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Triple Trouble - The Original Soundtrack Recording[1] (alternatively Triple Trouble: The Original Soundtrack Album) is a soundtrack album by The Residents, featuring seven "collaged suites" containing extended musical cues, dialogue, and some "familiar themes" from the group's 2022 feature film of the same name.

The album was released through Cherry Red Records and MVD Audio on November 18th 2022, with three vinyl variants (including a picture disc and a "die-hard" art object edition) distributed by Psychofon Records.[2][1][3]

History[]

On November 16th 2016, The Residents published a YouTube video announcing that they would be making a film titled Double Trouble, set in the universe of their "Randy, Chuck and Bob" project, while also acting as a spiritual sequel to their unfinished feature film Vileness Fats. Production eventually slowed, leading The Residents to rewrite the script, at which point it become an entirely new film, now titled Triple Trouble.

Homer Flynn confirmed the release of a soundtrack album in December 2020, at that time with the working title Endless Illusions. Flynn also noted that ideas developed by The Residents while recording the Triple Trouble soundtrack had "opened up a door for what they might want to do with the next album."[4]

The soundtrack (later simply titled Triple Trouble) was "in the can" as of May 2022, with graphics finalized in February.[1] It was initially planned for release in June,[1] but was ultimately delayed to follow the film's premiere at the Chicago Underground Film Festival in September.

Writing[]

For Triple Trouble, The Residents worked with Eric Drew Feldman, who has been working closely with the group since August 2015. The album prominently features lines of dialogue from the film, sometimes in alternative versions.

The soundtrack features several samples of earlier works by The Residents, the most apparent being "Fire Fall" from Wormwood, and "The Importance of Evergreen", "Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats?" and "Willie's Last Word" from the soundtrack to the 1984 video Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?.

"Killing Time" appears to resemble "Train Vs. Elephant" from the 2017 album The Ghost of Hope; the title may also be a reference to the posthumously released Hardy Fox album of the same name.

Release[]

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Detail from the zoetrope image on the picture disc LP edition, photo by Andreas Mathews

Following the film's premiere, the CD edition of the Triple Trouble soundtrack was announced for release and made available for pre-order on September 9th 2022 through Cherry Red Records and MVD Audio.[2][1][3]

Later in the month Psychofon Records announced three vinyl variants, a standard black vinyl edition and two special limited editions: a picture disc featuring a zoetrope image of an eyeball-masked Resident (who dances when the vinyl spins) limited to 250 copies, and a "die hard art object" edition, consisting of a white-streaked transparent vinyl LP, screwed to a foam block and housed in a large tin "film canister" with handmade spray paint artwork by Psychofon's art department;[5] limited to only 100 copies.

Pre-sale for the vinyl editions opened on October 1st.[6] A sampler track comprised of elements of a number of musical cues from the soundtrack and a Randy Rose monologue from the film, titled "Trouble Comin' Every Day", was uploaded to YouTube on November 16th 2022, two days prior to the album's release.

Track listing[]

  1. Lost Inside a Soul (5:15)
    • Confession
    • Walking In The Woods
    • Under The Sink
    • Sister Juanita
    • Under The Sink Again
  2. Walking in Circles (4:47)
  3. Let Caution Be Your Cry (5:53)
    • In The Basement
    • Malfunction
    • Sidewalk Drawings
    • Suzi's Theme
  4. Finding My Father (4:49)
  5. A Phantom Philosophy (7:25)
    • Mom's Attic
    • Randy's Ghost
    • Junior Dreams Of Eyeballs
    • Mold Is A Fungus
    • Afraid To Go Out
  6. Empty As An Elephants' Graveyard (6:16)
    • News Bulletin
    • Elephants' Graveyard
    • Bubbles In Golden Gate Park
    • Bookcase Out Of Control
  7. Fungus is Forever (7:18)
    • The Fungus Farm
    • THEY'RE HERE!
    • Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats
    • Willie's Last Word

Credits[]

Release history[]

Year Label Format Region
2022 Cherry Red Records, MVD Audio CD UK
Psychofon Records LP Germany

See also[]

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External links and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "I am right now finalizing graphics on the soundtrack, that will probably be coming out in June. (It will be called) Triple Trouble, yeah, right." - Homer Flynn, Industry Tactics with Friendly Rich, "Ep. 145 - Homer Flynn", February 13th 2022
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Seasoned Greetings!", Cherry Red mailing list newsletter, January 8th 2022
  3. 3.0 3.1 Facebook post by Psychofon Records, September 11th 2022
  4. "Homer Flynn Interview 12/17/20", Esoterica the Podcast on YouTube
  5. Post by Andreas Mathews, The Residents unofficial Facebook group, September 24th 2022
  6. Post by Andreas Mathews, The Residents unofficial Facebook group, September 13th 2022
Mtrlabel-transparent-sml The Residents studio albums

Ralph Records (1972 - 1987)
Meet The Residents (1974) · The Third Reich 'n Roll (1976) · Fingerprince (1977) · Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen (1978)
Not Available (1978) · Eskimo (1979) · Commercial Album (1980) · Mark of the Mole (1981)
The Tunes of Two Cities (1982) · George & James (1984) · The Big Bubble (1985) · Stars & Hank Forever! (1986)

Ryko and Enigma (1988 - 1989)
God In Three Persons (1988) · The King & Eye (1989)

East Side Digital (1990 - 2002)
Freak Show (1990) · Our Finest Flowers (1992) · Gingerbread Man (1994) · Have A Bad Day (1996)
Wormwood (1998) · Demons Dance Alone (2002)

Mute Records (2004 - 2007)
Animal Lover (2005) · Tweedles! (2006) · The Voice of Midnight (2007)

MVD Audio (2008 - 2015)
The Bunny Boy (2008) · Lonely Teenager (2011) · Mush-Room (2013)

MVD Audio and Cherry Red (2016 - present)
The Ghost of Hope (2017) · Intruders (2018) · Metal, Meat & Bone (2020)

Fan club / off-label albums
Buckaroo Blues (1989) · The 12 Days of Brumalia (2004) · Night of the Hunters (2007)
Hades (2009) · Dollar General (2010) · Night Train To Nowhere! (2012)

Soundtrack albums
Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats? (1984) · The Census Taker (1985) · Hunters (1995) · Icky Flix (2001)
I Murdered Mommy! (2004) · Postcards From Patmos (2008) · Strange Culture/Haeckel's Tale (2010)
Chuck's Ghost Music (2011) · Theory of Obscurity Soundtrack (2014) · Sculpt (2016) · Music to Eat Bricks By (2019) · Triple Trouble (2022)

Collaborative albums
Title In Limbo with Renaldo & The Loaf (1983) · I Am A Resident! with You? (2018)

Live in the studio
Assorted Secrets (1984) · Roadworms: The Berlin Sessions (2000) · Talking Light Live In Rehearsal, Santa Cruz, California (2010)
Mole Dance 82 (2021) · Duck Stab! Alive! (2021)

Related articles
The Residents discography (W.E.I.R.D., 1979) · Ralph Records discography

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