Residents – Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?

Vileness Fats was intended to be The Residents musical masterwork film. Starting in 1972 and shot over four years the project was eventually abandoned without being completed. Also no music was written. Years later a video collection of scenes titled, “Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats?” surfaced. The Residents had scored the scenes for the video. This is that recording. Plus The Census Taker.

The Residents are an American art collective best known for avant-garde music and multimedia works. Soon to be celebrating four decades since forming, the group has since released over sixty albums, numerous music videos and short films, three CD-ROM projects and ten DVDs. They have undertaken seven major world tours and scored multiple films. Pioneers in exploring the potential of CD-ROM and similar technologies, The Residents have won several awards for their multimedia projects.

In public, the group appears silent and costumed, often wearing eyeball helmets, top hats and tuxedos — a long-lasting costume now recognized as its signature iconography. The group is noted for surrealistic lyrics and sound, disregard for conventional music composition, and the over the top, theatrical spectacle of their live performances.

TRACKLISTING
    Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats?
    Atomic Shoipping Carts
    Adventures of a Troubled Heart
    Search For the Short Man
    The Importance of Evergreen
    Broccoli and Saxophone
    Disguised as Meat
    Thoughts Busily Betraying
    Lord, It’s Lonley
    The Knife Fight
    Creeping Dread
    The Census Taker
    Talk
    End of Home
    Emotional Music
    Secret Seed
    Easter Woman
    Hellno
    Where is She?
    Innocence Decayed
    Romanian
    Margaret Freeman
    Lights Out
    Passing the Bottle
    The Census Taker Returns