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"Gotta Gotta Get" is the fourth track of The Residents' thirteenth studio album, The Big Bubble (Part Four of The Mole Trilogy), released September 30th 1985 by Ralph Records.
Within the context of The Mole Trilogy, the song's lyrics are written and performed mostly in the fictional (and forbidden) Mohelmot language by The Big Bubble, a fictional garage band comprised of Cross, a hybrid race formed of the Moles and the Chubs.
According to the in-universe credits featured on the back sleeve of the album, the song was written by Frank Leone and Ramsey Whiten, the fictional band's guitarist and lead vocalist/percussionist respectively.
History[]
The Residents wrote "Gotta Gotta Get" between 1984 and 1985. At this point, their disastrous 1982-1983 Mole Show world tour was still evidently in their minds. For several years Ralph Records and The Cryptic Corporation had been promoting a promised sequel to Mark of the Mole and The Tunes of Two Cities, and The Residents likely wanted to express the stress they were under, and thus instead began work on Part Four of the Mole Trilogy.
They had originally conceived the Mole "Trilogy" to comprise six installments, with parts 1, 3 & 5 narrative-based, and parts 2, 4, & 6 focusing on the differing and changing musical cultures behind the narrative. Having ideas for Part Three but an aversion to fleshing them out, the group decided to create the much more therapeutic Part Four. The album focuses on the rebellious and downtrodden Big Bubble, whose primal vent music allowed for The Residents to directly tell their audience how they were feeling.
"Gotta Gotta Get" is written and performed almost entirely in Mohelmot, the outlawed language of the fictional Moles, with the title being the song's only comprehensible lyrics.
It was later featured on the 1998 compilation Twenty-Five Years Of Eyeball Excellence.
Credits[]
- Written & Performed by: The Residents
- A Cryptic Corporation Production
Fictional credits[]
- Ramsey Whiten: Vocals, Percussion
- Frank Leone: Electric Guitar
- Paul Sage: Grand Piano, Synthesiser
- Alex Beason: Electric Guitar
List of releases[]
- The Big Bubble (1985) [Version 1]
- Twenty-Five Years Of Eyeball Excellence (1998) [Version 1]
- The Tunes of Two Cities / The Big Bubble (2005) [Version 1]
- Mole Box: The Complete Mole Trilogy pREServed (2019) [Version 1]
List of versions[]
See also[]
External links and references[]
- The Big Bubble at The Residents Historical
- The Big Bubble at RZWeb (archived via archive.org)
- The Big Bubble at Discogs
