Guide To Eyesore: A Stab At The Residents (7'', Vaccination Records, VAC005, Sampler)
    • Includes a cover of "Smelly Tongues" by Snakefinger, in which The Residents perform.
  • Back To The Penguin - The Dark Sound Of The 80's (CD, Brand New Entertainment, BNE 030)
  • Exotic Sounds From Many Worlds (CD, Milan, 73138 35738-2)
    • Includes "Tooth And Claw"

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://web.archive.org/web/19980124015027/http://www.residents.com/app/digest/st-021.html
  2. ↑ https://www.residents.com/historical/?page=ourtiredourpoor
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/19980124020404/http://www.residents.com/app/digest/st-034.html
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/19980124020443/http://www.residents.com/app/digest/st-035.html
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160821094956/https://atomicavenue.com/title/45160/Comix-of-Two-Cities-The
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