The Residents have released a crap-load of records over the 30+ years of their existence. Their first album, "Meet The Residents," was released in 1973. Since then, only considering nationally distributed full lengths, the quantity of releases is enough to make a music fan look at his or her bank account in sorrow. Then factoring in all the website/fan-club exclusives (many of which can fetch in the realm of $80+ on ebay) you'll get historians scratching their heads trying to document it all. Then there are the re-releases... many albums have seen more then one re-release... and still the majority of their catalog is out of print and unavailable except through online or used sources.…
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26 - Gerry Van Troyen
Personally I don't think it's even possible to think of collecting ALL residents recordings. I've been a fan from '85 and had the opportunity to go and see wath they had stacked in their vaults. Boy, we only know of 1/4 of what there is around (and not around but made)I think there's at least as much as rejected albums as there are released ones and i don't mean different versions (like the ones Tom Timony of Ralph/Tec Tones used to make himself with different artwork or colors in vinyl) Sometimes the rejects are better than the released ones, like Land of a 1000 dances, G3P sung by another Residents whose name i don't want to reveal HERE.