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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