El Año del Muerto (The Year Of The Dead) is a rarities album by The Residents, released via the Robot Selling Device in November 2009. It was released physically for the first time in a newly remastered CD edition by Klanggalerie, April 2021.
History[]
El Año del Muerto collects rare material by The Residents, spanning their entire career from The Warner Bros. Album RMX to their 32nd studio album, The Bunny Boy.
It opens with the previously unreleased "I Can't Get No (Spot)", a mash-up of Satisfaction with the lyrics from Snakefinger's 1979 single "The Spot". The song is presumably an outtake from Our Finest Flowers. The instrumental of this track would go on to form The Cry of A Crow, which itself was adapted into The Confused Transexual.
8 of the album's tracks were performed as part of the Talking Light tour.
Track listing[]
- I Can't Get No (Spot) (Previously Unreleased) (3:16)
- Sleepwalker (2:55)
- Dead Men (3:25)
- They Are The Meat (2:42)
- Dear Brother (Written by Hank Williams, uncredited) (3:41)
- Ghost Child (2:57)
- Die-Stay-Go (2:59)
- Six More Miles (To The Graveyard) (Written by Hank Williams, uncredited) (4:16)
- The Old Woman (4:32)
- Bury Me Not (Excerpt from Buckaroo Blues) (3:00)
- Inner Space (4:18)
- Tortured (3:10)
- Boxes of Armageddon (2:12)
- Tent Peg In The Temple (Roadworms Version) (4:09)
- Vampire (3:09)
- Death In Barstow (2:04)
- Ugly (At The End) (3:30)
- Paint It Black (2:59)
- The Replacement (Is he Really Bringing Roses?) (2:55)
- Baby Skeletons (2004 RMX) (5:58)
- My Window (5:20)
Credits[]
Taken from 2021 CD release
- Mastered by Christian Loebenstein
- Images by Hardy Fox
- Layout By Lisa Robotka
- Guest Vocals by Carla Fabrizio, Molly Harvey and Isabelle Barbier
Release Notes[]
The Residents are an American art collective best known for their over 60 studio albums that were recorded over a period of over forty years. They also created some outstanding multimedia works, mainly three CD ROM projects and ten DVDs.
Working as an anonymous collective, their identitites were kept secret until in 2017 Hardy Fox revealed himself as their primary composer. Hardy died in October 2018, but the group continue to record and perform. Recently, several new albums have been released, among them the brilliant Intruders and Ghost of Hope. Early in 2020, the group was invited to perform their seminal album God in 3 Persons at the MOMA in New York. El Año del Muerto is a compilation of mostly previously released material spanning The Residents' entire career up to 2009. It opens with a new track, "I Can't Get No (Spot)", a mash-up of "The Cry Of The Crow" (from the 1993 EP Prelude To "The Teds") with the lyrics from Snakefinger's 1979 single "The Spot". Due to the album's similarities with the Talking Light setlist, the album has retroactively acted as a sort of teaser for the tour. It is also theorized that the album showcases an early planned setlist for the show.
- klanggalerie.com
Release History[]
| Year | Label | Format | Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | RSD | MP3 | USA |
| 2021 | Klanggalerie | CD | Austria |