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Live In The USA! 13th Anniversary Tour is a double live album by The Residents, recorded February 10th 1986 during the group's 13th Anniversary Show tour.
History[]
Following the release of The Residents' Big Bubble album in September of 1985, the group were booked for a short tour of Japan. For this tour, The Residents created an hour long show entitled The Eyeball Show, which contained music from the band's entire career. After the conclusion of the Japanese tour in late October, Ralph Records booked them for a similar tour of the US from December '85 to February '86. This tour would feature an expanded version of the Eyeball Show setlist, and would be re-titled 'The 13th Anniversary Show'
This double live album captures one of the final performances of that second leg, at The First Avenue Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 10th 1986. Later third, and even fourth, legs of the tour would occur through August and October of 1986, with one final show taking place on January 10th 1987.
Release[]
The album was released in April 1986 in a limited quantity of 500.[1] It would be The Residents' first double album, as well as the first full recording of the 13th Anniversary Show to be released following The Eyeball Show LP, which featured a heavily edited version of the show.
The release faded into rarity until 1992, when the UWEB fan club sold a double CD version of the show, once again, in a limited edition of 500. It would receive its first non limited pressing in 2015 by Klanggalerie, who added the bonus track 'Kaw-Liga', a recording from the European tour in October.
Reception[]
Retrospective[]
In a March 2010 review of the UWEB CD edition of Live In The USA!,[2][3] freelance music reviewer Mark Prindle described the "obscure" album as "the trimmed-down, disappointing '80s version of The Residents [trying] their hand at material written by the bulked-up, bizarre '70s version", noting that if not for the presence of Snakefinger, the album would sound "like two people... one singing in a hick drawl and the other playing strange melodies on cheap synthesizers".[3]
Track listing[]
All tracks composed by The Residents unless otherwise noted.
Original cassette release (1986)[]
Cassette One[]
Side A (30:54)[]
- Intro (1:12)
- Lizard Lady (2:47)
- Semolina (3:53)
- Hello Skinny (3:32)
- Constantinople (4:47)
- Jailhouse Rock (3:04) (Leiber/Stoller)
- Where Is She? (4:39)
- Picnic In The Jungle (7:00) (Residents/Snakefinger)
Side B (28:12)[]
- Smelly Tongues (2:09)
- Eloise (1:15)
- Ship's A'Going Down (4:18)
- Tourniquet Of Roses (3:16)
- I Got Rhythm (3:03) (Gershwin)
- Passing The Bottle (1:56)
- Monkey And Bunny (4:33) (Residents/Renaldo/Loaf)
- Theme For An American TV Show (1:47)
- It's A Man's Man's Man's World (5:55) (Brown/Newsone)
Cassette Two[]
Side C[]
- Walter Westinghouse (9:01)
- Easter Woman (2:32)
- Amber (1:45)
- Red Rider (1:32)
- Die In Terror (1:26)
- Coming Of The Crow (1:41)
- Eva's Warning (5:03) (Residents/Snakefinger)
Side D[]
- The Big Bubble (2:27)
- Hop A Little (3:22)
- Cry For The Fire (7:31)
- Diskomo (Festival Of Death) (5:24)
UWEB CD edition (1992)[]
Disc One[]
- Intro (1:11)
- Lizard Lady / Semolina / Hello Skinny / Constantinople / Jailhouse Rock / Where Is She? / Picnic In The Jungle (29:41)
- Smelly Tongues / Eloise / Ship's Agoin' Down / Tourniquet Of Roses (10:58)
- I Got Rhythm / Passing The Bottles / Monkey & Bunny / Theme For An American TV Show / Man's Man's Man's World (17:10)
Disc Two[]
- Walter Westinghouse (9:01)
- Easter Woman / Amber / Red Rider / Die In Terror / Coming Of The Crow / Eva's Warning (13:59)
- Big Bubble / Hop A Little / Cry For The Fire (13:18)
- Diskomo (5:22)
Klanggalerie CD edition (2015)[]
Disc One[]
- Intro (1:12)
- Lizard Lady (2:47)
- Semolina (3:53)
- Hello Skinny (3:32)
- Constantinople (4:47)
- Jailhouse Rock (3:04) (Leiber/Stoller)
- Where Is She? (4:39)
- Picnic In The Jungle (7:00) (Residents/Snakefinger)
- Smelly Tongues (2:09)
- Eloise (1:15)
- Ship's A'Going Down (4:18)
- Tourniquet Of Roses (3:16)
- I Got Rhythm (3:03) (Gershwin)
- Passing The Bottle (1:56)
- Monkey And Bunny (4:33) (Residents/Renaldo/Loaf)
- Theme For An American TV Show (1:47)
- This Is A Man's Man's Man's World (5:55) (Brown/Newsone)
Disc Two[]
- Walter Westinghouse (9:01)
- Easter Woman (2:32)
- Amber (1:45)
- Red Rider (1:32)
- Die In Terror (1:26)
- Coming Of The Crow (1:41)
- Eva's Warning (5:03) (Residents/Snakefinger)
- The Big Bubble (2:27)
- Hop A Little (3:22)
- Cry For The Fire (7:31)
- Diskomo (Festival Of Death) (5:24)
- Kaw-Liga (2:39) (Williams)
Credits[]
- Mixed by: Jonathon Formula
- Recorded by: Gregg Eyman, Southern Thunder Sound
- Motivated by: Kyle Newell
- Produced by: Cryptic Corp
- Featuring: Snakefinger
Release history[]
| Year | Label | Format | Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Ralph Records | Cassette | USA |
| 1992 | UWEB | CD | |
| 2015 | Klanggalerie | EU | |
| 2017 | File | AT |
Buy Or Die![]
External links and references[]
- ↑ Buy Or Die! #12
- ↑ Mark Prindle, "The 'What's New?' Page", Mark's Record Reviews, March 13th 2010 (archived via archive.org)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mark Prindle, "13th Anniversary Show: Live In The USA", Mark's Record Reviews, March 13th 2010
