Secret Show - 2024 UK Cherry Red Records 23-track 2LP Set

To celebrate their 50th Anniversary, The Residents undertook a secret, one-off performance in their hometown of San Francisco. Joined on stage by a hand-picked cast of guest artists, the group and their friends performed a dream setlist of classics from the band’s back catalogue, including songs never performed live before.

Featuring guest vocalists, a girls’ chorus, spoken word pieces, a solo piano recital, orchestral and choral arrangements, rock freakouts, mariachi interludes and, of course, The Residents themselves, we present a recording of a show that will live long in the memories of all who were there. Showcasing the classics ‘Santa Dog’, ‘Constantinople, ‘Hello Skinny’ and an incredible selection of material spanning the group’s fife decades, this is The Residents as we’ve never head them before, and never will again.

Tracklisting.

Side 1.
1. WOULD WE BE ALIVE?
2. HEY EVERYBODY! IT’S RANDY!
3. SHADOWS (featuring the San Francisco Girls Chorus)
4. SEMOLINA
5. REST ARIA (featuring Sarah Cahill)

Side 2.
1. WELCOME, MR. X
2. LIFE WOULD BE WONDERFUL (featuring Conspiracy Of Beards)
3. HELLO SKINNY (featuring Les Claypool)
4. THE WHISPERING BOYS (featuring the San Francisco Girls Chorus)
5. TYRONE CONTEMPLATES LOVE
6. SANTA DOG (featuring Ego Plum and David J)

Side 3.
1. HUNGRY HOUND
2. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO VILENESS FATS?(featuring Dren McDonald and Josh Freese)
3. GODSONG (featuring Dren McDonald and Josh Freese)
4. WHITEY TELLS IT LIKE IT IS
5. THE CAR THIEF (featuring Pamela Z)
6. HONEY BEAR (featuring Conspiracy Of Beards)

Side 4.
1. GRANDPA ELVIS TELLS HIS BABY KING STORY (AGAIN)
2. BURN MY BONES (featuring the San Francisco Girls Chorus)
3. WHO DO YOU LOVE? (featuring Joshua Raoul Brody)
4. CONSTANTINOPLE (featuring the San Francisco Girls Chorus)
5. NOBODY LAUGHS WHEN THEY LEAVE (featuring everybody)